“Arrest each unloving thought; stamp out each critical action, and teach yourself to love all beings - not in theory but in deed and in truth.”

— Alice A. Bailey

Source: "Discipleship in the New Age" (1944), p. 475

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esoteric, theosophist, writer 1880–1949

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