About the time I started school (5 or 6), I came to a startling realization, doing "what I can do" was getting me into a lot of trouble.

The concept of "just because I can, doesn't mean I should" was formed.

I've spent the last 45 years trying to figure out the meaning of should.

As my understanding of "myself" grows, the way I see everything else changes, the information I get from any particular thing changes, my understanding of "myself" grows.

it's been a wild…

"All waters are brooded over by Nârâyana, but every kind of water is not fit for drink. Similarly, though it is true that the Almighty dwells in every place, yet every place is not fit to be visited by man. As one kind of water may be used for washing our feet, another may serve the purpose of ablution, and others may be drunk, and others again may not be touched at all; so there are different kinds of places. We may approach some, we can enter into the inside of others, others we must…

“In Psycho-Spiritual matters the method of trial and error may be sufficient for beginners; however, the more advanced may have to add the method of trial and neither success nor error, trial and neither success nor error. . . .”—General Theosophy

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

“If you can now climb the mountain, thank all the hills.”—General Theosophy

“Being needy is almost always an illness; being needed is almost always a cure.”—General Theosophy

“Seize the day! but quickly release it in order to get a better grip on the instant.—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

Adept Theosophy: “Practical application of intuitive knowledge or wisdom, including those psychological insights and ‘esoteric psycho-operative devices’ which may be analogically associated with (and perhaps the basis for) grand speculative formulations like karma and reincarnation.”—General Theosophy

Theosophy:  “Intuitive knowledge or wisdom resulting from personal experience of one’s Transcendental (‘Divine’) Nature.”—General Theosophy 

“You can almost always solve other people’s problems by using the simple 2+2=4; however, your own difficulties almost always need 2+2= 2+S(1)=S(2+1)=S(2+S(0))=S(S(2+0))=S(S(2))=S(3)=4.”—General Theosophy

“First Preternaturally produce the magician; then naturally produce the magic.”—General Theosophy

“The best, most restful thing about not having made your mark in the world is that neither you nor anyone else is expecting you to make another.”—General Theosophy

Aside from the other question I asked, I'd like to know what do you believe in? Do you guys worship deities? What rituals do you follow? :)

“Perhaps the more sophisticated type of Theosophy patiently waits until a person has finished researching and calculating himself or herself into complete insignificance and meaninglessness.”—General Theosophy

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

"ADJUSTMENT is far more important in life than SUCCESS."—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

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The Origins of the Stanzas of Dzyan - A Project

This is the new home of the discussion started in September of 2010. Moving to a group gives much greater flexibility and allows the segmenting of the discussion into different aspects.

Undoubtedly the most mysterious piece of writing in the Theosophical tradition, the…