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.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, - truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal.

Is it true that existence consists only in the action of energy? Or is it not rather that energy is an output of Existence?

A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther.

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself.