If the home fails within itself, it is the worst form of stupidity to force uncongenial people to remain under the same roof for the sake of conventions. For two people to live together, under such conditions, is more dangerous to the spiritual life than an amicable and intelligent termination of the whole affair. The purpose of philosophy is to bring not arguments but fuller understanding, deeper appreciation, and fuller, more perfect tolerance. Developing more and more inward consciousness, the aspirant to spiritual things lives less and less in the material world, demands little from it, and is not deceived by appearances. A man can live spiritually in this generation if he will make spirituality the purpose of his living and will sacrifice to that purpose less worthy aims.
Materiality is necessary to spiritual accomplishment.
The physical world is the ante-chamber to the Temple of the Mysteries. Those who cannot pass the tests of living can not expect to enter the House of Mysteries. Life itself is an initiation into the sanctuary of the Divine Mystery. An individual who cannot achieve where he is cannot achieve anywhere else. As long as accumulation dominates the purpose for living men will remain oppressed by their environment and limited by their times.