“Theosophy is intuitive knowledge or wisdom associated with improved realization of one’s own Transcendent (‘Divine’) Nature; therefore, if a person only studies the writings or teachings of others, he or she may actually be a thee-osophist, not a Theosophist.”—General Theosophy

“You are old when you think that youth is an inch away; you are young when you think that that old age is a mile away.”—General Theosophy

“A person without a library can more easily forget what he or she has forgotten.”—General Theosophy

“The real secret behind good writing, of course, is the unrelenting need to appear smarter than one draft ago.”—General Theosophy

“May you have quick success in worldly affairs . . . so that you may quickly turn your back on them. . . .”—General Theosophy

“Very, very strictly speaking, the only reason to read someone else’s Theosophical writing is to grade it.”—General Theosophy

“Theosophy, as ‘personal religion,’ begins with the realization that no one, past or present, can know more about fundamentally unknowable subjects than you yourself.”—General Theosophy

“You can almost never learn more about yourself than by watching yourself wasting time.”—General Theosophy

“The gift of the gods to youth is motivation; to old age, momentum.”—General Theosophy

“Individuals who are greatly attracted by other individuals and who sometimes follow them around may be called ‘groupies’; individuals who are greatly attracted by Spiritual teachings merely because of the number of followers they have or have had may be called ‘groupies of groupies.’”—General Theosophy

“With an immediate, absolute certainty about the doctrine of reincarnation, regular practice of meditation, and constant improvement in Self-awareness, one may perhaps be reborn with the Theosophical advancement of not so immediately and absolutely being certain about anything, including reincarnation.”—General Theosophy

“The Spiritual journey begins not by reading but by not reading; not by listening but by not listening; not by thinking but by not thinking; not by changing yourself but by not changing your Self.”—General Theosophy

“In Spiritual matters no one who really deserves an audience really needs one.”—General Theosophy

“St. Anselm’s motto: ‘Faith Seeking Understanding.’ The Theosopher’s motto: ‘Understanding Seeking Faith.’ . . . since it is often hard to convince even oneself that such a psycho-meditating, analogy-crafting, intuition-judging epistemology can really be valid. . . .”—General Theosophy

“Theosophical ambition: To be the best of those who do not receive their knowledge from someone proposed as better than themselves.”—General Theosophy

“Atheism may not simply be the disbelief in God; rather, it may actually be the God-like elevation of this disbelief.”—General Theosophy

“Spectacular worldly success which comes early in life may incline a person toward explanations involving fate, special destiny, or Divine favor; later worldly success may be more often attributed to will power, ambition, or personal habits. Little or no worldly success at either time, however, may just mean that a person has more leisure to reflect about better subjects.”…

“To keep silent is both the way of the very weak and the very strong.”—General Theosophy

“The realization that you are not your body is not so unusual; the realization that you are not the realization that you are not your body is more unusual.”—General Theosophy

“Descartes plus Theosophy: ‘I think; therefore I am . . . but not only Descartes.’”—General Theosophy.