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The more I travel the world of living men and study the recorded experiences of dead ones, the more I am convinced that mystical powers, religious devotion, intellectual capacity, and ascetic hardihood do not possess anything like the value of noble character. I no longer admire a man because he has spent twenty years in the practice of yoga or the study of metaphysics; I admire him because he has brought compassion, tolerance, rectitude, and dependability into his conduct.

-- Notebooks Category 16: The Sensitives > Chapter 2 : Phases of Mystical Development > # 90 -- Perspectives > Chapter 16: The Sensitives > # 36