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1. "Study your daily conduct and words and thoughts so as to make them utterly harmless. Set yourself to think those thoughts about yourself and others which will be constructive and positive and hence harmless in their effects. Study your emotional effect on others so that by no mood, no depression, and no emotional reaction can you harm a fellow man. Remember, in this connection, violent spiritual aspiration and enthusiasm, misplaced or misdirected, may quite easily harm a fellow man, so look not only at your wrong tendencies but at the use of your virtues."
"If harmlessness is the keynote of your life, you will do more to produce right harmonious conditions in your personality than any amount of discipline along other lines. The drastic purgation brought about by the attempt to be harmless will go far to eliminate wrong states of consciousness."
"Harmfulness is based on selfishness and on an egocentric attitude. It is the demonstration of forces concentrated for self-enforcement, self-aggrandisement, and self-gratification. Harmlessness is the expression of the life of the man who realizes himself to be everywhere, who lives consciously as a Soul, whose nature is love, whose method is inclusiveness, and to whom all forms are alike in that they veil and hide The Light and are but externalizations of The One Infinite Being."
"This realization, let Me remind you, will demonstrate in a true comprehension of a brother's need, divorced from sentiment and expediency. It will lead to that silence of the tongue that grows out of non-reference to the separate self. It will produce that instantaneous response to true need which characterizes The Great Ones Who see the inner cause which produces the conditions noted in the outer life, and so, from that point of wisdom, true help and guidance can be given."
"Harmlessness brings about in life caution in judgement, reticence in speech, ability to refrain from impulsive action, and the demonstration of a non-critical spirit. So, free passage can be given to the forces of true love and to those spiritual energies which seem to vitalize the personality, leading consequently to right action. Let harmlessness, therefore, be the keynote of your life."
2. "I tell you that the achieving of harmlessness in the positive sense means the attainment of that step which leads definitely to The Portal of Initiation. When first mentioned, it sounds of small moment and to bring the whole subject of Initiation into such small account that it becomes unimportant. But let him who so thinks practice that positive harmlessness which works out in right thought (because based on intelligent love), right speech (because governed by self-control), and right action (because founded on an understanding of The Law), and he will find that the attempt will call forth all the resources of his being and take much time to achieve."
"It is the harmlessness that springs from true understanding and control of the personality by The Soul that leads inevitably to spiritual expression in everyday life. It emanates from a capacity to enter into the consciousness and to penetrate into the realization of one's brother, and when this has been accomplished, all is forgiven and all is lost sight of in the desire to aid and help."
3. "Harmlessness prepares the way for the inflow of life. Harmlessness dissipates the obstructions to the free outpouring of love. Harmlessness is the key to the release of the lower nature from the grip of the world illusion and from the power of phenomenal existence."
4. "I have so emphatically impressed the need of harmlessness upon all of you for it is the scientific method, par excellence and esoterically speaking, of cleaning house and of purifying the centers (chakras). Its practice clears the clogged channels (meridians) and permits the entrance of The Higher Energies."
5. "Harmlessness is a state of mind and one which in no way negates firm or even drastic action. It concerns motive and involves the determination that the motive behind all activity is goodwill. As harmlessness and goodwill condition the mental approach, nothing can eventuate but good. On a Higher Turn of the spiral, The Hierarchy also employs harmlessness."
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