"All mundane successes have a shelf life."—General Theosophy

“Using only personal willpower to accomplish something is often like performing a long, laborious magic trick which has little or no entertainment value for you or anyone else.”—General Theosophy

“The first Transcendental thing one tries to put into words is the first Transcendental thing one starts to erase.”—General Theosophy

"ADEPTSHIP may be less a matter of having an extraordinary knack for doing extraordinary things in extraordinary ways . . . and more a matter of having at least an ordinary knack for not overdoing the ordinary things which only lead to more ordinariness in life."—General Theosophy

“Doing one's duty is the reason one does not need a reason."—General Theosophy

“It is far less valuable to have had a RIVER of MOTIVATION in youth than to still have a RIVULET of MOMENTUM in old age."—General Theosophy

"OLD AGE can eventually be used to excuse almost any personal failing except excuse-making."—General Theosophy

“The arithmetic operation 2+2=3 is only used to calculate chocolate.”—General Theosophy

“If you don't need to RUN, just WALK; if you don’t need to walk, just STAND; if you don’t need to stand, just SIT; if you don’t need to sit, just LIE DOWN; if you don't think you should ever need to lie down while it is still daytime, just WAKE UP because you are already DREAMING.”—General Theosophy

"If you are somehow able to find more time to be in your garden, thank your weeds."—General Theosophy

"There is no teaching so perfect that it is safe from an imperfect teacher."—General Theosophy

"While you are waiting for your miracle, try becoming someone else's."—General Theosophy

"ONLY JUDGE yourself by the NEXT THING you are considering saying or doing."—General Theosophy

Greetings and good wishes to all.

[In another thread Joe wrote: “This, in my view, demonstrates quite clearly that the use of astrology in relation to the various cycles was a valid concept. {. . .} Now, if there is any validity at all to any of this, then one can assume that even smaller cycles in our evolution can be discerned.”]

Among all esoteric teachings, I think…

"Do not just listen for your next chance to say something."—General Theosophy

"Completely ENLIGHTENED Buddhists do not RE-IDENTIFY themselves with any label—including 'BUDDHIST.'"—General Theosophy

My basic policy and that of Captain Theosophy might be summed up in General Theosophy #7: “Always be KINDER than your ARSENAL needs to be.”

Perhaps this needs to be mentioned at the outset because kindness to those who might be new prospects for meditation might mean that a little “unkindness” has to be…

"The secret of success in PEACE and WAR is to always send in a better version of yourself."—General Theosophy

Katinka Hesselink's always-interesting blog alerted me to an exceptional article in the January 2010 issue of THE THEOSOPHIST.

“Manifestation of Intention…

"Your 'Guardian Angel' might not only work better if you give it honest truths about your current weaknesses and sufferings rather than only ‘positively affirmed' lies about your wonderful strengths and successes, . . . but it may also work better once you realize it is probably just a naturally evolved and/or further developed psychological component within your own genetic assemblage and not some hardly approachable…