Understand and apply the following wisdom, and if you are
involved in group activities, you'll receive much greater benefit: 1. One of our traditional purposes has been to point out the
limitations other people have been putting on themselves, not
to impose limitations on other people. That's what the gurus
do. We seek to expand, increase vision, deepen perception. You
don't live by decreasing these qualities. (Idries Shah)
2. The important thing is to free your mind of envy, hate and
violence, and for that you don't need an organization, do you?
So-called religious organizations never liberate the mind,
they only make it conform to a certain creed or belief. (J.
Krishnamurti)
3. In everybody's heart, way down deep, they know that
joining the group, the religious organization, the philosophical
gang, everybody knows, really, deep down that joining that can
do nothing for you. (Vernon Howard Talk Excerpt)
4. Cult figures, themselves blind to truth, put out the eyes
of reason in their adherents; leader and acolyte end up
tumbling into the same ditch of ignorance. (Yogananda)
5. The highest spirituality cannot be organized. Structures
can exist to disseminate knowledge, but the real thing itself,
the highest spirituality, is not in the books or the classes.
It is in what they point to. But people forget this, placing
the visible before the invisible. (Tom Russell)
6. The title 'leader' implies its corollary 'follower.' But
a spiritual leader of the kind here described does not want a
mass of followers trailing behind him in a partisan spirit.
It is enough for him to give others a few inspirations, ideas,
insights, and yet leave them free to work on the material as
they wish, unobligated to join any movement. (Dr. Paul
Brunton)
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