Day by day
We must lay siege to our own soul. If the fort of mind is attacked with dogged determination, the victory is promised us. But the siege must be maintained until the day the gates open.
3.2.6.67Listen 1 Jan 2022… we shall discover—if we are both patient enough and yet persistent enough—that there is a Source within us which promises astonishing possibilities to the human race. That Source is loosely called the soul.
14.22.2.11, ExcerptListen 2 Jan 2022Only after long experience and severe reflection will a man awaken to the truth that the beauty which attracts him and the ecstasy which he seeks can be found free of defects and transiency only in the Soul within.
5.6.2.21Listen 3 Jan 2022Another reason why glimpses are given to man is to show him — as in a magic mirror — that there is such a thing as the Overself.
14.22.6.382Listen 4 Jan 2022… love of one’s neighbour is an excellent virtue but it cannot displace the best of all virtues, love of the divine soul.
2.1.5.48, ExcerptListen 5 Jan 2022The Overself is a part of the One Infinite Life-Power as the dewdrop is a part of the ocean.
14.22.3.324Listen 6 Jan 2022If the aspirant will cultivate a feeling of reverence toward the higher power … he will profit much.
12.18.1.7, ExcerptListen 7 Jan 2022He cannot depend upon outward circumstances alone for his security, though he will not fail to give them their proper value and place. He knows that for total security he must also have, or at the very least have, the certitude of the Overself's protective presence.
15.24.3.273Listen 8 Jan 2022The more he advances intuitively, the more will the ego’s sophistries seek to lure him astray.
6.8.3.118Listen 9 Jan 2022When the naturalness of living fully in the Divine Presence while working in the world becomes a daily experience, the man will be living and existing at one and the same time on different levels.
15.23.6.240Listen 10 Jan 2022They betray the higher part of themselves every time they resist, reject, or merely ignore the intuitive feelings which come so delicately into consciousness.
14.22.1.151Listen 11 Jan 2022The ”As If am enlightened” practice aims at saturating the mind with this idea of true Identity.
15.23.6.127Listen 12 Jan 2022… the more important tenets of higher philosophy are intellectually extremely subtle, so subtle as not to be apparent at first contact with them … The repeated contact with them, however, acts as a kind of indirect meditation and removes their unfamiliarity, renders them understandable, and causes them little by little to sink into the emotional consciousness …
8.12.5.114, ExcerptListen 13 Jan 2022The self-revilements of the Long Path must be abandoned: his eyes must look up at that other and higher Self.
15.23.1.69Listen 14 Jan 2022He is a true messenger who seeks to keep his ego out of his work, who tries to bring God and man together without himself getting in between them.
2.1.6.342Listen 15 Jan 2022Meditation should so develop that it becomes a constant attitude of recollectedness. The set exercises in concentration for short periods belong to the earlier stages and are intended simply to obtain mental control.
15.23.6.249Listen 16 Jan 2022The World-Idea not only includes everything existent but also everything which is yet to exist.
16.26.1.91Listen 17 Jan 2022Saint Teresa defined the Interior Word thus: “The words were clearly formed and not to be mistaken though not heard by the body’s ear.”
14.22.2.151Listen 18 Jan 2022It would seem that the experience of a whole lifetime is wasted when people exist in such spiritual torpor, merely keeping their animal bodies alive. But of course it is not really so; for however slight and outwardly unrecognizable inward growth may be, it must be there, or Nature's process of reincarnation would be meaningless and useless mechanical repetition.
6.9.2.142Listen 19 Jan 2022While most glimpses come naturally and unexpectedly, it is possible to develop the experience systematically by the technique of meditation.
14.22.5.24Listen 20 Jan 2022Engrossed as they are in personal and family life, they fail to open themselves to the delicate radiation from their innermost being and live as if it were not there.
6.8.4.143Listen 21 Jan 2022It is the presence of the World-Mind which makes things happen according to the World-Idea …
16.27.3.33, ExcerptListen 22 Jan 2022If you cannot see the proper way to deal with your problem, if making a right decision or coping with a difficult situation seems too much for you, if all the usual guides to action prove insufficient or unhelpful, then it is time to hand the trouble over to the Superior Power.
12.18.4.14Listen 23 Jan 2022If the universe were obviously based on mere chance, if it were in a state of complete disorder, if the moon, the sun, and the earth wandered about at their individual will, and if no sign of organization appeared anywhere in it, then we might justly assert that there was no Mind behind it. But because we see the very contrary of these things all around us … we can definitely assert that a World-Mind must exist.
16.26.1.28, ExcerptListen 24 Jan 2022Recall the glimpse as vividly as possible …
15.23.6.202, ExcerptListen 25 Jan 2022If he wishes to enter the portal of philosophy he will most likely begin with others, with what philosophers have thought and taught; but in the end he must make a second beginning—with himself. He will have to re-examine his own psyche, his own personality, but from a detached position, standing far to one side. He will have to decide each hour of each day how to apply the truth, gathered from books and teachers, to the events, duties, occasions, and thoughts of that day.
2.1.5.38Listen 26 Jan 2022The Glimpse is the difference between trying to know and actually knowing.
14.22.6.361Listen 27 Jan 2022The student should always remember that just as the World-Mind does not lose or alter its own nature even in the midst of world-making, so he also should hold reverently and unalterably to the thought of his own true mystical identity even in the midst of worldly activity …
15.24.3.314, ExcerptListen 28 Jan 2022The ego knows well enough how to protect itself, how to prevent the seeker from straying away from its power over him.
6.8.3.54Listen 29 Jan 2022There is enough evidence in Nature and in humanity for the existence of a Higher Power. Those who say they cannot find it have looked through the coloured spectacles of preconceived notions or else in too limited an area. There is plenty of it for those who look aright, and who widen their horizon; it will then be conclusive.
16.26.1.14Listen 30 Jan 2022His quest for God has reached its terminus but his quest in God will now start its course. Henceforth his life, experience, and consciousness are wrapped in mystery.
15.23.4.54Listen 31 Jan 2022
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