"The first straw on a camel's back is the most dangerous because it teaches least about the danger of straw."—General Theosophy #49

"Always tell a fairy-tale genie that your first wish is just not to be in someone else’s fairy tale."—General Theosophy

“Pray your aging body now only belongs to a distant relative.”—General Theosophy

“Religion makes you feel significant; science makes you feel insignificant; Theosophy makes your feelings significantly insignificant.”—General Theosophy

”With only one hominid exception, nothing else biological searches for a Larger Meaning in its life."—General Theosophy

“Attaining at least some degree of Enlightenment is relatively easy; cultivating Empowerment of oneself by learning how to use it in everyday life is where the difficulty begins."—General Theosophy

"It may only be the rarest human condition of bliss or beatitude that a healthy headache cannot diminish or destroy."—General Theosophy

"I is the most sacred Untainted 'word' until it is used in a sentence."—General Theosophy

"Humor is a stark life's loophole."—General Theosophy

"Neither wolf-down your food nor wolf-up your life."—General Theosophy

“The purpose of Spiritual Intuition is not to be able to say things you cannot know; rather, it is to know things you cannot say.”—General Theosophy

“If you can say a lot about a little, you are a scientist; if you can say a lot about a lot, you are a philosopher; if you can say anything at all about your past lives, you are likely a novelist.”—General Theosophy

Let me tell you about Chief Bemidji Syndrome. . . . 

Chief Bemidji is a seven-foot painted wooden statue overlooking Lake Bemidji in the city of Bemidji in northern Minnesota. 

The Chief looks pretty much the same as he did some decades ago when I was an undergraduate…

“A perfectly moral person may not abhor vice but simply might have had sufficient experience to be perfectly bored by it.”—General Theosophy

"Trying-trying-trying only sometimes brings success, but stopping-stopping-stopping is almost always needed to enjoy it."—General Theosophy

"I cannot find the One until it erases you and me."—General Theosophy

"The Devil does not bargain for people's 'souls,' only the empty spaces left on their calendars."—General Theosophy