Day by day
The World-Mind cannot be separated from any point of the world. It is present in every point, every creature, now, at this very moment. There is no need for anyone to think himself cut off or apart or remote from this divine source of his being. This is just as true in his sorrowful hours as in his joyful ones.
16.25.1.24Listen 1 Dec 2025It is not enough to know with the intellect that God is everywhere and everywhen. It is also necessary to establish a practical working connection with God, if we are to obtain the actual benefit of this knowledge. Moreover this, and this alone, will give absolute assurance.
2.1.1.109Listen 2 Dec 2025… We need these great truths to steady our hearts in an unsteady and unsure time. We need to be reminded that beneath its menace and its doom, there still are eternal life, eternal peace, and eternal hope for us. We need to remember that the evil always passes, the Good alone endures …
8.12.5.190, ExcerptListen 3 Dec 2025Even a little perception of, or faith in, the World-Idea redeems the littleness of so many human lives, and at their end, in dying moments, becomes tremendously important.
6.9.1.41Listen 4 Dec 2025In those divinely captured moments when ego is loosened and Overself is present in awareness, the amazing pattern of the World-Idea shines clearly.
16.26.4.129Listen 5 Dec 2025The wicked cannot always be judged by appearances. Some illumination may suddenly be granted because of past good deeds or intensity of suffering. The Higher Self is infinitely accommodating to human weakness and, also, infinitely patient; compassion is its first attribute.
12.18.5.16Listen 6 Dec 2025It is the life-giving, body-healing, or occult-power-bestowing force in man. It is not a theoretical conception but a quickening, transforming power.
14.22.3.233Listen 7 Dec 2025Rebirths, memories, occult powers—all these things exist and continue because they perpetuate the ego—the very thing we should try to escape from!
6.8.4.16Listen 8 Dec 2025We must hold to the value of wisdom, which gives to man so much dignity and goodness, so much honour and usefulness, but we must hold to it above all because it is part of that goal which God has set before us for attainment on this earth.
13.20.1.323Listen 9 Dec 2025It is important to let everything happen naturally, not to try to force an inner mystical experience, not to be anxious about its non-arisal.
3.2.3.42Listen 10 Dec 2025For some it is a useful practice to write out a self-arraignment, listing the most glaring faults first and the most hidden ones later. This helps them to keep constantly aware of what they have to avoid. It calls to them quietly but insistently.
4.4.4.134Listen 11 Dec 2025The divine moment happens. It is the gift of grace. Its arrival is unbidden. Yet the previous longing and working for it have not been futile.
14.22.5.97Listen 12 Dec 2025When the Grace at last overcomes the inner resistance of the ego, the latter breaks down and the eyes often break into tears.
12.18.5.288Listen 13 Dec 2025He will be honest enough to admit that he does care if things are going wrong, if possessions are falling away, and if his desires are ending in frustration instead of fulfilment. But he will also be wise enough to declare that he knows that peace of mind is still worth seeking despite these disappointments and that intuitions of the Overself are no less necessary to his happiness and well-being than are the comforts of this world.
15.24.1.76Listen 14 Dec 2025When he sees the meaning of life, he cannot help but give it his acceptance. Circumstances previously rebelled against now fit into a reasonable place in the pattern of things.
16.26.4.147Listen 15 Dec 2025It is a higher self not only in a moral sense but also in a cosmic sense. For the lower one issued forth from it, but under limitations of consciousness, form, space, and time which are not in the parent Self.
14.22.3.344Listen 16 Dec 2025Not only does philosophical study inform the mind, it also elevates the mind.
13.20.1.172Listen 17 Dec 2025We do not subscribe to the belief that the divine soul has somehow gone astray and got enslaved by the animal body.
14.22.3.350Listen 18 Dec 2025No ordinary man really knows himself. He knows only his idea of himself. The two are not the same. If he wants to know his true self, he must first liberate himself from this false one, this imagined one, this idea.
6.8.4.6Listen 19 Dec 2025It is never anything else than its own perfect self, never contrary to its own unique and infinite nature.
14.22.3.360Listen 20 Dec 2025The psychic effects of meat-eating are undesirable. If those who believe that they cannot sustain life without it could see these effects, and if they had to be their own butchers, how many would continue this habit?
4.5.3.32Listen 21 Dec 2025In every test he has the possible chance to reveal himself as he would like to be, as well as the certain chance to reveal what he already is.
3.2.3.108Listen 22 Dec 2025The Rising Sun was originally a symbol of the Overself in relation to man's conscious development.
4.4.5.69Listen 23 Dec 2025When the personal me stops the endless struggle for a while and remains quiet, inactive, and passive, the impersonal I Who Am arises and, little by little, gently suffuses it with new life and heals it with great love.
14.22.5.133Listen 24 Dec 2025When these thoughts pass down from his head to his heart and from his heart to his will, only then will he really be a student of philosophy. The heart must be opened to them, the will must be directed by them. With that his life will change, at first little by little, into a blessed one.
13.20.1.354Listen 25 Dec 2025If leadership and guidance, inspiration and light are ever to come to humanity from mystical circles during this colossal upheaval, be sure that they will come only from those who have wedded head to heart and contemplation to practical service.
13.20.1.341Listen 26 Dec 2025The Overself is our knowledge, experience, or sight of the World-Mind, of God, and is the only one we shall ever get while we are still in the flesh.
14.22.3.312Listen 27 Dec 2025It does not lie within man's power to gain more than a glimpse of this diviner life. If he is to be established firmly and lastingly in it, then a descent of grace is absolutely necessary …
12.18.5.100, ExcerptListen 28 Dec 2025… The disciple should search thoroughly for his weaknesses of character and faults of intellect, and having thus detected them as well as humbled himself, be constantly on his guard against them until he has succeeded in eliminating them altogether.
4.4.4.149, ExcerptListen 29 Dec 2025A quarrelsome man carries his enemies with him for he creates them wherever he goes. There is no peace in his outer life because there is none in his inner life.
5.6.5.164Listen 30 Dec 2025He comes back from the glimpse not only renewed in grace but purged in character, not only less egoistic but more detached, hence calmer. It is only a mood, of course, and may vanish in a few minutes, hours, or days. But whereas most other moods pass from memory and are unrecallable, this kind is unforgettable.
14.22.7.24Listen 31 Dec 2025
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