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Enfolded by that inner strength, one ceases to fear, to be anxious, or to dread the future.
14.22.3.158Listen 1 Feb 2012The divine part of our being is always there; why then is it not available to us? We have to practise making ourselves available to It. We have to pause, listen inwardly, feel for Its blessed presence. For this purpose meditation is a valuable help, a real need.
3.3.1.124Listen 2 Feb 2012What he takes to be his true identity is only a dream that separates him from it. He has become a curious creature which eagerly accepts the confining darkness of the ego's life and turns its back on the blazing light of the soul's life.
6.8.1.10Listen 3 Feb 2012Fix the attention undividedly upon the Overself which is anchored in your heart-centre. Then everything you do during the day will naturally be divinely inspired action and true service. The Overself is your true source of power: turn towards it and receive its constructive guidance for your task of daily living.
15.23.6.165Listen 4 Feb 2012The test will come with every major crisis, every minor ordeal. If his inner work has been well done he will be surprised at the calmness with which he meets and passes the event, astonished at his strength.
3.2.3.97Listen 5 Feb 2012... The cosmos may be annihilated or disintegrate completely but the creative idea of it will still live on in the World-Mind. More, in the same way a man's body may die and disintegrate, but the creative idea of him will still remain in the World-Mind as his Soul. It will not die. It's his real Self, his perfect Self. It is the true Idea of him which is forever calling to be realized. It is the unmanifest image of God in which man is made and which he has yet to bring into manifestation in his everyday consciousness.
16.26.4.63, ExcerptListen 6 Feb 2012The Overself is always present but man's attention seldom is.
14.22.3.16Listen 7 Feb 2012These glimpses are only occasional. They take us unawares and depart from us unexpectedly. But the joy they bring with them, the insight they bestow, make us yearn for a permanent and unbroken attainment of the state they tell us about.
14.22.7.244Listen 8 Feb 2012In this deep stillness wherein every trace of the personal self dissolves, there is the true crucifixion of the ego. This is the real meaning of the crucifixion, as it was undergone in the ancient Mystery Temple initiations and as it was undergone by Jesus. The death implied is mental, not physical.
15.24.4.39Listen 9 Feb 2012If a situation is fraught with anxiety and is also either unavoidable or unalterable, the first procedure is to organize all your forces to meet it calmly. The second is to call on the higher power for help by turning to it in relaxation and meditation.
9.13.2.214Listen 10 Feb 2012The blood and violence, the fear and suffering associated with the production of meat, should be enough to make kindhearted, sensitive people shun it.
5.6.5.78Listen 11 Feb 2012If he will try to perceive the mind by which he perceives the world, he will be practising the shortest, most direct technique of discovering the Overself. This is what Ramana Maharshi meant when he taught, “Trace the I to its source.”
14.22.5.6Listen 12 Feb 2012In the profoundest state of contemplation, the thinking faculty may be entirely suspended. But awareness will not be suspended. Instead of being aware of the unending procession of varied images and emotions, there will be a single joyous serene and exalted consciousness of the true thought-transcending self.
15.23.7.18Listen 13 Feb 2012Here on the quest, it is not only possible for him to meet the profoundest thoughts of the human mind but also its highest experiences.
2.1.5.378Listen 14 Feb 2012Just as the ancient pagan Mysteries required some amount of preparation and some form of purification before candidates were admitted, so the Short Path ordinarily requires some Long Path work as a prerequisite. But not always and not now.
15.23.1.138Listen 15 Feb 2012... In times of actual danger, the calm remembrance of the Overself will help to protect him.
3.2.3.131, ExcerptListen 16 Feb 2012The Overself remains always the same and never changes in any way. It is the hunger for this quality, thought of as “peace of mind,” which drives men to seek the Overself amid the vicissitudes of health or fortune which they experience.
15.24.4.123Listen 17 Feb 2012What it is necessary for him to do is really to surrender his fears and anxieties, whether concerning himself or those near and dear to him, or those who, he thinks, want to hurt him. He should surrender all these to God and be himself rid of them. For this is what giving up the ego truly means. He would then have no need to entertain such negative thoughts. They would be replaced by a strong faith that all would be well with him. To the extent that he can give up the little ego with its desires and fears, to that extent he invites and attracts divine help in his life.
12.18.4.129Listen 18 Feb 2012The Long Path meditates on the ego, the Short Path on the Overself. This is the basic difference between them.
15.23.5.39Listen 19 Feb 2012To the extent that a man is willing to empty himself of himself, to that extent he is providing a condition for the influx into his normal consciousness of a sense of the Overself's reality. It is like emptying a cup in order that it may be filled.
15.23.7.182Listen 20 Feb 2012The Long Path wants to purify and perfect the ego but the Short Path wants to find God…
15.23.5.40, ExcerptListen 21 Feb 2012Both desires and fears bind a man to his ego and thus bar the way to spiritual fulfilment. They could not exist except in relation to a second thing. But when he turns his mind away from all things and directs it toward its own still centre, it is the beginning of the end for all desires and all fears.
5.6.4.60Listen 22 Feb 2012That which we experience inwardly as thought must, if it be strong and sustained enough, manifest itself outwardly in events or environment or both.
13.21.5.65Listen 23 Feb 2012Every man has another and veiled identity. Until he finds out this mystical self of his, he has failed to fulfil the higher mission of his existence.
2.1.1.86Listen 24 Feb 2012... It is this Infinite Mind which has been called God, Spirit, Brahman, and so forth. He has to get the knowledge that his own little individual stream of consciousness has flowed out of this great source and will eventually return to it and disappear into it. This is Truth. This universal, impersonal Being is what all are after. The ones who seek it consciously are the people who have taken up the Quest. Those who are after it unconsciously take to drink and other sensual enjoyments and pursue the allurements of this most alluring world.
13.21.5.130, ExcerptListen 25 Feb 2012Remember to recess back into consciousness, to the centre, when other persons are present. This instantly subjugates nerve strain and self-consciousness.
15.24.2.74Listen 26 Feb 2012The moral purification involved in casting out all hatred and granting complete forgiveness opens a door to the Overself's light.
5.6.5.319Listen 27 Feb 2012Thinking can put together all sorts of theories and speculations and even discoveries. But only when it dies down and lets the pure quietened mind come to rest in the very essence of consciousness, at peace with itself, with nature, with the world, only then is there a deep sense of utter fulfillment.
15.24.4.87Listen 28 Feb 2012In these first two stages, the will must be used, for the attention must not only be driven along one line and kept there but must also penetrate deeper and deeper. It is only when the frontier of the third stage is reached that all this work ceases and that there is an abandonment of the use of the will, a total surrender of it, and effortless passive yielding to the Overself is alone needed.
4.4.1.247Listen 29 Feb 2012
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