Day by day
It is good as a beginning to believe in God. It is admirable as the next step to try to come closer to God by worship--but it is not enough. It is a fulfilment of a still higher duty to try to know that in us which is the link with God, which in contrast to man is of a godlike nature.
2.1.5.326Listen 1 Oct 2016… It may be plainly affirmed that man's individuality survives even in the divinest state accessible to him…
16.26.4.257, ExcerptListen 2 Oct 2016The ego of which we are conscious is not the same as the mind by which we are conscious. He who perseveres until he can understand this, opens the first door of the soul's house.
6.8.2.65Listen 3 Oct 2016With his mind constantly reverting to the Overself (like a silent mantram) as the Reality to which he aspires, the inner work goes on.
15.23.6.224Listen 4 Oct 2016The shelter which religion offers the masses has its correspondence in the strength which philosophy offers the few.
12.17.6.158Listen 5 Oct 2016In that wonderful state the feeling of tension, the troubling by fear, and the suffering from insecurity vanish away. Why? Because the particular problems involved have been taken over by the Overself. Also, because no negative thinking is possible in that peaceful atmosphere. From this we may deduce an excellent practical rule for daily living: surrender all problems to the Overself by turning them out of your mind and handing them over, but not in the wrong way by refusing to face them…
12.18.4.195, ExcerptListen 6 Oct 2016All negative states of mind and emotions are destructive. They work harm to some one of the body's organs or interfere with its functions. If those states are continuous, they sink into the subconscious and the results appear as disease. This is possible because the sympathetic nervous system, which controls the automatic functions of the body, is open to influence by the subconscious mind.
7.10.3.49Listen 7 Oct 2016What we know is so little that it ought to make us intellectually humble. But that little is nevertheless of the highest importance to us. For we know that the Overself is, that the passage to its stillness from the ego's tumult is worthwhile, and that goodness and purity, prayer and meditation help us to find it.
14.22.4.121Listen 8 Oct 2016God is in your very being. To know him as something apart or far-away in time and distance or as an object outside yourself, separate from you--that is not the Way--impossible. Jesus gave away the secret: he is within you.
16.25.1.50Listen 9 Oct 2016… There are new forces penetrating this planet's atmosphere today and they demand a new inspiration, new thinking, and a new way of living…
8.12.2.208, ExcerptListen 10 Oct 2016Wisdom counsels us to begin the Quest with the Long Path. When we have gone some distance on it, we may add the Short Path, changing the emphasis from one to the other by turns. This intermittent approach sets up a kind of reciprocal rhythm. The improvement of character opens the door of sensitivity a little wider to intuition, and the improved intuition helps to exalt character.
15.23.5.174Listen 11 Oct 2016If men really wish to revere God, they may best do so by revering God's deputy in their hearts, the Overself.
12.18.1.48Listen 12 Oct 2016Their duty is to act as pioneers; but if they are to be successful pioneers, they will need courage to forget outworn ideas and to free themselves from dying traditions so as to cope with the new conditions which are arising…
2.1.3.195, ExcerptListen 13 Oct 2016The mere physical proximity of teacher and disciple does not constitute their association. Unless the lesser man catches by empathy and cultivates by effort something of the greater one's thoughts and feelings, he does not associate with him at all, whatever his body may be doing. It is not the person of a master but his Idea that is important.
16.25.5.221Listen 14 Oct 2016If only Churches would encourage worshippers to look within as the only place to find God!
14.22.4.198Listen 15 Oct 2016The way to be admitted the Overself´s presence can be summed up in a single phrase: love it. Not by breathing in very hard nor by blowing out very slow, not by standing on the head…can admission be gained. Not even by long study of things divine nor by acute analysis of them. But let the love come first…
12.18.1.78, ExcerptListen 16 Oct 2016Philosophy does not have to defend itself, nor even to explain itself. It is only for those who have grown and grown until they are ready for it. They will appreciate its worth and perceive its truth without argument.
13.20.2.153Listen 17 Oct 2016… Only if a man falls in love with his soul as deeply as he has ever done with a woman will he even stand a chance of finding it. Incessant yearning for the higher self, in a spirit of religious devotion, is one of the indispensable aspects of the fourfold integral quest (mystical meditation, metaphysical reflection, purification of character and unselfish service). The note of yearning for this realization must sound through all his prayer and worship, concentration and meditation…
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 18 Oct 2016… We are affected by our associates; he who keeps company with criminals is apt to descend into crime himself; he who seeks the spiritually minded as friends is apt to ascend to spirituality…
16.25.5.274, ExcerptListen 19 Oct 2016More than three hundred years ago, a wonderful little woman in France took the Galilean at his word. She put all her emotional strength into aspiration and meditation and succeeded in achieving an exalted state by practising a simple method… Her doctrine came to be called Quietism because she showed people how to quieten their personal thoughts and emotions and thus become aware of the impersonal heaven behind them, the kingdom within…
12.17.3.121, ExcerptListen 20 Oct 2016”Blessed are the poor in spirit,” said Jesus. What did he mean? To be poor in the mystical sense is to be deprived of the possession of the ego, that is, to become ego-free.
6.8.4.196Listen 21 Oct 2016People who turn away from religion, even if they believe vaguely that there is a God, because the distance between both is immeasurable, may be startled to learn that God is also very near, is indeed within themselves.
12.17.3.64Listen 22 Oct 2016The psychoanalysts work busily on the ego all the time, thus keeping the poor patient still imprisoned in it. But a reference to the Overself might help him really to get rid of some complexes.
7.10.4.72Listen 23 Oct 2016Professor Edmond Szekely, an authority on the Essenes; is qualified in Aramaic and Greek. His writing is based on ancient scripts in the Vatican and other libraries. In his translation, Essene Gospel of John, I found phrases which were not in apocrypha nor in the Bible. One para vibrated waves of golden light from the pages to me. In it Jesus forbade slaughter of animals for food. I forthwith stopped eating flesh. Even the desire was taken away at that moment…
14.22.4.198, ExcerptListen 24 Oct 2016… Man bears the divine within his breast.
16.26.4.237, ExcerptListen 25 Oct 2016To die to one's self is to let go of all attachments, including the attachment to one's own personal ego. In some ways it is like the act of passing away from the fleshly body.
12.18.4.127Listen 26 Oct 2016Although more men are ready to receive it than ever before, philosophy's time has not yet come. There is still only a tiny minority which can recognize its truth, appreciate its worth, and practise its ethic.
13.20.2.189Listen 27 Oct 2016What is the meaning of the parable of the prodigal son except that he is Man gone away from himself and feeding on the husks of earthly life when the bread of the Overself is being offered him?
6.8.4.247Listen 28 Oct 2016Jesus put more emphasis on the Short Path than on the Long one, on the kingdom of heaven within man than on the animalistic urges and earthly shortcomings that afflict him.
15.23.5.139Listen 29 Oct 2016…The ”I” cannot be separated from its thoughts since it is composed of them…
6.8.2.46, ExcerptListen 30 Oct 2016It is paradoxical that the moment of his death should automatically bring to life again all of a man's past. He has to repeat it all over again, this time from a different point of view, for the selfish, coloured, and distorting operation of the ego is absent. Now he sees it from an impersonal and uncoloured point of view. In other words, he sees the real facts for what they truly are, which means that he sees himself for what he really is…
6.9.1.113, ExcerptListen 31 Oct 2016
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