Central to that journey of awakening is a process of sorting out what is within the self and what is outside it.

If you want to achieve something in any part of life, the most powerful step toward achieving it is to figure out what limits you need to accept to make that happen and then embrace those limits. This is one of the great secrets of magic.

From a wry but more accurate perspective, in fact, evolution does not solve problems—it causes them.

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The word “ethics” itself comes from the Greek ethike, which simply means how people behave; “morals” is from a Latin word that means exactly the same thing. “Virtue,” despite the prissy connotations that the word has today, comes from the same Latin root as “virility.” In this older and truer sense, ethical actions consist of ways of behaving that

Second, an authentic mystery school does not call attention to itself, beyond the modest level of publicity necessary to allow interested persons to find it:

The most important of these preparatory tasks is to learn and regularly practice some system of meditation.

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for the time being, as far as we know, life creates life, and only life can do so.