Day by day
That out of which we draw our life and intelligence is unique and indestructible, beginningless and infinite.
14.22.3.193Listen 1 Dec 2021It is an entity greater, nobler, wiser, and stronger than himself yet mysteriously and inseparably linked to himself; it is indeed his super-self.
14.22.3.357Listen 2 Dec 2021Since the gift of creativity belongs to all of us and is usable in all spheres of a man's life, he can do much to mold that life if he exerts strength and holds to determination.
6.9.4.121Listen 3 Dec 2021There are leisure moments or unoccupied minutes during the day which could profitably be used for The Overself Remembrance exercise.
15.23.6.180Listen 4 Dec 2021To obtain something they greatly desire, men will arouse their will and apply it strongly. Only when sufficient experience of life matures them sufficiently are they likely to arouse and apply this same will to the Quest itself.
2.1.2.65Listen 5 Dec 2021To yearn only at times for this spiritual awakeness is not enough. He must yearn for it continually.
12.18.1.59Listen 6 Dec 2021He who develops along these lines through the creative power of meditation, will eventually find that his instinct will spontaneously reject the promptings of his lower self and immediately accept the intuitions of his higher self.
4.4.4.210Listen 7 Dec 2021… should we not seek out the lesson behind what is sent us and thus be able to co-operate intelligently with it? Then the Overself’s will truly becomes our own …
12.18.4.74, ExcerptListen 8 Dec 2021… if he has no personal guide to accompany him, the Higher Self is still there, within him, pulling, drawing, leading, or pointing, if only he can learn how to recognize it.
2.1.3.78, ExcerptListen 9 Dec 2021Each universe, however vast, is finite. But the possible number of universes is not. The Infinite Being, by some strange necessity (from the human standpoint, contemplating a fathomless mystery), forever sponsors fresh universes as old ones decay and disappear. In this way It seems (again from the human standpoint), by giving expression to an infinite number of universes, to be expressing Its own infinite nature.
16.26.1.240Listen 10 Dec 2021As he approaches nearer to awareness of the Overself, he approaches nearer to a cloistral inward stillness.
14.22.6.213Listen 11 Dec 2021In praying, the aspirant should direct his prayer to the only God he can know, that is, the God-Principle within himself—his own Divine Soul.
12.18.2.202Listen 12 Dec 2021As his mind becomes purer and his emotions come under control, his thoughts become clearer and his instincts truer. As he learns to live more and more in harmony with his higher Self, his body’s natural intuition becomes active of itself. The result is that false desires and unnatural instincts … will become weaker and weaker and fall away entirely in time …
4.5.3.143, ExcerptListen 13 Dec 2021The pushing aggressive will of the personal ego is to be replaced by the passive surrendered will of the overruled ego.
6.8.4.251Listen 14 Dec 2021… meditation is essential in order to develop sensitivity and intuition, which play important roles on this Quest.
4.4.1.35Listen 15 Dec 2021There, within and yet behind his personal consciousness, is this other sphere of his own being into which he must one day be re-born …
14.22.3.377, ExcerptListen 16 Dec 2021All physical techniques have an indirect helpfulness but their value should not be overrated, as the advocates and teachers of these techniques almost always do. They misplace their emphasis on the body and on the tricks it is able to perform. Only one detail of the human organism deserves their greater emphasis and that is intuition.
4.5.5.61Listen 17 Dec 2021It is one sign of coming Grace when he begins to despise himself for his weaknesses, when he begins to criticize his lower nature to the point of hating it.
12.18.5.287Listen 18 Dec 2021If there is any future for a teaching it belongs to the present one. It does not have to stand on the defensive just as it does not have to use loud-speaking propagandists. Its existence is justified by humanity’s essential need of knowing what it is, what the world is, and what to make of its own life …
13.20.2.146, ExcerptListen 19 Dec 2021The world crisis has not only made it possible for these ideas to penetrate minds which were formerly indifferent towards them, but also to show their immense value when practically and personally applied.
9.13.4.288Listen 20 Dec 2021The “The As If I am enlightened” attitude pays well, provided it is maintained rigidly after having been assumed.
15.23.6.148Listen 21 Dec 2021The Glimpses are not completely uniform in their details. In each one there is different emphasis on a particular aspect, such as its Beauty, Power, Impersonality, or Emptiness.
14.22.6.160Listen 22 Dec 2021Those who prefer their own ego’s opinion to the Overself’s impersonal intuitions, remain in the ego’s darkness.
2.1.1.142Listen 23 Dec 2021Every philosophic aspirant should devote a little time to prefacing meditations or studies with a worshipful, devoted, and reverent supplication of the higher self for enlightenment.
12.18.2.184Listen 24 Dec 2021It was not Christ’s death that brought his grace into the human world, but his life.
12.18.5.55Listen 25 Dec 2021These noble feelings, these lofty thoughts, these grand intuitions are welcome testimonies of the change that is happening …
3.3.4.135, ExcerptListen 26 Dec 2021His personal duty is to grow spiritually all he can as quickly as possible. He must concentrate on himself, but always keep at the back of his mind the idea that one day he will be fit to serve others and do something for them too. Spiritual growth entails meditation practices kept up as regularly as possible, metaphysical study, cultivation of intuition, and a kindling of an ever increasing love for the divine soul, the true “I.” It is this soul which is the ray of God reflected in him …
3.2.5.61, ExcerptListen 27 Dec 2021He has enough to do with the discovery and correction of his own deficiencies or weaknesses, not to meddle in criticism of other people’s.
2.1.5.50Listen 28 Dec 2021… in The Spiritual Crisis of Man I tried to tell what could be done to get more out of a glimpse and mentioned recapturing the memory of it as part of an exercise. It ought to be added that the best time to do such an exercise is before falling asleep at night and on waking up in the morning. It is then easier to recapture such a memory.
14.22.5.53, ExcerptListen 29 Dec 2021For when awareness is retracted into its source, all thoughts fall away and no second thing other than Mind itself is known to us.
15.23.8.139Listen 30 Dec 2021He is situated in measurable time and in massed form, yet is trying to understand, reach, and identify that which is timeless and formless. How can it be done unless the seeking self is transformed …?
3.2.4.38, ExcerptListen 31 Dec 2021
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