1. "... We must show our intuition and our initiative, because there is no true progress without the presence of these qualities." [Letters of Helena Roerich in 9 Volumes - 1. 100]
2. "…How to keep every initiative and carefully cultivate every opportunity, because nothing can be impossible for those facing Infinity..." [Letters of Helena Roerich in 9 Volumes - 1. 115]
3. "The organizer is bad, who does not let anyone act and keeps everything only for himself. Wise rulers and initiators have always been able to attract people and give them maximum initiative." [Letters of Helena Roerich in 4 Volumes - 11.02.1936]
4. "Subordination to leadership must be wisely combined with self-activity. Not clockwork figures, but employees. ... It is impossible to lean too much: the legs would weaken, and the will would not work out. It's not a good habit to go on about everything. This will deprive you of initiative, enterprise and free will. You have to stand on your own feet, stand strong. ...Appreciate employees with initiative." [Facets of Agni Yoga 1958, 227]
5. "Our independent activity and initiative should be directed precisely to the ability to protect everything entrusted." [Letters of Helena Roerich in 9 Volumes - 6. 156]
6. "Of course, the initiative is encouraged in principle. But keep in mind that initiative is often confused with manifestations of the self. In addition, without the presence of severe discipline of the spirit, the initiative leads to vacillation and is reduced to spasmodic undertakings that lead to nothing. But everything spasmodic is condemned to destruction, because it is impossible to build on convulsions. No wonder discipline was the basis of all ancient Teachings." [Letters of Helena Roerich in 9 Volumes - 2. 044]
7. "To your question about whether the self is hidden in the initiative and where it manifests itself only for the Common Good and Service?..”, I will answer – of course not. But human nature is so complex that only a purified sense-awareness can discern the purity of motives." [Letters of Helena Roerich in 9 Volumes - 2. 078]
8. "All sorts of collectivisms and communisms, all of them will be transformed into a healthy cooperative beginning, not limiting or killing initiative, but giving new broad opportunities." [Letters of Helena Roerich in 9 Volumes - 7. 114]
9. "Many kinds of various slavery lie on the human path. And the horror is that the unfree-born do not even notice their slavery. ... Maybe something was once needed, but now it is necessary to reconsider everything, from top to bottom, all the human baggage that it drags with it from the past to the future. It is necessary to reconsider everything, and everything obsolete, useless,.. and to discard the ignorant with a decisive hand. And if a person shows initiative and initiative in this direction, his merit to society will be great." [Facets of Agni Yoga 1953, 627]
