Last, our creative energies are transfigured by an energetic love, an inward eagerness for every kind of work, which makes impossible all slackness and dullness of heart, and will impel us to live to the utmost the active life of service for which we are born.[148] But these moral qualities cannot be taught; they are learned by imitation and infection, and developed by opportunity of action.

The best agent of their propagation is an attractive personality in which they are dominant; for we know the universal tendency of young people to imitate those whom they admire.

The relation between parent and child or master and pupil is therefore the central factor in any scheme of education which seeks to further the spiritual life.

Only those who have already become real can communicate the knowledge of Reality.

It is from the sportsman that we catch the spirit of fair-play, from the humble that we learn humility.