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Because we have lost our way, these truths are once again as fresh and significant and important as if they had never before been known to humanity.
2.1.1.131Listen 1 Apr 2025The automatic, constant, and undisciplined thought-movement comes at last to an end. It is the central part of the ego which has surrendered.
6.8.4.481Listen 31 Mar 2025Dr. Johnson understood the philosophical attitude rightly when he said that we have both to enjoy life and to endure life.
13.20.3.148Listen 30 Mar 2025In ancient Mexico, the Highest Godhead was “the Idea that could not be reproduced” and no personification or representation of it of any kind was allowed. But this was doctrine only for the upper classes and the intellectually cultivated. The masses were given a God who was visible and comprehensible.
16.28.2.11Listen 29 Mar 2025Beneath the little “I” stretches the universal Consciousness.
6.8.1.124Listen 28 Mar 2025He may be sure of one thing, that his fidelity to ideas and ideals, to teacher and teachings, will be tested. This is inescapable if his will is to be surrendered to the higher will, if his character is to be purified and his attitude cleansed of its egoism.
3.2.3.151Listen 27 Mar 2025We sit in the ego with all its limitations as in a prison and we do not know that we are prisoners, for we identify ourselves with it and blind ourselves by those very limitations …
6.8.4.42, ExcerptListen 26 Mar 2025Too much preoccupation with his own spiritual advancement, too much of self in his thoughts and too little of the Overself—this only binds him tighter to the ego.
3.2.1.172Listen 25 Mar 2025It is correct that we may trust absolutely to the higher power. But mystics should first be sure that they have found it and are not merely trusting some subconscious aspect of their ego …
12.18.4.45, ExcerptListen 24 Mar 2025“How quiet it is!” exclaimed Lao Tzu, in describing the Overself. “Yet it can transform all things.”
14.22.3.106Listen 23 Mar 2025They are welcome who are willing to equip themselves with proper and profounder knowledge, who wish to fit themselves by study of fundamental principles, by regular meditation, personal self-discipline, and public service for a higher life for themselves and a valuable one for society.
2.1.2.88Listen 22 Mar 2025Omar Khayyam’s agnostic position is perfectly in accord with philosophy’s position. Both his school of Sufism and our teaching declare the impossibility of man knowing God. We can discover only that God exists and that the Soul exists but not go farther.
16.25.1.79Listen 21 Mar 2025The encounter with the Overself may be hushed and gentle or thrilling and dramatic. But it will certainly be absorbing.
14.22.6.237Listen 20 Mar 2025To learn that Reality is beyond the intellect’s capacity to know it is to learn something about it. To learn what it is not may seem useless to some people but that does prepare the mind, as well as the way, for the positive knowledge of it through insight.
5.7.1.137Listen 19 Mar 2025The World-Mind’s reflection in us is the Overself.
14.22.3.328Listen 18 Mar 2025That point where man meets the Infinite is the Overself, where he, the finite, responds to what is absolute, ineffable and inexhaustible Being, where he reacts to That which transcends his own existence—this is the Personal God he experiences and comes into relation with. In this sense his belief in such a God is justifiable.
14.22.3.318Listen 17 Mar 2025The real philosopher feels what he knows: it is not a dry intellectual experience alone but a living one.
5.6.2.30Listen 16 Mar 2025… Consciousness alone is itself the real experience.
16.25.2.100, ExcerptListen 15 Mar 2025He should never forget that in his metaphysical studies or mystical practices he is working towards an ultimate goal which lies beyond both metaphysics and mysticism. He is preparing himself to become a philosopher, fitting himself to be granted the Overself’s Grace, unfolding passive intuition and critical intelligence only that the transcendental insight may itself be unfolded.
3.2.5.6Listen 14 Mar 2025Awareness is the very nature of one’s being: it is the Self.
16.28.2.130Listen 13 Mar 2025The phenomenon of the Interior Word does not ordinarily appear before one is able to carry the mind to a certain depth or intensity of concentration, and to hold it there continuously for not less than about a half hour.
14.22.2.133Listen 12 Mar 2025We automatically try to repeat the old patterns of behaviour created in former lives whether they are beneficial or injurious to us. This happens because we can hardly help doing so.
6.9.2.50Listen 11 Mar 2025The Overself can become very real to him when feeling its ever-presence in all his experience, when awake to its now-ness.
14.22.3.87Listen 10 Mar 2025It is an experience wherein he finds himself aware of the ego from within itself and also, at the same time, aware of it as an observer. This is not to be confused with an experience wherein he finds himself standing behind his body, not identifying with it but observing it: yet he still remains in ego.
15.23.6.85Listen 9 Mar 2025The actual change-over from being the ego to becoming the watcher of the ego is a sudden one.
6.8.4.172Listen 8 Mar 2025Men and women try various ways to overcome their innate loneliness and with various results in the end. So long as the expedient used is something or someone outside themselves, their victories turn out to be illusions. There is no final way other than the Way which everyone has had to tread at last who ever succeeded in this objective, and which leads inwards to the Overself.
2.1.1.154Listen 7 Mar 2025Ramana Maharshi’s frequent reference to the “I-I” simply means the Unchanging Self (as contrasted with the ever-changing ego).
6.8.1.44Listen 6 Mar 2025The concept of God as Father or Father-Mother is a true one but still only an elementary one. The man who rises to the understanding of God as that in which his own self is rooted holds a truer concept.
12.17.2.173Listen 5 Mar 2025Watching his daily conduct and reviewing it in retrospect is not less needful than practising meditation.
3.2.4.23Listen 4 Mar 2025What the Godhead is we do not know. The nature and the structure of the Grand Mystery are beyond all human investigation. We cannot describe it correctly or name it accurately. We can only observe some of its workings and effects in our individual selves and in the universe.
16.28.2.6Listen 3 Mar 2025… The full and permanent enlightenment, which is to stay with a man and never leave him, can only come after he has clear insight into the nature of Overself.
14.22.8.11, ExcerptListen 2 Mar 2025
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