Day by day
The soul is present and active in every man. This is why it is quite possible for every man to have a direct glimpse of the truth about his own inward non-materiality.
14.22.3.49Listen 1 Feb 2017Reverence, awe, adoration--these are evoked by, and themselves evoke the feeling of, the Overself's presence.
12.18.1.25Listen 2 Feb 2017Here and there doors are being opened through which the light needed by our darkened times is beginning to flow in.
9.13.4.149Listen 3 Feb 2017He accepts all that mystical intuition can tell him about his own and the universal being. But he sees that it will not be weakened, it will only be supported checked and balanced if he listens also to what the rational intellect can tell him.
5.7.1.23Listen 4 Feb 2017If his inspiration is of the highest kind, it will be a fruitful one. It will manifest in external achievement by the personal ego and in altruistic service, enlightenment, and uplift of the world community in which he lives.
14.22.2.31Listen 5 Feb 2017He should make his mind the host to beautiful thoughts and fine moods and thus keep it ready as a place where the soul can enter untroubled.
3.2.4.81Listen 6 Feb 2017At first intuition is like a frail thread, almost impalpable, of which he is just faintly aware; but if he heeds it, rivets attention stubbornly to it, the visitations come more and more often. If he follows the thread to its source, the message becomes clearer, stronger, precise.
14.22.1.290Listen 7 Feb 2017There is no liturgy and no ritual, no hierarchy and no institution in philosophic worship, nor are they needed.
12.17.6.77Listen 8 Feb 2017The cultivation of reverential, prayerful, humble worship is needed to attract Grace. The putting aside of pride, self-conceit, and complacency is indispensable in order to assume the correct attitude during such worship. At such a time the saying of Jesus ”Except ye be as a little child . . .” is directly applicable…
12.18.3.44, ExcerptListen 9 Feb 2017To take up the practice every day afresh requires a certain strength of will, a certain stubbornness of purpose, and a certain appreciation of its worth…
3.2.6.57, ExcerptListen 10 Feb 2017For the intellectual type, the essence of his need is to see that he is not his thoughts, that they are but projections thrown up out of consciousness. He is that consciousness, the very knowing principle itself.
5.7.1.73Listen 11 Feb 2017The meaning and end of all such work is to arouse men to see certain truths: that the intuitive element is tremendously more important than the intellectual yet just as cultivable if pursued through meditation, that the mystical experience is the most valuable of all experience, and that the quest of the Overself is the most worthwhile endeavour open to human exertions.
2.1.1.80Listen 12 Feb 2017When the star of a man's Overself rises into ascendancy, he will no more feel lonely even if he be often alone. A sense of the universe's friendliness will surround him, enfold him.
14.22.3.122Listen 13 Feb 2017To reflect upon That which we are will one day bring It into consciousness. To contemplate It by seeking the stillness in which It abides, will one day make It a palpable presence.
4.4.1.342Listen 14 Feb 2017When the aspirant has great devotion to the Overself but little understanding of it, Nature will halt him at a certain stage of his spiritual career and compel him to redress the balance.
5.7.2.87Listen 15 Feb 2017Unless he loves the Overself with deep feeling and real devotion, he is unlikely to put forth the efforts needed to find it and the disciplines needed to push aside the obstacles in the way to it.
12.18.1.92Listen 16 Feb 2017The human race has evolved to a point where its condition of receptivity to these teachings is more favourable than at any previous time.
9.13.4.169Listen 17 Feb 2017These glimpses of Reality which wake us out of the world of illusion come to us only at intervals. We cannot hold them, but we can repeat them.
14.22.4.131Listen 18 Feb 2017The glimpse does not necessarily have to come to you during meditation, even though the work in meditation helps to bring about its occurrence. It may come at any time.
14.22.5.87Listen 19 Feb 2017When you are in this wider consciousness you are at home. Outwardly you may be without a roof to shelter your head but still you will feel protected, secure, and provided for. Your feeling and your trust are not groundless. For the outward manifestation of this inward care will follow.
14.22.6.109Listen 20 Feb 2017Here is goodness and beauty which worldly objects and worldly creatures do not possess. The man who has once glimpsed them can never again be completely satisfied with the world's offerings, for this reason, but will again and again be haunted by, and attracted to, the vision of this higher possibility for man.
14.22.7.116Listen 21 Feb 2017If he cannot keep this higher consciousness, it is because his lower and earthly nature is strong enough to rise again and block the way. When the purificatory lessons are learned it will then be possible for him, by self-effort and self-development, to regain this experience--at first temporarily and occasionally, but if he works correctly and Grace sanctions, permanently.
14.22.8.19Listen 22 Feb 2017The Overself is in the heart of every man but few care to seek it out until pressure of its grace from within, or fatigue with the world-life without, drives them to do so.
14.22.3.41Listen 23 Feb 2017At this critical point consciousness shifts from forced willed attention, that is, concentration, to passive receptive attention, or contemplation. This happens by itself, by grace.
15.23.7.240Listen 24 Feb 2017Philosophy today represents a refuge for those suffering from the hatred and strife in the world as well as a source of goodness and wisdom for those who seek to permeate their lives with meaning.
9.13.4.291Listen 25 Feb 2017There are laws of higher spiritual development, but they reveal themselves only upon their own terms. The first is that he shall apply what he already knows, and not let it rest as mere theory.
3.2.4.84Listen 26 Feb 2017Every man is sacred did he but know it.
14.22.3.44Listen 27 Feb 2017He will discover that it is not enough to regard as good only that which is favourable to his physical life. He must complete the definition and sometimes even contradict it by adding that which is favourable to his spiritual life.
2.1.1.165Listen 28 Feb 2017
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