
“It can be very helpful if you keep a notebook to record your observations. It helps you to remember them more fully and with more accuracy. What did you say; how did you react; what were your motives; what were your actions; what emotional states were you in; did you pretend; did you lie by omission or by commission; were you insincere; did you justify yourself; did you gossip or slander anyone; did you have any moment of self-awareness at all or did you sleep-walk through your day wasting every opportunity to awaken?”
― The Work: Esotericism and Christian Psychology
― The Work: Esotericism and Christian Psychology

“The only certainty, it seems to me, is that those who believe they are certainly right are certainly wrong.”
― The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
― The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World

“Eliminate, therefore, any possible tendency to complain of conditions as they have been or as they are, because it rests with you to change them and make them what you would like them to be.”
― The Master Key System
― The Master Key System

“The modesty that theology needs is the recognition that we cannot rationally comprehend God.”
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
― Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
“A little while, we are in eternity; before we find ourselves there, let us do much for Christ.”
― Ann Judson: A Missionary Life for Burma
― Ann Judson: A Missionary Life for Burma
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