1. "Cooperation, conscious work and conscientious attitude in everything and to everything should form the basis of New Construction." [Letters of Helena Roerich in 9 Volumes - 9. 126]
2. "The main thing is to make every effort to do the best job that we have been given, and in the conditions that karma has put us in. A conscientious attitude to everything will push the boundaries and bring better opportunities." [Letters of Helena Roerich in 9 Volumes - 6. 043]
3. "... The highest achievement ... is in spiritual synthesis, in the development of one's abilities, which is achieved by conscientious fulfillment of one's duty, or, as the Easterners would say, dharma. The active and, as far as possible, perfect fulfillment of one's earthly task will determine the true progress of the inner man. As Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, "One attains perfection by persevering in one's dharma (duty)." [Letters of Helena Roerich in 9 Volumes - 2. 131]
4. "Among women can be found that conscientiousness which will provide the quality of evolution. Without an innate striving for quality it is impossible to acquire the feeling of perfectment." [Aum, 420]
5. "Let [the child] learn early the quality of performance and careful, conscientious, in other words, loving attitude to this assignment and work." [Letters of Helena Roerich in 9 Volumes -1. 098]
6. "…One should manifest an extreme conscientiousness and vigilance toward all that occurs around the Focus. Each unnoticed mistake will yield its own blossom." [Hierarchy, 318]
7. "The one who wants to be a realist must learn conscientiously. Poor is the realist who has put on dark glasses and stopped up his ears. What kind of reality will he cognize?" [Supermundane, 612]
8. "There is nothing mysterious in the art of thinking and in the refinement of consciousness. Only a lofty quality of consciousness will affirm the path of the thinker. And no one will say that the thinker is a special genus. Every child can be directed towards thinking. Hence, one must regard the art of thinking as the health of the nation." [Fiery World II, 61]
