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In the end, and after we have tried sufficiently long and hard, we find that the knot of self cannot be untied. It is then that we have to call on grace and let it work on us, doing nothing more than to give our consent and to accept its methods.
12.18.5.147Listen 1 Nov 2017The Overself is the representative of God in man.
14.22.3.305Listen 2 Nov 2017As this wonderful feeling steals over him, there is a clear and unmistakable sense that the Overself is displacing the ego. Hitherto he has obeyed the rule of the flesh and the brain and consequently has shared their pitiful limitations. Now he becomes acutely aware that a new sovereign is taking his place on the throne.
14.22.6.212Listen 3 Nov 2017Every person is unconsciously trying to fulfil a higher purpose set for him by the Overself…
16.26.4.105, ExcerptListen 4 Nov 2017From the moment that the lower ego manifested itself, it embarked on a career of ever-expanding separativeness from the other egos and ever-increasing externalization from its sacred source.
6.8.3.172Listen 5 Nov 2017It is often advisable to be one's own guide, studying worthy books, using prayer and reflection, and following the intuitive guidance of one's Higher Self.
15.23.1.87Listen 6 Nov 2017In this state the world is not presented to consciousness. Consequently none of the problems associated with it is present. No ego is active with personal emotions and particular thoughts. No inner conflicts disturb the still centre of being.
15.23.7.113Listen 7 Nov 2017The result of wrong-doing will reach a man in the end and teach him the value of its opposite. If he stubbornly needs many lessons and many classes in life's school before he is willing to accept this value, the fact is regrettable and his suffering is inevitable.
9.13.1.230Listen 8 Nov 2017He feels that time has utterly ceased, that the whole world and its movement has become the mere shadow of a thought, that he has entered an untellable and unstrained silence.
15.24.3.248Listen 9 Nov 2017Intuition--which Bergson called the surest road to truth--eradicates hesitancies. When you are in contact with the Overself in solving a problem, you receive a direct command what to do and you then know it is right. The clouds and hesitancies and vacillations which arise when struggling between contrary points of view, melt…
14.22.1.265, ExcerptListen 10 Nov 2017Only the Short Path can turn aspiration into attainment, for only it proffers Grace.
15.23.1.163Listen 11 Nov 2017He should try to remember the inner and outer conditions under which the glimpse came to him and, temporarily, try to make them again part of himself and his surroundings. He is to do so as if he were an actor appearing in this part on a stage. For the time being, he must think, feel, and live as if the experience is really happening, the glimpse really recurring…
15.23.6.201, ExcerptListen 12 Nov 2017To the degree that he can surrender his mind to the higher self, to that degree does he surrender the worries and fears that go along with it.
12.18.4.171Listen 13 Nov 2017The Master has found his way to the Overself; he daily enjoys the blessing of its presence; he has passed from mere existence into significant living, and he knows there is peace and love at the heart of the universe. He wants now to help others share in the fruits of his discoveries.
16.25.5.22Listen 14 Nov 2017The more successful type of Quester is the one who can keep his interest, enthusiasm, and practices in a stable, unwaning condition.
3.2.3.169Listen 15 Nov 2017Plato saw what the inspired artist discovers in the end, that beauty of form and shape is only a lead to the formless beauty of Overself.
9.14.3.61Listen 16 Nov 2017If the nightly return of the man to his Overself were really full and complete, he would not awake the day after into spiritual ignorance. Instead, he would consciously enjoy the peace and presence of the Overself.
13.19.3.125Listen 17 Nov 2017The Overself is there but the ego intercepts its communication.
6.8.3.92Listen 18 Nov 2017Everything around us and every event that happens to us is an expression of God's will.
16.26.1.30Listen 19 Nov 2017No man has any choice as to whether or not he should seek the kingdom of heaven, his higher Spiritual Self. Every man is seeking it, knowingly or unwittingly, and is preordained to do so…
9.13.2.5, ExcerptListen 20 Nov 2017… If he looks to final ends he will know the right means. If he finds out what is the larger purpose behind the smaller ones, it will be immensely easier to know what to do in any given situation when he has to choose between opposite courses.
3.2.4.48, ExcerptListen 21 Nov 2017The ego poses as being the only self, the real self, the whole self.
6.8.3.60Listen 22 Nov 2017The question Who am I? is asked somewhere in that monumental ancient book The Yoga Vasistha. It was often included centuries later by Saint Francis in his prayers. But Sri Ramana Maharshi gave it central importance in his advice to spiritual seekers and meditators.
15.23.6.106Listen 23 Nov 2017The particular problems which life has presented him with are exactly the ones suited to his own personal development…
3.2.3.149, ExcerptListen 24 Nov 2017Any man who has reached the middle or late period of his life has reached an age when the most important activity he can undertake is to try to fulfil as much as possible of the higher purpose of his life on earth. The basis for this activity must necessarily be self-improvement, the building of character and the overcoming of the ego.
9.13.3.181Listen 25 Nov 2017The glimpse gives him a journey to a land flowing not with milk and honey, but with goodness and beauty, with peace and wisdom. It is the best moment of his life.
14.22.4.87Listen 26 Nov 2017We struggle to find God, we long after what seems unattainable, and we must hold nothing back, must yield all, surrender all, until the ego melts with every fetter that belongs to it.
12.18.4.132Listen 27 Nov 2017The goal of life is to be consciously united with Life.
16.26.4.90Listen 28 Nov 2017The earth is the scene where man is placed to achieve his spiritual development. The body is the only direct contact he has with it: How foolish is it to mistreat the body through ignorance, abuse it through carelessness, or neglect it through laziness?
4.5.2.40Listen 29 Nov 2017… In the later, the more advanced stages where the Short Path comes into operation, the seeker must begin to forget himself and his efforts … must identify himself with the Overself by giving himself wholly to the idea of manifesting it in his inner and outer life…
15.23.4.94, ExcerptListen 30 Nov 2017
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