Day by day
To keep up this remembrance all the time, in all circumstances, requires practice and perseverance to an extent that seems beyond the ordinary. But they are actually within everyone’s untapped resources and untouched reserves.
15.23.6.244Listen 1 Jul 2026In the universe there is joy and suffering: in that which transcends it there is only a higher pure joy. The pairs of opposites cannot be escaped in the universe.
15.24.1.103Listen 2 Jul 2026He must begin his quest with an attitude of deep veneration for something, some power, higher than himself.
2.1.2.62Listen 3 Jul 2026Memories keep a man fastened to the old ways of life, however stupid they have proved themselves to be and however worthless their values have shown themselves. There is no way out of them except to put the destructive ones, the limiting ones, the useless ones, and the obstructive ones to the stake, burn them, and be done with them—and be done with them ash and all.
13.19.4.188Listen 4 Jul 2026To think about thinking leads the understanding towards the verge of its own source. To contemplate contemplation leads it directly into that source itself.
15.23.7.14Listen 5 Jul 2026The soul is as close as we can approach to that Mind, but surely it is enough. For it reflects something of the Mind’s nature. This is why the seers who wrote the Hindu bible called it a “Spark of the One Divine Flame” and the prophets who wrote the Christian bible declared it to be “created in the image of God.”
16.25.1.111Listen 6 Jul 2026We may, however, attain to partial knowledge of the transcendent Absolute by and through its emanation in us, the higher self.
16.25.1.113Listen 7 Jul 2026The Long Path votary works from systems, rules, plans, and techniques put down by its guides but the Short Path votary has no path chalked out for him. He is forever “waiting on the Lord.”
15.23.5.72Listen 8 Jul 2026Philosophy teaches that both aversion from, and attraction to, the world are to be avoided if the fine balance of mind needed to perceive truth is to be attained.
3.2.5.134Listen 9 Jul 2026The deeper he retires into his inmost being, the farther he retreats from the personal selfhood.
6.8.4.252Listen 10 Jul 2026In the end a man must come to himself, his diviner self, his essential being. And where shall he look for it if not there where Jesus pointed, within? —not outside, not to some other man, however high his repute as guru, not to some book, however sacrosanct its scriptural authority. Both man and book must, if loyal to the highest, also direct him inward.
2.1.3.83Listen 11 Jul 2026From the base to the apex of the philosophic pyramid, every stone should be chiselled with meticulous thought and ardent love.
12.18.1.52Listen 12 Jul 2026To repine for past errors or to wish that what has been should not have been has only a limited usefulness. Analyse the situations, note effects, study causes, draw lessons—then dismiss the past completely.
5.6.1.473Listen 13 Jul 2026The quest is integral—a combined approach through formal meditation and study, analytic observation, reflection, moral endeavour, religious devotion, and constant self-recollection.
3.2.5.197Listen 14 Jul 2026In this way, and by this regular observance, he sets up gradually a new rhythm in his mental and emotional worlds, imposes little by little a new pattern on his behaviour.
15.23.6.246Listen 15 Jul 2026Whatever be the pull of their interests in their lives, a time comes in the reincarnations when the divine self asserts itself in their consciousness.
2.1.2.264Listen 16 Jul 2026Karma puts a certain responsibility upon every man alike—upon the philosopher no less than the primitive.
6.9.3.58Listen 17 Jul 2026But although the Absolute is imperceptible to human powers, It has not left us utterly bereft of all means of communion. We are linked to It by something that lies hidden in the very deeps of our own being, by Its deputy to man, the divine Overself. Human power can penetrate to those deeps and discover the hidden treasure.
16.25.1.118Listen 18 Jul 2026Jesus declared clearly that those who could not forsake their earthly attachments could not become his disciples.
15.24.3.184Listen 19 Jul 2026It is not easy to translate this sacred silence into comprehensible meaning, to describe a content where there is no form, to ascend from a region as deep as Atlantis is sunk today and speak openly in familiar, intelligible language; but I must try.
15.24.4.195Listen 20 Jul 2026I have done what I could to prevent the existence of a Brunton cult.
8.12.4.46Listen 21 Jul 2026The Sanskrit word for inner Balance is samadham, that poise which is maintained in all kinds of circumstances. By constantly thinking about the falsity of the ego and its phantom-like nature, it can be sublimated and its power divinely directed.
3.2.5.160Listen 22 Jul 2026From these practices he receives a feeling of courage which in turn enables him to confront the hard situations of life without flinching.
4.4.1.384Listen 23 Jul 2026When a man begins to seek out his real nature, to find the truth of his real being, he begins to follow the Quest.
2.1.1.11Listen 24 Jul 2026If one thing is clear about the coming age, it is that henceforth a brusquely awakened humanity refuses to drift helplessly but intends energetically to give a positive direction to its fate and fortune.
9.13.4.252Listen 25 Jul 2026Even when a situation becomes quite critical, a here-and-now matter, he should not give way to panic. The first move after the first shock should be to restore and maintain calm, the second to consider what he is to do—a question for which he should look not only to thinking for an answer but also to intuition.
15.24.2.64Listen 26 Jul 2026In the earlier stages of his development the aspirant is helped by being told exactly what to do. But in the later stages the less this is done the better for him.
3.2.2.104Listen 27 Jul 2026It is there in all, whether it be latent or patent, this impulse in each man to improve and better himself into a person of worth. Ultimately it develops, in this body or a later one, into the aspiration to transcend himself.
2.1.2.447Listen 28 Jul 2026He should believe that he is at that moment receiving that which he is praying for. But he should do so only if he feels no contrary indication of coldness or doubt, and only after he has made contact with the power through pure worship or meditation.
12.18.2.63Listen 29 Jul 2026But the essential thing is what we do with the mind. Socrates nurtured his philosophy in what was for that time a large city; he did not need, like Thoreau, to withdraw into Nature’s solitudes.
3.3.5.43Listen 30 Jul 2026He is wrong to object that you can’t hold two different thoughts at the same time and that hence you can’t remember God and attend to worldly details simultaneously. You can. God is not a thought, but an awareness on a higher level …
15.23.6.256, ExcerptListen 31 Jul 2026
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