Day by day
The Overself is not something imagined or supposed. Its presence is definitely felt.
14.22.3.408Listen 1 Feb 2020There is a long line of testimony, to which I must add my own, that the Overself is no metaphysical abstraction or mystical hallucination but a living and inspiring, if uncommon, part of human experience. To know it is to know one's best self.
14.22.3.407Listen 2 Feb 2020Do these moods of utter tranquillity have to repeat themselves again and again to convince doubting man that there is indeed a state of consciousness beyond the everyday so-called normal one?
14.22.3.429, ExcerptListen 3 Feb 2020Men who pronounce judgements or write opinions upon mysticism without actual and personal experience of its mental states and phenomena, who interpret it only from the outside and only as observers, cannot be reliable authorities on the subject.
14.22.3.435Listen 4 Feb 2020Because he regards the theory and practice of his subject from the inside, the mystic can discuss it with a correctness and authority which most critics do not possess because they are outside it ...
14.22.3.423, ExcerptListen 5 Feb 2020There is only one way to settle his question of whether the Overself exists ... Each must gain for himself the authentic mystical experience ...
14.22.3.437, ExcerptListen 6 Feb 2020On the Long Path he has used various forms of practice. Now at the portals of the Short Path, he may intermittently and temporarily discard them and then just as intermittently and temporarily practise them. In this manner he can unite the two paths.
15.23.5.164Listen 7 Feb 2020Truth may be written or spoken, preached or printed, but its most lasting expression and communication is transmitted through the deepest silence to the deepest nature in man.
15.24.4.220Listen 8 Feb 2020Human frailty being what it is, human conduct should never surprise us and never amaze us. By not expecting too much from it, we save ourselves unnecessary bitterness or disappointment.
15.24.3.73Listen 9 Feb 2020Every man who catches such a glimpse of his diviner possibilities will be haunted forever after by them until he tries to catch up in actual thought and life with them. The endeavour to do so brings him sooner or later on the Quest.
2.1.2.313Listen 10 Feb 2020Those whom he never even meets but who direct their thought and faith towards him, receive inspiration automatically. The impact of his personality helps those whom he does meet, if they are sympathetic, but often without his even being aware of it.
16.25.4.253Listen 11 Feb 2020Karma is the precise result of what a man thinks and does. His reaction to events and situations is the precise result of what he is, his stage in evolution…
9.13.1.346, ExcerptListen 12 Feb 2020He shapes himself into another person in imagination, in faith, and in will. For a while he creates the illusion of a new destiny accompanying this new person. Is this not a veritable rebirth? Does he not get away from the old everyday person and forget him utterly through this miraculous transformation? He lives so completely in this visualized ideal self that there is no space left for the old faults, the old weaknesses to creep in.
15.23.6.144Listen 13 Feb 2020It is not enough for parents to protect a child--they should also encourage and stimulate it to awaken spiritually.
9.13.2.607Listen 14 Feb 2020Whoever comes close to this uncovered goodness within his heart--can he have any other feeling towards others than that of goodwill?
15.24.3.41Listen 15 Feb 2020The central point of this quest is the inner opening of the ego's heart to the Overself.
1.1.0.3Listen 16 Feb 2020He should remember that there are two approaches to the Quest and both have to be used. There is the Long Path of self-improvement, self-purification, and self-effort; and there is the Short Path of forgetting the self entirely and directing his mind towards the Goal, towards the One Real Life, by constant remembrance of it and by practising self-identification with it. If he uses the first approach, he can progress to a certain point. But by bringing in the second approach, the Higher Power is brought in too and comes to his help with Grace.
1.23.0.1Listen 17 Feb 2020It is all the difference between living at the still centre and on the bustling circumference, at the mysterious core and on the prosaic surface.
15.24.4.17Listen 18 Feb 2020If outer events bring him to a position where he can bear them no longer and force him to cry out to the higher power in helplessness for relief, or if inner feelings bring humiliation and recognition of his dependence on that power, this crushing of the ego may open the door to grace.
12.18.5.242Listen 19 Feb 2020There is a deeper level of every man's mind which is not subject to his passions, not moved by his desires, not affected by his senses.
14.22.3.369Listen 20 Feb 2020He always turns for his first defense against the perils and troubles of this world to brief meditation upon the all-wise, all-powerful Overself, and only after that for his secondary defenses to the ego's human resources.
14.22.3.123Listen 21 Feb 2020If he takes an excessive clinical interest in his own moral and spiritual state, continually observing his conduct and analysing his feelings to find the flaws in them, he loses his balance and becomes inwardly unhealthy. In putting too much emphasis upon his failings, he is giving too much attention to his own ego.
15.23.2.152Listen 22 Feb 2020…The sage carries into sleep the awareness he had in wakefulness. He may let it dim down to a glimmer, but it is always there.
13.19.3.123, ExcerptListen 23 Feb 2020Each group gives a different name to the Parent of the universe, calls it Brahma or Jehovah, Allah or Tao, but all groups really direct their worship to one and the same God.
12.17.2.150Listen 24 Feb 2020If you feel that the principles touched on in these pages are true, then remember that the greatest homage you can pay to Truth is to use it. Spiritual peace is given as a prize to those who wisely aspire, and who will work untiringly for the realization of their aspiration.
1.1.0.2Listen 25 Feb 2020It is easier to transform a wilderness into a garden flourishing with plants and flowers than to transform humanity into a spiritual race. But time and life, evolution and experience will all combine to do it. The movement up to higher levels will be slow and painful, the maturation of human character retarded and halting, but they will be sure because they are written in the fate of man.
16.26.4.216Listen 26 Feb 2020To find out the truth little by little by oneself is to make it really one's own. To be pushed into it with a plunge by a master always entails the likelihood of a return to one's native and proper level later on.
2.1.3.289Listen 27 Feb 2020… The dedication to the Missa Solemnis was May heart speak to heart. This is a work whose infrequent performance stirs me to depths when I hear it, so reverential, so supernal is it. Few know that Beethoven himself regarded the Missa as his greatest composition. It must surely be his most spiritual composition, a perfect expression of the link between man and God.
9.14.4.333, ExcerptListen 28 Feb 2020… We get just the kind of karma whose silent instruction is needed at the time…
7.10.1.38, ExcerptListen 29 Feb 2020
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