Day & night people weigh, measure, calculate, judge without ever thinking that they should verify their instruments with a sage, an initiate, ...

"For years an international office of weights and measures has existed in Sèvres, France. Why this office? Because people noticed that, if there were no yardstick to refer to, it would be the reign of the arbitrary; everyone would weigh and measure as it suited him. But where their thoughts or judgments are concerned, people never question the rightness of their system of weights and measures. Day and night people weigh, measure, calculate, judge without ever thinking that they should perhaps verify their instruments with the spiritual office of weights and measures, that is to say, with a sage, an initiate, a great master - dead or alive. Instead of asking, 'What about my heart? my will? my brain? What about my tastes? Are they correctly adjusted?' everyone believes he is perfect and gives his opinion on everything."