Day by day
Buddha himself foresaw that a new teacher would arise within a few thousand years after himself, and that this man would have a higher spiritual status than himself. But what is of special interest is his further prediction that a higher spiritual path would, through this medium, be opened to mankind …
8.12.4.4, ExcerptListen 1 Jan 2021In this meditation he reproduces the conditions which surrounded him at the time the Glimpse came. He fills in every tiny detail of the picture--the furnishings of a room perhaps, the faces and voices of other persons who were present, and especially how he became aware of the first onset of the Glimpse.
15.23.6.183Listen 2 Jan 2021If he can bring himself to desert his habitual standpoint and begin to think as a sage thinks, his battle will be over bloodlessly …
3.2.6.1, ExcerptListen 3 Jan 2021… life is an educational process, which everyone has to undergo whether the pupils like it or not.
5.6.4.152, ExcerptListen 4 Jan 2021… the importance of a little practice of mental quiet each day is high. It is this practice which brings definite results in time and this which gives one strength as well as understanding. Effort is required.
3.2.4.124, ExcerptListen 5 Jan 2021… in every mind there is an unconscious conflict which he is ordinarily powerless to deal with--the conflict between the line of evolution which the Overself has marked out for the person, and the line of blind desire which the ego is trying to pursue…
6.8.3.34, ExcerptListen 6 Jan 2021The root of all his efforts in self-improvement and self-purification is still the egoistic consciousness. Since that is the very consciousness which must be given up to let in the egoless Spirit, he must abandon these efforts and turn sooner or later to the Short Path.
15.23.2.142Listen 7 Jan 2021It is a common but fallacious belief that by joining a group we get at the truth more quickly, or progress to spiritual reality more easily.
2.1.4.36Listen 8 Jan 2021If you would become a philosopher in practice, then the first step is to cultivate calmness.
15.24.2.193Listen 9 Jan 2021All these methods of establishing contact with the higher self may be dispensed with at a more advanced stage when it will suffice to have a simple turning of attention towards it or a simple remembrance.
15.23.7.316Listen 10 Jan 2021It is man's highest happiness to stay in this heaven of Consciousness all the time, not merely catch a glimpse of it, wonderful though that be.
14.22.8.101Listen 11 Jan 2021I believe in love, not hate, as a motivating force for reform. At the same time, I see karma at work, punishing the selfish and the heartless … Unfortunately, suffering is one of its chief instruments of evolution and especially so where people will not learn from intuition, reason, and spiritual prophets.
6.9.3.267, ExcerptListen 12 Jan 2021For anyone to be able to hold the mind utterly free of all thoughts and absolutely cleared of all images is an uncommon achievement. Even when successful, the effort seldom lasts longer than a few minutes. But after that short space of time, those particular thoughts and those particular images which first rise up are important, valuable, or suggestive. They should be carefully noted or remembered.
15.23.7.326Listen 13 Jan 2021When a man sticks to unshakeable principles and abides by unalterable ethics, he derives an inner strength which not only is protective but also makes him feel secure.
13.20.1.226Listen 14 Jan 2021It is not necessary to go through the struggles and toils of the Long Past after we have travelled it sufficiently far to develop some amount of the qualifications needed for the Short one. We can then desert it and, by Grace, go quickly through the change of outlook, standpoint, and consciousness necessary to travel the Short Path.
15.23.4.79Listen 15 Jan 2021These experiences if taken aright will lead him not to spiritual pride but to spiritual humbleness.
14.22.7.87Listen 16 Jan 2021… a valuable part of the quest's technique is to treat each major experience as a means of lifting himself to a higher level. All depends not on the particular nature of the experience, but upon his reaction to it. It may be pleasurable or painful, a temptation or a tribulation, a caress by fortune or a blow of fate; whatever its nature he can use it to grow. As he moves from experience to experience, he may move from strength to strength. If he uses each situation aright--studying it analytically and impersonally, supplicating the higher self for help if the experience is in the form of temptation, or for wisdom if it is in the form of tribulation--his progress is assured…
3.2.5.96, ExcerptListen 17 Jan 2021
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