He Is Beginning To Master

While The Mind Remains So Fixed In Its Own Personal Affairs, Be They Little Or Large, It Has No Chance To Open Up Its Higher Levels. When Attention And Emotion Are Kept So Confined, The Chance They Offer Of This Higher Use Is Missed. The Peace, Truth, And Goodness Which Could Be Had Are Untouched.

Study Everything, Join Nothing.

He Is Beginning To Master Wisdom When He Tries To Learn How Not To Try.

Solitude Is Strength; To Depend On The Presence Of The Crowd Is Weakness. The Man Who Needs A Mob To Nerve Him Is Much More Alone Than He Imagines.

Whoever Accepts The Higher Mission Of Art And Comes Nearer And Nearer To It Through His Creative Activity, Will Then Go On From Art To The Spirit Deep Within His Own Self... The Philosophic Search For Enlightenment And The Artist's Search For Perfection Of Work Can Meet And Unite. Art Can Be A Path To Spiritual Enlightenment But Not To Complete And Lasting Enlightenment. It Can Be Born Out Of, And Can Give Birth Itself To, Only Glimpses. For Art Is A Search For Beauty, Which By Itself Is Not Enough. Beauty Must Be Supported By Virtue And Both Require Wisdom To Guide Them.