Day by day
… The door upon which you may have been knocking a long time in vain will open to your frequent loving remembrances.
15.23.6.160, ExcerptListen 1 Oct 2017… When examined, the ego is found to be a complex of body and thought, physical senses and mental tendencies…
6.8.1.196, ExcerptListen 2 Oct 2017Lao Tzu was a librarian by profession, Janaka a king, and Brother Lawrence a kitchen menial. Yet all had this same wonderful experience of peaceful communion with Overself, proving that one's antecedents, or work, or position are neither helps nor handicaps.
16.25.2.71Listen 3 Oct 2017These glimpses are encounters with divinity. There is a quality about them which separates them from all the other contacts and encounters of life.
14.22.6.125Listen 4 Oct 2017The Short Path can only be travelled if faith in the Overself is fundamental and complete, and if trust in the effectiveness of its power is strong and unwavering.
15.23.1.140Listen 5 Oct 2017The man who fervently believes that Christ has the power to forgive his sins is not wrong. But his interpretation of his forgiver is wrong. The Christ who can do this for him must be a living power, not a dead historical personage. And that power is his own Christ-self, that is, Overself.
12.18.5.61Listen 6 Oct 2017… With the descent of Grace, all the anguish and ugly memories of the seeker's past and the frustrations of the present are miraculously sponged out by the Overself's unseen and healing hand. He knows that a new element has entered into his field of consciousness, and he will unmistakably feel from that moment a blessed quickening of inner life…
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 7 Oct 2017Action is right, needful, and inevitable, but if it is overdone, if we become excessive extroverts, if it drives us like a tormenting demon, then no inward peace is ever possible for us.
3.3.2.27Listen 8 Oct 2017Mind in its most unlimited sense is reality. A man can know it only by the intuitive process of being it, in the same manner in which he knows his name, which is not an intellectual process but an immediate one.
16.28.2.121Listen 9 Oct 2017… The essence of this path is the giving up of the I, the ego… When the storm of hurt feelings goes completely, a great peace arises.
16.25.5.160, ExcerptListen 10 Oct 2017… For the ego and the Overself fuse and unite, yet the union does not destroy the ego's capacity to express itself or to be active in the world…
6.8.1.207, ExcerptListen 11 Oct 2017The ultimate secret of Grace has never been solved by those who do not know that previous reincarnations contribute to it…
12.18.5.194, ExcerptListen 12 Oct 2017With both the brief Glimpse and the lasting Fulfilment comes a strong feeling of release. This refers to release from all the various kinds of limitation and restriction which have hemmed and oppressed him heretofore.
14.22.6.142Listen 13 Oct 2017Everything that helps one to become more aware of the existence of something higher than his personal self, and every experience that induces him to aspire towards a more spiritual way of life should be cultivated…
3.2.4.46, ExcerptListen 14 Oct 2017He has come to the inner sight of the World-Idea's meaning for him: that he is to use the human self to lift his nature up from the animal one, and that he is to put himself at the service of his angelic, his best, self, to lift his nature up from the ordinary human. In this way he co-operates with the World-Idea.
16.26.4.123, ExcerptListen 15 Oct 2017… It is a single awakening that enlightens the man so that he never returns to ignorance again. He has awakened to his divine essence, his source in Mind, as an all day and every day self-identification. It has come by itself, effortlessly.
16.25.2.141, ExcerptListen 16 Oct 2017At the very gate of this higher quest, you will find certain obstacles obstructing your entry. They are not alien to you, they are in your mind. Your primary duty, therefore, is to overcome them.
3.2.3.114Listen 17 Oct 2017Karma must operate automatically, but the Power behind karma knows all things, controls all things, controls even karma itself, knows and understands when forgiveness is desirable.
12.18.5.76, ExcerptListen 18 Oct 2017Once this stage is attained, neither the knowledge of reality nor the feeling of serenity will ever leave him again. He has found them not for a few hours but forever.
16.25.2.165Listen 19 Oct 2017That which is always in the background of all thoughts is Consciousness. Without it they could never appear nor exist, whereas Consciousness exists in its own self-sufficiency.
13.21.5.189Listen 20 Oct 2017Just because most people appear to have superficial interests and are not yet ready for the deeper thoughts of philosophy does not necessarily mean that they are not making spiritual progress. On the contrary, they may be doing very well on their own particular levels of development. It will simply be necessary for them to incarnate many more times before they are capable of understanding the more advanced truths.
2.1.2.136Listen 21 Oct 2017NOW is the right moment to practise philosophy, to crush the ego, and to think positively.
2.1.1.136Listen 22 Oct 2017The consequence of this self-training on the Short Path is that in all questions, problems, situations, and practices his first thought will be to take the matter to the Overself, identifying with Overself, and later, when he returns to the second thought, the matter will be looked at under this diviner light.
15.23.1.149Listen 23 Oct 2017What goes on within his ego could be better seen, and judged, if he could climb above it for a short time. This is just what the glimpse enables him to do. It clears the sight.
14.22.6.313Listen 24 Oct 2017The ego is sitting at his side waiting to deceive him subtly into making wrong decisions and false interpretations, if they will hinder his growth into truth and thus preserve its own life.
6.8.4.307Listen 25 Oct 2017The basis of this exercise is that the remembering of the Overself leads in time to the forgetting of the ego…
15.23.6.152, ExcerptListen 26 Oct 2017I remember the first time I had this astonishing experience…I seemed to dissolve and vanish from that place, but not from consciousness. Something was there, a presence, certainly not me, but I was fully aware of it. It seemed to be something of the highest importance, the only thing that mattered. After a few minutes I came back, discovered myself in time and space again; but a great peace had touched me and a very benevolent feeling was still with me. I looked at the trees, the shrubs, the flowers, and the grass and felt a tremendous sympathy with them and then when I thought of other persons a tremendous benevolence towards them.
14.22.6.80, ExcerptListen 27 Oct 2017… All that the teacher can do is to point out the way through the labyrinth; the journey must be made by the seeker himself…
2.1.3.102, ExcerptListen 28 Oct 2017He who puts his mind on the Unlimited instead of on the little parts, who does not deal with fractions but with the all-absorbing Whole, gains some of Its power.
16.28.2.109Listen 29 Oct 2017The body, passions, and undesirable emotions must be perseveringly disciplined. Whilst ungoverned and running wild, they constitute the lower nature that is symbolized in so many myths as a dragon, lion, or serpent which has to be slain before the guardians of the divine gate permit entrance. Such purification is a necessary preliminary to and prerequisite of the higher training, which opens the individual mind to spiritual consciousness…
3.2.7.106, ExcerptListen 30 Oct 2017… The development of all beings from primitive amoeba to perfect spiritual consciousness is assured.
16.26.4.174, ExcerptListen 31 Oct 2017
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