Day by day
The immediate task today is for philosophy to deliver its message. The secondary task is to assist those who accept this message to come to a proper and adequate understanding of it. The first is for the multitude and hence public. The second is for the individual and hence private.
13.20.2.63Listen 1 Jan 2013Quite often, the aspirant will not be aware how far he has grown in virtue until some crucial test arises in the sphere of everyday living. Then, to his surprise and pleasure, he may note the ease with which he passes it.
3.2.3.104Listen 2 Jan 2013A man never leaves Consciousness. The world comes into it as perception, that is, as idea. Whether anything, object or state, comes into it or not, Consciousness remains as his unchanging home. Whether asleep or awake, wrapped in himself or out in the world, his essential being remains what it is. His thoughts and sense-impressions, feelings and passions are produced by it or projected from it: they exist in dependence on it and die in it.
13.19.3.183Listen 3 Jan 2013My happiest hours come when the sun is about to bid us farewell. Those lovely minutes are touched with magic; they bring my active mind and body to a pause. They invite me to appreciate the radiant glowing colours of the sky and finally they command me to enter the deep stillness within, so that when all is dark with the coming of night all is brilliantly illuminated inside consciousness.
3.3.7.63Listen 4 Jan 2013To keep to this inner work steadfastly and persistently, to make of its exercises and practices a regular routine, is to make the undertaking easier for oneself in the end, as well as more successful in its results.
3.2.3.199Listen 5 Jan 2013... There is Infinite Intelligence always at work on this planet…
3.2.9.38, ExcerptListen 6 Jan 2013When insight arises, the passions become subdued and the problems which beset man become solved of their own accord. We may quarrel and kill whilst we remain in ignorance, but we must needs feel for and with each other when we comprehend at long last that in the Overself we are one.
5.6.4.167Listen 7 Jan 2013Such is the strange paradox of the quest that on the one hand he must foster determined self-reliance but on the other yield to a feeling of utter dependence on the higher powers.
2.1.3.199Listen 8 Jan 2013Exercises: Visualize a lovely quiet landscape scene, either from memory or pictures, and think of yourself being there. Feel its peacefulness. Visualize the face of some inspiring person; feel you're in his presence.
4.4.5.23Listen 9 Jan 2013No system of education can be a complete or an adequate one if it omits to teach young persons how to meditate. This is the one art which can assist them not only to develop self-control and to improve character but also to master all the other arts through mastery of concentration…
9.13.2.622, ExcerptListen 10 Jan 2013There is one relationship which takes precedence over all others. It is the relationship with the Overself.
5.6.2.15Listen 11 Jan 2013This is the paradox, or irony, of evolution: that first the ego grows into full being through plant, animal, and human form; then it reverses the objective and assents to its own alteration and death.
6.8.1.166Listen 12 Jan 2013The glimpse gives a man either a revelation or a confirmation that something exists which transcends this ordinary life, that it is holy, beautiful, satisfying, and that he may commune with it.
14.22.6.286Listen 13 Jan 2013It comes to this--that much of human disease and sickness is traceable to the faulty functioning of the human self. Learn how to use that self correctly in its physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual aspects and you learn how to prevent or cure part, or most, or even all of your ill health.
7.10.0.1Listen 14 Jan 2013The closer he comes to the Overself, the more actively is the Grace able to operate on him. The reason for this lies in the very nature of Grace, since it is nothing other than a benign force emanating from the Overself. It is always there but is prevented by the dominance of the animal nature and the ego from entering his awareness. When this dominance is sufficiently broken down, the Grace comes into play more and more frequently, both through Glimpses and otherwise.
12.18.5.101Listen 15 Jan 2013We murmur against the world's obstructiveness to our aspirations: the body is our stumbling-block. Yet if we had to live always as disembodied spirits, our spiritual development would need an immeasurably longer time to accomplish itself. The sharper focus of physical consciousness quickens our pace.
16.26.4.263Listen 16 Jan 2013Marriage brings about an interfusion of destinies and auras which may have important consequences. If the partner is actively opposed to the ideals and ideas of the quest, the aspirant will find it much more difficult to follow its star, if not be indeed completely halted for a time.
9.13.2.493Listen 17 Jan 2013Work done under the Overself's inspiration can never be tedious but will always be satisfying.
14.22.2.108Listen 18 Jan 2013... The Grace comes in time if it is wanted strongly enough, and then he steps out of the shadows into the sunshine and a benign assurance is born in the heart. Of course this can never be the result of metaphysical striving alone but only of a coordinated, integral effort of thought, feeling, and action…
12.18.4.131, ExcerptListen 19 Jan 2013If he feels the intuition but does not attend to it then, however slightly, the very faculty which produced it begins to lose strength. This is the penalty imposed for the failure, and this shows how serious it is.
14.22.1.133Listen 20 Jan 2013Certain events will so arrange themselves as to put a man upon the quest, or if he is already on it, to prepare him for a further advance. They will not be pleasant events, for they will crush his ego, or render it lame and weak for a time. But it is only through this apparent defeat by circumstances that he is compelled to accept a course which will, spiritually, benefit him greatly in the end.
2.1.2.173Listen 21 Jan 2013Contemplation is attained when your thinking about a spiritual truth or about the spiritual goal suddenly ceases of itself. The mind then enters into a perfectly still and rapt condition.
15.23.7.212Listen 22 Jan 2013We overwork the past if we drag it constantly into the present. And this is true not only if it appears in the shape of negative broodings and lamentations but also of intellectual beliefs and views.
8.12.6.226Listen 23 Jan 2013Whoever has attained this blessed state would not be true to himself if he were not ardently happy to share it with others, if he were not ever ready to help them attain it too. And this desire extends universally to all without exception. He excludes none…
16.25.3.480, ExcerptListen 24 Jan 2013In each of these glimpses, his quest attains a minor climax, for each is a step towards full illumination.
14.22.8.20Listen 25 Jan 2013We are prisoners of our ego because we are prisoners of our past.
6.8.4.77Listen 26 Jan 2013His attraction toward this or that teacher may weaken and die but his attraction to the Inspirer of all teachers, the Overself, will keep on growing stronger in him.
2.1.3.88Listen 27 Jan 2013The spiritual nature can only be discovered spiritually--not intellectually, not emotionally, and certainly not physically. Such a spiritual discovery can only be attained intuitively.
14.22.1.1Listen 28 Jan 2013... Inner experiences are all in time, doomed to pass away; but he, the Consciousness behind them, behind the ego's consciousness, is out of time, hence Immortal.
15.23.1.16, ExcerptListen 29 Jan 2013Withdrawn from the world's clamour to this still centre of his innermost being, waiting in utter patience for the Presence which may or may not appear, he performs a daily duty which has become of high importance and priority.
15.23.7.252Listen 30 Jan 2013The ego, although itself a projection, draws from its creative source enough power to project in turn its own small world.
6.8.3.4Listen 31 Jan 2013
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