Q. I am not very sure about the religious approach to this Work but I can see the sense of working on the body. I see that in many groups which emphasise spirituality there is a danger of people getting their feet off the ground.
A. People fly too high. Although it may appear a slower way, the body is as good a place as any to start from. Most people think that their body is them, so we start from something as near to concrete as we can get in this situation. Even thought originates from the body.
People who work on their body, who admit the fact that they have a body and that they have to make this body obedient, are in reality working on their spirit at the same time.

Q. Self-pity seems quite common in children. Do people grow out of it?
A. They can, but most never do. Have a look around some of these old folk’s homes and see: people still have their self-pity when they are at their last gasp. Look at older people you know, especially your parents and grandparents. Have their negative attitudes, their resentment and self-pity disappeared as they got older? You will see that people never change unless they make a deliberate break. To get rid of self-pity you have to stop self-pitying. To stop it, first of all you have to know that you have it, then extend your understanding so you know why you resent certain people and so on. Slowly you will learn tolerance. In the end we have to learn to objectively love, but tolerance is an aspect of love and tolerance will definitely break down resentment, especially if you keep reminding yourself that it is your ego that is resentful and what you are resenting is only someone else’s ego.