Day by day
The earnest seeker who has already achieved a certain degree of awareness and understanding has the beginnings of what may be a splendid opportunity to make phenomenal progress in his present incarnation …
13.20.3.127, ExcerptListen 1 Nov 2025In becoming conscious of the not-thinking hinterground of my personality, I attain true being.
14.22.5.79Listen 2 Nov 2025His attitude need not be utterly pessimistic. He may say to himself, If I have made a mistake, very well; I am undergoing a process of spiritual trial and error. Some errors are inevitable, but I shall catch up with them, study them, understand their results, and wring their meaning and their lessons out of them. In that way they will become steps which I shall mount towards Truth …
12.18.3.65, ExcerptListen 3 Nov 2025True altruism of a philosophic kind is not done by the self but through the self, not by the ego but by the Overself using the ego …
6.8.3.85, ExcerptListen 4 Nov 2025An experience which ended in disillusionment is not necessarily a wasted one. It may have its positive side: it may have contributed certain ideas.
3.2.3.144Listen 5 Nov 2025It is better to attain such high status without knowing it. For this absence of pride and presence of humility keeps the ego from threatening it.
16.25.2.87Listen 6 Nov 2025The body’s organs are affected by the mind’s states. Worry or fear, shock or excessive emotion may disturb, reduce, increase, or even paralyse their working for a time—in some cases for all time.
7.10.3.36Listen 7 Nov 2025The time has come to teach the masses principles which formerly they were taught in parables.
13.20.2.325Listen 8 Nov 2025The Void which man finds at the centre—whether of his own being or of the universe’s—is divine. It holds both godlike Mind and godlike Energy. It is still and silent, yet it is the source of all the dynamic energies, human and universal.
16.26.1.214Listen 9 Nov 2025It is amazing paradox that the Overself completely transcends the body yet completely permeates it: both these descriptions are simultaneously true.
14.22.3.336Listen 10 Nov 2025The Psalmist’s advice, “Be still, and know that I am God,” may be taken on one level—the mystical—as a reference to the ultimate state achieved intermittently in contemplation; but on another level—the philosophical—the reference can be carried even deeper. For here it is a continuous state achieved not by quietening the mind for half an hour but by emptying the mind for all time of agitation and illusion. Towards this end the cultivation of calmness amid all circumstances makes a weighty contribution.
15.24.2.27Listen 11 Nov 2025Your reaction to events and persons depends on your recognition of Overself. If you see only little ego, and fail to see the Overself, there will be a negative reaction. Both are within you.
15.23.1.136Listen 12 Nov 2025”… You have to go beyond seeing and find out who is the ‘I’ who experiences this light,” said Ramana Maharshi to a disciple.
14.22.4.206, ExcerptListen 13 Nov 2025… The factuality of Grace does not cancel out the need of moral choice and personal effort …
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 14 Nov 2025How often in history there is a record of fierce, blind, and fanatic hatred directed against those of marked difference in race, caste, religion, class, custom, or habit. With time and strength it explodes into persecution, violence, or war. The root of this evil may be fear, suspicion, envy, greed, or unbalance; but all these find their roots in the ego, and can only be radically removed by transcending egoism.
7.11.2.21Listen 15 Nov 2025Grace is a necessity before the ego can go up in the blaze of divine energy.
12.18.5.113Listen 16 Nov 2025He will mentally be in control of every situation, yielding no reaction to it which is not in accord with philosophical principles.
15.24.3.26Listen 17 Nov 2025What is it worth to a man to be free from the passions, and free from the inner divisive conflicts which their activity must necessarily produce in him? Are they not the chief obstacles which prevent him from attaining that inner calm wherein alone the ego can be faced, caught, and conquered? And this done, what is there to keep the Overself from taking possession of him?
5.6.4.63Listen 18 Nov 2025Half of Asia holds this faith, burns its sweet-scented incense before the firm conviction that the search for inner calm and emotional freedom is the highest duty of man.
15.24.2.28Listen 19 Nov 2025Elegance is often found as an accompaniment of refinement. This is not only true of physical things, behaviour, and conduct, but also of character and mind.
5.6.5.64Listen 20 Nov 2025When the changes in habit come unbidden as the natural result of a more sensitive nature, a deeper outlook, a more compassionate heart, they come rightly. There is then less strain, less likelihood of lapse than when they come artificially or prematurely or through someone else’s insistent pressure.
3.2.9.2Listen 21 Nov 2025There are moments when all his acutest thought-movement is stilled and he finds himself bereft of power, forced into utter submission to the divine Overself.
14.22.6.54Listen 22 Nov 2025The refinement of tastes, the improvement of understanding, the betterment of manners—this is the cultural preparation for the path.
5.6.5.185Listen 23 Nov 2025The Infinite Mind is beyond human perception but its presence and operation are not. The point in human consciousness where these become known is the Overself.
16.25.1.117Listen 24 Nov 2025If the man in you is held down by his body, his surroundings, his karma, the godlike in you is not: it is free. But through this freedom it chooses to be in harmony with God.
6.9.4.139Listen 25 Nov 2025Look through the miserable emotions of the ego and go beyond them to the smiling serenity of the Overself.
5.6.3.51Listen 26 Nov 2025Another excellent and always useful theme for meditation is to read a few sentences from an inspired book and then let your thought dwell upon what you have read.
4.4.4.77Listen 27 Nov 2025There is really no subconscious mind. There is only the thinking mind and the still centre behind the mind.
6.8.3.28Listen 28 Nov 2025… The man who lives in the godlike Overself within him is freed from time and space and uplifts all those who can respond intuitively, even though they may never know him physically. For in the spiritual world he cannot hide his light.
13.20.4.263, ExcerptListen 29 Nov 2025Is the search for inner peace a hopeless one? There is enough testimony to prove that it is not.
15.24.2.5Listen 30 Nov 2025
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