Day by day
Grace is a powerful stimulus. It descends from a higher source, urges us to perfect our nature, equips us to complete it. Thus we are lifted up to its own higher level.
12.18.5.322Listen 1 May 2026By blaming other persons, one’s own ego is served by its implied superiority.
5.6.5.294Listen 2 May 2026In his humbling discovery that for all his physical vigour and intellectual power he is still spiritually weak, contemporary man is discovering the need of religion, mysticism, or philosophy.
9.13.4.271Listen 3 May 2026The illuminate is the conscious embodiment of the Overself, whereas the ordinary man is ignorant of that which his heart enshrines. Hence, the Chinese say that the illuminate is the “Complete Man.” He is the rare flower of an age.
16.25.3.14Listen 4 May 2026It is an important part of his task to show men what their personal lives look like from an impersonal standpoint. Hence he points out the fallacy of their egotistic actions and the foolishness of their egotistic purposes.
2.1.6.477Listen 5 May 2026There, in this necessity of developing, balancing, and coordinating all the parts of one’s being, is a further argument for the necessity of reincarnation. A single lifetime is too short a period in which to fulfil such a task.
6.9.2.235Listen 6 May 2026The less he lets anything disturb the full impact of this experience, the deeper will be the impression it makes. The glimpse requires a complete concentration.
14.22.5.129Listen 7 May 2026There is an incalculable factor in this game of self with Overself, an unpredictable element in this quest—the Grace!
12.18.5.240Listen 8 May 2026Once the past is properly, impersonally, understood; once the logic of its consequences is traced; once the implication of all this is practically applied, especially in self-discipline: let it go.
3.2.6.12Listen 9 May 2026When he fails to admit this first blunder, the way is opened for more blunders linked with it and possibly, emerging as a larger consequence of it.
6.9.3.143Listen 10 May 2026When this truth is at last seen, that heaven is not a place in space but a condition of being, and that therefore it can to a certain extent be realized even before death, a feeling of joy and a sense of adventure are felt …
2.1.5.361, ExcerptListen 11 May 2026When the glimpse starts, it is best to remain still, and in the same bodily position whether sitting or standing, with eyes fixed at the same point.
14.22.5.147Listen 12 May 2026The idea of having a sanctuary room is an excellent one and should be helpful. There is great power in having a regular place, time, habit, and manner of approach to God …
4.4.2.104, ExcerptListen 13 May 2026Only good positive thoughts were allowed to enter his head and good meatless food his stomach.
4.5.3.62Listen 14 May 2026He has emotionally to crawl on hands and knees before the higher power in the deepest humility. This kills pride, that terrible obstacle between man and the Soul’s presence.
12.18.3.73Listen 15 May 2026In the final reckoning we are not the disciple of this or that man but rather the disciple of the Overself.
2.1.6.832Listen 16 May 2026In the recesses of his own being, a man can find peace, strength, wisdom—but only if he brings his thoughts into obedience.
4.4.1.39Listen 17 May 2026… Only by seeking refuge in the immortality of the Overself and in discovering the truth and wisdom of the Divine Purpose, can we also learn how to endure the suffering on the ever-changing face of life. “Letting go” is the hardest of all lessons to learn; yet it is the most necessary for spiritual advancement.
6.9.1.134, ExcerptListen 18 May 2026Each experience in this tumultuous world is a chance to get farther from our habitual egoism.
6.8.4.262Listen 19 May 2026The Long Path is an intermittent fight against the animal nature and the human ego. The Short Path is a continuous quest of the attention for the Overself.
15.23.5.105Listen 20 May 2026The attitude towards cultism should be precisely the same as that towards all other religions with organized institutions. One may learn what they have to offer without joining them. It is needful to use one’s critical judgement and try to see clearly their limitations, deficiencies, and weaknesses along with their truths and services.
11.16.7.98Listen 21 May 2026The stages of the Quest pass by degrees from the disciplining of the ego to the opening of consciousness to the Overself.
2.1.5.297Listen 22 May 2026… If, by such frequent and impartial retrospection, the lessons of past misbehaviour have been thoroughly learnt, there is the further likelihood that the Overself’s grace may wipe out the record of evil karma waiting to be suffered, or at least modify it.
6.9.3.144, ExcerptListen 23 May 2026Two trustworthy evidences of real progress are attainment of balance and attenuation of ego.
3.2.2.72Listen 24 May 2026Those on the quest need to know each other quite well before marrying. This means they need to know the other person’s negative as well as positive characteristics. Then they have to decide whether they are able and willing to spend the rest of their life living with those negatives, that is, whether the positive qualities which attract them are strong enough to overbalance the opposite ones.
9.13.2.448Listen 25 May 2026The extraordinary thing is that when, putting aside the ego-desires, we selflessly seek to know the divine will for us in any given circumstances, the answer brings with it the strength necessary to obey it.
12.18.4.99Listen 26 May 2026There is peace behind the tumult, goodness behind the evil, happiness behind the agony.
6.9.3.264Listen 27 May 2026If through a book we can associate ourselves with a mastermind, it represents an opportunity we cannot afford to miss.
9.14.4.191Listen 28 May 2026The aim is to achieve a concentration as firm and as steady as the Mongolian horseman’s when he gallops without spilling a drop of water from a completely filled glass held in his hand.
4.4.3.76Listen 29 May 2026It is the Master’s business to lead his disciples to make their own discovery of the hidden track to the Overself.
16.25.5.84Listen 30 May 2026Out of these intense struggles with his thoughts and emotions, these repeated meditations and altruistic actions, these constant self-analyses and ardent yearnings, he will eventually get something which words can hardly describe. It will be a new sense of sacredness, an enlightened awareness of a deeper self, a blessed loving serenity.
2.1.5.420Listen 31 May 2026
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