life-organizing principles

Would that more people followed these seemingly simple principles Summarized from the works of Alice Bailey, particularly A Treatise on White Magic.

Above all, practice harmlessness

• Hold no harmful thoughts.
• Express no harmful words.
• Maintain positive harmlessness and constant watchfulness.
• Engage in no harmful action.
• Avoid negative harmlessness and tolerance through avoidance.

Desire nothing for your separated self

• Practice and strive for simplicity.
• Reject materialism.
• Eliminate possessiveness and self-reference.

Look for the sign of divinity in all

• Focus on the underlying causes, not the outward effects.
• Act on the realization that we are all the children of God

Strive to live as a spiritual being

• Connect with your soul.
• Live a deeper Life.
• Develop a quiet, reflective mind.
• Find solitude in your daily life.
• Lose sight of your personal affairs.
• Make sacrifices.
• Seek constant inner growth.
• Follow the dictates of your own soul and the promptings of your higher self.

Learn to control your thoughts

• Thoughts are things; use them wisely.
• Guard your thoughts and your speech.
• Eliminate destructive and negative thoughts.

End separateness

• Strive to drop all racial, sectarian, political, and national barriers. Realize that we are all “of the same blood”.

Practice silence

• Learn how to keep quiet.
• Speak less and love more.
• Maintain balance and poise; hold the inner calm.
• Do not try to impose your ideas on other people.

Maintain serenity

• Keep your inner calm, poised in soul consciousness, the depths of your life undisturbed.

Do not be critical

• Criticism is a poison.
• Thoughts are things; guard your thoughts and your words.
• Do not deal with the affairs of others.
• Refuse to be separative.
• Permit no condemnation of others.

Have the right motive

• Only you know what your motive is and whether it is true and pure.
• Know your motive for all endeavors.

Organize your life

• Control your time.
• Regulate and order your daily life.
• Maintain a sense of proportion and balance.

Be detached

• Cultivate the attitude of the onlooker, a silent watcher.
• See all life in the light which streams from your soul.
• You are but one of many workers; be indifferent to the outcome of your work.

Be humble

• “True humility is based on fact, on vision, and on time pressures.”

Be sincere

• Apply in your daily life what you learn in your studies.

Have singleness of purpose

• Focus on this moment. Eliminate the secondary aspects of your life.
• Live a one-pointed life, and constantly practice the Presence of God.

Be mentally polarized

• Live your inner life on the mental plane.
• Strive to maintain a constant attitude of meditation– not just for a few minutes a day but constantly, all day.
• Maintain a constant orientation to directing your life from your soul.

Practice divine indifference

• Be indifferent to yourself, your personal interests, likes and dislikes.
• Maintain a neutral attitude toward your personal life: accept what is offered; use what is serviceable; but do not be held back by personality reactions.

Demonstrate a true love of humanity

• Practice goodwill.
• Promote world unity.
• Serve humanity unselfishly.
• Find your own way of serving, but do so as your primary purpose in life.

Live a life which is an example for others