Day by day
Many aspirants wrongly believe the quest to be a movement from one psychic experience to another or from one mystical ecstasy to another. But in fact it is a movement in character from animality to purity, from egoism to impersonality.
2.1.1.31Listen 1 Feb 2014... The difference between a mere impulse and a real intuition may often be detected in two ways: first, by waiting a few days, as the subconscious mind has then a chance to offer help in deciding the matter; second, by noting the kind of emotion which accompanies the message. If the emotion is of the lower kind, such as anger, indignation, greed, or lust, it is most likely an impulse. If of the higher kind, such as unselfishness or forgiveness, it is most likely an intuition.
14.22.1.198, ExcerptListen 2 Feb 2014How trifling all his earthly successes must seem to a dying man! Such is the state of mind which may be called inner detachment and which the aspirant needs to cultivate.
15.24.3.5Listen 3 Feb 2014Perhaps one day some bright mind will write a book entitled Inspired Egoism to bring people into the understanding that the ego too has its place in the scheme of things. It is the little circle within the larger one of the Overself, and if it remains conscious of its true relationship to the Overself, it may still rest there and carry on with its functions.
6.8.1.198Listen 4 Feb 2014While a man's mind is full of himself, he shuts out the influx of the Overself. This remains just as true of meditation times as of ordinary times. He must empty out all these earthly interests, all these personal concerns, and even, in the end, all these egoistic spiritual aspirations by transferring his attention to that which is beyond the ego. He must think only of the Overself--of its nature and attributes, of its tokens and signs of presence, of its reality and eternity.
15.23.1.53Listen 5 Feb 2014There is more within him of the good than a man suspects, even though experience may make him believe otherwise. But it lies in a deeper layer, hence it needs a longer time to bring it up.
14.22.3.268Listen 6 Feb 2014It is objected, why search at all if one really is the Overself? Yes, there comes a time when the deliberate purposeful search for the Overself has to be abandoned for this reason. Paradoxically, it is given up many times, whenever he has a Glimpse, for at such moments he knows that he always was, is, and will be the Real, that there is nothing new to be gained or searched for…
15.23.6.110, ExcerptListen 7 Feb 2014There is hope if only he is determined to wake up and begin afresh, to supplant negatives with positives, and to give more of himself to the Short Path.
15.23.1.44Listen 8 Feb 2014The fact that after awaking the mind picks up the thoughts of the day before, that the individuality connects with the old individuality of pre-sleep, proves the continuity of existence of a part of Self both during sleep as during waking.
14.22.3.395Listen 9 Feb 2014A boundless faith in the Overself's power to assist him must be the possession of a Short Path votary--that is, faith in both the existence and the efficacy of its Grace.
15.23.1.121Listen 10 Feb 2014Frankly, and without shame, he will acknowledge the animal within him. He knows its place in the long growth which he underwent through many an earth-birth. It served its purpose. But a higher purpose has now shown itself and must in its turn be fulfilled. The half-human must next become the fully human. For this, the control of self must be learnt, hard though it be.
3.2.4.71Listen 11 Feb 2014If we do not tell others that the truth exists, how will anyone ever know about it?
12.17.6.125, ExcerptListen 12 Feb 2014He who has had the good fortune to have a loving companion in marriage should not rail at Destiny when this helpmate is taken away. The same karma which brought the two together has also severed the relationship. But this is only temporary. There is really no loss, as mind speaks to mind in silent moments. Love and companionship of high quality will act as an attractive force to bring them together again somewhere, sometime. Many feel this in the inner understanding.
6.9.1.141Listen 13 Feb 2014This last stage, contemplation, is neither deep reflective thinking nor self-hypnotic trance. It is intense awareness, without the intrusion of the little ego or the large world.
15.23.7.46Listen 14 Feb 2014The method of this exercise is to maintain uninterruptedly and unbrokenly the remembrance of the soul's nearness, the soul's reality, the soul's transcendence. The goal of this exercise is to become wholly possessed by the soul itself.
15.23.6.213Listen 15 Feb 2014As the inner peace advances, the outer problems recede…
15.24.2.131, ExcerptListen 16 Feb 2014Stick to the remembrance of the Overself with dogged persistence wherever you are and whatever you are doing. This is one of the easiest, the simplest, and the safest of all yoga paths to reach the goal effectively…
15.23.6.216, ExcerptListen 17 Feb 2014Once ”tuned in,” the longer you can stay with the Overself, the greater the depth penetrated; and this in turn means the more general benefit will be gained, the more creativity will be possible in ideas, in arts, and in intuitions.
14.22.2.20Listen 18 Feb 2014To be initiated into The Mysteries is to be introduced to the revelation of Mentalism, to what it means and to what startling consequences it leads; it is to discover that life, after all, no matter how thrilling, is like a dream passing in the night. But even the uninitiated are not allowed to stay in perpetual ignorance. For the tremendous event of leaving the body at death is attended by the enforced learning of this lesson, however much a man clings to his memories of this world.
13.21.4.24Listen 19 Feb 2014Reject every negative thought with implacable rigour--this is one of the important practical deductions of the Short Path.
15.23.1.113Listen 20 Feb 2014The desire to get at the soul must become so predominant and so anxious that a continuous tension is created within him.
3.2.9.24Listen 21 Feb 2014You may certainly hope for success when the whole trend of your thinking and the whole trend of your action is strongly directed to this single purpose only, when you have resolutely subordinated personal feelings and temperamental predilections to the solution of the problem of truth.
3.2.2.63Listen 22 Feb 2014Although awareness is the first way in which we can regard the soul or Overself, the latter is also that which makes awareness possible…
14.22.3.186, ExcerptListen 23 Feb 2014How shall he know and understand that this very awareness, of which so small is the fragment that he experiences, is a limited and conditioned part of the Great Awareness itself, of God?
14.22.3.375Listen 24 Feb 2014... The practice of meditation is simply the deepening, broadening, and strengthening of intuition. A mystical experience is simply a prolonged intuition.
14.22.1.282, ExcerptListen 25 Feb 2014It is the disentanglement of consciousness from its own projections, its thoughts of every kind, which is the final and first work of a would-be philosopher. Consciousness is then in its pure unconditioned being.
15.23.7.181Listen 26 Feb 2014... The world comes before the waking dreamer just as it comes before the sleeping dreamer, only it comes more coherently and consistently and logically...
13.21.3.29, ExcerptListen 27 Feb 2014Only by a personal discovery of the soul, and consequently only by going inside himself to discover it, can a man know himself.
15.23.6.23Listen 28 Feb 2014
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