Day by day
He is to remind himself constantly of the greater truths, whether he is at home in his room or abroad in the public places. Be still and know that I am infinite power is one such truth. Be still and know that I am infinite joy is another.
4.4.6.150Listen 1 Dec 2017The sage seeks to descend and meet a man at his own level, and then try to lift him just a little higher…
12.17.6.128, ExcerptListen 2 Dec 2017The man who has studied these teachings does not believe that death can bring him to an end even though it must bring his body to an end. It is both a logical and biological truth for him that his inner personality will survive, his mind will continue its existence.
6.9.1.185Listen 3 Dec 2017… Man’s story is a serial one. It proceeds through body after body, birth after birth. But the fact is that once he really absorbs the spirit of this quest he will be unable to desert it for more than an interval, even should he wish to. He will be inexorably driven back to it by mysterious forces within his own psyche…
3.2.3.25, ExcerptListen 4 Dec 2017Our source is in the Overself; our growth is but a return to it, made fully conscious as we were not before.
16.26.4.265Listen 5 Dec 2017To surrender the ego is to surrender the thought of it, and this is done by stilling the mind whenever, in daily life, one becomes self-conscious. This silenced, ego vanishes… This art of effacing the ego by stilling the mind, by suddenly stopping its whirling flood of thoughts, could not be practised at will and at any time if one had not practised it previously and frequently in deliberate exercises at set times…
6.8.4.151, ExcerptListen 6 Dec 2017If a life of inward beauty and emotional serenity appeals to a man, he is ready for philosophy.
13.20.2.130Listen 7 Dec 2017He who wants to co-operate with the World-Idea, which is inherent in all things, all beings, all the universe, to live in harmony with it and with his fellow-creatures, will be attracted to this quest sooner or later.
2.1.2.118Listen 8 Dec 2017It is perhaps the amplitude and symmetry of the philosophic approach which make it so completely satisfying. For this is the only approach which honours reason and appreciates beauty, cultivates intuition and respects mystical experience, fosters reverence and teaches true prayer, enjoins action and promotes morality. It is the spiritual life fully grown.
13.20.1.22Listen 9 Dec 2017… This earth exists to enable man to progress from lower to higher levels…
9.13.4.92, ExcerptListen 10 Dec 2017When a man enters this phase, he begins to feel a great weariness with life. He loses his interest in many things which may have absorbed him before… When this fatigue with all existence descends upon him, then he will be more ready and more willing to lose the personal ego in the universal ocean of being.
3.3.5.31, ExcerptListen 11 Dec 2017… It is not enough to have had a mystical experience. The prodigal has still not returned to his father's home, but only seen it through the haze for a few moments and from afar off.
8.12.3.33, ExcerptListen 12 Dec 2017A feeling of lightness and freedom, of songlike well-being and perfect harmony, comes with this disidentification from the body.
14.22.6.113Listen 13 Dec 2017Little by little, at a pace so slow that the movement is hardly noticeable, his mind will give entrance to thoughts that seem to come creeping from some source other than itself, for they are thoughts irrelevant to his reasonings and inconsistent with his convictions. They are indeed intuitions. If he submits to their leading, if he surrenders his faith to them, if he drops his blind resistances, all will be well with him. He will be guided out of darkness into light, out of materiality into spirituality, out of black despair into sublime hope.
3.2.9.52Listen 14 Dec 2017The emphasis upon mystical insight, the respect for spiritual illumination, the desire to be a personal witness for the presence of God--these are present-day signs of religious deepening.
12.17.7.10Listen 15 Dec 2017It is because God is hidden in all creatures that all creatures are searching all the time for God. This remains just as true even though in their ignorance they usually mistake the object of their search and believe that it is something else. Only on the quest does this search attain self-consciousness.
2.1.2.462Listen 16 Dec 2017Attention is forever being caught by some thought or some thing, by some feeling or some experience. In the case of the ordinary man, consciousness is lost in the attention; but in the case of the philosophic man there is a background which evaluates the attention and controls it.
13.20.5.81Listen 17 Dec 2017When the ego sees a danger to its own continued existence in any proposed move or decision, it creates fears, invents false hopes, and exaggerates difficulties in order to prevent it.
6.8.3.108Listen 18 Dec 2017The truths which were known by Lao Tzu, Buddha, and Jesus are still valid in the conditions of today--which are so different--otherwise they would not be true. But the form of expressing them may well be different.
13.20.2.99Listen 19 Dec 2017The periodic return to earth-life was a belief shared by poets like Goethe, Shelley, and Browning, by thinkers like Plato, Schopenhauer, and Swedenborg.
6.9.2.205Listen 20 Dec 2017… Just as the visible sun is essential to human bodily life and existence, so the invisible sun of consciousness is essential to its mental, emotional, and spiritual life. It is our Overself and God: give it homage.
3.3.7.78, ExcerptListen 21 Dec 2017The last war marked a turning point in mankind's history. Out of its pain and horror something better both materially and spiritually is going to be born, and it is our task to help this coming age as pioneers…
8.12.5.193, ExcerptListen 22 Dec 2017So long as the little self feels itself wise enough to make all its decisions and solve all its problems, so long will there be a barrier between it and the Higher Power.
6.8.4.28Listen 23 Dec 2017Yes, let it be admitted that man moves and acts with an animal body but let it not be forgotten that he thinks with a human brain and feels with a heart capable of responding to calls for charity. More, there is something in him which aspires to spirituality.
16.26.4.36Listen 24 Dec 2017The more he becomes conscious of that thing in himself which links him with the World-Mind, the more he becomes conscious of a higher power back of the world's life, a supreme intelligence back of the world's destiny. It is consequently back of his personal destiny, too, and bringing him what he really needs to fulfil the true purpose of his earthly existence. With this realization he becomes content to surrender it to God's will, to abandon all anxiety for the future, all brooding over the past, all agitation over the present.
12.18.4.95Listen 25 Dec 2017The loving, adoring recollection of the Overself, the constant return to memory of it amid the world's distractions, the reiteration of this divine thought as a permanent background to all other thinking, is itself a yoga path. Indeed it is the same as that taught by Saint Paul when he wrote, ”Pray without ceasing” and ”Bring every thought into captivity to Jesus Christ.”
15.23.6.237Listen 26 Dec 2017When the ego's total submission is rewarded by the Overself's holy Grace, he is granted pardon for the blackest past and his sins are truly forgiven him.
12.18.5.79Listen 27 Dec 2017All that he knows and experiences are things in this world of the five senses. The Overself is not within their sphere of operation and therefore not to be known and experienced in the same way…
14.22.3.221, ExcerptListen 28 Dec 2017Grace flows from such a man, a Sage, as light flows from the sun…
16.25.4.267, ExcerptListen 29 Dec 2017When the divinity in his own self is found at last, he will afterwards find its light reflected upon every other man and woman he encounters.
14.22.3.43Listen 30 Dec 2017A sense of being lifted up from all worldly cares will pervade him for some time as an afterglow of this experience. The gracious feeling swims away again and leaves him not forlorn but forsworn. He will never again be alone. The remembrance of what happened is by itself enough to be company for him the rest of his life.
14.22.7.63Listen 31 Dec 2017
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