“Increase what you do not know; decrease what you think you know.”—General Theosophy

“Happy millionaires do not keep company with billionaires.”—General Theosophy

"Fulfilling your life's purpose may sometimes be seriously hindered simply by running into way too many people who are way too willing to listen to you advertise it."—General Theosophy

“When the omniscient, omnipotent gods really watch over you, they do not let you from time to time mistake yourself for one of them.”—General Theosophy

"Everyone needs a philosophical point of view . . . even if it is only used to avoid not studying any more philosophy; everyone needs a Guardian Angel . . . even if it is only used to avoid ever needing an Archangel. . . ."—General Theosophy

"Discipline is the cure for everything one wants to cure; what one does not want to cure is the cure for discipline."—General Theosophy

"Being a fast learner is far less important than being a slow juggler who can somehow get more and more little orbs of previously acquired knowledge into the air before forgetting and dropping any."—General Theosophy

"Conscientiously search for the meaning of your life until, exhausted, you realize that you must invent it."—General Theosophy

"The mortal enemies of the mundane may vary; however, the Immortal enemies of the Moment are always your replaying of your past or your attempted pre-playing of your future."—General Theosophy

"Few things may thwart the impulse to begin writing more than the lazy realization that one probably has so much to say that one would need to long-term martyr the more entertaining parts of oneself just in order to wet-mold some raggedy shreds of words into a few all-too-short-term papier-mâché formations."—General Theosophy #254

"MORTALS and METAMORTALS: those who try to figure out everything . . . and those who in addition try to figure out Everything. . . ."—General Theosophy

"The real value of your money may only be how much volitional leisure time it is currently able to buy for you."—General Theosophy

"Material science is always looking for something new to say; epistemological Theosophy, something Old-and-Eternal not needed to be said."—General Theosophy

"Avoid becoming a missionary before becoming your own mission field."—General Theosophy

“The continuing mysteries of life are almost always more reliable and interesting companions than the most fulsomely footnoted finished factsheets.”—General Theosophy

"The most underestimated distraction from your life's purpose may simply be to run into way too many people who are willing to listen to you talk about it."—General Theosophy

"Half the common perplexities of life come from trying to do two things at once; the other half, from trying to get someone else to do one thing at once."—General Theosophy

"If you can now ascend the mountain, thank all the hills you had to climb; if you can now recognize the precipice, thank all the ditches you fell into."—General Theosophy

“If agnosticism can be considered the sophisticated territory between disbelief and belief, Preternatural intuition—epistemological Theosophy—may be considered the even more sophisticated territory between silence and Silence.”—General Theosophy

"METAMORTAL: a Theosophical term referring to an ordinary but special individual who is 'after, behind, altered from, higher than, beyond' his or her otherwise pointless corporality."—General Theosophy