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But 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 2026Karma puts a certain responsibility upon every man alike—upon the philosopher no less than the primitive.
6.9.3.58Listen 17 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 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 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 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 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 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 2026The deeper he retires into his inmost being, the farther he retreats from the personal selfhood.
6.8.4.252Listen 10 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 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 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 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 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 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 2026He must begin his quest with an attitude of deep veneration for something, some power, higher than himself.
2.1.2.62Listen 3 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 2026To 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 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… 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 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 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 2026“No man can serve two masters,” said Jesus. Thus he rejected all indecision of will.
3.2.6.66Listen 26 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 2026
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