Day by day
This divine soul never withdraws from man’s life, is never absent from man’s fate. For the very purpose of these last two is to draw him to seek and find the soul.
14.22.3.76Listen 1 Nov 2022All the time it is silently asking: “Will you not turn toward Me, accept Me, for I am your other self?”
14.22.3.65Listen 2 Nov 2022By his ignoring of the Overself’s presence, man commits his greatest sin and shows his worst stupidity.
14.22.3.30Listen 3 Nov 2022Every move made by the ego has as its basis the desire of its own survival, its own self-perpetuation.
6.8.3.56Listen 4 Nov 2022Every attempt to disassociate himself from his ego, to observe it in thought and action, to unbind himself from its desires and lusts will be successful only as it is merciless.
6.8.4.260Listen 5 Nov 2022The modern world has rightly sought and attained knowledge. Now it must quickly seek and attain wisdom, the next higher octave of knowledge, or it risks losing its gains and destroying itself.
9.13.4.322Listen 6 Nov 2022… When rational thinking can perceive that it cannot transcend itself, cannot yield more than another thought, it has travelled as far as it can go and performed its proper function …
5.7.8.2, ExcerptListen 7 Nov 2022Intuition is truth drawn from one’s own self, that is, from within, be it a practical or a spiritual truth, whereas intellect squeezes its conclusion out of presented evidence, that is, from without.
14.22.1.43Listen 8 Nov 2022… Let us not say with some foolish mystic that we are God. Let us say rather what we can truly say, which is that there is something of God in us.
16.25.1.29, ExcerptListen 9 Nov 2022Just as the Illumined State does not prevent him from receiving physical impressions from the world around him, so it does not prevent him from receiving psychic impressions from the people around him. But he does not cling to any of these impressions, nor does he let his emotions get entwined with them.
16.25.2.260Listen 10 Nov 2022The more deeply he lets himself sink into this attitude of receptivity—whether in meditation on God or admiration of art—the finer the result.
15.23.7.269Listen 11 Nov 2022The selfish person thinks only of satisfying his own wants first of all, not caring if he harms others. The next higher type thinks also of his immediate circle of family and friends. But the highest type of all gives equal regard to himself, to his family, to whoever crosses his path, and to all others. He feels for everyone, never satisfying his desires by wrongfully taking away from, or harming, another.
5.6.1.386Listen 12 Nov 2022Our outer lives to some extent reflect the state of our minds. Many of the trials we have to bear would dissolve after we faced ourselves and removed the negative characteristics within our minds. But there are some karmic difficulties which cannot be altered, no matter how clear and pure the mind becomes.
9.13.1.387Listen 13 Nov 2022If enlightenment is to be full, and completely balanced, it must not only occur in the thinking intellect and emotional feeling; it must also occur in the acting physical body.
4.5.2.8Listen 14 Nov 2022Intellect, reason, and intelligence are not convertible terms in this teaching. The first is the lowest faculty of the trio, the third is the highest, the second is the medial one. Intellect is logical thinking based on a partial and prejudiced collection of facts. Reason is logical thinking based on all available and impartially collected facts. Intelligence is the fruit of a union between reason and intuition.
5.7.1.14Listen 15 Nov 2022He perceives that this is a new kind of experience, a new way of knowing, a new level of happiness, a new quality of life.
14.22.6.338Listen 16 Nov 2022Master Huang Po: “This Mind is here, now. But as soon as any thought arises you miss it. It is like space . . . unthinkable.”
16.28.2.116Listen 17 Nov 2022When devotion, worship, and reverence are fortified by knowledge, they can one day reach a stage where notably less is desired or demanded and peace then naturally arises. Nor is a measure of peace the only gain. Virtue later follows after it, quietly and effortlessly growing.
12.18.1.9Listen 18 Nov 2022The ego gets in its own way and shuts out the truth. It is so immersed in itself that it sees nothing else than its own views, its own opinions …
6.8.4.90, ExcerptListen 19 Nov 2022If those of higher ideals and unselfish character withdraw from society, leaving the world to be run by more materialistic and selfish persons, then society will certainly degenerate and thus bring karmic suffering upon itself. Wisdom, however, dictates the reverse policy.
13.20.4.243Listen 20 Nov 2022When intuition guides and illuminates intellect, balances and restrains the ego, that which the wise men called “true intelligence” rises.
14.22.1.41Listen 21 Nov 2022This art of meditation is in the end a matter of reaching ever-greater depth within oneself, until one penetrates beneath the ego and enters pure being.
4.4.1.139Listen 22 Nov 2022… Those of us who have planted our feet on the grander path that shall lead one day to ultimate wisdom, have to go on—whether it be through sorrow or joy, weakness or strength, world-turmoil or world-peace. For us there is no turning back.
2.1.2.506, ExcerptListen 23 Nov 2022Some events in the future are inevitable, either because they follow from the actions of men who fail to amend character or improve capacity or deepen knowledge, or because they follow from the basic pattern of the World-Idea and the laws it sets to govern physical life.
6.9.3.294Listen 24 Nov 2022Human thinking can only lead to, and produce, another thought, or series of thoughts. It cannot get beyond itself, cannot rise to any object that is not of the nature of a thought.
5.7.1.36Listen 25 Nov 2022… Those who stood closest to Jesus were asked to preach the gospel. Clearly therefore he conceived the spreading of truth to be their primary task … In this critical passage of humanity from a used-out standpoint to a newer one which confronts it today, such a service is more than important …
13.20.4.292, ExcerptListen 26 Nov 2022When the Overself takes full possession of him, it will change his personality and outlook completely.
14.22.7.156Listen 27 Nov 2022Learning what these cosmic laws are and trying to live in obedience to them is the only way whereby humanity can do what is best for itself. It will have to come to such obedience through the lessons of experience and cannot escape it.
16.26.4.167Listen 28 Nov 2022By combining deep breathing with gentle smiling, both acts being done quite slowly, and by keeping the mind solely attentive to the body’s condition, a relaxed half-drowsy state will develop. No other thoughts should be allowed to enter; the whole of his being should lie completely reposed in the rhythmic breathing and happily hypnotized by the lazy smile. Everything should be light and effortless. This is the Yoga of the Liberating Smile.
15.23.6.51Listen 29 Nov 2022The Yoga of the Liberating Smile is to be practised at two special times—when he is falling into sleep at night and when he is waking from sleep in the morning.
15.23.6.52Listen 30 Nov 2022
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