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During times of great suffering, he may best countenance his bereavement by taking it as a reminder of the transiency of earthly life, and of the necessity to cultivate the interior life of spiritual growth. By so doing, he helps himself and also others.
9.13.2.28Listen 1 Oct 2025The arc of his development usually begins with the Long Path and rises to the Short one, but theoretically it should begin with both together in harmonious combination.
3.2.1.203Listen 2 Oct 2025It is not enough to obey and follow the prompting which draws him inward through formal meditation. It is equally needful to sustain spiritual activity through all the many hours of external business, to learn the art of not being of the world although in it, to achieve the wonderful state of inspired action.
14.22.2.28Listen 3 Oct 2025It is through heartfelt prayer and aspiration to become one with his own higher self that the student will eventually open the way for the further guidance he needs.
3.2.5.62Listen 4 Oct 2025It is true that our sins and faults are automatically dispersed by the inrush of Enlightenment, but it is equally true that they will return if we have not prepared ourselves to be able to stay in the Light.
16.25.2.37Listen 5 Oct 2025We ought not to mistake this for the exception; it is really the type. Most aspirants have experienced this mystical glimpse, brief and unexpected perhaps, which has started or kept them on this quest.
14.22.4.49Listen 6 Oct 2025Some, like the poet Keats, find Truth through beauty while others, like the poet Dante, find it through suffering.
14.22.5.56Listen 7 Oct 2025Reason alone may give him the truth about a situation, but personal feeling may give him a half-lie about it. Yet he will prefer that to the truth simply because the ego is being supported.
9.13.1.128Listen 8 Oct 2025So long as a man is a stranger to his own divine soul, so long has he not even begun to live. All that he does is to exist. In this matter most men deceive themselves …
2.1.1.151, ExcerptListen 9 Oct 2025He who has reached this degree will be always poised in the Overself, always aware of his identity with its inimitable nature yet also conscious of his limitations as an ego. This may seem queer and contradictory yet the man will never feel himself pulled in different directions but, on the contrary, will feel a perfect harmony between the human and the divine.
16.25.2.156Listen 10 Oct 2025Because he is seeking the ultimate source of true joy, he is more likely to find it if he searches for it with a cheerful heart than if with a miserable one.
15.24.1.36Listen 11 Oct 2025Every individual life from the mighty elephant down to the microscopic cell is a self-evolving entity moving through time and space. It has meaning, a purpose, and eventually, a fulfilment here. Why then talk of destroying the one with which you are most intimate—your own ego?
6.8.1.181Listen 12 Oct 2025The whole bodily and mental purificatory regime contributes both to the proper development of meditation and to the proper reception of intuitive knowledge …
4.4.1.87, ExcerptListen 13 Oct 2025Frankly confess your past mistakes, then analyse and absorb their unpalatable lessons, and resolve to apply the unpleasant result to your future actions. This is practical wisdom. It may be a saddening procedure, and if it is to be an effectual one, it ought to be. But having done it, be done with it. Turn your face toward the sun of hopefulness. Remember the strength, light, and joy waiting to be drawn from your higher self.
9.13.1.414Listen 14 Oct 2025The heart leaps at the thought that life has some higher meaning, some better worth.
2.1.2.166Listen 15 Oct 2025The person who is afraid to alter his living habits, and especially his eating and drinking habits, because he is afraid that other persons may regard him as queer, eccentric, or fanatic forgets that the ownership of his body, the responsibility for its well-being, belongs to him, not them.
4.5.3.74Listen 16 Oct 2025Our greatest strength comes from reliance on the Higher Self and faith in the Higher Laws.
12.18.1.13Listen 17 Oct 2025All are benefited by remembering at all times the practice of harmlessness towards all creatures in thought, word, and action. He should not consider himself alone, but ought also consider his duty to those other beings who cross his path, including animal beings.
5.6.5.63Listen 18 Oct 2025The concentration of attention instead of the dispersal of it—this is the guiding rule which is behind the Japanese custom of displaying a single picture for a period of time instead of several competing with one another …
9.14.1.72, ExcerptListen 19 Oct 2025The intelligence displayed by Nature is an infinite one. This fact, once recognized, forces us to concede that there is a deeper meaning and a wiser purpose in life than our puny intellects can adequately fathom.
16.26.1.83Listen 20 Oct 2025The seeker should remember that it is possible to learn just as much from joyous, satisfying experiences as from those of suffering and frustration.
9.13.1.164Listen 21 Oct 2025If before performing an impulsive, undisciplined, and irresponsible deed he would remember what the consequences are and that he will have to bear them, then he will have taken the first step towards self-mastery.
5.6.4.181Listen 22 Oct 2025Let him humbly acknowledge that he does not have the wisdom and purity to know what is right for him to have and what is right to do. Let him turn in silent waiting to the Interior Word, and listen for it to tell him these answers.
14.22.2.168Listen 23 Oct 2025It is true that wisdom comes with experience but that experience need not be gained at the cost of one’s own suffering. It can just as well be gained by the observation of it in others.
9.13.1.68Listen 24 Oct 2025The first reason for the warning not to pursue occult powers is that pursuing them is a sure way to prevent the soul’s self-revelation. For the soul cannot be found unless its Grace has been granted. And it will not grant its Grace unless sought in all purity for its own sake. Hence the aspirant has to choose between it and occultism.
11.16.13.1Listen 25 Oct 2025This beneficent, freedom-bestowing, character-transforming, soul-awakening, gentle Presence is The Overself.
14.22.3.253Listen 26 Oct 2025Some find it fascinating to speculate about whom they are the reincarnation of, but they ought to keep clear in mind that this is imagination given free play. In other cases, however, there is genuine remembrance, which may appear in either waking or dream states.
6.9.2.131Listen 27 Oct 2025We spend so much of the day concentrating on our personal selves. Can we not spend a half hour concentrating on the higher self?
4.4.1.57Listen 28 Oct 2025If we seek an origin for the consciousness, however small finite and limited it may be, that a man possesses, none other can be found except the universal consciousness which informs the entire universe and guides its development.
16.27.2.82Listen 29 Oct 2025If he is to remember the Overself with all his undivided attention, he must forget everything and everyone else without exception.
4.4.2.133Listen 30 Oct 2025It is an obstacle to success in meditation if he times himself by a watch or a clock. This will create a subconscious pressure diverting his attention intermittently towards the outer world, towards his affairs and schedules in that world, towards the passage of time—all things he had better forget if he wants to remember the Overself and reach its consciousness.
4.4.2.293Listen 31 Oct 2025
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