Mlle. Molitor has very kindly asked me to say a few words on thought.
Since you have been good enough to come and listen to me today, I conclude that you are among those who, knowing the primary importance of thought, its master-role in life, strive to build up for themselves an ever stronger and more conscious thought.
So I hope you will excuse me if, while showing you what this primary importance of thought is, I venture to give you—to give us—some advice on learning how to think well.
In this, I shall act only as an interpreter for you on behalf of the great instructors, the great initiates who have come from age to age to bring to men their words of wisdom and peace.
But before translating for you as best I can their beautiful teachings on the rational, effective and just use of the marvellous faculty in us which is thought, it seems to me indispensable that we should first of all enquire a little into what thought is.
5 February 1912