Applying Hermetic spiritual knowledge to everyday life - respecting and valuing our individual talents - brings rewards far beyond the understanding of those who have not yet made a place for them in their lives.

A few thoughts on the Hermetic view of happiness.

"Happiness can only be obtained by going out from oneself. There must be some outside interest, for the self-centred mind is never happy."

"Happiness is contagious. When we give happiness to others, in some similar measure it returns to us."

"Happy people think about the things they are doing pleasantly and whole-heartedly. They do not wish they were somewhere else, or doing something else. Such divisions of interest and desire split the mental factors up into jarring factions."

The Hermetic Spiritual Knowledge System holds that indulging misery retards spirituality.

Attitudes that weaken the mind and undermine the confidence are anything but spiritual. When we understand that through the psychokinetic power of thought, energy action is always in the direction of the mental image, we avoid nourishing even one depressing outlook.