Day by day
He has tried to manage his life by himself through all these years, but the results have been too deplorable too frequently. Is it not time to let the Overself take over?
12.18.4.31Listen 1 Feb 2016Those who are unable or unwilling to destroy the ego's rule from within must suffer its destruction from without. But whereas the first way brings emotional suffering and mental perturbation, the second brings that along with troubles, disappointments, sicknesses, and blows in addition.
6.8.4.216Listen 2 Feb 2016... What happens when he is embraced by deep dreamless sleep? The answer is that he has been taken to the source of his being for renewal of his forces physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. That which took him there is Grace.
13.19.3.94, ExcerptListen 3 Feb 2016It is the topic most worth writing about yet least understood. Whoever has entered into a partial understanding--it would be too much to demand more--of it, bears some responsibility. He must communicate with his fellows.
16.28.2.60Listen 4 Feb 2016Better than being born to wealthy parents is being born to wise ones, for then the child will not only be taught spiritual values but will see them demonstrated before his eyes.
6.9.2.9Listen 5 Feb 2016Have faith in your inner promptings and accept their guidance. When you are uncertain about them, wait and they will gradually clarify themselves.
14.22.1.114Listen 6 Feb 2016It is habitual, hence called natural, for present-day humanity to go along with the mental flow to outside things. Meditation reverses this direction and tries to bring the little mind back to its origin--Mind.
4.4.0.2Listen 7 Feb 2016... It is as though the gods like to play with him for a while to try his patience and endurance, just to see how keenly he wants this attainment. If he gives up at the first few hindrances or rebuffs, it means that he is not so very keen after all; but if he can endure and keep on, and keep on, and still keep on, no matter what happens, well then, the gods say, here is someone who really wants truth, so we must give it to him. That is the attitude which he must develop...
2.1.2.503, ExcerptListen 8 Feb 2016The noblest calling in life and the most useful vocation is philosophical teaching.
13.20.4.278Listen 9 Feb 2016One important reason why the great spiritual teachers have always enjoined upon their disciples the need of surrendering the ego, of giving up the self, is that when the mind is continually preoccupied with its own personal affairs, it sets up a narrow limitation upon its own possibilities. It cannot reach to the impersonal truth, which is so different and so distant from the topics that it thinks about day after day, year after year. Only by breaking through its self-imposed pettiness can the human mind enter into the perception of the Infinite, of the divine soul that is its innermost being.
6.8.4.2Listen 10 Feb 2016Nothing could be nearer to a man than the Overself for it is the source of his life, mind, and feeling. Nothing could be farther from him, nevertheless, for it eludes all his familiar instruments of experience and awareness.
14.22.3.184Listen 11 Feb 2016Living in the world as we are, having to submit to demands which the world makes upon us, we must learn how to deal with them in a correct way. By correct I mean in harmony with our inner goal.
9.13.2.168Listen 12 Feb 2016... Two loving friends are near each other even though their bodies are in separate continents; two hating enemies are far from each other even though their bodies are in the same room...
6.9.2.47, ExcerptListen 13 Feb 2016During such unforgettable moments the Soul will speak plainly, if silently, to him. It may tell him about his true relationship to the universe and to his fellow creatures. It will certainly tell him about Itself. It may separate him from his body and let him gaze down upon it as from a height, long enough to permit him to comprehend that the flesh is quite the poorest and least significant part of him. And perhaps best of all it will certainly fill him with the assurance that after his return to the world of lonely struggle and quick forgetfulness, It will still remain beside and behind him.
14.22.6.304Listen 14 Feb 2016The Overself--when you are fortunate enough to find it--will provide for and protect you, comfort and support you.
12.18.4.162Listen 15 Feb 2016Of all the day's activities, this non-activity, this retreat into meditation, must become the principal one. It ought to be the centre, with all the others circling round it.
4.4.1.1Listen 16 Feb 2016It is of immense importance, whether in the internal spiritual life or the external worldly career, to cultivate the art of detecting, recognizing, and accepting opportunity... To miss those chances through ignorance or the blindness of unpreparedness, through logic's limitation or the dismissing of intuition, is to miss portions of success or happiness that could easily have been ours.
9.13.2.194, ExcerptListen 17 Feb 2016The mental tendencies which he has brought over from previous births, the effects of physical heredity and environment, the influence of society, and the suggestions of education--all of these have to be disciplined and purified, if he is to acquire truth without unconsciously deforming it.
13.20.3.128Listen 18 Feb 2016Coming down here into the body of flesh and blood is our confusion. Experiencing the sufferings and distresses which we do is our fate. The satisfactions are there also, yes, and induce us to cling to life and return anew after each reincarnation. We need always remember that all this experience which a human undergoes is relative to time and place and must pass on and away. To what? To that higher order of the universe where we are with God as higher creatures.
13.19.2.55Listen 19 Feb 2016What we were in the past is not important. What we are now is important. What we intend to make of ourselves in the future is vitally important.
6.9.2.57Listen 20 Feb 2016Because he has worked for his prize, because he has undergone a patient and arduous training, and because he has taken every step on the way with full comprehension and clear sight, his inspiration is not here today and gone tomorrow but, when he acquires it, remains constant and is permanently kept.
13.20.4.199Listen 21 Feb 2016When he looks back upon the long series of earth lives which belongs to his past, he is struck afresh by the supreme wisdom of Nature and by the supreme necessity of this principle of recurring embodiment. If there had been only one single continuous earth life, his progress would have been brought to an end, he would have been cluttered up by his own past, and he could not have advanced in new directions... Without these breaks in his life-sequences, without the advantages of fresh surroundings, different circumstances, and new contacts, he could not have lifted himself to ever higher levels, but would only have stagnated or fallen to lower ones.
6.9.2.160, ExcerptListen 22 Feb 2016Every man who passes through this experience and holds its memory, verifies for himself that there is an Infinite Life-Power pervading the entire universe--also that it is ever present, perfectly wise, and all-knowing. Its point of contact with him is his Overself.
14.22.6.302Listen 23 Feb 2016... Meditation is essential for every man because without it he lives at too great a radius from his divine centre to understand the best thing which life can offer him...
4.4.1.2, ExcerptListen 24 Feb 2016If he accepts the hand of opportunity when it is offered him, the effects will be favourable in every direction. If he feels the premonition that he is on the verge of a new cycle, and makes decisions or acts accordingly, the way into it will open out for him.
9.13.2.199Listen 25 Feb 2016The adept not only knows when asleep that his dream-world is only mental, but he also knows when awake that his wakeful-world is also mental.
13.19.3.43Listen 26 Feb 2016The intuition should give orders which the intellect should carry out. The reasoning and practicality needed to do so and to attend to their details will then be provided by the intellect itself. But the original function of giving direction and the authority of giving command will be vested in the intuition alone.
14.22.1.55Listen 27 Feb 2016Life is not trying to make people either happy or unhappy. It is trying to make them understand. Their happiness or unhappiness come as by-products of their success or failure in understanding.
6.9.3.260Listen 28 Feb 2016How little do we know that some small act, some minor move, may lead to consequences that open up an entirely new phase of experience.
9.13.2.202Listen 29 Feb 2016
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