The cup has to be left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it.

Until you get a guidance from above you cannot be sure; but to get this guidance it requires time and sadhana.

What comes from outside, one mistakes it as coming from inside. So many thoughts etc. move about outside in the universal - these manifest inside you. All these you must push away as foreign to you and the inside must be made peaceful, calm and quiet; then it will start descending from above.

The mind of an ordinary man is truly near the heart.

Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.

Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality..... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits.

Yes, it is difficult for man to cross beyond the idea of duty.