Day by day
The presence of the personal ego in the dream state accounts for the presence of joys and sorrows in that state too. Its absence from deep sleep accounts for the latter’s satisfying tranquillity.
13.19.3.97Listen 1 Oct 2026At this stage he will tend more and more to stop counting on fixed, pre-thought plans for future movement, actions, or arrangements, to let the guidance of the moment take over, through the silent voice of intuition.
12.18.4.183Listen 2 Oct 2026If a man asks why he can find no trace of God’s presence in himself, I answer that he is full of evidence, not merely traces. God is present in him as consciousness, the state of being aware; as thought, the capacity to think; as activity, the power to move; and as stillness, the condition of ego, emotion, intellect, and body which finally and clearly reveals what these other things simply point to. “Be still, and know that I am God” is a statement of being whose truth can be tested by experiment and whose value can be demonstrated by experience.
14.22.3.409Listen 3 Oct 2026It is of practical importance in the affairs of his life not to enter any undertaking nor make a decision nor begin a day without first entering into a meditation. This will tend to introduce proper deliberateness and dismiss hasty carelessness from his decisions, to insert intuitive guidance into his activities, and to warn him against wrong enterprises.
9.13.2.243Listen 4 Oct 2026Our approach to every doctrine must be to take its truth and leave its error. But we must do this in appreciation rather than in disparagement.
5.7.3.113Listen 5 Oct 2026If he understands the process whereby he arrived at illumination, he will know how to recover it if and when it fades away. But if he arrived at it by an unconscious process, then when he loses it he will not know how to help himself.
14.22.5.43Listen 6 Oct 2026Concepts or ideas are clues, pointers, signposts to truth, perhaps helps towards the search, but ought not to be referred to a level beyond that of the intellect, which is limited. Fixation and dogmatism should be avoided. Words, definitions, even bibles are not absolute, but relative to our present mental state.
5.5.3.116Listen 7 Oct 2026Philosophy is at one and the same time a religious cult, a metaphysical system, a mystical technique, a moral discipline, and a practical guide.
13.20.1.83Listen 8 Oct 2026Outward changes for the better are almost always the result of improved inner conditions—that is, better, more inspired thinking, plus elimination of negative thoughts and actions
9.13.1.352Listen 9 Oct 2026Historical disaster and outward catastrophe might destroy civilization but could not destroy humanity. Its inner life will go on.
9.13.4.414Listen 10 Oct 2026When they assert that they have united with God, they have, if truly attained, united with God’s deputy, their higher self, their own divine soul—which is the not the same. …
16.25.1.131, ExcerptListen 11 Oct 2026That alone is pure authentic service which asks for no return.
3.2.8.126Listen 12 Oct 2026
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