Day by day
There is a feeling of sacredness, of holy peace at such moments, and they should be cherished for the precious moments that they are. They contain hints of the communion with the Higher Self, elements of something beyond the ordinary self, and possibilities of transcending the past with its debris of memories and mistakes.
14.22.1.143Listen 1 Feb 2018The tendencies brought over from past births, the experiences and contacts made then as well as in the present one, explain his acting as he does, and his being what he is.
6.9.2.18Listen 2 Feb 2018It is not essential to find a teacher in the flesh--he may be in print. A book may become a quite effective teacher and guide.
2.1.6.81Listen 3 Feb 2018To find the time required for meditation may call for a little planning of our time and a lot of revision of our values. But this in itself is a worthwhile self-discipline. For we rush hither and thither but have yet to ask ourselves where we are rushing to. What better use could we make of the treasure of leisure than soul-finding?
3.2.8.23Listen 4 Feb 2018An experience which is so convincing, so real, that no intellectual argument to the contrary can stand against it, is final. Let others say what they will, he remains unswayed.
14.22.3.439Listen 5 Feb 2018The concentration on that Other is to be so complete that he can echo the words of Theresa Neumann: ”I am so completely alone with the dear saviour that I could not possibly have any time to think about myself.”
4.4.1.265Listen 6 Feb 2018If, in the act of falling asleep, he invites the higher self through aspiration, he may one day find that in the act of waking up an inner voice begins to speak to him of high and holy things. And with the voice comes the inspiration, the strength, and the desire to live up to them.
15.23.6.71Listen 7 Feb 2018The ego uses all the cunning of its logical intellect and all the seduction of its pleasure-loving nature to keep a man away from the quest.
6.8.3.71Listen 8 Feb 2018On the Long Path the aspirant is likely to probe some of his shortcomings too pessimistically, to condemn himself for them, but to be blind altogether to the most serious shortcoming of all--that of clinging to the personal ego in all circumstances.
15.23.2.137Listen 9 Feb 2018He is not working for this generation, nor for this country, nor for any millenium, but for an infinite duration of time. Therefore he is, he must be, infinitely patient.
16.25.3.256Listen 10 Feb 2018… The philosopher's larger and nobler vision refuses to establish a separate group consciousness for himself and for those who think as he does. Hence he refuses to establish a new cult, a new association, or a new label. To him the oneness of mankind is a fact and not a fable…
13.20.1.18, ExcerptListen 11 Feb 2018However much he exerts his intellect he cannot reach the final revelation, the clearest enlightenment, for this is a gift of grace.
12.18.5.137Listen 12 Feb 2018Those who would assign philosophy the role of a leisurely pastime for a few people who have nothing better to do, are greatly mistaken… It can be applied to all personal and social problems without exception. It shows us how to achieve a balanced existence in an unbalanced society…
13.20.1.177, ExcerptListen 13 Feb 2018There is the personal self within me. There is the impersonal Self or Overself also within me. We can react wrongly through the ego's limited outlook--or recognize the Overself.
6.8.1.54Listen 14 Feb 2018In that universal Mind wherein he now dwells, he can find no man to be called his enemy, no man to be hated or despised. He is friendly to all men, not as a deliberately cultivated attitude but as a natural compulsion he may not resist.
16.25.2.266Listen 15 Feb 2018If he firmly plants his feet on the Short Path, if he never lets himself forget his real being is in the Overself, then he must refuse to accept a single one of those thoughts which so often trouble the traveller on the Long Path--thoughts of anxiety, frustration, or concern about his progress. He stays well above them.
15.23.1.129Listen 16 Feb 2018When his last thought at night and first thought in the morning refers to the Overself, he may appraise his progress as excellent.
4.4.6.231Listen 17 Feb 2018He can find the Overself even if he is caught up in the work of earning a livelihood. But his participation in the world's activity and pleasure will have to be a limited one. Not other men's voices but his own inner voice should say how far he should go along with the world.
15.24.3.263Listen 18 Feb 2018When the first meeting with the destined master takes place, the seeker will experience an emotion such as he has had with no other person before. The inner attraction will be immense, the feeling of fated gravity intense.
16.25.5.126Listen 19 Feb 2018Those who talk or write truth, but do not live it because they cannot, have glimpsed its meaning but not realized its power. They have not the dynamic balance which follows when the will is raised to the level of the intellect and the feelings. It is this balance which spontaneously ignites mystic forces within us, and produces the state called born again. This is the second birth, which takes place in our consciousness as our first took place in our flesh.
13.20.3.385Listen 20 Feb 2018The personality is rooted in the Overself. Hence its own power and movement do reflect, albeit minutely, slightly, and distortedly, some of the Overself's own attributes.
6.8.1.139Listen 21 Feb 2018”I, the Homeless, have My home in each person's heart.” This is what the Great Silence told me.
15.24.4.159Listen 22 Feb 2018While he is on the Long Path, his efforts are given to improving the ego and purifying his nature, whereas on the Short one they are given to forgetting the ego and looking beyond his nature.
15.23.5.38Listen 23 Feb 2018We are seldom fair to fate. When events do not happen in the way we would like them to, we refuse to accept the idea that it is our own fault, so we blame our harsh fate. But when they do happen favourably, we personally take the credit for bringing them about.
6.9.3.70Listen 24 Feb 2018The wonderful effect of profound sleep is not only the recovery of the physical body's energy but much more the man's return to himself, his spiritual self, the pure universal consciousness. Note that all this happens without any effort on his part, without any use of the personal will. It is all done to him. Grace acts in the same way.
12.18.5.299Listen 25 Feb 2018He can use books as a preliminary guide to working on himself. The study and observation of his conduct, the analysis of his past and present experiences in the light of his highest aspirations, the attempt to be impartially aware of himself in various situations, will open the way to more direct guidance through intuitions from his higher self.
4.4.7.15Listen 26 Feb 2018Think more deeply than the conventional mass of guru-followers dare to do and you will come to perceive that in the end there is only one Teacher for each man, his own Overself…Why not go direct to the source?
2.1.6.821, ExcerptListen 27 Feb 2018The ego is the centre of conflicts which lead to sorrow. There is no way of liberating ourselves from the latter without prior liberation from the former.
6.8.4.46Listen 28 Feb 2018
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