Peace is necessary for all; without peace and an increasing purity, even if one opens, one cannot receive perfectly all that comes down through the opening. Light too is necessary for all—without light one cannot take full advantage of all that comes down. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p2</ref>
== Path of Purity ==
Life is hard for the modest one who seeks purity, who is detached, unassuming and whose judgment is correct. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/impurity#p12 </ref>
Purity must be our aim, but not the purity of a void or of a bleak and rigid coldness. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-master-of-the-work#p7</ref>
There was a third thing?... Yes, you must not cherish the illusion that if you want to follow the straight path, if you are modest, if you seek purity, if you are disinterested, if you want to lead a solitary existence and have a clear judgment, things will become easy.... It is quite the contrary! When you begin to advance towards inner and outer perfection, the difficulties start at the same time. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/impurity#p29</ref>
Doing evil, one harms oneself; avoiding evil, one purifies oneself; purity and impurity depend on ourselves; no one can purify another. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-ego#p9</ref>
No protection, no Grace can save those who refuse the indispensable purification. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/08/15-august-1956#p6</ref>
=== Dhammapada ===
"All conditioned things are impermanent." When one has seen that by realisation, he is delivered from sorrow. That is the Path of purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-path#p5</ref>
"All conditioned things are subject to suffering." When one has seen that by realisation, he is delivered from sorrow. That is the Path of purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-path#p6</ref>
"All things are insubstantial." When one has seen that by realisation, he is delivered from sorrow. That is the Path of purity. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/the-path#p7</ref>
= Yoga and Purity =