Day by day
Nobler and wiser types of humanity, standing at loftier altitudes of consciousness, will begin to emerge from the mass. If they are all too few today, they will be more numerous tomorrow.
16.26.4.233Listen 1 Nov 2013There are the visible living people and the invisible living ones. None are ever lost to existence or destroyed in consciousness, but only their bodies.
6.9.1.176Listen 2 Nov 2013In the beauty of a rose and the loveliness of a sunset the man of aesthetic feeling or poetic temperament may unconsciously find a reminder of the grander beauty of the Overself.
3.3.6.38Listen 3 Nov 2013... The ultimate goal is to discover that there is but one reality, of which all are but a part, that the separateness of the personal ego is but superficial, and that Truth is evidenced by the consciousness of unity. The first fruit of such discovery is necessarily the dedication of life to the service of all creatures, to incessant service for universal welfare…
2.1.5.92, ExcerptListen 4 Nov 2013That which few men value and few men find is nevertheless the most worthwhile thing for which to search. What is it? It is what once found cannot be lost, once seen must be loved, and once felt awakens all that is best in a man.
2.1.5.101Listen 5 Nov 2013... We are here on earth to find the soul…
3.2.8.101, ExcerptListen 6 Nov 2013If we can gain the power to enter the Presence, it will work silently upon the reform and reshaping of our character. Every such entry will carry the work forward, or consolidate what has already been done.
14.22.7.80Listen 7 Nov 2013The best form of meditation is that which lifts us above time and into the Eternal Now.
15.23.8.149Listen 8 Nov 2013The lotus, that lovely Oriental flower, is much used as a symbol of the goal we have to gain. It grows in mud but is not even spotted by it. It rests on water but is never even stained by it. Its colour is pure white in striking contrast to the dirty surroundings which are its home. So the disciple's inner life must be undefiled, unstained, and pure even though his outer life is perforce carried on under the most materialistic surroundings or among the most sensual people.
2.1.5.100Listen 9 Nov 2013We cannot see, hear, or touch without the mind. But the mind, in its turn, cannot function or even exist without the Overself.
14.22.3.242Listen 10 Nov 2013He now sees what he did not see earlier, that the outer happenings of his life are often connected with the inner trends of his thought and that a change in the latter will often produce a change in the former.
13.21.5.41Listen 11 Nov 2013Privacy is a great privilege--almost, in these noisy days, a luxury. To be able to live without being interrupted by others, to be able to converge all one's thoughts, without being disturbed, upon the highest of all thoughts, the discovery of the Overself, is a satisfaction indeed!
3.3.5.51Listen 12 Nov 2013The joy that emanates from the Overself has a healing quality. It dissipates anxieties and eradicates neuroses.
14.22.3.152Listen 13 Nov 2013... The aspirant is not asked to abandon all thought of his particular self (as if he could) or to lose consciousness of it, but that he is asked to perceive its imperfection, its unsatisfactoriness, its faultiness, its baseness and its sinfulness and, in consequence of this perception, to give it up in favour of his higher self, with its perfection, blessedness, goodness, nobility, and wisdom. For in the lower ego he will never know peace whereas in the diviner one he will always know it.
14.22.3.108, ExcerptListen 14 Nov 2013The ego moves from childhood to old age, from waking to dreaming, but it moves round in a circle. It does not move toward freedom, reality, or peace.
6.8.3.24Listen 15 Nov 2013The mind must go on gradually parting with its ancient illusions, its time-fed prejudices, hardly aware of any progress, until one fateful day truth triumphs abruptly in a vivid flash of supreme illumination.
3.2.2.92Listen 16 Nov 2013The divine power is not less present in the home or the office than in the church or the monastery. If we do not find this so, it is because we are more ready and more willing to give attention to it in the one than in the other.
3.3.4.2Listen 17 Nov 2013Spiritual experiences that occur during adolescence are indications that he has possibilities of travelling on the spiritual quest. But he must decide whether he prefers abnormal occult experiences or the less dramatic, slower growth in the cultivation of his divine soul. A beginner cannot mix the two goals safely. And he can expect to have the help of an advanced mystic only if he seeks the higher goal.
2.1.5.117Listen 18 Nov 2013If we look for the self in this jumble of contradictory instincts and changing tendencies, we find only a jumble. These things are the content of awareness, not the faculty of awareness.
6.8.1.99Listen 19 Nov 2013He will feel that this nobler self actually overshadows him at times. This is literally true. Hence we have named it the Overself.
14.22.3.180Listen 20 Nov 2013Because it gives new hope, fresh encouragement, and the prospect of eventual relief from trouble, the glimpse is like a rainbow in the sky. It reminds him that a providential love is still behind the world and his own existence.
14.22.7.100Listen 21 Nov 2013The longest book on yoga can teach you nothing more about the practical aim of yoga than this: still your thoughts.
4.4.3.1Listen 22 Nov 2013He has to seek for the mysterious essence of himself, which is something he touches at rare, blessed, and unforgettable moments. It allures because it is also the Perfect, ever sought but never found in the world outside.
2.1.5.95Listen 23 Nov 2013Many people pass through these experiences of the glimpse and do not really know what is happening to them because they have never studied or been taught anything about such experiences.
14.22.4.63Listen 24 Nov 2013... It is simply a matter of finding the Overself and letting it rule the ego thenceforth. Thus the ego is not killed but put back in its lower place. But first he has to become conscious of the Overself, he has to feel it as a living presence, and he has to do this throughout the day and night, awake or asleep. That is the goal…
2.1.5.89, ExcerptListen 25 Nov 2013For the man in that high consciousness and identified with it, the ego is simply an open channel through which his being may flow into the world of time and space. It is not himself, as it is for the unenlightened man, but an adjunct to himself, obeying and expressing his will.
6.8.1.210Listen 26 Nov 2013Deep within man there is Something which waits for his discovery, something which reveals itself when he has penetrated far enough or when grace grants it or karma favours it.
14.22.3.75Listen 27 Nov 2013... The philosophical seeker incessantly returns to the remembrance of the glimpse, uses it to work continuously at the transformation of his self and never lets go of the vision.
14.22.8.88, ExcerptListen 28 Nov 2013In the well-formed and well-informed aspirant the activities of both paths will be subtly blended. This is part of what is meant when it is said that he is properly balanced. And out of this union will come the second birth, the new man who reflects at last the glorious consciousness of the Overself.
3.2.5.163Listen 29 Nov 2013... Although this goal is not easy to obtain, he must refuse to give up hope. The path is right by itself, and in allying himself with it, he is allying himself with what is, after all, the greatest force in the world.
2.1.5.85, ExcerptListen 30 Nov 2013
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