I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened.
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It is not possible to educate the will and the healthy soul that underlies it unless we develop insights that awaken energetic impulses in the soul and will.
I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.
An education which does not cultivate the will is an education that depraves the mind.
The intellectual power is never at rest; it is never satisfied with any comprehended truth, but ever proceeds on and on towards that truth which is not comprehended. So also the will, which follows the apprehension; we see that it is never satisfied with anything finite.
What is attained by a developed thinking is not visions but spiritual sight of realities; what is attained by a developed will is not ordinary soul-experiences but the discovery of a consciousness different from the ordinary.
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.
The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, and intellect and feeling are only important insofar as they contribute to that.
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