So long as you feel yourself separate from others, so long are you shut out from the realisation of the unity; so long as you say "my" and "mine," so long the realisation of the Spirit is not yet possible for you.

Love of individual possessions, not only physical but moral and mental, not the vulgar pride of physical wealth only, but moral pride, intellectual pride, everything that says "I" as against "you," and does not realise that I and you are one--all this is against the spiritual life.

Hardest of all lessons when brought down to practical life; most difficult of all attainments when effort is made to realise it, and not only to talk about it and imagine it.
It is best practised by continual renunciation of the individual possessions on every plane, and the constant thought of unity.

When you are trying to live the life of the Spirit, you will try to be pure.

You do well, but why?
In order that you may be pure, and leave your impure brethren in their impurity?
Oh no! You must try to be pure, in order that there may be more purity in the world to share amongst all men, because you are pure.