Day by day
It is when men come face-to-face with a real crisis, a real temptation, or a real hardship that they show their real character…
5.6.1.32, ExcerptListen 1 Jan 2018In this condition, with mind shifted away from sensory experience into a fixed self-absorption and stilled to the utmost degree, the meditator may be said to have mastered contemplation.
15.23.7.29Listen 2 Jan 2018Such a revolutionary acquisition as insight must necessarily prove to be in a man's life can only be developed by overcoming all the tremendous force of habitual wrong thinking, by neutralizing all the tremendous weight of habitual wrong feeling, and by counteracting all the tremendous strength of habitual wrong-doing. In short, the familiar personal I must have the ground cut from under its feet. This is done by the threefold discipline. The combined threefold technique consists of metaphysical reflection, mystical meditation, and constant remembrance in the midst of disinterested active service…
13.20.4.178, ExcerptListen 3 Jan 2018In the mystical happening of the Glimpse, the man gets the intuition that this is what he belongs to; here he can find rest.
14.22.6.376Listen 4 Jan 2018If he will have the courage to let the ego-illusion die out, a new and real life will come to birth within his being.
6.8.4.478Listen 5 Jan 2018It is to be expected that the ego will protect itself, even if that has to go so far as engagement in a quest which apparently ends in its own utter abasement.
6.8.4.309Listen 6 Jan 2018The great teacher leaves his impress and exerts his influence upon his disciples without robbing them of their capacity to grow into their own individual freedom.
16.25.5.75Listen 7 Jan 2018When we thoroughly imbibe this great truth, when we humbly acknowledge that all human life is under the sway of the law of consequences, we begin to make a necessity of virtue.
6.9.3.96Listen 8 Jan 2018With this event a new era opens in his personal life. He feels that, for the first time in his life, he has touched real being when hitherto he has known only its shadow. It is the first link in a whole chain of good consequences. Consequently it is in reality the most important one. Whoever once gives his allegiance to the Overself as affirmed and symbolized by his entry on the quest, undertakes a commitment of whose ultimate and tremendous consequences he has but a vague and partial notion.
2.1.2.309Listen 9 Jan 2018There is a sense of the total absence of time, a feeling of the unending character of one's inner being.
14.22.3.223Listen 10 Jan 2018The truth will be given us: we shall not be left to starve for it. But it will be given according to our capacity to receive it.
2.1.5.74Listen 11 Jan 2018There is no man so advanced that he can afford to dispense with prayer. It occupies a most important place in the philosophic aspirant's life.
12.18.2.6Listen 12 Jan 2018A balanced development will not stimulate the intellect and starve the feelings, nor do the opposite. It will give the intuition the highest place, making it the ruler of reason, the check on emotion.
13.20.3.264Listen 13 Jan 2018It is easy to despise as stupid those of obvious inferior intelligence, but it would be well to remember that we were once at the same level. The notion of rebirth teaches tolerance.
6.9.2.82Listen 14 Jan 2018In those first few moments of its beginning the glimpse is so fragile, so vulnerable, that even a small movement of interest elsewhere is likely to bring it to a premature end.
14.22.5.176Listen 15 Jan 2018Because the soul is present deep down in each human heart, none is so depraved that he will not one day find the inward experience of it.
14.22.3.17Listen 16 Jan 2018He will be content to plant seed-thoughts, and wait and work patiently, knowing and believing in the inherent power of true ideas to grow in their proper time into mature, fruitful existence.
16.25.4.86Listen 17 Jan 2018There are now so many activities calling for his interest and energies that modern man thinks he has no time to devote to finding his soul. So he does not seek it: and so he remains unhappy.
2.1.2.342Listen 18 Jan 2018The Overself is not only the best part of himself but also the unalterable part.
14.22.3.239Listen 19 Jan 2018… The true nature of human existence is obscured by the ceaseless changes of human thought. Whilst we remain embroiled in the multitude of thoughts which pass and re-pass, we cannot discover the pure unit of consciousness which exists beneath them all. These thoughts must first be steadied, next stilled. Every man has a fount within him. He has but to arise and go unto it. There he may find what he really needs.
15.23.8.204, ExcerptListen 20 Jan 2018This wonderful and exquisite feeling is really within himself, only he transfers it unconsciously to the scenes and persons outside himself and thus perceives goodness and beauty everywhere.
14.22.6.132Listen 21 Jan 2018That man is excellently qualified for philosophy who has a strong spirit for service, who is well-balanced emotionally, and who is well-equipped intellectually.
2.1.2.75Listen 22 Jan 2018The movement upward from the ego's me to the real I consciousness is as sure as the movement of the planets themselves.
16.26.4.221Listen 23 Jan 2018If we will bring more sincerity and more integrity into our lives, more truth and more wisdom into our minds, more goodwill and more self-discipline into our hearts, not only will we be more blessed but also all others with whom we are in touch.
5.6.1.1Listen 24 Jan 2018Many believe, some suspect, but few know that there is a divine soul in man.
12.17.3.149Listen 25 Jan 2018The philosopher does not hold any views. Views are held by those who depend on the intellect or the emotions alone for their judgements. His dependence is on the intuition, the voice of his higher self.
13.20.5.52Listen 26 Jan 2018One disciple who picked up the Quest again in this life described it as a feeling of reunion, of coming home.
2.1.2.225Listen 27 Jan 2018It is from the Overself that every true prophet receives his power. ”I of myself am nothing,” confessed Jesus.
14.22.3.243Listen 28 Jan 2018… He is always conscious of the fact that he is a citizen of the world-community…
13.20.1.18, ExcerptListen 29 Jan 2018When the feel of this unusual and ethereal presence suffuses the heart, the first duty is to drop all attention elsewhere and respond to it. This response is not only to be immediate, unhesitating, and unquestioning; it must also be warm, loving, grateful, and joyous.
14.22.5.134Listen 30 Jan 2018… The sooner he attributes his troubles to some fault in his own character, the sooner are they likely to come to an end.
16.25.5.86, ExcerptListen 31 Jan 2018
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