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Why add to any dark or difficult situation? Is it not enough to have to endure it that you must enlarge it by setting up the tension of your negative emotions or disturbed thoughts about it? Keep them out of it.
9.13.1.371Listen 14 Apr 2026It is the business of an artist, poet, or writer (of the more serious kind) to lift a man out of himself, his little ego, by presenting beauty, truth, or goodness so attractively that the man is drawn and held by it to the point mentioned—of forgetting himself.
9.14.1.138Listen 13 Apr 2026So long as his ego asserts its supremacy in everything he does, so long as it arranges everything for him, so long will he be the victim of its own ignorance and blindness.
6.8.4.55Listen 12 Apr 2026Learn to penetrate within yourself, your deeper, almost unknown self. It will need patience to return day after day, not stopping until the truth is reached, the peace is felt, the blessing descends. It will need perseverance until the source of strength is found. Thereafter it will take you over: this is grace …
3.2.3.164, ExcerptListen 11 Apr 2026This feeling that we have seen this place before, passed through that situation, comes from a former personality. The soul is the same, but the outer man is not.
6.9.2.114Listen 10 Apr 2026The notion of making up an itinerary well in advance appeals to the time-bound calculating intellect but not to the spirit-led intuition.
12.18.4.177Listen 9 Apr 2026He has come far when he has come to feel not only that divinity truly is but also that it is as near as his own being.
16.25.1.38Listen 8 Apr 2026Whatever his task or profession in the world may be, he will so contrive that it will become a labour for the good of his fellow creatures not less than for personal profit.
13.20.5.178Listen 7 Apr 2026The Lightning-flash may occur either after reason reaches the peak of its performance and has been exhausted, or by deliberately abandoning intellectual activity for the utmost faith and devotion. In both cases, one has to let go and sink back into the Nothing and stop further efforts on one’s own. Sometimes, by destiny, the Lightning-flash can occur unexpectedly when no effort is made.
14.22.5.59Listen 6 Apr 2026He must come for a while to the position that T.E. Lawrence of Arabia came to when he wrote: “The truth was I did not like the ‘myself’ I could see and hear.”
2.1.2.268Listen 5 Apr 2026Physics, metaphysics, religion, and mysticism must unite before each can speak truth, which is a unique whole and not a particular fragment as they are individually.
13.20.1.512Listen 4 Apr 2026One important effect of the glimpse is to show him how wonderful life could be if there were frequent and easy access to this diviner region. For this spurs him to seek ways and means to bring about its recurrence.
14.22.7.122Listen 3 Apr 2026Jesus had nowhere to lay his head. He wandered from place to place, teaching without price as he wandered. Wherever he went he was at home in the complete confidence that Providence was taking care of him.
12.18.4.186Listen 2 Apr 2026The universal power will sustain him simply because he has surrendered himself to it …
12.18.4.196, ExcerptListen 1 Apr 2026All this vast evolution of environments and their entities has but one ultimate aim from man’s point of view and so far as he is concerned. It is to bring him into a miniature likeness to his divine Parent, to make him into an image of godlike beauty, power, wisdom, and being.
16.26.4.251Listen 31 Mar 2026The dark possibility that destroys our future can give place to a brighter one only when enough philosophically illumined people are to be found in each country. Nor need they be many—a few in each city would throw out enough influence to bring about this change …
7.11.3.359, ExcerptListen 30 Mar 2026He needs to hold the sacred conviction that so long as he continues to cherish the Ideal his higher self will not abandon him.
12.18.1.83Listen 29 Mar 2026… Saint Paul, following the master whom he never saw in the flesh but knew so well in the spirit, put all other virtues beneath compassion … They knew the power of compassion in dissolving the ego. It was thus a part of their moral code. They knew, too, another reason why the disciple should practise altruistic conduct and take up noble attitudes. With their help he may bring one visitation of bad karma to an earlier end or even help to prevent the manifestation of another visitation which would otherwise be inevitable.
13.20.4.214, ExcerptListen 28 Mar 2026Karma is the king who rules this earth.
6.9.3.47Listen 27 Mar 2026It is quite possible to make progress on the Quest without the aid of a teacher. The aspirant’s own higher self will give him the guidance and assistance he needs—provided he has sufficient faith in its existence.
3.2.2.99Listen 26 Mar 2026When he steps forth from the ego’s timed life into the Overself’s liberating timelessness, the feeling of confinement falls away like a heavy cloak. He enjoys an unimagined exhilaration.
14.22.6.130Listen 25 Mar 2026If the Long Path begins and ends with ego, the Short Path begins with a 180 degree turnaround, opens up a vista of the infinite Overself.
15.23.1.35Listen 24 Mar 2026It might be thought that the philosophic discipline seeks to eliminate emotion. The truth is that it seeks to maturate emotion. The disciple’s feelings—no less than his thoughts—must grow up and assume their philosophic responsibilities.
5.6.3.176Listen 23 Mar 2026… he will even sacrifice part of his time, money, and energy to doing what little he can to enlighten others intellectually during the interval. Even if this meant doing nothing more than making philosophical knowledge more easily accessible to ordinary men than it has been in the past, this would be enough …
13.20.4.222, ExcerptListen 22 Mar 2026No one is keeping him out of this enlightenment except himself.
6.8.4.58Listen 21 Mar 2026There is only one way to settle his question of whether the Overself exists and that is the very way most moderns refuse to accept. Each must gain for himself the authentic mystical experience. Sugar can really be known only by its sweet taste, the Overself only by opening the doors of the mind to consciousness of its presence.
14.22.3.437Listen 20 Mar 2026We may oppose one thing to another if both are on the same plane, but not if they are on unequal planes. Intuition is not anti-intellectual but super-intellectual.
14.22.1.40Listen 19 Mar 2026The silent mind receives spiritual guidance and allows grace to approach; the thinking mind deals with the world and attends to its activities.
5.7.1.81Listen 18 Mar 2026Many have experienced the early beginnings of a glimpse but, failing to recognize it, have aborted it unwittingly by inattention to this delicate feeling.
14.22.5.182Listen 17 Mar 2026A 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 2026
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