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A missed chance or a failed test in one year may lead directly, if the lesson be heeded, to a used chance or a successful test in a later year.
3.2.3.155Listen 16 Mar 2026When I meet with certain persons or certain books, I am often reminded of a certain sentence in Roman Seneca’s writings: “There are many who might have attained to wisdom, had they not fancied they had attained it already.”
5.7.3.132Listen 15 Mar 2026When this first faint intrusion is sensed, the need is for utter relaxation, for becoming passive and yielding. Only so can the aspirant follow intuitive prompting more and more inwards until it becomes stronger and stronger, clearer and clearer.
14.22.1.108Listen 14 Mar 2026He cannot meet hatred with hatred, but only with resignation. His answer to enmity is to condone it. His attitude to opposition is to be tolerant.
5.6.5.133Listen 13 Mar 2026… what intellect unaided cannot know, intuition—a higher faculty—can. It can discover its point of contact with the Absolute—its higher individuality, the Overself, even though it can go no farther and penetrate the Absolute. When intuition becomes active in this matter, it may or may not take the shape of a mystical experience. When it is developed by philosophic training, it expands into insight.
16.25.1.123, ExcerptListen 12 Mar 2026… Indeed, as all his longings for the Overself slowly gather themselves together into a great dedicated life, there is an equally great shift-over from the animal part of his being to the truly human, allied with an opening-up of the angelic or divine part.
5.6.4.47, ExcerptListen 11 Mar 2026… What you reap here in this century is the fruit of what you sowed there in Rome in the second century—such are the common notions about reincarnation and karma. But we have only to open our eyes and look around us to see that everywhere men are getting now the results of what they have done in this same incarnation.
6.9.3.186, ExcerptListen 10 Mar 2026Mysterious pools of wisdom and goodness are underneath the personality, if only we could find our way to them or else bring gushes from them to the surface.
14.22.3.144Listen 9 Mar 2026It offers a conception of life which originates on a higher level.
2.1.1.7Listen 8 Mar 2026Our human nature is so pitifully limited and imperfect that only its most rigorous discipline will bring the infinite and perfect enlightenment into consciousness without spoiling it in some way.
3.2.5.75Listen 7 Mar 2026He knows that it is his duty to look beyond his little ego, to devise withdrawals and enter retreats from the continuous immersion in his own personality. If, in such short periods, he can achieve impersonality and attain anonymity, the result will be beneficial out of all proportion to the time given. And even though it will make him humbler in society, it will lift him to a higher place in heaven.
6.8.4.348Listen 6 Mar 2026What he has brought upon himself may come to an end of itself if he finds out what positive quality he needs to develop in his attitude toward it to replace the negative one.
6.9.3.145Listen 5 Mar 2026The ego which gets a man into his troubles is unlikely to get him out of them—unless it reforms, learns, or lets some wisdom in.
6.8.4.8Listen 4 Mar 2026The great mysterious emptiness—that is all man can know of God.
16.28.2.31Listen 3 Mar 2026… Philosophy, being more precise in its statements, avers that they have really achieved union not with God, but with something Godlike—the soul.
16.25.1.74, ExcerptListen 2 Mar 2026This condition is commonly said to be nothing less than “union with God.” What is really attained is the higher self, the ray of the divine sun reflected in man, the immortal soul in fact—God Himself being forever utterly beyond man’s finite capacity to comprehend …
16.25.1.72, ExcerptListen 1 Mar 2026One advanced mystic considers the quest of the Overself to be the most important and most exigent activity in which anyone can engage, and if he can help anyone he is happy to do so … at least he can point out errors to be avoided, even if he can do nothing more.
8.12.5.130, ExcerptListen 28 Feb 2026… At the end we have to be like little children and leave our Enlightenment to the Father and give up our lives to him …
3.2.1.209, ExcerptListen 27 Feb 2026The base, the mean, the unworthy, and the low seem alien and far from him: the noble, the high, the true, and the ideal seem to become his own very nature. From this rare contact he draws an unspeakable peace, a divine upliftment.
14.22.6.148Listen 26 Feb 2026There is no stability anywhere in the universe, given enough time, and there is none in human life. Yet the craving for it exists. There is a metaphysical meaning behind this phenomenon. It exists because THAT which is behind the craving person is the only stable thing there is, or rather no-thing, because IT has no shape, no colour, is soundless and invisible and beyond the grasp of ordinary thoughts …
16.26.2.22, ExcerptListen 25 Feb 2026The individuality is beyond the personality—its level is higher. The one must prompt while the other must watch the pitiless destruction of its wishes and hopes, its values and desires, until only the pure being of individuality is left.
14.22.3.400Listen 24 Feb 2026That which is present during the interval between two thoughts is also present during deep sleep.
13.19.3.126Listen 23 Feb 2026His awareness of the relativity of things relieves the philosopher of any compulsion to identify himself with any particular viewpoint … This does not at all mean that chaos will enter into his affairs, insincerity into his attitudes, and anarchy into his morals. He is safeguarded from such perils by the link he has established with the Overself’s infinite wisdom and immeasurable goodness.
13.19.2.50, ExcerptListen 22 Feb 2026Neither the body with its senses nor the mind with its thoughts is the ultimate being that I am. The body acts and the mind moves, but behind them is the thought-free Awareness, the Knowing Principle.
6.8.1.58Listen 21 Feb 2026This is the gospel of inspired action, of dynamic philosophy, of rational religion, of balanced mysticism.
13.20.1.87Listen 20 Feb 2026… The more cultured among the early Christians understood that the Overself—whom they called Christ—was the real object of their worship, the ultimate goal of their mystical endeavour, and that the man Jesus was but its Voice—like those other voices with which the Word periodically breaks its silence for the guidance of bewildered mankind.
12.17.5.147, ExcerptListen 19 Feb 2026Retreat into his mystical home is ever open to him, withdrawal into the blissful privacy of the Overself is his blessed right.
14.22.3.71Listen 18 Feb 2026There is a zone of utter calm within man. It is not only there but always there. Those who suffer, fret, or are confused may doubt or deny this—understandably and pardonably.
14.22.3.18Listen 17 Feb 2026This thing which the Overself has projected in space-time has not lost all link with its source, whatever outward appearances suggest to the contrary.
6.8.1.137Listen 16 Feb 2026This is a paradox of existence: that the Real is beyond the illusory and yet the illusory is derived from the Real.
13.19.1.12Listen 15 Feb 2026To understand intellectually is good but to glimpse intuitively is better. Best of all is not merely to look at truth but to enter into it.
5.7.1.125Listen 14 Feb 2026
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