Day by day
This condition is commonly said to be nothing less than “union with God.” What is really attained is the higher self, the ray of the divine sun reflected in man, the immortal soul in fact—God Himself being forever utterly beyond man’s finite capacity to comprehend …
16.25.1.72, ExcerptListen 1 Mar 2026… Philosophy, being more precise in its statements, avers that they have really achieved union not with God, but with something Godlike—the soul.
16.25.1.74, ExcerptListen 2 Mar 2026The great mysterious emptiness—that is all man can know of God.
16.28.2.31Listen 3 Mar 2026The ego which gets a man into his troubles is unlikely to get him out of them—unless it reforms, learns, or lets some wisdom in.
6.8.4.8Listen 4 Mar 2026What he has brought upon himself may come to an end of itself if he finds out what positive quality he needs to develop in his attitude toward it to replace the negative one.
6.9.3.145Listen 5 Mar 2026He knows that it is his duty to look beyond his little ego, to devise withdrawals and enter retreats from the continuous immersion in his own personality. If, in such short periods, he can achieve impersonality and attain anonymity, the result will be beneficial out of all proportion to the time given. And even though it will make him humbler in society, it will lift him to a higher place in heaven.
6.8.4.348Listen 6 Mar 2026Our human nature is so pitifully limited and imperfect that only its most rigorous discipline will bring the infinite and perfect enlightenment into consciousness without spoiling it in some way.
3.2.5.75Listen 7 Mar 2026It offers a conception of life which originates on a higher level.
2.1.1.7Listen 8 Mar 2026Mysterious pools of wisdom and goodness are underneath the personality, if only we could find our way to them or else bring gushes from them to the surface.
14.22.3.144Listen 9 Mar 2026… What you reap here in this century is the fruit of what you sowed there in Rome in the second century—such are the common notions about reincarnation and karma. But we have only to open our eyes and look around us to see that everywhere men are getting now the results of what they have done in this same incarnation.
6.9.3.186, ExcerptListen 10 Mar 2026… Indeed, as all his longings for the Overself slowly gather themselves together into a great dedicated life, there is an equally great shift-over from the animal part of his being to the truly human, allied with an opening-up of the angelic or divine part.
5.6.4.47, ExcerptListen 11 Mar 2026… what intellect unaided cannot know, intuition—a higher faculty—can. It can discover its point of contact with the Absolute—its higher individuality, the Overself, even though it can go no farther and penetrate the Absolute. When intuition becomes active in this matter, it may or may not take the shape of a mystical experience. When it is developed by philosophic training, it expands into insight.
16.25.1.123, ExcerptListen 12 Mar 2026He cannot meet hatred with hatred, but only with resignation. His answer to enmity is to condone it. His attitude to opposition is to be tolerant.
5.6.5.133Listen 13 Mar 2026When this first faint intrusion is sensed, the need is for utter relaxation, for becoming passive and yielding. Only so can the aspirant follow intuitive prompting more and more inwards until it becomes stronger and stronger, clearer and clearer.
14.22.1.108Listen 14 Mar 2026When I meet with certain persons or certain books, I am often reminded of a certain sentence in Roman Seneca’s writings: “There are many who might have attained to wisdom, had they not fancied they had attained it already.”
5.7.3.132Listen 15 Mar 2026A missed chance or a failed test in one year may lead directly, if the lesson be heeded, to a used chance or a successful test in a later year.
3.2.3.155Listen 16 Mar 2026Many have experienced the early beginnings of a glimpse but, failing to recognize it, have aborted it unwittingly by inattention to this delicate feeling.
14.22.5.182Listen 17 Mar 2026The silent mind receives spiritual guidance and allows grace to approach; the thinking mind deals with the world and attends to its activities.
5.7.1.81Listen 18 Mar 2026We may oppose one thing to another if both are on the same plane, but not if they are on unequal planes. Intuition is not anti-intellectual but super-intellectual.
14.22.1.40Listen 19 Mar 2026There is only one way to settle his question of whether the Overself exists and that is the very way most moderns refuse to accept. Each must gain for himself the authentic mystical experience. Sugar can really be known only by its sweet taste, the Overself only by opening the doors of the mind to consciousness of its presence.
14.22.3.437Listen 20 Mar 2026No one is keeping him out of this enlightenment except himself.
6.8.4.58Listen 21 Mar 2026… he will even sacrifice part of his time, money, and energy to doing what little he can to enlighten others intellectually during the interval. Even if this meant doing nothing more than making philosophical knowledge more easily accessible to ordinary men than it has been in the past, this would be enough …
13.20.4.222, ExcerptListen 22 Mar 2026It might be thought that the philosophic discipline seeks to eliminate emotion. The truth is that it seeks to maturate emotion. The disciple’s feelings—no less than his thoughts—must grow up and assume their philosophic responsibilities.
5.6.3.176Listen 23 Mar 2026If the Long Path begins and ends with ego, the Short Path begins with a 180 degree turnaround, opens up a vista of the infinite Overself.
15.23.1.35Listen 24 Mar 2026When he steps forth from the ego’s timed life into the Overself’s liberating timelessness, the feeling of confinement falls away like a heavy cloak. He enjoys an unimagined exhilaration.
14.22.6.130Listen 25 Mar 2026It is quite possible to make progress on the Quest without the aid of a teacher. The aspirant’s own higher self will give him the guidance and assistance he needs—provided he has sufficient faith in its existence.
3.2.2.99Listen 26 Mar 2026Karma is the king who rules this earth.
6.9.3.47Listen 27 Mar 2026… Saint Paul, following the master whom he never saw in the flesh but knew so well in the spirit, put all other virtues beneath compassion … They knew the power of compassion in dissolving the ego. It was thus a part of their moral code. They knew, too, another reason why the disciple should practise altruistic conduct and take up noble attitudes. With their help he may bring one visitation of bad karma to an earlier end or even help to prevent the manifestation of another visitation which would otherwise be inevitable.
13.20.4.214, ExcerptListen 28 Mar 2026He needs to hold the sacred conviction that so long as he continues to cherish the Ideal his higher self will not abandon him.
12.18.1.83Listen 29 Mar 2026The dark possibility that destroys our future can give place to a brighter one only when enough philosophically illumined people are to be found in each country. Nor need they be many—a few in each city would throw out enough influence to bring about this change …
7.11.3.359, ExcerptListen 30 Mar 2026All this vast evolution of environments and their entities has but one ultimate aim from man’s point of view and so far as he is concerned. It is to bring him into a miniature likeness to his divine Parent, to make him into an image of godlike beauty, power, wisdom, and being.
16.26.4.251Listen 31 Mar 2026
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