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He will help others more by holding them mentally in this inner peace than by falling into a state of nervous anxiety about them.
15.23.6.6226 jan 2021It refreshes the heart and renews the will in the most extraordinary way if we sit with hands crossed in the lap or open on the knees and with mind surrendered, quiet, empty.
15.23.6.2525 jan 2021How many persons have told me that it was the help and support got from these philosophic ideas, truths, and principles which enabled them to endure periods of public terror or private distress without nervous breakdown!
13.20.1.30324 jan 2021The same mixture of egoism and idealism will show in his character through most of the Quest. Only in the more advanced stages will the egoism thin down and down until its final elimination.
6.8.3.17623 jan 2021Metaphysical study lifts a man into the clear keen air above personal considerations.
5.7.7.16822 jan 2021Quite apart from the spiritual rewards, there are additional and tangible ones also--better health, greater achievement, and less avoidable self-earned trouble.
3.2.2.5721 jan 2021All that he has hitherto known as himself, all those thoughts and feelings, actions and experiences which make up the ego's ordinary life, have now to be temporarily deserted if he would know the universal element hidden behind the ego itself.
15.23.7.15820 jan 2021… the highest work in which intellectual power can engage is to seek the reason for human existence …
16.26.4.88, Uddrag19 jan 2021The study of recompense (karma) reveals that mankind have to pay not only for what they have wrongly done but also for what they have failed to do …
6.9.3.402, Uddrag18 jan 2021… a valuable part of the quest's technique is to treat each major experience as a means of lifting himself to a higher level. All depends not on the particular nature of the experience, but upon his reaction to it. It may be pleasurable or painful, a temptation or a tribulation, a caress by fortune or a blow of fate; whatever its nature he can use it to grow. As he moves from experience to experience, he may move from strength to strength. If he uses each situation aright--studying it analytically and impersonally, supplicating the higher self for help if the experience is in the form of temptation, or for wisdom if it is in the form of tribulation--his progress is assured …
3.2.5.96, Uddrag17 jan 2021These experiences if taken aright will lead him not to spiritual pride but to spiritual humbleness.
14.22.7.8716 jan 2021It is not necessary to go through the struggles and toils of the Long Past after we have travelled it sufficiently far to develop some amount of the qualifications needed for the Short one. We can then desert it and, by Grace, go quickly through the change of outlook, standpoint, and consciousness necessary to travel the Short Path.
15.23.4.7915 jan 2021When a man sticks to unshakeable principles and abides by unalterable ethics, he derives an inner strength which not only is protective but also makes him feel secure.
13.20.1.22614 jan 2021For anyone to be able to hold the mind utterly free of all thoughts and absolutely cleared of all images is an uncommon achievement. Even when successful, the effort seldom lasts longer than a few minutes. But after that short space of time, those particular thoughts and those particular images which first rise up are important, valuable, or suggestive. They should be carefully noted or remembered.
15.23.7.32613 jan 2021I believe in love, not hate, as a motivating force for reform. At the same time, I see karma at work, punishing the selfish and the heartless … Unfortunately, suffering is one of its chief instruments of evolution and especially so where people will not learn from intuition, reason, and spiritual prophets.
6.9.3.267, Uddrag12 jan 2021It is man's highest happiness to stay in this heaven of Consciousness all the time, not merely catch a glimpse of it, wonderful though that be.
14.22.8.10111 jan 2021All these methods of establishing contact with the higher self may be dispensed with at a more advanced stage when it will suffice to have a simple turning of attention towards it or a simple remembrance.
15.23.7.31610 jan 2021If you would become a philosopher in practice, then the first step is to cultivate calmness.
15.24.2.1939 jan 2021It is a common but fallacious belief that by joining a group we get at the truth more quickly, or progress to spiritual reality more easily.
2.1.4.368 jan 2021The root of all his efforts in self-improvement and self-purification is still the egoistic consciousness. Since that is the very consciousness which must be given up to let in the egoless Spirit, he must abandon these efforts and turn sooner or later to the Short Path.
15.23.2.1427 jan 2021… in every mind there is an unconscious conflict which he is ordinarily powerless to deal with--the conflict between the line of evolution which the Overself has marked out for the person, and the line of blind desire which the ego is trying to pursue…
6.8.3.34, Uddrag6 jan 2021… the importance of a little practice of mental quiet each day is high. It is this practice which brings definite results in time and this which gives one strength as well as understanding. Effort is required.
3.2.4.124, Uddrag5 jan 2021… life is an educational process, which everyone has to undergo whether the pupils like it or not.
5.6.4.152, Uddrag4 jan 2021If he can bring himself to desert his habitual standpoint and begin to think as a sage thinks, his battle will be over bloodlessly …
3.2.6.1, Uddrag3 jan 2021In this meditation he reproduces the conditions which surrounded him at the time the Glimpse came. He fills in every tiny detail of the picture--the furnishings of a room perhaps, the faces and voices of other persons who were present, and especially how he became aware of the first onset of the Glimpse.
15.23.6.1832 jan 2021Buddha himself foresaw that a new teacher would arise within a few thousand years after himself, and that this man would have a higher spiritual status than himself. But what is of special interest is his further prediction that a higher spiritual path would, through this medium, be opened to mankind …
8.12.4.4, Uddrag1 jan 2021… vi står på tærsklen til en æra med en hidtil uhørt overflod, fritid og kultur, ikke kun for de få som tidligere, men for alle…
9.13.4.270, Uddrag31 dec 2020Det er vigtigere at gå fremtiden i møde med de rette principper og en stærk karakter, end med forudfattede meninger om hvordan den skal udforme sig. Hvis vi etablerer en god indstilling til den, kan vi ikke få dårlige resultater.
6.9.3.48830 dec 2020Ulykkelig over en forkert retning i livet, er beslutningen om at forlade denne og paratheden til at lave endegyldige ændringer hertil en forudsætning for at sikre Nådens hjælp.
12.18.5.22329 dec 2020Brahms fortalte engang om sin metode til at finde inspiration, der begyndte med at fundere over høje universelle åndelige sandheder, hvilket førte ham ind i en tilstand af dybere, drømmelignende halvtrance. Efter denne indledning (dette præludium) følte han sig inspireret med ideer til sit arbejde.
14.22.2.11528 dec 2020… han vil begynde at stole mindre på sit eget ego, der er hans virkelige fjende og forhindring for hans sande velfærd.
12.18.3.90, Uddrag27 dec 2020
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