"Ongoing contempt for oneself is the working psyche of future saints and Masters."—General Theosophy

"Growing old is learning about your body the hard way."—General Theosophy

"Theology begins with thinking and talking; Theosophy ends with thinking and talking."—General Theosophy

"A person may not become advanced in Theosophy unless he or she has a ready willingness to become a beginner again and again."—General Theosophy

"The most valuable thing a hypothetical 'Devil' might be interested in bargaining with you for may not be your hypothetical 'soul' but your daily calendar which still has some empty spaces left on it."—General Theosophy

"If you can formulate specific details which seem to travel beyond just your continuous Inkling that you have lived before and that you will live again . . . retrace all merely speculative steps and return to the safety and purity of your Ineffable Gift. . . ."—General Theosophy

"Suffering in obscurity is The Path of Epistemological Theosophy; that is, one can become too comfortable and famous to learn much more."—General Theosophy

"When all is said and nearly done, one may realize that psychology was the only really pertinent life subject."—General Theosophy

"Of course there is a major difference between ASKING your 'Higher Cojourner' for personal Guidance . . . and BEGGING your 'desire-driven Sojourner' for an unearned 'magical result' of some sort: the first, at least, will not harm you psychologically when responding. . . ."—General Theosophy

"Cultivate an 'OBLIQUE' LIFESTYLE—that is, a way of getting along in the world which is neither obsequiously parallel with, nor adversarially perpendicular to, your neighbors."—General Theosophy

"Whatever you are conscious of, you become at least to some extent a temporary 'you'—that is to say a temporarily diminished 'I.'. . ."—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

"Idle hands are the Devil's Workshop; active hands are the product testing."—General Theosophy

"The major purpose for sitting in meditation is simply to re-discover the Part of yourself not doing the sitting."—General Theosophy

RELIGIOUS SUPERHERO: Faster than a speeding pulpit! More powerful than an Evangelical with a loco motive! Able to leap tall, conventionally sacrosanct structures in a single bound!—General Theosophy

"There is no human condition of bliss or beatitude that a healthy headache cannot diminish or destroy."—General Theosophy

"While happiness is not the usual subject on the mind of a happy person, an unhappy person may have to keep tending to it as a burdensome science project."—General Theosophy

"An old saying: 'Truth is stranger than fiction and fiction is truer than fact.' Therefore, let us pity those who are unable to fictionalize themselves into at least a little Mystery and Larger Meaning."—General Theosophy

"As long as a person doesn't always feel like a great Spiritual personality, there is probably still a good chance that he or she can make even more progress toward becoming one."—General Theosophy