The 30 latest...
The 30 latest published notes
A high degree of refinement in morals, manners, and mind shows not merely human quality but also spiritual sensitivity.
1.6.0.54Listen 22 Feb 2025If we could examine the prehistoric period of man, and not merely his latest century, we would find that the duration of his life has since been shortened, while the condition of his body has deteriorated through new diseases. The cause in both cases lies in his changed feeding habits to some extent, and in his unrestricted sexual habits to a much larger extent.
4.5.3.65Listen 21 Feb 2025Who can tell the miraculous power of the Overself? Its Grace may lift the most degraded of men into the most exalted.
12.18.5.82Listen 20 Feb 2025Deep down in the mind and feeling of man is the mysterious godlike Essence seemingly too deep—alas!—for the ordinary man, who therefore lets himself be content with hearing from others about it and thus only at second hand.
14.22.3.231Listen 19 Feb 2025… The Good, the True, and the Beautiful will refine … our human qualities.
1.6.0.60, ExcerptListen 18 Feb 2025Man’s dependence on the earth for fuel such as wood, coal, oil, and gas, will give way in the future to dependence on the sun. Its rays will give him all that he needs for this purpose.
9.13.4.234Listen 17 Feb 2025Rebirths, memories, occult powers—all these things exist and continue because they perpetuate the ego—the very thing we should try to escape from!
6.8.4.16Listen 16 Feb 2025The body stilled as if by an outside force, its limbs unwilling to move and its breathing diminished to gentleness—this is the best condition for the higher Consciousness.
15.23.7.84Listen 15 Feb 2025Whenever the aspirant volunteers spiritual help to another, or seeks it for himself, he ought not to take money in return on the one hand, nor give it in payment on the other. Such needs will be attended to by the Infinite Intelligence at the proper time.
3.2.8.138Listen 14 Feb 2025What he finds so deeply within himself is neither a thought nor an emotion. It is a fused knowing-feeling.
15.23.7.27Listen 13 Feb 2025It is a means of severing attention from its ever-changing objects, and then enabling the freed mental force to study its own source.
4.4.1.172Listen 12 Feb 2025All of us have to travel in the same broad direction if we would rise from the lower to the higher grades of being. But the way in which we shall travel the Way is essentially a personal one. All of us must obey its general rules, but no two seekers can apply them precisely alike.
2.1.5.188Listen 11 Feb 2025If I love the ego, then I fear other men or the opinion of other men. I will so act as to please them rather than the higher will.
6.8.3.162Listen 10 Feb 2025From this hidden source comes at times guidance, warnings, attractions, or aversions which ought to be construed as intuitive messages. But for this they must first be recognized and believed: they pass too quickly.
14.22.1.171Listen 9 Feb 2025The ultimate goal is for us to live from the Overself not from the ego.
2.1.5.172Listen 8 Feb 2025Music like any of the intellectual arts may help or hinder this Quest. When it is extremely sensual or disruptive or noisy, it is a hindrance and perhaps even a danger. When it is uplifting or inspiring or spiritually soothing, it is a help.
9.14.4.305Listen 7 Feb 2025The quality of a meditative session is not to be measured by its timed length but by its effective contact with Reality.
4.4.1.385Listen 6 Feb 2025The omnipresence of the Infinite Mind carries great meaning for us individually. For it signifies that this Mind is not less present and not less active in us too.
16.25.1.23Listen 5 Feb 2025… the failure to do a right deed in a certain situation may be a karmic sin, although very much less so than doing a wrong deed.
6.9.3.216, ExcerptListen 4 Feb 2025The Overself is certainly the Way (within man), the Truth (knowing the Real Being), and the Life (applying this knowledge and practising this way in the midst of ordinary everyday activity).
14.22.3.187Listen 3 Feb 2025The opportunity is unrepeatable and unreceivable in exactly the same way, for the passage of time—be it a moment or a century—has forced change on both the situation and the person.
9.13.2.196Listen 2 Feb 2025Grace is not necessarily bestowed deliberately or conferred personally. It may be received from someone who does not even know that he is its source. It may manifest through nothing more than the physical meeting between these two, or through a letter from one to the other, or even through the mere thinking about one of them by the other person. But, however obtained, Grace has its ultimate source in the mysterious Overself ...
12.18.5.41, ExcerptListen 1 Feb 2025I let time unfold and pass away into its source as, minute after minute, in the gathering dusk, the mountains slowly vanish, the room too, eyes close, contemplation ends, the Void takes over, and there is no one left to report.
1.3.0.47Listen 31 Jan 2025Submit to the World-Idea—or suffer. Resign yourself to the higher course of things: go along with it—and be at peace!
12.18.4.21Listen 30 Jan 2025The action which completes a thought is thrown back at him by Nature in the guise of karma. In this view he carries the responsibility for himself. He cannot turn it over to any human institution such as a church, or to any other human being such as a guru or saviour.
6.9.3.49Listen 29 Jan 2025Once he is able to push the door open, he finds himself in a place where the light is heavenly, the peace indescribable, the feeling of divine support immeasurable.
4.4.1.394Listen 28 Jan 2025Getting intensely absorbed in a true spiritual idea may, if it penetrates to a sufficient depth, put one into communication with the Universal Mind. This in turn enables him to receive, intuitively, what could not be found intellectually.
1.4.0.58Listen 27 Jan 2025No man knows how deep is the reservoir of forces—mental, volitional, or psychical—within him untapped and unused.
13.21.5.78Listen 26 Jan 2025… most of one’s misery is inflicted on oneself by accepting and holding negative thoughts. They cover and hide the still centre of one’s being, which is infinite happiness.
1.11.0.41, ExcerptListen 25 Jan 2025The Long Path man is aware of many or most of his weaknesses and faults, and is tormented by this knowledge. The Short Path man blissfully ignores them or, if he fails to reach this formulated goal, is sure they will fade away and dissolve under the higher self’s grace.
15.23.5.110Listen 24 Jan 2025Experience is apparently of value only insofar as it leads to thoughts about the experience, but actually it has another and hidden value—in the subconscious mind.
9.13.1.53Listen 23 Jan 2025
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