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The Overself acts through inexorable law, yes, but love is part of the law. Grace violates no principle but rather fulfils the highest principle.
12.18.5.89Listen 1 Nov 2016There is another kind of exploration than that which traverses deserts, penetrates jungles, climbs mountains, and crosses continents. It seeks out the mysterious hinterlands of the human mind, scales the highest reaches of human consciousness, and then returns to report routes and discoveries, describe the goals to others so that they also may find their way thereto if they wish.
2.1.1.50Listen 2 Nov 2016The changeover to the Short Path does not entirely cancel out his Long Path work but affects it in three ways. First, it reduces the labours and disciplines involved. Second, the reduced work is done without anxiety and without tension. Third, it frees him from the excessive sense of self-responsibility for his inner and outer life--that is, from excessive ego-depending.
15.23.4.58Listen 3 Nov 2016Philosophical intelligence combines the intellectual faculty with the intuitive.
13.20.3.8Listen 4 Nov 2016The fact that one may not have had any apparent mystical experience, even though he has tried practising concentration, need not dismay him. Concentration alone is not enough. It is no less important to practise prayer and aspiration, unremitting effort at improving character and eliminating weaknesses, strengthening the will and purifying the emotions. If he applies faithful and persistent effort in these directions, he will not only cultivate a properly balanced and well-developed personality, but he will eventually call forth the Grace and Guidance of the Overself.
3.2.5.64Listen 5 Nov 2016Constant practice is more important for success in meditation than any other single factor.
4.4.2.404Listen 6 Nov 2016If we choose to be endlessly preoccupied with external matters, business, and pleasure, if we will not turn lovingly in the only direction to which we must turn if we are to behold our divine self, then it is useless to blame life, God, or luck for our unhappy blindness.
2.1.1.141Listen 7 Nov 2016The knowledge that no two human beings are alike refers to their bodies and minds. But this leaves out the part of their nature which is spiritual, which is found and experienced in deep meditation. In that, the deepest part of their conscious being, the personal self vanishes; only consciousness-in-itself, thought-free, world-free, remains. This is the source of the ”I” feeling, and it is exactly alike in the experience of all other human beings. This is the part which never dies, ”where God and man may mingle.”
14.22.4.121Listen 8 Nov 2016The wisdom of Psalm 46—”Be still and know that I am God”--may be tested by experiment. For in the ego's silence there will be whispered the revelation we await.
6.8.4.236Listen 9 Nov 2016Despite the ever-confronting evidence that change is ceaseless throughout the universe and through all human experience, we persistently get the feeling of solidity in the universe and permanency in experience. Is this only an illusion and the world merely a phantasm? The answer is that there IS something unending behind both.
16.26.2.21Listen 10 Nov 2016The extraordinary thing is not that he will feel the divine self is with him but that it has always been with him.
14.22.3.105Listen 11 Nov 2016Any action must be properly timed if it is to give its best return, but the remembrance exercise is the only kind which can be done at any time--now--and in any place--here. This simple movement of the mind in remembrance is easy enough for anyone at any stage of evolution to perform yet important enough for the wisest of us.
15.23.6.150Listen 12 Nov 2016As he goes deeper and deeper into himself, his private acts become more and more independent of other people's suggestions and resistant to their influence.
2.1.3.35Listen 13 Nov 2016A time comes when the seeker is so thoroughly penetrated with philosophic ideals that the higher life will become the everyday life.
13.20.3.192Listen 14 Nov 2016From our study of the law of karma, we may deduce that a man must grow up, become adult, and learn to be responsible for his actions, decisions, emotions, and even thoughts…
6.9.3.56, ExcerptListen 15 Nov 2016We cannot see the Truth and still be what we were before we saw it. That is why Truth comes in glimpses, for we cannot sustain staying away from ourselves too long, that is to say, from our egos.
14.22.8.31Listen 16 Nov 2016What a bitter irony it is that the soul, which is so near, in our very hearts in fact, is yet felt by so few!
2.1.2.164Listen 17 Nov 2016If anyone can make a spiritual, aesthetic, reasonable, and ethical contribution to mankind, he serves God too, even if he belongs to no religion. For he is harmonizing himself with the World-Idea.
13.20.4.258Listen 18 Nov 2016Millions of other humans came into the world and after a relatively short existence disappeared. He will be no exception: his turn to vanish will also come. Thought, confronted with this terrible fact, must either despair, take refuge in the hopes of religion, or resolve to find out the truth behind the tremendous cosmic drama.
2.1.1.152Listen 19 Nov 2016There is something within him which is without personal existence, without a name, and without scrutable face. It is the Overself.
14.22.3.284Listen 20 Nov 2016To learn is to receive knowledge; but he who seeks to learn this Truth which is both behind and beyond all other truths must come with his mind, his heart, his body, and his will. With his mind because his thought must be pushed to its deepest measure. With his heart because his love is demanded more than he now knows. With his body because it is to be the temple of the holy spirit. And with his will because he may not stop this enterprise until he is through.
13.20.3.5Listen 21 Nov 2016No one who ever gives the philosophic life a proper trial for a sufficient time is likely to desert it…
2.1.1.171, ExcerptListen 22 Nov 2016Life between incarnations consists of a dream-like state followed by a period resembling deep sleep. There is, however, no remembrance of one's former birth upon emerging from this state.
6.9.1.61Listen 23 Nov 2016The dying autumn leaves induce sad thoughts such as: we are only passengers travelling through this world.
9.13.3.209, ExcerptListen 24 Nov 2016If the technique of turning a problem or situation over to the higher power fails to yield favourable results, the fault lies in the person attempting to use it, not in the technique itself. If he is using it as an attempt to escape from coping with the problem or as a refusal to face up to the situation, and thus as an evasion of the lessons involved, it will be better for his own growth to meet with failure. And even among those who claim to have perceived the lessons, they may not have really done so but may have accepted only what suited their egos and rejected the rest. The full meaning of the experience must be taken deeply to heart and applied sincerely to living before the claim to have learned it can be substantiated.
9.13.2.263, ExcerptListen 25 Nov 2016Always close your meditation or end your prayer with a thought for others, such as: May all beings be truly happy.”
4.4.2.413Listen 26 Nov 2016The presence of the Overself within us sooner or later, when the mind is sufficiently developed, creates of itself the craving for truth and the abstract questions about life, God, and man.
2.1.2.190Listen 27 Nov 2016It is a fact more real than we usually grant that the continuous presence of the Overself makes men's satisfaction with wholly material living both impermanent and impossible.
14.22.3.142Listen 28 Nov 2016Give up the outer illusions and gain the inner reality. Give up considering the body as the self and gain the awareness of Overself.
6.8.4.238Listen 29 Nov 2016When he becomes acutely aware both of the sacred duty of self-improvement and of the pitiful weakness which he brings to it, the need of getting the redeeming and transforming power of Grace follows logically. He is then psychologically ready to receive it. He cannot draw Grace to himself but can only invoke and await it.
12.18.5.146, ExcerptListen 30 Nov 2016
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