Men Are Anxious To Improve

There Can Be No Progress Nor Achievement Without Sacrifice, And A Man's Worldly Success Will Be By The Measure That He Sacrifices His Confused Animal Thoughts, And Fixes His Mind On The Development Of His Plans, And The Strengthening Of His Resolution And Self-reliance.

As The Plant Springs From, And Could Not Be Without, The Seed, So Every Act Of Man Springs From The Hidden Seeds Of Thought, And Could Not Have Appeared Without Them.

A Strong Man Cannot Help A Weaker Unless The Weaker Is Willing To Be Helped, And Even Then The Weak Man Must Become Strong Of Himself; He Must, By His Own Efforts, Develop The Strength Which He Admires In Another. None But Himself Can Alter His Condition.

Thus Meditating You Will No Longer Strive To Build Yourself Up In Your Prejudices, But, Forgetting Self, You Will Remember Only That You Are Seeking The Truth.

The Soul Attracts That Which It Secretly Harbors; That Which It Loves, And Also That Which It Fears. It Reaches The Height Of Its Cherished Aspirations. It Falls To The Level Of Its Unchastened Desires - And Circumstances Are The Means By Which The Soul Receives Its Own.