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The continuous remembrance of the Overself as the unseen background upon which the personal panorama unfolds itself enables us to keep a proper perspective upon events and affords us the final cure of troublesome ills.
15.23.6.24831 mar 2021To take advantage of the helplessness of so many animals when confronted by man's deadly weapons, cruel snares, or powerful contrivances is a sin. The karmic scales of life will read off an appropriate penalty for it. Ordinary human brutality to these creatures is bad enough but scientific brutality by vivisection is worse.
5.6.7.930 mar 2021Those who seek this mystic communion with the Overself, this sublime glimpse of its hidden face, must make the Quest their chosen path.
14.22.5.1129 mar 2021The key word here is reverence. It ought to enter every remembrance and every meditation.
12.18.1.3528 mar 2021Even if there were no joy in the realization of the Overself it would still be worth having, for it would still be richly loaded with other treasures. But the joy is also there and always there.
15.24.4.11727 mar 2021… all that the aspirant can hope to do is to thin down the volume of the ego's operations and to weaken the strength of the ego itself; but to get rid of the ego entirely is something beyond his own capacity. Consequently, an outside power must be called in. There is only one such power available to him … and that is the power of Grace …
6.8.4.424, Uddrag26 mar 2021Recollections of the desired or feared past snare you still further in the ego. Anticipation of a desired or feared future do the same. But by letting both go, living in the eternal Now, you weaken the ego.
13.19.4.19125 mar 2021In theological language the Long Path stands for repentance from sin, the Short Path for faith in the Overself.
15.23.5.13024 mar 2021The awareness that he existed on this planet made its grievous and troubled life more bearable, gave a little meaning to what seemed otherwise quite chaotic. For his own higher development reminded, nay assured, us that there was some sort of an evolution going on, that there was a goal and a purpose behind it all …
16.25.4.71, Uddrag23 mar 2021The tremendous event of dying and leaving the body does not interrupt his quest.
6.9.1.10622 mar 2021When the divine is utterly forgotten in the press of daily activity, the negative, the foolish, and the self-weakening will be easily remembered.
3.3.2.5521 mar 2021He who knows and feels the divine power in his inmost being will be set free in the most literal sense of the word from anxieties and cares. He who has not yet arrived at this stage but is on the way to it can approach the same desirable result by the intensity of his faith in that being. But such a one must really have the faith and not merely say so. The proof that he possesses it would lie in the measure with which he refuses to accept negative thoughts, fearful thoughts, despondent thoughts …
13.20.3.97, Uddrag20 mar 2021The seeker on the Long Path tries to eliminate his baser feelings and to cultivate his nobler ones. But in all this effort he is looking at himself alone, purifying and improving his ego but still his own ego.
3.2.1.19119 mar 2021The contemplation of universal laws and metaphysical truth chastens the feelings and elevates the thoughts. This study causes man to forget himself, to turn aside from his little ego, and thus helps to clear a path to discovery of his Overself.
5.7.7.17518 mar 2021Whoever approaches the Divine Source of all things comes into the aura of its Power and the perception of its Light.
14.22.4.15617 mar 2021If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others—to your family or friends, and to all those whom destiny draws across your path that day.
3.3.1.416 mar 2021
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