Day by day
The value of taking this kind of a backward look at the day just finished is far more than it seems. For everything in him will benefit—his character, his destiny, and even his after-death experience.
4.4.4.243Listen 1 Oct 2023The Overself is so close to God, so akin to the World-Mind, that no man need look farther, or aspire higher.
16.25.1.133Listen 2 Oct 2023Karma gives a man what he has largely made himself; it does not give him what he prefers: but it is quite possible at times that the two coincide. If he is partially the author of his own troubles, he is also drawing to himself by mental power his good fortune.
6.9.3.500Listen 3 Oct 2023Other forces are operating in the world-crisis which are quite beyond the knowledge, experience, and perception of most people. They are certain spiritual forces of destiny and evolution.
9.13.4.57Listen 4 Oct 2023Who is willing to work upon himself? Who even feels that he has any duty to do so? Yet this simple acknowledgment could lead to the discovery of God.
2.1.5.4Listen 5 Oct 2023Only when the heart has been utterly emptied of all its ties can the divine presence come into it. If you can empty it only for a few moments, do not lament in despair when the visit of the presence comes to an end after a few moments.
14.22.5.40Listen 6 Oct 2023If men engaged themselves more in asking not “What is good and what is evil?” but rather “What is the Highest Good?” the first question would get itself answered automatically and peace would then follow anyway.
7.11.1.50Listen 7 Oct 2023They are not necessarily more materialistic. It is simply that they have not begun to think about life, to question its meaning and ask for its purpose.
2.1.2.334Listen 8 Oct 2023The labours of the Long Path are good and necessary. They weaken the ego and bring him part of the way toward the goal. But they will end in despair if he does not learn that they cannot bring him the rest of the way.
15.23.2.149Listen 9 Oct 2023… From time to time, someone is born predestined to give a spiritual impulse to a particular people, area, or age. He is charged with a special mission of teaching and redemption and is imbued with special power from the universal intelligence to enable him to carry it out. He must plant seeds which grow slowly into trees to carry fruit that will feed millions of unborn people …
16.25.1.184, ExcerptListen 10 Oct 2023The delusion that flesh food is essential to maintain strength dies hard. I do not know a stronger animal than an elephant. I have seen it in the East doing all the work that a powerful steam-crane will do in the West. Yet the elephant is a vegetarian. Moreover it outlives most other animals.
4.5.3.10Listen 11 Oct 2023He is not only an actor giving a performance on the world-stage. He is also someone who must learn to live in the still centre of his being.
2.1.1.194Listen 12 Oct 2023If it is true to say that in the earlier stages of his quest he holds on to the Still Thought-less stage, in the later and more settled stage he is held by It.
15.23.7.262Listen 13 Oct 2023It is better to accept the loneliness of the quester than the complacency of the worldling who lives without any understanding of life’s inner purpose.
2.1.1.153Listen 14 Oct 2023Nobody succeeds in extinguishing karma merely because he intellectually denies its existence …
6.9.3.111, ExcerptListen 15 Oct 2023Spiritual healing cannot be successfully practised by anybody who has merely picked up its jargon and intellectually familiarized himself with its ideology. It can be successfully practised only by one who has entered into the consciousness of, and surrendered his ego to, the divine spirit within himself.
7.10.5.122Listen 16 Oct 2023He finds within himself not merely a passive repose but also a veritable fountain of wisdom and strength, inspiration and bliss.
14.22.2.34Listen 17 Oct 2023Practise referral of doubts, questions, needs, requests to the Higher Power. Do not depend on the ego alone.
12.18.4.121Listen 18 Oct 2023Although it is true that the Overself is the real guardian angel of every human being, we should not be so foolish as to suppose its immediate intervention in every trivial affair. On the contrary, its care is general rather than particular, in the determination of long-term phases rather than day-by-day events. Its intervention, if that does occur, will be occasioned by or will precipitate a crisis.
14.22.3.207Listen 19 Oct 2023He has to foresee the consequences not only of an action but also of an attitude or an outlook.
6.9.3.52Listen 20 Oct 2023I discovered with the years that the prayer I had made, so often and so earnestly, as a youngster near the threshold of adult manhood, was being adequately answered. It was a simple prayer, nothing more than to be used for the spiritual awakening of others through the written word. It did not go beyond that.
8.12.4.42Listen 21 Oct 2023Those who inspire us to better ourselves, certainly deserve our gratitude and even deserve our love.
16.25.3.540Listen 22 Oct 2023There is no way of showing the Overself for anyone’s examination. Since the ego comes out of the Overself, the only way it can see it again is to go back into it.
14.22.3.251Listen 23 Oct 2023Tenacity of purpose is a characteristic of all who accomplish great things. Drawbacks cannot disgust him, labour cannot weary him, hardships cannot discourage him in whom the quality of persistence is always present. But to the man without persistence every defeat is a Waterloo.
5.6.1.440Listen 24 Oct 2023At this stage there is no struggle for further growth; it comes as softly and as naturally as a flower’s. There is no sacrifice of things the ego desires or clutches to itself, for there is such insight as to their worth or worthlessness that they stay or fall away of themselves.
16.25.2.86Listen 25 Oct 2023If he feels clearly guided to a mission which seems impossible, he may safely leave to the Overself the means of carrying it out.
9.13.2.291Listen 26 Oct 2023If his daily life makes him feel that it is taking him farther away from this peace, this inner harmony, he may have to reconsider his situation, environment, and activities.
15.24.2.51Listen 27 Oct 2023… People live largely in delusion and deception, especially self-deception. “Why am I here on earth?” is a question for which they can only find one answer: to satisfy their own material desires.
2.1.2.406, ExcerptListen 28 Oct 2023Men are so wrapt up in themselves that even when the glimpse happens, they look at the experience as their own, in origin occurrence and result. They seldom look at it from the other side. For it is also an attempt by the Overself first to reveal Itself, second to communicate with them.
14.22.6.358Listen 29 Oct 2023Virtue and compassion thin down the ego but do not confer enlightenment.
6.8.4.426Listen 30 Oct 2023In the individual life it mostly happens that grace descends only after a period of great suffering. In humanity’s life it is the same. Only when war and crises have run their course will new spiritual light be shed on us.
9.13.4.50Listen 31 Oct 2023
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