Try with all your strength; test with all your doubts, earn it the hard way and enjoy the fruit of your exertions. The key to liberation has to be cast and forged and filed and fitted by each aspirant. It cannot be gifted in one movement by one word. (SSS Vol.2, p. 90)

You are living now, in the dark, in ignorance. The knowledge that you are the Divine Spark, encased in the sheaths of bliss, intelligence, feelings, sensations and organic substances-this knowledge is the Light. You must light your own lamp. You cannot walk in the light of another’s lamp. You cannot exist on the money in the purse of another. Have your own money; then alone are you free. Earn knowledge, yourself. Even knowing it is not enough; you must experience it. The well has water; but that is not enough. It must be brought up in the bucket and used to wash and to quench thirst. (SSS Vol.23, p. 166)