My quote of today:

The Work says that as long as we enjoy chiefly negative emotions we are cut off from all contact with Higher Centres. I assure you that at a certain stage of the Work even a moment's indlulgence of negative emotion towards others will cause you to lose force and even destroy for the time being everything that you aimed at in the Work - sense...
As was said once, to become thoroughly negative is like an explosion in a delicate chemical laobratory through which everything that is being made, being gradually created, is destroyed. ...Mechanical reactions that produce negative emotions, your judgments of others and your vanities in connection with yourself, must be mitigated and separated from in order to keep any degree of inner psychological health.

Maurice Nicoll