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We 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 2026… 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 2026In that blessed moment he finds himself free in a way never before felt. For he finds himself without the perplexities of the intellect and without the schemings of the ego.
14.22.6.68Listen 31 Aug 2026He is wise who sifts, screens, and absorbs the bygone years, taking only their lessons, counsels, warnings, and encouragements. In this way, he frees himself from much of it.
6.9.3.170Listen 30 Aug 2026… behind the individual mind is the Cosmic Mind
16.25.1.18, ExcerptListen 29 Aug 2026… All elements of personality must be adjusted to the ideal shown by the glimpse, as the whole personality itself has to be surrendered to it. A work lasting several years may be rooted in a flash lasting only a few minutes.
14.22.8.107, ExcerptListen 28 Aug 2026The more brutal our times become, the more does a sensitive soul long for the kindly peace which meditation affords.
9.13.4.281Listen 27 Aug 2026When concern with the ego-correcting requirements of the Long Path overrides concern with the ego-transcending requirements of the Short Path, it is time to take a fresh look at one’s position.
15.23.5.188Listen 26 Aug 2026There is in him now a translucency of mind which gives all things, all persons, all events, a deeper diviner significance. Life henceforth has a wonderful and beautiful meaning.
16.25.2.11Listen 25 Aug 2026He does not need to be conscious of a clearly defined mission before he sets about doing something for the enlightenment of others. There is always some means open to him, some little thing he can do to make this knowledge available or to set an example of right living.
16.25.4.140Listen 24 Aug 2026… It is not possible for any man completely to avoid taking the life of all other creatures in the animal kingdom, especially tiny creatures like microorganisms. But it is possible for him to avoid taking the lives of larger creatures which possess larger, more delicate nerve systems, and causing suffering to them unnecessarily.
4.5.3.36, ExcerptListen 23 Aug 2026In these glorious moments the awareness of evil in the world fades out; by contrast the continuity of original goodness stays unbroken.
14.22.6.156Listen 22 Aug 2026… We may suppress sins by personal effort but we can eradicate and overcome them by the Overself’s Grace alone. If we ask only that the external results of our sin be forgiven, be sure they won’t. But if we also strive to cleanse our character from the internal evil that caused the sin, forgiveness may well be ours …
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 21 Aug 2026“The question of attainment depends only, in the last resort, on the thirst of the soul,” Swami Vivekananda once told an aspirant.
3.2.5.30Listen 20 Aug 2026The time at the disposal of an old man is too short to make himself over again, however repentant he may be, but it is not too short for him to do the one thing just as needful, if not more so. He can hand this problem, just like any other hard problem, over to the higher power, and let the past go. It will then no longer be his anxious concern.
9.13.3.214Listen 19 Aug 2026The “I” who looks at this world-spectacle must itself be looked at if we want to know the truth about both.
6.8.1.18Listen 18 Aug 2026“Each [thing] is proceeding back to its origin,” said Lao Tzu. This is why change is incessant in the universe, why only the Origin is without it, and why Lao Tzu further explained that “to understand the Changeless is to be enlightened.”
16.26.2.28Listen 17 Aug 2026The Long Path is concerned with techniques, how to practise and apply them. But techniques can only improve the human instrument, make it better able to receive enlightenment; they cannot of themselves give enlightenment.
3.2.1.200Listen 16 Aug 2026To say that the ego keeps us captive is only one way of stating the problem. That we are infatuated with it, is another way.
6.8.3.38Listen 15 Aug 2026A modern way of spiritual living for busy city-dwellers would be to carry out all normal duties but to retreat from them from time to time into rural solitude for special meditation and study. In the town itself, they should manage to find a half to one hour every day for prayer and mental quiet.
3.3.1.3Listen 14 Aug 2026Although the two Paths are so sharply divided from one another in theory, they not seldom overlap in fact.
15.23.5.32Listen 13 Aug 2026When he lets himself get cluttered up with an excess of possessions, each demanding his attention, interest, and care, not to speak of his time, his needs get confused with wants, reality with illusions.
3.2.7.129Listen 12 Aug 2026He seems, in this desolate “night,” to be up against a blank wall. But with patience he may find a way out. It is well to remember Abraham Lincoln’s “This too will pass.”
15.23.3.53Listen 11 Aug 2026The need today is for compounds of inspired visionaries and determined workers.
9.13.4.311Listen 10 Aug 2026What comes with the years and which is ascribed to the older people is the wisdom of practical living. This is merely information, knowledge from experience in practical affairs; it is not the wisdom which comes from the deeper being, the deeper self. That will arise only when one looks for it, aspires to it.
2.1.1.114Listen 9 Aug 2026
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