"Try" is a very small word, but it is a word full of strength. We might compare it to a little key which can open the great Door of Possibilities. Here are some instances of what we could enter upon through that Door, provided we use the Key aright, taken from the correspondence of him whose signature still holds good for all students of Theosophy—"Your brother, William Q. Judge."

Try to recollect that you are a very small affair in the world....Your only true greatness lies in your inner true self.

Try to put into practice what in your inner life you hold to be right, [and] you will be more ready to receive helpful thoughts and the inner life will grow more real.

Try to work for others, and rely on your Higher Self.

Try to take pleasure in doing what is your duty, and especially in the little duties of life. When doing any duty put your whole heart into it.

We are all parts of the one great whole, and if you TRY to centre your mind upon that fact, and to remember that those things that seem to trouble you are really due to your own way of looking at the world and life, you will probably grow more contented in mind.

Try to follow the advice of the Bhagavad-Gita: "To whatsoever object the inconstant mind goeth out, he should subdue it, bring it back and place it upon the Spirit."

Try to acquire patient Resignation....The first step in becoming is Resignation. Resignation is the sure, true, and royal road.

The circumstances we are in are the best for us if we will only so regard them. Try to do this, and thus get the best out of them, and escape them in another life.

Try to make it a part of your inner mind that it is no use to worry; that things will be all right, no matter what comes, and that you are resolved to do what you see before you, and trust to Karma for all the rest.

Let me again insist upon your TRYING to realize in yourselves that you are a part of the ALL. This is the constant subject of meditation, and will bring the best and most rapid progress.

Try for patience in all the very smallest things of life every day, and you will find it growing very soon, and with it will come greater strength and influence on and for others, as well as greater and clearer help from the inner side of things.

Try to get people to practise true theosophy and brotherhood.

No effort, even the smallest, is ever in vain; and knowing this, each one can "TRY, ever keep trying."

It is one's duty to TRY and find one's own duty and not to get into the duty of another. And in this it is of the highest importance that we should detach our minds (as well as our tongues) from the duties and acts of others whenever those are outside of our own. If you can find this fine line of action and inaction you will have made great progress.

We must aspire ardently...ever TRYING to purify our thoughts and free ourselves from the attachment to actions and objects.

Try to progress in harmony; the other kind of progress will then follow in due course. Be a centre of harmony yourself and others will help you in spreading that feeling throughout.

If you will regard all things and events as being in the Self and It in them, making yourself a part of the whole, you will see there is no real cause for sorrow or fear. TRY to realize this and thus go in confidence and even joy.

Arouse, arouse in you the meaning of "Thou art That." Thou art the Self. This is the thing to think of in meditation, and if you believe it, then tell others the same. You have read it before, but now TRY to realize it more and more each day and you will have the light you want.

On the doors and walls of the temple the word "TRY" is written.

Wrote H.P.B. in the 1880's, "I trust Judge more than anyone else in the world." Let those of us whose trust in him today is no less, TRY to put some of these wise precepts into practice.