It is always possible to delude yourself.

It is always possible to delude yourself. If you're not guiding others delusions may be amusing, even illuminating. If you are called to follow truth your insights will be progressively honed till you feel truth instinctively. This may not make you a very convenient companion for your old friends, but you'll soon acquire new ones if you set your face towards the spiritual Jerusalem. Be gracious: if you come to sense a kind of truth within yourself don't imagine you now have a monopoly: allow that even those whom you suppose to be least truthful may possess a natural integrity which you, with your deeper calling, may not yet have attained.
"This calls for ego-lessness, especially in any matter of offering guidance. If you need to speak, don't, that is your ego talking. Consume the fire, let it irradiate your being - only when you feel your whole body in tune with your conviction should you speak, and then let it come from the back of your head not the front. You never need to barge in. When its right for you to speak there'll be an opening: if there isn't, that is in itself a sign that you wouldn't be listened to. Under such circumstances its especially wrong to strive, if ears are not prepared for wisdom it does more harm than good.
"Never imagine it's necessary in any way for you to do our work for us. We are many and infinitely capable. You are lords in your natural habitat, as we are in ours. It is the highest will for it to be so for your growth. But there are areas which are beyond your proper control, if you enter them you should only do so under the empowerment of guidance. We who are near you as earth-guides are in the same relation to those above us. An apprentice electrician can wreak havoc and death if allowed to operate unsupervised in a generating plant - so it is in the spiritual realm. Wait for guidance, practise listening, don't act until you're certain, and never be so certain you shutter your moment-by-moment awareness. Don't aspire to become - be!"