Day by day
… Because the ego lives in its own darkness, it cannot give light. The light may come only from the Overself, which is the Sun and Light of human existence …
3.2.1.209, ExcerptListen 1 Feb 2026Man is but a small token of the greater Mind which spawned him. He is but the merest hint of That which is behind him in the present, was in the past, and shall be in the future.
16.25.1.97Listen 2 Feb 2026When the Quest begins to mean so much to him that other things mean less, he is ready for its more advanced phase.
15.23.4.151Listen 3 Feb 2026Is there some particular purpose in my birth here? Is it all mere coincidence? Must we doubt, deny, even reject God? These are some of the questions a thoughtful man might ask himself.
2.1.2.25Listen 4 Feb 2026The true I yields quite a different feeling, experience, and consciousness from the familiar physical ego.
14.22.3.368Listen 5 Feb 2026… The Dark Night of the Soul does not come to every seeker. It is like a shadow thrown by the Sun. When the Sun appears in the subconscious, the shadows arise. But it is the beginning of a great inner change. It is not a wasted time; there is a great deal of work going on—but in the subconscious—to root out the ego. It is being done by the Overself. It is a sign of Grace, but the aspirant nevertheless feels unhappy …
3.2.1.209, ExcerptListen 6 Feb 2026The doorway to truth stands wide open throughout the day.
14.22.3.90Listen 7 Feb 2026Philosophy is not a physically-organized sect but a movement of thought. It is for those who insist on finding a relationship with God through their own experience.
13.20.2.124Listen 8 Feb 2026Most systems of yoga are simply devices for reducing the activity of the brain and thus allowing attention to turn inwards and become aware of what is sometimes called the unconscious and sometimes the spiritual self.
4.4.1.165Listen 9 Feb 2026It was this same High Lama whom I met at Angkor who foretold that the world’s spiritual enlightenment would next come through a Western channel. The fulfilment of this prediction cannot be far off now.
9.13.4.336Listen 10 Feb 2026Every negative thought which may arise within himself or be picked up unconsciously from others becomes an aggression against this quest.
3.2.1.157Listen 11 Feb 2026Those who think that sleep is all we need to remove the body’s fatigue after activity and work may be surprised to learn that this is only true of deep dreamless slumber. In the case of dream-filled sleep, it is not more than partially true.
13.19.3.102Listen 12 Feb 2026A man or woman to whom fate has denied the outer human love may find that it has also offered him or her the very real feeling of divine love. In that case, he or she cannot receive the gift in its fullness unless he or she accepts the denial with resignation.
12.18.1.103Listen 13 Feb 2026To understand intellectually is good but to glimpse intuitively is better. Best of all is not merely to look at truth but to enter into it.
5.7.1.125Listen 14 Feb 2026This is a paradox of existence: that the Real is beyond the illusory and yet the illusory is derived from the Real.
13.19.1.12Listen 15 Feb 2026This thing which the Overself has projected in space-time has not lost all link with its source, whatever outward appearances suggest to the contrary.
6.8.1.137Listen 16 Feb 2026There is a zone of utter calm within man. It is not only there but always there. Those who suffer, fret, or are confused may doubt or deny this—understandably and pardonably.
14.22.3.18Listen 17 Feb 2026Retreat into his mystical home is ever open to him, withdrawal into the blissful privacy of the Overself is his blessed right.
14.22.3.71Listen 18 Feb 2026… The more cultured among the early Christians understood that the Overself—whom they called Christ—was the real object of their worship, the ultimate goal of their mystical endeavour, and that the man Jesus was but its Voice—like those other voices with which the Word periodically breaks its silence for the guidance of bewildered mankind.
12.17.5.147, ExcerptListen 19 Feb 2026This is the gospel of inspired action, of dynamic philosophy, of rational religion, of balanced mysticism.
13.20.1.87Listen 20 Feb 2026Neither the body with its senses nor the mind with its thoughts is the ultimate being that I am. The body acts and the mind moves, but behind them is the thought-free Awareness, the Knowing Principle.
6.8.1.58Listen 21 Feb 2026His awareness of the relativity of things relieves the philosopher of any compulsion to identify himself with any particular viewpoint … This does not at all mean that chaos will enter into his affairs, insincerity into his attitudes, and anarchy into his morals. He is safeguarded from such perils by the link he has established with the Overself’s infinite wisdom and immeasurable goodness.
13.19.2.50, ExcerptListen 22 Feb 2026That which is present during the interval between two thoughts is also present during deep sleep.
13.19.3.126Listen 23 Feb 2026The individuality is beyond the personality—its level is higher. The one must prompt while the other must watch the pitiless destruction of its wishes and hopes, its values and desires, until only the pure being of individuality is left.
14.22.3.400Listen 24 Feb 2026There is no stability anywhere in the universe, given enough time, and there is none in human life. Yet the craving for it exists. There is a metaphysical meaning behind this phenomenon. It exists because THAT which is behind the craving person is the only stable thing there is, or rather no-thing, because IT has no shape, no colour, is soundless and invisible and beyond the grasp of ordinary thoughts …
16.26.2.22, ExcerptListen 25 Feb 2026The base, the mean, the unworthy, and the low seem alien and far from him: the noble, the high, the true, and the ideal seem to become his own very nature. From this rare contact he draws an unspeakable peace, a divine upliftment.
14.22.6.148Listen 26 Feb 2026… At the end we have to be like little children and leave our Enlightenment to the Father and give up our lives to him …
3.2.1.209, ExcerptListen 27 Feb 2026One advanced mystic considers the quest of the Overself to be the most important and most exigent activity in which anyone can engage, and if he can help anyone he is happy to do so … at least he can point out errors to be avoided, even if he can do nothing more.
8.12.5.130, ExcerptListen 28 Feb 2026
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