Day by day
To surrender a problem to the Overself is to cease worrying about it. If the worry still remains, its presence is proof that the surrender has not really been made.
1.18.0.37Listen 1 Jan 2025When this vague yearning for something that worldly life cannot satisfy becomes unendurable, it may be a sign that they are ready for this Quest.
1.1.0.14Listen 2 Jan 2025This is the double role he has to play: a looker-on at what is happening around him and an active participator in these events.
9.13.1.143Listen 3 Jan 2025The disciple is aware of the Overself at some times but not at other times. The adept, however, always has this awareness in an unbroken flow.
16.25.2.168Listen 4 Jan 2025Every man is really on trial. Life itself is his judge with the working of karma, the ignorance or wisdom of his fellows, the voice of his conscience, and the capacities or incapacities of his personality.
6.9.3.42Listen 5 Jan 2025If he offers himself to the divine, the divine will take him at his word, provided his word is sincerely meant. The response to this offer when it comes is what we call Grace.
12.18.5.33Listen 6 Jan 2025The aspiration which mounts upward from his heart is answered by the grace which descends downward into it.
12.18.5.196Listen 7 Jan 2025Throw out the idea of coincidence. Remember there is a World-Idea. There is meaning in life, in its events, happenings, karmas, meetings, and opportunities.
9.13.1.30Listen 8 Jan 2025There is that in man which repeatedly works against his finer aspirations, which provides him with opposition. Upon this anvil his character is hammered out, shaped, and developed.
7.11.1.1Listen 9 Jan 2025We need the body—all of us, not materialists nor ordinary persons only—therefore we must respect it. It is with the ears that we listen to Beethoven: that is, with the body. It is with the eyes that we read beautiful poetry: again with the body. Let us not decry the body.
4.5.2.7Listen 10 Jan 2025When he lives in this godlike being with the background of his mind and in the world’s activity with the foreground of it, he lives in the fullest sense.
15.24.3.320Listen 11 Jan 2025… Another name for inspired action is unselfish work. The spiritual man will work no less hard than the average man; his work will be done well, with understanding, calmly, with detachment. His aspiration is towards Perfection, the Supreme Divinity, and this attitude will be seen in all his work, even in the meanest task …
13.20.1.325, ExcerptListen 12 Jan 2025We do not live self-sufficient and self-sustained lives but depend wholly on the Overself in every way and at every moment.
14.22.3.132Listen 13 Jan 2025To arrive at great certitude is to arrive at great strength. Truth not only clears the head but also arms the will. It is not only a light to our feet but is itself a force in the blood.
13.20.5.196Listen 14 Jan 2025Philosophy is not limited to work in meditation, although that is perhaps its most notable dramatic form. It is also applied in the area of everyday living routines and relationships. It is also active in work on character, emotions, and attitudes. It takes in the body and its diet.
13.20.3.245Listen 15 Jan 2025Anyone who can find a direct teacher in the Overself needs no other. But because the ego easily inserts itself even into his spiritual explorations and its influence into his spiritual revelations, he may still need an outer teacher to warn him against these pitfalls in his way.
1.1.0.72Listen 16 Jan 2025There is danger to every man who denies this inner part of his being any share in daily life, any love, reverence, and worship. This danger may appear, fully realized, in his body or mind.
12.18.1.129Listen 17 Jan 2025He must examine himself to find out how far hidden self-seeking enters into his altruistic activity.
1.2.0.33Listen 18 Jan 2025… For the only God he can reach, and the only one who will help him, is the God in him, the Overself.
12.18.2.190, ExcerptListen 19 Jan 2025None of these other ways of getting absorbed is absolutely prerequisite; the essential thing is to catch the delicate feeling of being indrawn and to go along with it..
15.23.7.223Listen 20 Jan 2025There is only one Duty for men: it is to realize the divinity within. Slavish adherence to any personal, social, or racial duties, set us from outside, must bend and go whenever it comes into conflict with this higher Duty. At the call of this compelling inner voice, the Prince Gautama Buddha trampled down the gilded “duties” of his royal position and walked out into the wilderness a homeless wanderer.
1.1.0.34Listen 21 Jan 2025
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