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Humanity will within a certain time—not in our time—humbly submit as it once did in prehistoric times to rulers guided by true sages and adopt the higher forms of government inspired by the true facts of life. Philosophers will then be not merely the witnesses of their age but also its activators. Then only will humanity at last prevent outer war, even though its own moral nature will still need much more growth. With that recognition, Nature herself will grow kindlier and the area of other forms of human suffering will diminish noticeably.
16.26.4.231Listen 1 Oct 2024He will have to grow into this higher consciousness. No other way exists for him.
5.6.1.42Listen 2 Oct 2024He need not make the reform in his habits of living until he is not only intellectually convinced of its need but also inwardly feels that the right time, the psychological moment, for it has arrived. In that way it will be unforced and natural, while its course and results will be lasting.
4.5.7.137Listen 3 Oct 2024Such is the untouched depth of the human being that when a man prays to God he really prays to himself, his Overself.
12.18.2.199Listen 4 Oct 2024The circumstances in which he finds himself and the events which happen to him are not more to a man than what he thinks and does about them. For his reaction, his attitude are more often within his control than they may be.
6.9.4.30Listen 5 Oct 2024The point now attained in human evolution by the ego offers us the key to a correct understanding of the world crisis.
9.13.4.196Listen 6 Oct 2024Symeon, Byzantine mystic, theologian, and saint who flourished near Constantinople nine hundred years ago, thus explains the foundation principle of meditation: “Sitting alone, withdrawn mentally from the world around, search into your innermost heart.”
4.4.1.171Listen 7 Oct 2024No single human faculty is alone adequate to the search for truth. All must be used, including intuition, and finally crowned by a new one—insight.
5.7.1.214Listen 8 Oct 2024The ego is behind each point of resistance in a man which holds him down from advancing further on this quest.
7.11.2.17Listen 9 Oct 2024… When his mind has habituated itself to this kind of keen, abstract thinking and in some measure has developed the capacity to rest absorbed in its own tranquil centre, when the emotions have purified themselves of personal and animal taints, he has prepared himself for the highest kind of knowledge …
3.2.9.1, ExcerptListen 10 Oct 2024… If anything can give sanity, it is the calm and balance of philosophy …
11.16.3.116, ExcerptListen 11 Oct 2024It is easy to take one’s opinion as something more than it is. But no one who really gets an intuition, a revelation, or an awareness from the Overself can mistake it as something less than it is. For it is unique in presentation and experience.
11.16.14.153Listen 12 Oct 2024We cultivate intuition not so much by strengthening it little by little as by removing the obstacles to it.
11.16.14.133Listen 13 Oct 2024It is a queer notion which regards a philosopher as a man without feeling, only because he has brought it under control. Not that it is altogether to his credit that he has been able to do so, for grace must share some credit too. There is plenty of feeling in his communion with the Higher Self.
12.18.1.21Listen 14 Oct 2024It is from this source that he will draw both strength to rise above his own temptations and love to rise above other men’s hatred.
14.22.3.134Listen 15 Oct 2024No one really knows how this enlightenment first dawns on him. One moment it was not there, the next moment he was somehow in it.
16.25.2.82Listen 16 Oct 2024Cremation is a definite and emphatic challenge. If one really believes that the soul of man is his real self, or even if one believes that the thinking power of man is his real self, then there can be no objection to it, but, on the contrary, complete approval of it. The method of burying dead bodies is fit only for one who believes that this thinking power is a product of the body’s brain, that is, for a materialist.
6.9.1.143Listen 17 Oct 2024The ultimate value of all this activity in business, profession, politics, family, and so on is not in carrying them on successfully, but in using them to carry one’s own mind nearer to enlightenment.
9.13.2.317Listen 18 Oct 2024It is a kind of pre-vision in which he sees, as Moses saw the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land toward which he journeys.
14.22.8.21Listen 19 Oct 2024… thoughts of bitterness, resentment, criticism, and condemnation strongly held and long sustained against other persons can and very often do easily produce liver trouble. So long as that kind of thinking and feeling continues, so long will the liver trouble continue. The proper way to heal it, therefore, is to get at the psychological seat of the trouble—that is, effect an inner change …
7.10.5.4, ExcerptListen 20 Oct 2024In this ecstatic mental silence, the personal will is given up, the impersonal Overself is given mastery.
14.22.6.277Listen 21 Oct 2024… He who has embarked on the spiritual path should remember that more is expected from him than from ordinary people. He is expected to have a definite measure of control over his emotions and impulses and must not be carried off his feet into extremes where he loses balance. It is not possible to make good progress on the spiritual path unless some triumph over the impulsive nature is secured.
5.6.3.85, ExcerptListen 22 Oct 2024… It is because we live in unprecedentedly troubled days that the light of philosophy is so needed. The more distressing the time in which we live, the more necessary is the quest for what will raise us above all distress …
9.13.4.273, ExcerptListen 23 Oct 2024While you are thinking about a problem and in search of an answer to it, you cannot get the intuition which is its true and final solution. But when you are no longer doing so, the answer appears. This happens with the genius during the interval between two thoughts but with the ordinary man during sleep.
9.13.2.258Listen 24 Oct 2024Who hears this quiet whisper of intuition? Who, hearing, obeys? Not only is it mostly unnoticed but its guidance is also unsought; men prefer, and follow, the ego’s direction.
14.22.1.87Listen 25 Oct 2024We are so enmeshed in the past, in its obsessive memories, tendencies, and drives, that we tend to repeat and perpetuate its errors and stupidities.
13.19.4.210Listen 26 Oct 2024The best kind of prayer which we can make for another person is uttered without words—that is, by leading him to the stillness; the lesser kind is to beg for him by voiced sound.
12.18.2.156Listen 27 Oct 2024… At the point where meditation becomes contemplation, thinking paralyses itself and brings about its own temporary death!
4.4.1.140, ExcerptListen 28 Oct 2024Philosophy will create within him a disgust for evil, a disdain for what is ignoble, a taste for what is refined and beautiful, a yearning for what is true and real.
5.6.2.22Listen 29 Oct 2024Because mind is the basal reality, all this majestic progression is nothing else than an evolution from lower to higher forms of intelligence and consciousness.
16.26.4.177Listen 30 Oct 2024As such possibilities of error and deception exist along the aspirant’s path, it is needful for him to lay down a safe rule for his self-protection. And that is to regard all his revelations as being projections of his subconscious ego, with all the ego’s limitations and defects, until they prove themselves in time to be otherwise.
11.16.14.161Listen 31 Oct 2024
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