Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, “here, my poor man”, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.
The goal of mankind is knowledge. Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside, it is all inside. What we say a man ‘knows’, should, in strict psychological language, be what he ‘discovers’ or ‘unveils’. what man ‘learns’ is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge.
We are responsible for what we are and whatever we wish ourselves to be we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions. it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions. so we have to know how to act.