"Every mundane success comes with some shelf life which cannot be extended; therefore, one should also prioritize trying to further one's acquaintance with the Great Everlasting-Everything."—General Theosophy

“Having to rely only on drudging willpower to accomplish daily tasks is like continually trying to perform magic tricks with little or no entertainment value for you or anyone else.”—General Theosophy

“Un-Seize the day! . . . to get a better grip on the moment. . . .—General Theosophy

"ADEPTSHIP may be less about doing extraordinary things in extraordinary ways and more about avoiding ordinary things which ordinarily just smother a person with even more ordinary things."—General Theosophy

“Your particular need in life may just be to discover your general duty to identify and eliminate the particular needs you merely invent for yourself. . . ."—General Theosophy

“It will be far more valuable to be able to utilize a tiny RIVULET of MOMENTUM in old age than it was just to ride a torrential RIVER of MOTIVATION in youth."—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 there is no need to RUN, just WALK; if there is no need to walk, just STAND; if there is no need to stand, just SIT; if there is no need to sit, just LIE DOWN; if you think there should never be any 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

"JUDGE NOT yourself by some PREVIOUS THING you did, only by the NEXT THING you are considering."—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…

"LISTEN NOT to others just for a barge-in chance to say something yourself."—General Theosophy

"FULLY ENLIGHTENED Buddhists may not be inclined to 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 WAR and PEACE 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…