Day by day
So long as man does not know the most important part of himself and the best part of his possessions, so long will he remain the blind creator of his own miseries and the duped plaything of his own trivialities.
2.1.1.140Listen 1 Feb 2022There is a strikingly parallel thought in the Bhagavad Gita which confirms the New Testament’s injunction, “Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all these things shall be added unto you.” In the Indian scripture, Krishna, the Indian Christ, enjoins his disciple Arjuna: “Whoever worships Me and Me alone with no other thought than the worship of Me, the care of his welfare I shall take upon myself.”
12.18.4.156Listen 2 Feb 2022The essence of countless experiences and states through which he has passed is here and now with him as the degree of character, intelligence, and power which he possesses.
6.9.2.64Listen 3 Feb 2022Do not lament the difficulty of bringing about this basic change in thinking. The Overself is there. Believe in it.
15.23.5.212Listen 4 Feb 2022If he refrains from the final mergence into Nirvana, it is not only because he wants to be available for the enlightenment of his more hapless fellows, but also because he knows that he has really been in Nirvana from the beginning and has never left it.
16.25.4.3Listen 5 Feb 2022He is indeed free who, unpossessed by his own possessions, unswayed by his own family, undeflected by his own desires, remains ever loyal to the quest.
2.1.2.508Listen 6 Feb 2022If the Overself did not lead him into and through the final dark night, where he becomes as helpless as an infant, as bereft of interior personal possessions as a destitute pauper, how else would he learn that it is not by his own powers and capacities that he can rise at last into enduring illumination?
15.23.3.54Listen 7 Feb 2022Body purification and strengthening are prerequisites and preparations for spiritual awakening and development …
4.5.5.74, ExcerptListen 8 Feb 2022We cannot ever know the Divine which is Transcendent but we can acknowledge that it IS. We may however know the Divine which is Immanent, recognize, perceive, and feel its presence.
16.25.1.120Listen 9 Feb 2022… The forgiveness of sins is a fact. Those who deny this deny their own experience. Can they separate from the moon its light? Then how can they separate forgiveness from love…?
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 10 Feb 2022The As If exercise: It is as if the Overself were hypnotizing him out of his lower nature.
15.23.6.124Listen 11 Feb 2022The ego to which he is so attached turns out on enquiry to be none other than the presence of World-Mind within his own heart. If identification is then shifted by constant practice from one to the other, he has achieved the purpose of life.
6.8.1.127Listen 12 Feb 2022… towards the final stages of the path, they discover him entirely within themselves as the infinite reality, not disparate from themselves, and the sense of duality begins to disappear. Later they merge in him and “I and my Father are one may then be truly uttered.
16.25.5.275, ExcerptListen 13 Feb 2022The affirmations divide themselves naturally into two main groups: those belonging to the Long Path and those to the Short Path. Of the first kind, there is Coué's famous suggestion: “Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better.” Of the second kind there is Jesus’ figurative statement: “I and my Father are one.”
4.4.6.101Listen 14 Feb 2022The glimpse shows up something of his higher identity …
14.22.6.56, ExcerptListen 15 Feb 2022The Westerner must learn to end this endless restlessness, this daily impatience to be doing something, must practise faithfully and regularly “waiting on the Lord,” or meditation. Thus he will come less and less to rely on his own little resources, more and more on the Lord’s—that is, on his Overself’s—infinite wisdom, power, and grace.
4.4.1.55Listen 16 Feb 2022The importance of this work is ignored by most people and unknown to many people … But if they could understand that it penetrates to the foundations of human living and affects the settlement of human problems, they might be less arrogant in their attitude towards it ...
2.1.1.184, ExcerptListen 17 Feb 2022They would like the change to take place dramatically, in a moment of time. “The wind bloweth where it listeth,” said Jesus, and Grace comes here or there at an unpredictable hour.
15.23.4.92Listen 18 Feb 2022The cosmos is neither a phantom to be disdained nor an illusion to be dismissed. It is a remote expression in time and space and individuality of that which is timeless spaceless and infinite. If it is not the Reality in its ultimate sense, it is an emanation of the Reality. Hence it shares in some way the life of its source. To find that point of sharing is the true object of incarnation for all creatures within the cosmos.
16.26.1.179Listen 19 Feb 2022He excuses his weaknesses by complaining against nature, which has provided him with instincts and passions leading to them. But that which he calls nature is really the inheritance of his own tendencies from former lives.
6.9.2.19Listen 20 Feb 2022What is ordinarily known during deep sleep is the veil of ignorance which covers the Real … The sage, however, carries into sleep the awareness he had in wakefulness. He may let it dim down to a glimmer, but it is always there.
16.25.2.180, ExcerptListen 21 Feb 2022It may not be an axiom in many teachings, but it is in philosophy: to purify emotion, to refine feeling, to control attitude, and to uplift mood by accepting help from art and nature are spiritual exercises.
3.2.5.46Listen 22 Feb 2022With the withdrawal from all outward-directed attachments, he becomes aware of his own inner self. With the awareness of his own real Self, all outgoing attachments drop away from him. Thus by whichever of these two paths he approaches the goal, it merges in the end with the other one.
15.23.5.215Listen 23 Feb 2022The principle of consciousness in every human being is indeed the same thing as his spiritual consciousness and not a second thing, but he interposes so many clouds of thoughts, sensations, emotions, and passions into it that he seldom comes to this knowledge …
13.19.3.11, ExcerptListen 24 Feb 2022When the flowing stream of thoughts is brought to an end at last, there is indescribable satisfaction.
15.23.7.118Listen 25 Feb 2022Even if it happens only once or twice in a lifetime, such a glimpse acts as a catalyst which pushes the man into making changes.
14.22.7.123Listen 26 Feb 2022The more he practises at such times a thinking that is sense-free and beyond the physical — that is, metaphysical in the truest sense — the better will he be prepared to receive the intuitive influx from the Overself.
4.4.4.58Listen 27 Feb 2022”As If” exercise. He must sink himself in the imagined character of the ideal with intense feeling until he becomes the image itself.
15.23.6.117Listen 28 Feb 2022
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