Day by day
… we feel the divine presence in that profound unearthly stillness where neither the sounds of emotional clamour nor those of intellectual grinding can enter.
2.1.2.46, ExcerptListen 1 Sep 2026When the personal ego is put in its place, not allowed to dominate, when it becomes the ruled and not the ruler—and further, when meditation aligns it with the Overself and knowledge keeps it there—when finally application brings it into the day’s activity, then inner directives guide the man, inner harmony gives him peace of mind. Unpleasant happenings will not be allowed to disturb this mental evenness, nor untoward ones allowed to upset his feelings.
6.8.4.464Listen 2 Sep 2026The practice of philosophy is not easy, but it is the only way to gain its advantages. When it takes firm root in day-to-day life, experience, behaviour, and activity, its truth is tested and survives, solidly confirmed.
13.20.3.172Listen 3 Sep 2026He does not have to think meanly of himself all the time, does not have to worry anxiously about his unworthy character. Rather should he learn to get more relaxed, more remindful of the existence of his diviner being.
15.23.1.131Listen 4 Sep 2026After nearly one thousand years of useful existence, Confucianism had sunk to a low level; it had become feeble, corrupt. Wang Yang-ming was the man who aroused it to new life and strength and inspired it afresh.
10.15.3.132Listen 5 Sep 2026It is not a game of hide-and-seek that God is playing with man, not a sport for God’s own amusement as some Hindu sects believe, but a process of evolvement intended to give man insight into the Real and power for co-operative participation. It is a treasure-hunt through many earthly lives.
16.26.4.262Listen 6 Sep 2026Mental attitude is all-important. He may respond to either suggestion—that he is the feeble ego or that he is the divine Overself; it is a matter of where he puts his faith.
6.8.1.95Listen 7 Sep 2026We have not to become divine for we are divine. We have, however, to think and do what is divine.
2.1.5.17Listen 8 Sep 2026Every infraction of the great law of compensation on its moral side is cumulative, piles one eventual affliction upon another into a heap, which is one reason why we often hear the complaint that afflictions are not in just ratio with sins.
6.9.3.217Listen 9 Sep 2026After the illumination the ego becomes a mere instrument, put down or picked up at any and every moment by the Overself. No longer are its own thoughts, emotions, desires, or lusts in control; instead, they are fully controlled by the higher power.
6.8.1.211Listen 10 Sep 2026… By making errors in everyday living we become aware of our own ignorance. By becoming aware of our ignorance, we take the first step to transcending it.
3.2.4.114, ExcerptListen 11 Sep 2026What the ego’s pride cannot do, the Overself’s humility may. It is always worth trying this better way, even if it be a self-mortifying way.
12.18.3.6Listen 12 Sep 2026It is the faculty of reason which differentiates human beings from all Nature’s other creatures. It is this which sets man beyond the animals. But reason untouched by the finer promptings of the heart, and unillumined by the sublimer intuitions of the mind, degenerates easily into selfish cunning, and degrades instead of dignifying man.
5.7.3.8Listen 13 Sep 2026The same nature which, filled with ego, is such an ugly sight, becomes, when purified of it and reflecting the Overself’s presence, a beautiful one.
6.8.4.459Listen 14 Sep 2026The more love he can bring into this practice, the more he is likely to succeed with it. If he cannot yet feel any love for the Overself, then let him bring joy into it, the joy of knowing that he is on the most worthwhile journey in life.
4.4.2.296Listen 15 Sep 2026There is a tradition that live snails crawled all over and wholly covered the Buddha’s head to prevent his getting sunstroke when he had fallen into deep inner absorption in a place where no tree branches gave their usual shelter. Whether this is true or not, it does convey the idea that the apostle of mercy and love for the whole animal kingdom received his own love reflected back to him by members of that kingdom.
4.5.3.94Listen 16 Sep 2026
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