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Those who can bring themselves to give up all, will receive all. Those who can dare to lift themselves out of emotional oscillation will find ”the peace which passeth understanding.” Those who can perceive that they are their own obstacles in the way will in no long time perceive the truth.
15.24.3.92Listen 1 Nov 2019The Quest is not to be followed by studying metaphysically alone or by sitting meditatively alone. Both are needful yet still not enough. Experience must be reflectively observed and intuition must be carefully looked for. Above all, the aspirant must be determined to strive faithfully for the ethical ideals of philosophy and to practise sincerely its moral teachings.
1.2.0.26Listen 2 Nov 2019Jesus has said that it is Grace which starts and keeps a man on the way to God, even though his heart and will have to make their effort also. Ramana Maharshi confirmed this statement.
12.18.5.161Listen 3 Nov 2019The World-Mind reproduces something of itself in each individual entity we call the Soul, or Overself.
16.25.1.10Listen 4 Nov 2019Gospel of John, chapter 17, verse 21: ”As thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee.”
16.25.1.8Listen 5 Nov 2019Circumstances or other persons may be contributory but cannot be wholly responsible for a man's failures and misfortunes. If he will look within himself he will always find the ultimate causes there.
6.9.3.381Listen 6 Nov 2019The ego must acknowledge its own transiency, confess its own instability, and thus become truly humble.
12.18.3.74Listen 7 Nov 2019Philosophy does not encourage a morbid dwelling over past sins, lost opportunities, or errors committed. That merely wastes time and saps power. The analysis finished, the lesson learned, the amendment made, what is left over must be left behind. Why burden memory and darken conscience with the irreparable if no good can be done by it?
4.4.4.176Listen 8 Nov 2019Artificial pleasures are not the same as enduring happiness. They come from outside, from stimulated senses, whereas it comes from within.
15.24.1.85Listen 9 Nov 2019This perfect harmony between the various elements of his personality is not to be achieved with some in the state of half-development and others of full development. All are to be brought up to the same high level.
1.20.0.62Listen 10 Nov 2019Where good manners are sincerely felt and sincerely practised, they represent consideration for other people, abandonment of the self-centered habit we are born with. And what does this in turn represent but a surrender of the ego?…
5.6.5.187, ExcerptListen 11 Nov 2019He will gain with time the sense of a Presence which walks with him and dwells in him. It is a guide with practical value, too, for it warns him what not to do if he would live ethically and avoid additional suffering. Even if he does not advance so far as perfect realization, he will advance.
14.22.3.167Listen 12 Nov 2019He may look at what has happened in five different but equally valuable and equally necessary ways: (a) as a test, (b) as opposition of adverse force, (c) as a problem to adjust himself to psychologically, (d) as a temptation or tribulation to be met and overcome morally, (e) as the outworking of past karma to be intelligently endured or impersonally negotiated.
1.6.0.11Listen 13 Nov 2019The man who does not learn how to be alone with himself cannot learn how to be alone with God.
1.3.0.39Listen 14 Nov 2019In this high state his own mind is consciously connected with the divine Mind…
16.25.2.119, ExcerptListen 15 Nov 2019It is not enough to seek stillness for the body and mind alone: the attention and intention must be directed at the same time to that Overself which transcends body and mind.
1.4.0.48Listen 16 Nov 2019The first way of finding peace when harassed by a hard problem or situation is to turn away from the tumult of thoughts and look for the still centre within. When it is found and just when it leaves, or must be left, ask it for the guidance needed…
15.24.4.138, ExcerptListen 17 Nov 2019Our definition of sin needs widening. It is also sinful to break the laws of hygiene, to indulge in habits that are either poisonous or devitalizing, to eat foods obtained by slaughter.
4.5.3.70Listen 18 Nov 2019If the sincere desire of his heart is echoed by a prayer that expresses humility and requests guidance, it will be heard. Although he may receive no answer for quite a time, sooner or later it will come.
12.18.2.205Listen 19 Nov 2019… Even though he may not be able, in this incarnation, to attain the goal of union with the Overself by destroying the ego, he can certainly make some progress towards his goal by weakening the ego. Such a weakening does not depend upon grace; it is perfectly within the bounds of his own competence, his own capacity.
1.2.0.42, ExcerptListen 20 Nov 2019The Arabic word for God--Allah--or the Aramaic (Jesus' spoken language) word--Alaha--form excellent mantric material.
4.4.6.59Listen 21 Nov 2019… Jesus gave two helps in this matter: seek the kingdom of heaven first, and seek it within. It is open to anyone to test this truth that he is related to God. But if he does not bring certain qualities into the work, such as patience and humility, the going may be too hard, the result disappointing.
16.25.1.6, ExcerptListen 22 Nov 2019The truth is that never for a moment are we really separate from our inner self.
14.22.3.77Listen 23 Nov 2019Those who really aspire towards a higher kind of life will have no alternative than to bring about a higher quality of the body in which they have to dwell and whose nerves and brain condition their very thinking. Such aspirants will have to stop being careless about the material that is fed to the body.
1.5.0.12Listen 24 Nov 2019He has to find out what unwise tendencies are operative in his character without his knowledge, what wrong impulses arise from his subconscious self and lead to harmful actions.
1.6.0.25Listen 25 Nov 2019With sufficient intelligence, reverent devotion, and personal purification, it is possible to enter one day into this experience of being enclosed within the divine mystery, enravished by the divine peace.
15.24.2.161Listen 26 Nov 2019… In mental attitude, in personal inward response to events, lies one's chief freedom of will. It might, however, be questioned how far such freedom is illusory, since the response, the attitude, are themselves conditioned by the past and many other things. It is quite correct to state that the past inclines us to think and act in a certain way. But it is also admitted that we can grow, can improve our lives and change in the course of time…
1.9.0.56, ExcerptListen 27 Nov 2019The ego is a passing thing, but its source is not.
6.8.1.29Listen 28 Nov 2019If human life has any higher purpose, it is that the human ego should find its way back to that harmony with the Overself which has become disturbed but never disrupted.
16.26.4.86Listen 29 Nov 2019If he is willing to look for them, he will find the hidden workings of the ego in the most unsuspected corners, even in the very midst of his loftiest spiritual aspirations. The ego is unwilling to die and will even welcome this large attrition of its scope if that is its only way of escape from death…
6.8.4.167, ExcerptListen 30 Nov 2019
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