Day by day
… if you will trust the Overself today, it will provide for you tomorrow. If you repose trust in the Overself, it will never let you down and you may go forward in surety. It is indeed the ”Father who gives us each day our daily bread.”
15.24.3.261, ExcerptListen 1 Nov 2020Whereas the conventional good man seeks to leave behind only the gross and flagrant forms of sin, the philosophic disciple is much more scrupulous. Whereas the one is content to moderate the strength of his lower nature, the other tries to subjugate it altogether.
5.6.4.169Listen 2 Nov 2020What a man brings over from former births are the fixed ideas in his consciousness, the habitual direction of his feelings and the innate impulses of his will.
6.9.2.34Listen 3 Nov 2020The refusal to join any ecclesiastical church or religious society does not leave a man spiritually homeless. If he faithfully exercises himself in meditation and seeks to practise the presence of God, what better home could he have?
2.1.3.144Listen 4 Nov 2020When his strongest passion is to make real the presence of the Soul and when he demonstrates this by the strivings and sacrifices of his whole life, he is not far from the visitation of Grace.
12.18.5.172Listen 5 Nov 2020Unless men possess the right intuitional calibre, they cannot grasp this teaching, for it stands at an altitude beyond the reach of the gross and the materialistic.
13.20.3.14Listen 6 Nov 2020… if man is to end war once and for all and find peace, he must do so both internally and externally. He can do the one by ending the rule of the animal aggressive emotions within himself such as greed, anger, revenge, and hatred, and he can do the other by abandoning the slaying of his fellow creatures, whether human or animal. He may take whatever defensive preparations he pleases, but he must stop short at the point of killing other men. The refusal to slaughter would then evoke powerful spiritual forces, and if enough persons evoke them the end of war would be assured…
5.6.7.26, ExcerptListen 7 Nov 2020… it is necessary to distinguish between the different classes of dreams. Some are dramatizations of physical disturbances but others are symbolic messages from the higher self. Thus most of our dreams are unimportant, but some are significant.
13.19.3.58, ExcerptListen 8 Nov 2020Nature cannot be hastened. The bloom of a flower opens in its own proper time. If the Short Path yields immediate or quick results to some aspirants, it is only because they are persons of superior development. They have served their apprenticeship on the Long Path already, either in this life or previous lives.
15.23.4.9Listen 9 Nov 2020In this momentous period the true sage has special work to do in trying to protect the human race from its own folly …
16.25.4.128, ExcerptListen 10 Nov 2020All that has happened before his entry upon the quest has really been converging towards it.
2.1.2.326Listen 11 Nov 2020That our mortal destiny is made up of welcome and unwelcome circumstances or happenings is a certainty. There is no human being whose pattern fails to be so chequered--only the black and white squares are unequal in number, and the proportion differs from one person to another …
6.9.3.343, ExcerptListen 12 Nov 2020The Overself is a part of World-Mind. Whereas World-Mind is beyond human capacity to know, the Overself is within that capacity.
14.22.3.306Listen 13 Nov 2020That which guides him to the god within his own being, that slender thread of intuitive feeling and intelligence, may at first appear and disappear at intervals.
14.22.1.289Listen 14 Nov 2020… too many fail to realize that their own higher self has already begun to work and that they must co-operate with it.
8.12.4.47, ExcerptListen 15 Nov 2020The sage does not ask for service from others, but only to be allowed to serve them. He does not seek to attach them to himself, but only to God.
16.25.4.24Listen 16 Nov 2020Most students know that the preparatory work includes purifying the heart of base feelings and clearing the mind of negative thoughts--arduous but necessary work. Few students know that it also includes cleansing the body of toxic matter.
4.5.2.19Listen 17 Nov 2020Whether he kneels in the prayer of adoration or squats in the meditation on truth, his face is turned in the right direction--away from the little self--and this is of first importance.
4.4.2.342Listen 18 Nov 2020The inner light will give him a glimpse of an ennobled and purified life and inspire him with the urge to realize it.
14.22.4.162Listen 19 Nov 2020He will know R E A L I T Y, and know it too as his own ultimate being, indestructible and ever-existent. Amid the most prosaic surroundings, deep in the core of his own heart there will be perfect calm for himself and goodwill for all others.
13.20.5.130Listen 20 Nov 2020That point of contact in consciousness where man first feels God and later vanishes into God, is the Overself.
14.22.3.323Listen 21 Nov 2020It is much easier to identify with our own ego than with the Overself. This is why incessant return to these ideas and exercises is needed.
6.8.4.175Listen 22 Nov 2020He has to let himself become totally absorbed by this beautiful feeling, and to remain in it as long as possible. Work, family, friends, or society may call him away but, by refusing to heed them, he is denying his own will and abandoning it to God.
15.23.7.247Listen 23 Nov 2020This teaching will only be of interest to those who have long felt an aspiration towards higher-than-ordinary experience.
13.20.2.164Listen 24 Nov 2020Helping others to attain what he has attained, guiding seekers to reach safely the glorious summit where he now stands, is not decided for him by personal temperament or choice but by the overpowering sense of a primary and paramount duty.
16.25.4.13Listen 25 Nov 2020This is the paradox that when you take the first step on this Quest, it is grace which impels you to do so. Yet you think and act as if you have never been granted the divine gift.
2.1.2.266Listen 26 Nov 2020Only when the Overself becomes the focus of all his thinking is it likely to become the inspirer of all his doing.
12.18.1.87Listen 27 Nov 2020If the scientific gropers-in-the-dark were allowed fully to explore, and their political masters to exploit, the atom until all its energy were released, our Earth would either blow up into pieces and all mankind with it, or else have its atmosphere so poisoned by radioactivity as to make any life within it impossible. But it is not in the World-Mind's World-Idea that this shall be allowed. The so-called progress of man in this direction will be arrested. He will be allowed to injure himself, since he insists on playing with these dangerous forces, but not to destroy himself.
7.11.3.86Listen 28 Nov 2020The vegetarian who refuses to turn his body into a graveyard for slaughtered animals is obeying not only a moral law but also a hygienic and an aesthetic one.
4.5.3.130Listen 29 Nov 2020I have not only refused to organize a cult but have prevented others from doing so who wished it ardently.
8.12.4.36Listen 30 Nov 2020
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