Day by day
The universal power will sustain him simply because he has surrendered himself to it …
12.18.4.196, ExcerptListen 1 Apr 2026Jesus had nowhere to lay his head. He wandered from place to place, teaching without price as he wandered. Wherever he went he was at home in the complete confidence that Providence was taking care of him.
12.18.4.186Listen 2 Apr 2026One important effect of the glimpse is to show him how wonderful life could be if there were frequent and easy access to this diviner region. For this spurs him to seek ways and means to bring about its recurrence.
14.22.7.122Listen 3 Apr 2026Physics, metaphysics, religion, and mysticism must unite before each can speak truth, which is a unique whole and not a particular fragment as they are individually.
13.20.1.512Listen 4 Apr 2026He must come for a while to the position that T.E. Lawrence of Arabia came to when he wrote: “The truth was I did not like the ‘myself’ I could see and hear.”
2.1.2.268Listen 5 Apr 2026The Lightning-flash may occur either after reason reaches the peak of its performance and has been exhausted, or by deliberately abandoning intellectual activity for the utmost faith and devotion. In both cases, one has to let go and sink back into the Nothing and stop further efforts on one’s own. Sometimes, by destiny, the Lightning-flash can occur unexpectedly when no effort is made.
14.22.5.59Listen 6 Apr 2026Whatever his task or profession in the world may be, he will so contrive that it will become a labour for the good of his fellow creatures not less than for personal profit.
13.20.5.178Listen 7 Apr 2026He has come far when he has come to feel not only that divinity truly is but also that it is as near as his own being.
16.25.1.38Listen 8 Apr 2026The notion of making up an itinerary well in advance appeals to the time-bound calculating intellect but not to the spirit-led intuition.
12.18.4.177Listen 9 Apr 2026This feeling that we have seen this place before, passed through that situation, comes from a former personality. The soul is the same, but the outer man is not.
6.9.2.114Listen 10 Apr 2026Learn to penetrate within yourself, your deeper, almost unknown self. It will need patience to return day after day, not stopping until the truth is reached, the peace is felt, the blessing descends. It will need perseverance until the source of strength is found. Thereafter it will take you over: this is grace …
3.2.3.164, ExcerptListen 11 Apr 2026So long as his ego asserts its supremacy in everything he does, so long as it arranges everything for him, so long will he be the victim of its own ignorance and blindness.
6.8.4.55Listen 12 Apr 2026It is the business of an artist, poet, or writer (of the more serious kind) to lift a man out of himself, his little ego, by presenting beauty, truth, or goodness so attractively that the man is drawn and held by it to the point mentioned—of forgetting himself.
9.14.1.138Listen 13 Apr 2026Why add to any dark or difficult situation? Is it not enough to have to endure it that you must enlarge it by setting up the tension of your negative emotions or disturbed thoughts about it? Keep them out of it.
9.13.1.371Listen 14 Apr 2026Philosophy overcomes the mystic’s fear of worldly life and the worldling’s fear of mystical life by bringing them together and reconciling their demands under the transforming light of a new synthesis.
13.20.1.8Listen 15 Apr 2026The World-Idea will be realized anyhow, whatever human beings do or fail to do.
16.26.1.132Listen 16 Apr 2026There are, of course, in every land a few who long ago passed this point in their development and more who have recently passed it. They are the pioneers, sensitive to spiritual ideals and struggling to follow them. But now the challenge has been issued to humanity as a whole. Its unseen guardian has issued an ultimatum. It must make the passage and will not be allowed to delay any longer.
9.13.4.200Listen 17 Apr 2026The resignation which is advisable when circumstances are unalterable need not be a grim and hopeless one.
12.18.4.30Listen 18 Apr 2026It was Jesus’ closest relative, his own mother, who sought to sidetrack him from his mission, compelling him to exclaim, “Woman! What have I to do with thee?” It was Ramana Maharshi’s own mother who sought to drag him back from his meditation-cave to a worldly life, compelling him to tell her, in effect, not to alter a course already preordained for him. The duties towards one’s family are limited ones, whereas the duty towards one’s soul is an unlimited one.
5.6.2.214Listen 19 Apr 2026The quest is the most important adventure in human experience.
2.1.1.77Listen 20 Apr 2026A time may come when what happens to him during the meditation hour will seem more important than what happens during the entire day which follows it.
4.4.1.354Listen 21 Apr 2026When you begin to seek the Knower, who is within you, and to sever yourself from the seen, which is both without and within you, you begin to pass from illusion to reality.
14.22.5.15Listen 22 Apr 2026I went both abroad on land and sea as well as within mind and heart. The higher Self, the soul, God—whatever name we like to call it by—was the object of my quest. My findings were shared in my books and interviews.
8.12.3.159Listen 23 Apr 2026Is it not worth noting that among those who left their spiritual mark on mankind it is the young rebels who are foremost? Both Buddha and Jesus broke with their traditions.
12.17.1.116Listen 24 Apr 2026The illuminated men of earlier generations, who usually appeared at the beginning of each historical epoch and from whose ranks the great social lawgivers and religion-founders were drawn, had no personal master for none was available at the time. Who taught them? It was none other than the World-Mind, operating directly through each man’s Overself and within his human consciousness. Whoever is unable to find an outward master in our own times may still find, when he has worked on himself sufficiently to be ready for it, this same direct inward help (grace) from the World-Mind if he turns to that Mind.
16.25.1.42Listen 25 Apr 2026That is true willpower which acts from the deepest part of our being, which sets the ego aside instead of expressing it. Not only can it thrust heredity aside and master surroundings, but then only is “Thy will” done by us.
12.18.4.82Listen 26 Apr 2026There are times when the Overself’s grace may manifest even in the ugly form of illness! If its entry into the everyday consciousness is blocked or twisted by materialistic scepticism, animalistic obsessions, inherited complexes, or excessive extroversion, it may forcibly make its way through them. The body may then be stricken down with sickness until such time as the blockage or distortion is removed.
7.10.5.147Listen 27 Apr 2026It is a fact in many people’s lives that some of the troubles which befall them have no origin in the karma of former lives but belong solely to causes started in the present life.
6.9.3.242Listen 28 Apr 2026The serenity of the Overself never varies and consequently the man who accomplishes the complete surrender to it is unvaryingly serene and unshakeably tranquil.
12.18.4.170Listen 29 Apr 2026The practice of philosophy is an essential part of it and consists not only in applying its principles and its wisdom to everyday active living, but also in realizing the divine presence deep, deep within the heart where it abides in tremendous stillness.
13.20.1.17Listen 30 Apr 2026
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