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… He will not hurt others unnecessarily. He feels that one of the best pieces of advice he can give others is: ”Be kind.” In this way you abrase your own egoism and show forth something--just an echo--of this love which emanates from the indwelling spiritual self…
5.6.2.86, ExcerptListen 1 Oct 2019They are not really opposed to each other, but are in fact complementary. If the Long Path is a steep uphill climb, the Short Path is its sunny side.
15.23.5.186Listen 2 Oct 2019… Some part of the philosopher remains an untouched, independent, and impartial observer. It notes the nature of things but does not allow itself to be swept away by the repulsiveness of unpleasant things or lost in the attractiveness of pleasant ones… It is the same with his experience of persons. He is well aware of their characteristics; but however undesirable, faulty, or evil they may be, he makes no attempt to judge them. Indeed, he accepts them just as they are. This is inevitable since, being aware of his and their common origin in God, he practises goodwill towards everyone unremittingly.
15.24.3.22, ExcerptListen 3 Oct 2019Something of that Mind is in us, as a parent has left some legacy in the child, but at the same time we are also in that Mind.
16.25.1.7Listen 4 Oct 2019Just as space is unaffected equally by the evil deeds or virtuous actions of men, so the Overself is unaffected by the character or conduct of the ego. It is neither made worse by the ego's wrong-doing nor better by its righteousness.
14.22.3.353Listen 5 Oct 2019… ”I look after the interests and safety of those who are perpetually engaged on My service, and whose thoughts are always about Me and Me alone.” The Overself speaking through Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita…
15.23.6.154, ExcerptListen 6 Oct 2019If he were not already rooted in spiritual being--yes, here and now!--he would not be able to feel the longing to find that being.
12.17.1.19Listen 7 Oct 2019But where some turn away from the world for negative reasons because of their misery and disappointment, others come to the quest for positive reasons; they have sensed or suspected, felt, or been told of, a higher plane of existence: they respond to a divine call.
2.1.2.242Listen 8 Oct 2019He participates in every action not only as the performer doing it but also as the audience seeing it.
15.23.6.99Listen 9 Oct 2019… Never again will it be possible for him wilfully to injure another; but on the contrary the welfare of the All will become his concern. In Jesus' words he is “born again.” He will find his highest happiness, after seeking reality and truth, in seeking the welfare of all other beings alongside of his own. The practical consequence of this is that he will be inevitably led to incessant effort for their service and enlightenment…
13.20.4.224, ExcerptListen 10 Oct 2019The lower nature is incurably hostile to the higher one. It prefers its fleeting joys with their attendant miseries, its ugly sins with their painful consequences, because this spells life to it.
7.11.1.13Listen 11 Oct 2019Not even a solitary Crusoe passes through life alone. Everyone passes through it in fellowship with his higher self. That such fellowship is, in most cases, an unconscious one, is not enough to nullify it. That men may deny in faith or conduct even the very existence of their soul is likewise not enough to nullify it.
14.22.3.53Listen 12 Oct 2019He who enters upon this quest will have to revise his scale of values. Experiences which he formerly thought bad, because they were unpleasant, may now be thought good, because they are educative or because they reveal hitherto obscured weaknesses.
5.6.2.35Listen 13 Oct 2019When one finds a constant happiness within oneself, the pleasures of the senses will not be missed if they are not there. They are no longer necessary to stimulate him, although they will still be appreciated if they are there.
15.24.1.72Listen 14 Oct 2019To sit in the stainless silence, watchful yet passive, is the proper art of contemplation.
15.23.7.24Listen 15 Oct 2019… The manner in which he will approach trying, painful, or hostile situations will also betray the true measure of his spirituality, his devotion to higher values, and his comprehension of what he has undertaken. He has to show, by the way he meets these events and faces such conditions, what he really is and wants to be. He will adjust himself to such problems only according to the degree of maturity attained…
3.2.3.74, ExcerptListen 16 Oct 2019It is what stands behind the individual, and not the individual himself, that really matters.
6.8.1.145Listen 17 Oct 2019The human mind, finite and limited though it be, can become an inlet to the universal Mind. Such a happening is attended by blissful yet tranquil feelings. This little being that is me merges into larger consciousness that is pure infinite Being--until the body calls me back.
16.25.1.36Listen 18 Oct 2019The essence of the matter is that he should be constantly attentive to the intuitive feeling in the heart and not let himself be diverted from it by selfishness, emotion, cunning, or passion.
15.23.6.211Listen 19 Oct 2019Every time he resists the impulse to angry action, or the urge to bitter scolding, he resists the ego. The cumulative result of many such disciplines is to thin down the ego and draw nearer the hour of its final destruction.
6.8.4.241Listen 20 Oct 2019To mourn over the past's supposed errors for too long a time, to indulge in self-pitying remorse for the remainder of one's life, is another trick of the ego and merely strengthens it. Better take to the Short Path!
15.23.4.67Listen 21 Oct 2019The revelation which brings one's own consciousness into coincidence with the Overself comes only by Grace.
12.18.5.124Listen 22 Oct 2019As a man advances in inward development, gaining ever richer experience in fresh embodiments, he comes to see that he will gain more by practising co-operation than by selfishly seeking his own isolated benefit alone.
5.6.5.59Listen 23 Oct 2019The man who imagines that he can go through life and manage his various affairs in independence of any alleged higher laws is following an illusion. Somewhere or at some time his awakening is inevitable.
6.9.3.59Listen 24 Oct 2019The old trouble-bringing attitudes and self-frustrating ways are the ego's. At the appearance of irritating circumstances, go into reverse by practising the ”As If” exercise and thus lift up consciousness here and now.
15.23.6.133Listen 25 Oct 2019Something within seems to recognize the true teacher when he appears. This is not miraculous when one understands that the visible present has its root in the invisible past and that discipleship is a relation which reappears in birth after birth…
2.1.6.227, ExcerptListen 26 Oct 2019… The true aspirant who has made a positive turning-over of his personal and worldly life to the care of the impersonal and higher power in whose existence he fully believes, has done so out of intelligent purpose, self-denying strength of will, and correct appraisal of what constitutes happiness…It will mean freedom from the torment of not knowing what to do, for every needed decision, every needed choice, will become plain and obvious to the mind just as the time for it nears. For the intuition will have its chance at last to supplant the ego…
12.18.4.145, ExcerptListen 27 Oct 2019Our real Self is not in movement or change or form. We have to identify with this unseen Self.
6.8.1.55Listen 28 Oct 2019The web of karma tightens around a man as the lives increase with the centuries or thins away as the ego gets more and more detached.
6.9.3.203Listen 29 Oct 2019We must be humble enough to recognize how imperfect we are, but instructed enough to recognize that the ego-covered part of us is shiningly divine…
12.18.3.4, ExcerptListen 30 Oct 2019Certainly he must be eager to seek the truth, willing to give time for the search since it requires study and meditation, but equally he must be prepared to practise some self-discipline. This is partly because the quest of truth succeeds to the extent that he disengages himself from the ego and from the thoughts, the passions, and the moods it produces.
3.2.1.75Listen 31 Oct 2019
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