All thoughts, desires, conventions, attachments which come from outside must be ruthlessly pushed away.

You have however within you an inclination towards completeness.

To attempt social reform, educational reform, industrial expansion, the moral improvement of the race without aiming, first and foremost, at political freedom is the very height of ignorance and futility.

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.

After having stopped the lower activities of the mind, it must be made receptive; and, instead of weaving all kinds of empty and idle thoughts, the mind should receive intuitions from above.

Material things are not to be despised-without them there can be no manifestation in the material world.

God does work through both pure and impure vessels but that does not mean that one should keep nature impure for ever. When the vessel will become pure the urge for action coming from within will be a flawless, definitive action. As long as that does not happen one has to minimize one's activities.