The Will-To-Good Group

- a virtual organization -

April 2004 Quotes:

"...group work involves sacrifice and oft the doing of that which might not be preferred and which might not - from the personality angle - be the easier way out and the easier activity."

- Discipleship in the New Age, p 290,  by Alice A. Bailey

"When this urge to sacrifice in order to win, gain or salvage that which is deemed desirable is understood, then the whole clue to man's unfoldment will stand revealed. This tendency or urge is something different to desire, as desire is academically understood and studied today. What it really connotes is the emergence of that which is most divine in man. It is an aspect of desire, but it is the dynamic, active side and not the feeling, sensuous side. It is the predominant characteristic of Deity."

- Esoteric Psychology,  p 97,  by Alice A. Bailey

"Pain is that upward struggle through matter which lands a man at the Feet of the Logos; pain is the following of the line of the greatest resistance and thereby reaching the summit of the mountain; pain is the smashing of the form and the reaching of the inner fire; pain is the cold of isolation which leads to the warmth of the central Sun; pain is the burning in the furnace in order finally to know the coolness of the water of life; pain is the journeying into the far country, resulting in the welcome to the Father's Home; pain is the illusion of the Father's disowning, which drives the prodigal straight to the Father's heart; pain is the cross of utter loss, that renders back the riches of the eternal bounty; pain is the whip that drives the struggling builder to carry to utter perfection the building of the Temple.

The uses of pain are many, and they lead the human soul out of darkness into light, out of bondage into liberation, out of agony into peace. That peace, that light and that liberation, within the ordered harmony of the cosmos are for all the sons of men."

- Discipleship in the New Age, p 677,  by Alice A. Bailey

"Only in the stress of circumstances can the full power of the soul be evoked. Such is the law." 

- Discipleship in the New Age p 181, by Alice A. Bailey