Day by day
Such is the separative ego's hold on most men that although they carry the divine treasure with them they regard it not.
6.8.4.73Listen 1 Nov 2018The beginner usually has to go through an emotional experience in order to receive a mystical experience, but the proficient is under no necessity to do so.
14.22.6.22Listen 2 Nov 2018… He should refrain from giving attention to the imperfections and shortcomings of others, and he should certainly never blame them for these. He should turn his critical gaze towards himself alone--unless he is specifically asked by others to examine them--and exercise it to correct himself and improve himself and reform himself.
5.6.5.283, ExcerptListen 3 Nov 2018If he has to meet someone who is regarded as a sage, he may quickly feel the stillness surrounding the man. If they sit down together and he feels disinclined to break the silence, it would be better not to do it but to take it as a signal to flout convention and let the initiative be taken by the sage himself.
16.25.5.142Listen 4 Nov 2018”I enjoy life and try to spend it in peace, joy, and cheerfulness,” Spinoza wrote to a correspondent.
15.24.1.41Listen 5 Nov 2018So long as these two faculties of human mind--reason and imagination--are surrendered to its animal side, so long will they prevent the real human being from being born.
5.7.1.162Listen 6 Nov 2018We do not need to persuade or convert others to philosophy but we ought to offer them the material which they can investigate as and when they feel inclined to do so.
13.20.2.38Listen 7 Nov 2018He has learned through the experiences of many births not to cling desperately to anything, not to hold on stubbornly when life's clear indication is to let go, not to get so attached to persons or objects that all his happiness rests solely upon them.
15.24.1.8Listen 8 Nov 2018The extent of the peace and strength, the confidence and beneficence which lie stretched out beneath the little ego's troubled life is like unto the oceans: no other simile will suit.
14.22.3.143Listen 9 Nov 2018The new physics finds creation to be a continuous process, which has never had a dated beginning in the past. Its atoms and universes appear and disappear. What does this indicate? That the unspaced untimed No-Thing out of which all this comes is itself the Reality, and the Universe a showing-forth.
16.26.2.26Listen 10 Nov 2018Jesus is honoured in every Christian Church by name, by chanted hymn, and by carven figure. Why does it not also honour his tremendous teaching that the kingdom of heaven is within man himself…?
12.17.5.53, ExcerptListen 11 Nov 2018The ego worships no other God than itself.
1.8.0.64Listen 12 Nov 2018Whoever accepts the higher mission of art and comes nearer and nearer to it through his creative activity, will then go on from art to the Spirit deep within his own self.
9.14.1.154Listen 13 Nov 2018No ugly qualities are left in him, no vicious remnants of the beast that became man.
16.25.3.312Listen 14 Nov 2018You may be an insignificant creature in the vastness of the cosmos, but the divine life is in you, too. Have enough faith in your divine heritage, take it into your common everyday life and thought, and in some way, to some people, you will become very significant and important.
14.22.3.33Listen 15 Nov 2018He realizes that he has had an important experience which will be followed at intervals by others, when he stands on the fringe of cosmic consciousness. Through proper metaphysical study, meditation practice, and philosophic action, it will not be difficult for him to come into the awareness of his own Overself to some extent… Even to enjoy a fraction of this wider consciousness is to transform his life in every way.
14.22.5.76, ExcerptListen 16 Nov 2018To obtain a balanced result it is necessary to make a balanced approach and not to rely on a single kind of effort only. The moral character must become involved in the quest of upliftment; the intellectual faculty must work at the study, as well as reflect upon the lessons of, life itself; the intuition must be unfolded by persistent daily practice of meditation; and the everyday practical life must try to express the ideals learned.
13.20.3.456Listen 17 Nov 2018Karma is as active in the destiny of great powerful nations as in the destiny of poor insignificant men.
6.9.3.386Listen 18 Nov 2018Throw out negative thoughts as they would hinder the uplift of your mind. Replace them by frequent and positive remembrance of the Overself.
1.11.0.38Listen 19 Nov 2018On awakening from the night's sleep, take the inspired book, which you are to keep on a bedside table for the purposes of this exercise, and open it at random. The higher self may lead you to open it at a certain page. Read the paragraph or page on which your glance first rests and then put the book aside. Meditate intently on the words, taking them as a special message to you for that particular day…
13.19.3.161, ExcerptListen 20 Nov 2018Meditation often leads to fatigue but contemplation never. The one takes strength from him, the other gives it to him.
15.23.7.7Listen 21 Nov 2018Those who are unaware of the penalties they incur by misuse of the power to think and the will to act are in urgent need of the teaching of karma.
1.9.0.44Listen 22 Nov 2018A man begins to come into his own the day he rejects the ego. His rejection may not last more than a minute or two, for the false self is strong enough to reclaim its victim. But the process has started…
6.8.4.162, ExcerptListen 23 Nov 2018The short path-long path, once understood, becomes a key to the solution of many problems and to the answer of many questions of Questers.
15.23.5.158Listen 24 Nov 2018When the ego suspends its action and falls--without an object for its consciousness or a body for its working--into profound slumber, it has returned to its source. The real I then rules.
13.19.3.107Listen 25 Nov 2018The unity between our character and our destiny is inseparable; the connection between our way of thinking and the course of events is unerring.
1.9.0.38Listen 26 Nov 2018There is no one so sinful or so degraded in character that he is denied this blessed privilege of a contrite yearning for communion with his own divine source. Even the failure to have ever prayed before, even a past life of shame and error, does not cancel but, on the contrary, merely enhances this right…
12.18.2.8, ExcerptListen 27 Nov 2018Out of suffering may come the transmutation of values, even the transfiguration of character. But these developments are possible only if the man co-operates. If he does not, then the suffering is in vain, fruitless.
1.13.0.13Listen 28 Nov 2018While the human entity lives apart from the consciousness of its own real Self, it cannot live in peace. But when it is able to repose completely in that Self, there will be no second thing to draw it away from that peace.
6.8.4.69Listen 29 Nov 2018… To that diviner self thus glimpsed, he must henceforth address all his prayers; through its remembrance he must seek succour; in its reliance he must perform all his endeavors; by its light he must plead for grace…
14.22.8.107, ExcerptListen 30 Nov 2018
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