Day by day
After he has exhausted all worldly means and hopes, in any particular direction, where else can a man turn except backward—back to his own divine source?
3.3.2.138Listen 1 Jun 2026The philosophic discipline shows us how we are to treat ourselves. The philosophic morality teaches us how we are to treat others. It provides both abstract principle for theory and concrete rules for conduct.
13.20.3.98Listen 2 Jun 2026When we talk of the ego we mean the mind, the body, the senses, and the memory. For take them away and we are as nothing.
6.8.3.19Listen 3 Jun 2026Each man has only a limited fund of life-force, time, and ability. He may squander it on worldly pleasures or spend it on worldly ambitions. But if, without neglecting the duties of his particular situation, he realizes that these are changing and transient satisfactions and turns instead to the quest of the Overself, he begins to justify his incarnation.
2.1.1.84Listen 4 Jun 2026The effect of a Glimpse upon character may show itself as a passing feeling but it is the business of a quester to show it as a habit of life.
14.22.7.227Listen 5 Jun 2026Our attention is now so fully absorbed by externals that we never have the leisure to cultivate inwardness …
3.3.2.126, ExcerptListen 6 Jun 2026The first goal is to become absorbed in this recollection of the Overself and anchored in this affirmation of it.
15.23.6.215Listen 7 Jun 2026The ruling ideas with which he falls asleep will form a connection with the wakeful life and profoundly influence it.
13.19.3.168Listen 8 Jun 2026Every man may awaken to the presence of Christ-consciousness within himself and thus step out of the merely animal and nominally human existence. It will then be a divinely human one.
2.1.5.156Listen 9 Jun 2026No man can get out of his own sorrows unless he can get out of his own thoughts.
15.24.3.132Listen 10 Jun 2026The risk of being carried away by the world is always present for those who try to spiritualize their life in the world rather than in a monastery or ashram. It is a risk which calls for watchfulness, management, and occasional periods of retreat.
3.3.1.198Listen 11 Jun 2026There is a fixed centre deep within every man. He may live in it, if he can find and keep to it, so tranquilly that all else in his thoughts and feelings and actions will be affected by its magic without being able to affect it.
15.24.3.308Listen 12 Jun 2026Only he who lives from moment to moment by the clear light of its teaching, by the deepest faith in its tenets, and by the ardent feeling of its worth is a true disciple of philosophy.
13.20.3.115Listen 13 Jun 2026… enlightenment involves liberation from his ego, its captivity and deceitfulness.
2.1.5.293, ExcerptListen 14 Jun 2026The glimpse brings release from doubts, burdens, fears, depressions, and other negative conditions which may beset the ego. This is most welcome. But only seldom does it last long. It is a momentary or temporary condition. It is never totally or permanently lost; there is usually some kind of residue, if only in memory.
14.22.7.125Listen 15 Jun 2026It will feel as if his scalp had been painlessly lifted off his head and as if the mind had been indescribably liberated in the process. It is now released in its own native element—intensely alert, immensely clear and utterly concentrated, gloriously beautiful and serenely percipient.
15.23.7.87Listen 16 Jun 2026This is the essential being of a man, where his link with God lies.
14.22.3.334Listen 17 Jun 2026When this process of balancing the two forces comes to an end, the male-female consciousness of the real human being will be established at last.
4.5.7.62Listen 18 Jun 2026If there is a genuine inner relationship between them, then he will feel that a part of the master has never left him, even though the master is himself long dead.
2.1.6.854Listen 19 Jun 2026What can be done for those persons—alas! so many in these times—whose minds are covered in midnight darkness where the Overself is concerned and whom no spiritual intimations seem to reach?
8.12.4.147Listen 20 Jun 2026Set, in the Egyptian religion, was the Destroyer, the leader of the powers of darkness, the opposer of Life and the adversary of aspiring man; hence he was turned into Satan by the Christians, into Shai’tan by the Israelites. But just as Set was defeated in the end, his power broken and his submission as a penitent accepted, so man, the prodigal son, will return and will be saved, despite his sins. The covenant has been made: there is ultimate hope for all.
16.26.4.217Listen 21 Jun 2026It is true that the Occidental peoples have had in the past little aptitude for exercises in contemplation. But that is no reason why they should not make a start at what will inescapably have to be started if they are to put an end to their aimlessness and restlessness.
4.4.1.54Listen 22 Jun 2026The more activities that receive his attention, the more is he apt to be distracted from his higher purpose.
3.3.2.131Listen 23 Jun 2026Those who are cultivated, educated, and intelligent enough to appreciate what philosophy offers them may yet be blinded by prejudice or selfishness or be too stupefied from gorging the passions to do so.
13.20.3.60Listen 24 Jun 2026Despite its zeal to spiritualize its ways, ennoble its actions, and raise the level of its aspirations, the ego never forgets itself.
6.8.4.334Listen 25 Jun 2026“No man can serve two masters,” said Jesus. Thus he rejected all indecision of will.
3.2.6.66Listen 26 Jun 2026The seekers are to be found at different levels and are attracted by different approaches according to their different intellectual development, emotional temperaments, moral capacities, and intuitional sensitivity.
2.1.5.185Listen 27 Jun 2026It is an experience of self-discovery, not the discovery of some other being, whether a guru or a god.
14.22.4.2Listen 28 Jun 2026… If men wish to start a better and happier life, it is needful that they should understand the lessons of their own past. If this happier existence is to be a reality, it cannot come about unless they break inwardly and outwardly with this past.
13.20.3.131, ExcerptListen 29 Jun 2026The more I reflect about my global travels, observations, and studies, the more I hold firmly to this truth: “Character is fate.”
6.9.2.45Listen 30 Jun 2026
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