Day by day
Something seemed to ask me, “Do you want to have your ego catered to and pampered like a child, primarily seeking its outer comforts, or will you give up the ego altogether and find peace? The choice you make at this crossroads will also determine the outer fortunes coming to you.”
8.12.2.141Listen 1 Aug 2025He may succeed in his aim only if he succeeds in not getting entangled by irrelevant activities and intruding persons.
3.2.8.7Listen 2 Aug 2025The banishment of flesh from a correct diet has a thoroughly scientific basis. This kind of food has far too much poisonous uric acid in it, far too much toxic urine to make it a healthy constituent of such a diet. Moreover, it deteriorates the intestinal flora. This will not affect healthy manual-worker types who have enough resistance to throw it off, but it will affect sedentary weaker types.
1.5.0.15Listen 3 Aug 2025The good merits of conduct in former lives bring pleasant benefits in the present one
6.9.3.197Listen 4 Aug 2025Facility comes with time, provided all other conditions and requirements are fulfilled. Attention passes through two progressive stages. The first holds it intently on an image, an idea, or an object. The second keeps these out and holds it in a sublime empty stillness.
4.4.1.209Listen 5 Aug 2025The old Oriental idea is to be lost in the Infinite. The new Occidental ideal is to be in tune with the Infinite.
13.20.1.1Listen 6 Aug 2025The ego knows that if profoundly concentrated attention is directed toward ascertaining its true nature the result will be suicidal, for its own illusory nature would be revealed. This is why it opposes such a meditation and why it allows all other kinds.
6.8.4.394Listen 7 Aug 2025Fear weakens a man, hate destroys him in the end, but love brings him his best.
5.6.2.118Listen 8 Aug 2025Only as a result of being liberated from himself, taken out of himself, can he find the universal being.
16.25.1.41Listen 9 Aug 2025… The power of knowing—whether it be a thought that is known, a complex of thoughts such as memories, a thing such as a landscape—is a divine power for it derives from the higher self which they possess.
13.21.2.136, ExcerptListen 10 Aug 2025If a little extra comfort leaves one’s thoughts untroubled, one’s feelings undisturbed, why not indulge in it?
3.2.7.184Listen 11 Aug 2025If he can penetrate to this inmost region of consciousness, he will penetrate also to the secret purpose of the few decades of earthly life.
14.22.4.115Listen 12 Aug 2025It is advisable to bring your prayer or healing treatment to an end with a silent or spoken expression of thanks to the higher power. It should be uttered with strong fervour and deep humility.
12.18.2.52Listen 13 Aug 2025It is better to come late to the higher life with its nobler values and uplifting practices, than not at all. It is still better to come to it when one is comparatively young and foundations are being laid.
2.1.2.35Listen 14 Aug 2025The Overself asks to be alone with him for certain periods every day. This is not too much to ask, yet it seems too much to give for most people.
3.3.1.162Listen 15 Aug 2025… Those alive today have the chance to make more quickly a forward move in spiritual growth, to learn certain lessons in which they have been laggards, but which Nature is determined to enforce.
9.13.4.148, ExcerptListen 16 Aug 2025The essence of man is perfect, but the ego of man is not.
6.8.1.50Listen 17 Aug 2025Even after he sinks back to his former state, the mystic who has had a flash, a glimpse, a revelation, or a vision of something beyond it can never be exactly the same as he was before. The light cannot fall upon him without leaving some little effect behind at the least, or some tremendous change at the most.
14.22.7.84Listen 18 Aug 2025It is not enough for two persons to get married because they love one another. They must also suit one another.
9.13.2.457Listen 19 Aug 2025Through widely different kinds of external experience, the ego seeks but never finds enduring happiness. Discovering in the end that it is on a wrong road, it turns to internal experience.
2.1.2.253Listen 20 Aug 2025It is uncommon to find an individual who, in a single personality, combines a highly spiritual outlook with a truly practical character. He who succeeds in effecting this combination is rare, but he is the type that the coming age needs and demands. For he can prove and demonstrate convincingly to all the world that loftiness of philosophic ethics will not be a weakness in practical life. On the contrary, because it is informed by knowledge and based upon wisdom, it will be a source of strength.
13.20.1.334Listen 21 Aug 2025He must be humble enough to admit errors in thought and conduct, never hesitating to retrace his steps when on the wrong road.
12.18.3.53Listen 22 Aug 2025In one sense troubles are our teachers and the greater the trouble the greater the teaching impressioned upon us.
3.2.3.122Listen 23 Aug 2025If he really surrenders his life to the Higher Power and turns over his sense of responsibility to It, he will be unable to act selfishly in his relationship with others, but will consider their welfare along with his own.
12.18.4.103Listen 24 Aug 2025The cultivation of a tranquil temperament promotes the practice of mental quiet. The cultivation of mental quiet promotes the attainment of the Overself’s peace.
4.4.7.23Listen 25 Aug 2025We listen to so many outer voices that we do not have time, or give place, to listen directly to the Inner Voice, the Overself’s.
3.3.2.120Listen 26 Aug 2025Those mystics who talk of becoming united with God have fallen into the dualistic fallacy. They talk as though God were separate and apart from themselves. The truth is that they already exist within God and do not need to become united with Him. What they need is to become conscious of Him—which is a different matter.
16.25.1.88Listen 27 Aug 2025The intuitive answer may come in one of several ways, but the commonest is either a self-evident thought or a deep heartfelt feeling.
14.22.1.231Listen 28 Aug 2025This search after the soul need not wait until death until it successfully ends. To do so would be illogical and in most cases futile. Here on earth and in this very lifetime the grand discovery may be made.
2.1.2.22Listen 29 Aug 2025The selfish man puts nothing back into life.
8.12.4.164Listen 30 Aug 2025… No man can forever isolate himself from the rest of mankind. In some way or other, for one essential need or another, he will come to depend on it. The shoes he wears or the food he eats were prepared for him by somebody else. Thus he is mysteriously chained to his human kith and kin. Thus he is forced to learn the lesson of unity and compassion.
3.2.5.33, ExcerptListen 31 Aug 2025
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