Day by day
... You are to enter a new and different rhythm and tell such as will listen that they need not be forlorn, lost, or without hope because they find none to appeal to their heart or mind. They are asked only to follow the God within themselves, for “The Kingdom of Heaven is within you…”
2.1.0.2, ExcerptListen 1 Nov 2012When the evils or tribulations or disappointments of life become too heavy a weight, if he has made some advance he has only to pause, turn away and inward, and there he can find a radiant peace of mind which offsets the dark things and counterbalances the menacing depressions.
15.24.2.80Listen 2 Nov 2012What we find as the attributes of the ego are a reflected image, limited and changing, of what we find in the Overself. They ultimately depend on the Overself both for their own existence and their own nature.
6.8.1.128Listen 3 Nov 2012… The Overself contains this reincarnating ego within itself but does not itself reincarnate. It is the parent; the ego is only its offspring…
16.26.4.257, ExcerptListen 4 Nov 2012Follow this invisible thread of tender holy feeling, keep attention close to it, do not let other things distract or bring you away from it. For at its end is entry into Awareness.
15.23.7.210Listen 5 Nov 2012To observe himself correctly, a man must do so impartially, coolly, dispassionately, and not leniently, conceitedly, excitedly. He must also do it justly, with the whole of his being…
4.4.4.135, ExcerptListen 6 Nov 2012The man who has this higher consciousness permanently will see and experience the outer world like other men, but he will understand the relation between what he sees and the Real world which is behind it…
16.25.2.242, ExcerptListen 7 Nov 2012The portrayal of Gautama as a seated meditating figure symbolizes his basic message. This was really, and quite simply, “Be still--empty yourself--let out the thoughts, the desires, and the ego which prevent this inner stillness.”
4.4.5.77Listen 8 Nov 2012Whereas every human personality is different in its characteristics from every other one, no human Overself is different in its characteristics from any other one. The seekers of all times and all places have always found one and the same divine being when they found the Overself.
14.22.3.382Listen 9 Nov 2012... Reverie is not enough. Dream and do. Let the buds of high thought burst into the flowers of heroic action. In the present chaotic and critical state of the world, it is better for those with spiritual ideals to throw their weight into positive service of humanity. We must do something to objectify these ideals.
10.15.1.351, ExcerptListen 10 Nov 2012The capacity to respond to spiritual intuitions is latent in all men but trained and developed in few men.
14.22.1.170Listen 11 Nov 2012There are four chief ways in which guidance may be given. They are: intuitive feeling, giving in a general way approbation or rejection of a proposed course of action; direct and precise inner message; the shaping of outer circumstances; and the teaching of inspired texts. If all four exist together, and if they all harmonize, then you may step forward in the fullest assurance. But if there are contradictions between them, then great caution and some delay is certainly advisable.
14.22.1.221Listen 12 Nov 2012The duty of worship, whether in a public temple or a private home, exists not because God needs our praise--for he is not in want of anything--but because we need to recollect him.
12.18.1.120Listen 13 Nov 2012What happens next comes from no effort on his part and depends on nothing that he does. He is simply to remain still, perfectly still in body and mind. Then from above, from the Overself, grace descends and he begins to experience the joy of feeling the divine presence.
15.23.7.260Listen 14 Nov 2012The persona, the mask which he presents to the world, is only one part of his ego. The conscious nature, composed of thoughts and feelings, is the second part. The hidden store of tendencies, impulses, memories, and ideas--formerly expressed and then reburied, or brought over, from earlier lives, and all latent--is the third part.
6.8.3.17Listen 15 Nov 2012The more we use our thoughts to get the deep understanding of ourselves, of God, and the world, and the more we still the thoughts to get them out of the way when the divine is ready to speak to us, the more successful will our search become, and the more will we awaken from the dream of an unreal materiality.
4.4.4.67Listen 16 Nov 2012On the Long Path he identifies himself with the personal ego, even though it be the higher part of the ego, whereas on the Short Path he is only the observer of the ego…
15.23.5.81, ExcerptListen 17 Nov 2012Only to the extent that he unites his own little purpose with the universal purpose can he find harmony and happiness. Its strength will support him firmly in adversity and misfortune, as it will carry him triumphantly through misery and hostility.
16.26.4.140Listen 18 Nov 2012Ordinarily it is not easy, not natural, to forgive anyone who has wronged us. The capacity to do so will come to us as understanding grows large enough or as meditation penetrates deep enough or as grace blesses us.
5.6.5.317Listen 19 Nov 2012The period of active effort is at an end; the period of passive waiting now follows it. Without any act on his own part and without any mental movement of his own, the Grace draws him up to the next higher stage and miraculously puts him there where he has so long and so much desired to be. Mark well the absence of self-effort at this stage, how the whole task is taken out of his hands.
15.23.7.242Listen 20 Nov 2012To all things there is an equivalent price. For awareness of the Overself, pay with the thing that blocks your way--sacrifice the ego.
6.8.4.4Listen 21 Nov 2012From the first moment that he sets foot on this inner path until the last one when he has finished it, he will at intervals be assailed by tests which will try the stuff he is made of. Such trials are sent to the student to examine his mettle, to show how much he is really worth, and to reveal the strength and weakness that are really his, not what he believes are his…
3.2.3.67, ExcerptListen 22 Nov 2012The urge to follow the Quest, the impulse to find the higher consciousness, comes from the Overself.
2.1.2.263Listen 23 Nov 2012What I call natural meditation, that which comes of itself by itself or which comes from the admiration of nature or of music, is not less valuable than any meditation of the yogi, and perhaps it is even better since there is no artificial effort to bring it about. The man feels his inner being gradually lapsing into this beautiful mood which seems to coalesce a feeling of hush, peace, knowledge, and benignity.
4.4.1.135Listen 24 Nov 2012The Overself-consciousness is reflected into the ego, which then imagines that it has its own original, and not derived awareness.
6.8.1.33Listen 25 Nov 2012Why create needless frustrations by an overeager attitude, by overdoing spiritual activity? You are in the Overself's hands even now and if the fundamental aspiration is present, your development will go on without your having to be anxious about it. Let the burden go…
15.23.5.232, ExcerptListen 26 Nov 2012If he can take a few minutes of concentrated rest at odd times, or even only one to three minutes at a time when he can get no more, he will benefit out of all proportion. The nerves will be soothed, the mind relaxed from its cares, the body-battery recharged, and the emotions calmed.
3.3.3.5Listen 27 Nov 2012If there is any loss of consciousness during the change called death, it is only a brief one, as brief or briefer than a night's sleep. Many of the departed do not even know at the time what has really happened to them and still believe themselves to be physically alive. For they find themselves apparently able to see others and hear voices and touch things just as before. Yet all these experiences are entirely immaterial, and take place within a conscious mind that has no fleshly brain.
6.9.1.88Listen 28 Nov 2012His part is to open a way, remove obstructions, gain concentration, so that the Overself's grace can reach him. The union of both activities produces the result.
12.18.5.169Listen 29 Nov 2012Both prayer and receptivity are needed. First we pray fervently and feelingly to the Overself to draw us closer to it, then we lapse into emotional quietness and patiently wait to let the inner self unfold to us. There is no need to discard prayer because we take up meditation. The one makes a fit prelude to the other. The real need is to purify prayer and uplift its objectives.
12.18.2.178Listen 30 Nov 2012
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