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The 30 latest published notes
The nature and functions of man are reflected in miniature in the cells which compose his body, while he himself reflects those of the Universal Mind in which he is similar to the cell.
16.26.4.191Listen 19 Mar 2024… In the Overself there is no agony or pain; these belong to the sphere of illusion.
3.2.3.129, ExcerptListen 18 Mar 2024Coaxed by pleasure in some incarnations and driven by pain in others, man slowly learns to use his faculties and powers aright.
6.9.4.94Listen 17 Mar 2024The knowledge of someone far better than oneself shows human possibilities. The longing to become like him provides one with an ideal for living.
16.25.3.528Listen 16 Mar 2024Such men and women are indeed the spiritual vanguard of the human race.
16.25.3.30Listen 15 Mar 2024How can he adjust his vision of eternity to living prosaically in the here and now? It is hard and, like many others, he will fail. But repeated effort, undaunted practice, comprehension of the Short Path may enable him to do so at last.
15.23.6.226Listen 14 Mar 2024The woman far advanced in pregnancy may be attending to household duties—may cook, sew, or wash most of the day—yet not at any moment will her mind be completely carried away from the infant she is bearing inside.
15.23.6.223Listen 13 Mar 2024Because we draw our very life from the spiritual principle within us, we can only ignore the truth that this principle exists but can never lose its reality.
14.22.3.70Listen 12 Mar 2024The successful philosopher is no dreamer: he keeps his practicality, his interest in world affairs, his willingness to accept responsibility, thus remaining an effective servant of mankind. But all this is done within the Remembrance.
15.23.6.242Listen 11 Mar 2024One man may go to the Orient and gain nothing. It is not emotional exuberance which produces a high spiritual result, nor visits to many ashrams, but the depth and concentration with which the truth is seen.
2.1.5.295Listen 10 Mar 2024Not by his ego’s own will can he take hold of this jewel, but only by the Grace substituting that other Consciousness for his ego’s.
15.23.4.93Listen 9 Mar 2024When we are wholly absorbed in watching a cinema picture to the extent that we forget ourself and our personal affairs, the ego temporarily disappears and ceases to exist for us. This too means, if it means anything at all, that the ego exists only by virtue of its existence in our consciousness. If we exercise ourself in withdrawing attention from the ego, not to bestow it upon a cinema picture but to bestow it upon our own inner being, we may succeed in getting behind the ego and discovering the Witness-self.
6.8.4.476Listen 8 Mar 2024The first onset of this grace in meditation is felt in the same way the onset of sleep is felt; it is hardly perceptible. At one moment it is not there at all, but at the next it has begun to manifest.
4.4.1.318Listen 7 Mar 2024There are situations which may seem beyond endurance and circumstances beyond sufferance. It is then that those who have learned how to withdraw into their interior being, how to return to their source, may find some measure of help and strength.
15.24.4.112Listen 6 Mar 2024All things and beings flow forth from the illimitable Power, all derive their consciousness from It. Nor may we stop with this acknowledgment. For they derive whatsoever they have of intelligence from It, too. Is it not a grand thought, full of promise and hope, that in the gradual progression of this intelligence from minute cells to celestial beings, it passes upward through man, enabling him in time to attain and know his own Divinity?
16.26.4.172Listen 5 Mar 2024Those animals which have lived in the society of man can sense his intent enough to fear death when he takes them to the slaughterhouse.
4.5.3.159Listen 4 Mar 2024Such rare peace stands out in poignant contrast against the burdens and fretfulness of our ordinary lives. Such rare goodness is needed by a generation accustomed to violence, atrocity, bestiality and horror, lunacy and hatred.
16.25.3.525Listen 3 Mar 2024To look steadily at Nature’s own artwork for a while—be it mountain, valley, or moving waves—with growing deep feeling until the self is forgotten, is also a yoga practice.
3.3.6.13Listen 2 Mar 2024First, he has a vague feeling of being attracted towards the Overself. Then he bestows more attention upon it, thinks of it frequently; at length attention grows into concentration and this, in turn, culminates in absorption. In the end, he can say, with al Hallaj: “I live not in myself, only in Thee. Last night I loved. This morning I am Love.”
2.1.5.329Listen 1 Mar 2024… These glimpses are personal experiences which help to confirm the truth of the impersonal bases underneath them and which encourage us to continue on the same path.
14.22.3.414, ExcerptListen 29 Feb 2024If the divine presence is dwelling at the core of his mind, then the divine bliss, peace, and strength are dwelling at the core of his mind too. Why then should he let outward troubles rob him of the chance to share them? …
15.24.1.106, ExcerptListen 28 Feb 2024From the philosophical standpoint, it is not enough to say that a man is illumined and leave it at that. The depth and permanence of his illumination need also to be considered.
11.16.2.83Listen 27 Feb 2024Although the Overself does not think, its presence makes thinking possible, and although it does not register on our five senses, it makes all sense-impressions possible.
14.22.3.241Listen 26 Feb 2024All problems vanish from his mind as though they had never been. He is under no necessity to concern himself about anything or anyone. “God’s in his heaven and all’s well with the world.” There is no tormenting situation to be cleared up, no difficult decision to be made, no quest to be followed through drawn-out struggles and personal self-disciplines, and inevitable disappointments. He now has the secret of it all, the blissful state of enlightenment.
16.25.2.13Listen 25 Feb 2024It comes to this, that what people try to find in many books is waiting for them within themselves, to be discovered by regularly practising the art of meditation.
4.4.1.6Listen 24 Feb 2024The ego senses the peril in which it is placed and resorts to tricks, deceptions, and subterfuges to save itself.
6.8.3.130Listen 23 Feb 2024If all his efforts are concentrated on self-improvement, then the circle of his thinking will be a small and limited one. The petty will become over-important in his own eyes and the insignificant will become full of meaning. It is needful to balance the one attitude with another—surrender to and faith in the power of Grace.
12.18.5.134Listen 22 Feb 2024After this passing-over into the Overself’s rule, does he carry a loss of identity? Is he no more aware that he is the named person of the past? Were this so he could not exist in human society or attend to his duties. No!—outwardly he is more or less the same, although his pattern of behaviour betrays recognizable signs of superiority over the past man which he was. Inwardly, there is total revolution.
16.25.2.186Listen 21 Feb 2024That alone is the final attainment which can remain with him through all the three states—waking, dream and deep sleep—and through all the day’s activities.
16.25.2.179Listen 20 Feb 2024That which he finds deep within himself is, he understands intuitively, a reflected ray from that which exists behind the whole universe but it is still only a ray.
16.25.1.129Listen 19 Feb 2024If he goes into the silence enough, he will become accustomed to the obstacles that bar entry and learn by practice how to deal with them.
15.24.4.33Listen 18 Feb 2024
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