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The glimpse gives a man the feeling of a newness as if he were beginning a new kind of life with a new attitude and a new ethical code.
14.22.7.138Listen 1 Dec 2022We read in the Bhagavad Gita of Arjuna’s cosmic vision. He was given a glimpse of a part of the universal order, the World-Design, the World-Idea. Others who have had this glimpse saw other parts of it, such as the evolution of the centre of consciousness through the animal into the human kingdom, an evolution which is recapitulated in a very brief form by an embryo in the womb …
14.22.6.368, ExcerptListen 2 Dec 2022Life is presented to each individual in a pattern that is given by a higher power—call it karma or God, destiny or divinity. He may be able to put in the smaller details, but the larger outlines are preordained. The freedom he thinks he has is illusory. But where he does not suspect it, he does have freedom, and that is his higher self, his Overself.
6.9.4.134Listen 3 Dec 2022The intuition never needs to hunger for truth. While the intellect is seeking and starving for it, the intuition already knows and feels it.
14.22.1.42Listen 4 Dec 2022Only when he becomes entirely engrossed in the one idea, unconscious of any other idea, can he be said to have achieved concentration, the first stage.
4.4.1.227Listen 5 Dec 2022The second phase will not come into being unless he ceases to try only to think about it and starts to feel for its presence, drawing the energy down to the heart from the head, and loving the presence as soon as it is felt. He will express this love by letting his face assume a happy pleasant smile.
4.4.1.228Listen 6 Dec 2022When thought and feeling grow purer together, when knowledge and aspiration wax stronger side by side, when idea and action progress mutually, he will come to know this truth about the virtues and values of balance by his own self-experience.
13.20.3.344Listen 7 Dec 2022Jesus had a passion to urge every man to live up to his higher possibilities. The man who is living a lower level than his best is not performing his proper function in life. This attitude of Jesus was in direct contrast to the widespread fatalism of the Orientals.
6.9.4.147Listen 8 Dec 2022There is no other judge of your deeds than the law of recompense, whose agent is your own Overself.
6.9.3.575Listen 9 Dec 2022How can a man escape from the World-Mind since he is indissolubly united with it? Through the Overself he is a very part of it, his consciousness could not work without it.
16.25.1.14Listen 10 Dec 2022Once he has been able to establish himself in this inward self-isolation and to adjust himself to its entirely different level of being, he will experience delight and feel peace.
15.23.7.103Listen 11 Dec 2022A man’s whole destiny may hang upon one event, one decision, one circumstance. That single cause may be significant for all the years to follow.
6.9.3.288Listen 12 Dec 2022Such a mystical experience is not an after-effect of illness but the latter is used by the Overself to open the way for its reception in the conscious mentality. It is an uncommon experience, a visitation of the Overself, and a manifestation of its grace. Why it occurs could only be explained in terms of the theory of reincarnation.
14.22.5.94Listen 13 Dec 2022The achievement by the Long Path method is a forced one, the result of doing some exercise, working on character, following some technique. But it is all an ego-fabricated thing. The Short Path way leads to the opposite, to a new birth, a new transformed man, salvation itself. But this comes about quite naturally, without the ego’s participation, for it comes about by the Overself’s grace.
15.23.5.116Listen 14 Dec 2022What it amounts to is that the Interior Word becomes in effect the Inner Teacher and meditation itself the gateway to an inner school where instruction is regularly obtained.
14.22.2.157Listen 15 Dec 2022Moments like this have come to many men who have not recognized the preciousness, the special value, and the uncommon nature of the experience.
14.22.4.72Listen 16 Dec 2022It is not only true that there is variety in the types of illumination but also true that there is a scale of degrees in the illumination itself.
16.25.2.95Listen 17 Dec 2022He may be predestined to live in certain surroundings but the way in which he allows them to affect him is not predestined.
6.9.3.385Listen 18 Dec 2022He must look ardently forward to, and eagerly await, each time when the Overself takes over more and more.
14.22.5.63Listen 19 Dec 2022Assert the ego aggressively against others and you provoke their egos to assert themselves. Hostility breeds hostility, violence encourages the others to be violent.
5.6.5.67Listen 20 Dec 2022… Whoever, by this quest and practice, realizes the divine presence, does so not only for himself but for all others in that little part of the world confided to his care.
2.1.1.187, ExcerptListen 21 Dec 2022It is not only those who have exhausted all their limited means of attaining happiness who turn away and come to this quest: there are others whose capacity for enjoyment still remains, but having had the experience of a single “glimpse” or understood the pointers given by inspired art, they are attracted towards living on a higher plane.
2.1.2.241Listen 22 Dec 2022The divine character of his inmost being will become plain to him, and that not as a matter of wishful thinking or suggested belief but as firsthand personal experience.
13.20.1.194Listen 23 Dec 2022Whether he be a recipient of the Overself’s healing grace, or its teaching grace, or its protective grace, the source remains one and the same.
12.18.5.50Listen 24 Dec 2022The Holy Land, flowing with milk and honey, is within us but the wilderness that we have to cross before reaching it, is within us too.
2.1.5.56Listen 25 Dec 2022When spirituality shines through a man, it makes him great, even though he be bereft of talent in any other direction.
14.22.2.35Listen 26 Dec 2022We may be surprised that so many intelligent people refuse to believe in reincarnation and karma, even though they cannot explain God’s justice without them. The truth is that they are defective in intuition and dependent on intellect and emotion. But emotion and intellect alone are too limited as instruments for finding truth.
6.9.2.185Listen 27 Dec 2022There is a verse of the Koran which says: “Arise in the midst of the night and commune with thy God. Thy ego will be crushed and things will be revealed to thee thou didst not know before and thy path in life will be made smooth.”
15.23.6.75Listen 28 Dec 2022He will not escape easily from the ego. If he transfers his interests to the spiritual plane, its imagination will transfer itself there too and flatter him with psychic experiences or visions.
6.8.4.312Listen 29 Dec 2022… in the end, however much he polish and perfect the ego, it must give itself up to the Overself.
6.8.4.237, ExcerptListen 30 Dec 2022… The universal crisis is a sign that we have reached a point in the process of the ego’s development where the more violent and hence more extreme aspects of its inevitable struggles with other egos must be curbed in its own interest or self-destruction will ensue…
12.17.7.3, ExcerptListen 31 Dec 2022
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