"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 Devil's Deal is often incremental; that is, it may require you to pay for any increasing success and recognition with more and more of your previously un-obligated time, which, after all, actually belongs to your soul."—General Theosophy

"If you have anything more than a continuous inkling that you have lived before and that you will live again . . . retrace any merely speculating steps back to your Ineffable Intimation. . . ."—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 pertinent 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

"Do your own work; utilize your own Intuition; especially do not just rely on a teacher who speaks with all the Theosophical authority of his or her library card."—General Theosophy

"Theosophy often produces what may be called 'The Oblique Lifestyle'—that is, a way of living which is neither obsequiously parallel with nor adversarially perpendicular to what most other people are doing."—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

"There are no sequential units of time leading toward or away from the NOW."—General Theosophy

"An exceptionally boring life is a Theosopher's best workshop."—General Theosophy

"The purpose of meditation is simply to experience and re-experience the Part of yourself which is not going anywhere."—General Theosophy

"Do not validate any 'God of the Gaps,' unless, of course, the 'Gap' is what you have psychologically discovered and become better acquainted with for yourself."—General Theosophy #238

"Epistemologically speaking, Theosophers may be in the 'Slow Learners Class'; everyone else, often the 'No Learners Class.'"--General Theosophy

"Happy is the time not wasted thinking about happiness."—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

"A secret disdain for oneself is probably the unfair advantage of most of those who inevitably succeed."—General Theosophy

"Aristotle: 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' General Theosophy: 'The unperplexed life is not worth examining.'"—General Theosophy

"If it is no longer completely a scientifically unsupported assertion, it is no longer completely Theosophy."—General Theosophy