Day by day
From the moment that a man begins to look less to his changeful outer possessions and more to his controllable internal ones, he begins to gain the chance for real happiness.…
15.24.3.279, ExcerptListen 1 Feb 2021The patterns of habit in thinking and behaviour become so rigid with time that the introduction of a new style of life, however desirable it may seem, initiates a long struggle.
6.8.4.76Listen 2 Feb 2021It is the making the man ready, the preparation of his mind and heart which take so much time, so many years even in many cases; but the enlightenment itself is a single short happening: the effect remains permanently.
16.25.2.56Listen 3 Feb 2021Ultimately, there is only one real Master for every spiritual seeker, and that is his own divine Overself. The human teacher may assist him to the extent of giving him a temporary emotional uplift or a temporary intellectual perception, but he cannot bestow permanent divine consciousness on another individual.…
2.1.3.102, ExcerptListen 4 Feb 2021They come to philosophy when they have exhausted other sources, paths, and directions, only when their search is prolonged enough and intelligent enough to show, with time, that the truth is not findable elsewhere.
13.20.2.162Listen 5 Feb 2021He directs his attention inward, seeking the mind itself rather than its incarnation in thought-bodies.
15.23.7.213Listen 6 Feb 2021… the Overself does not live in public but in secret. It is totally outside the world’s activity. Therefore the closer you approach it, the more secretive you are likely to become concerning the event. And when you do succeed in finally uniting yourself with it, your lips will be completely shut—not only because of the ego’s greater humility but because the Overself desires it so.…
3.2.8.43, ExcerptListen 7 Feb 2021The destiny of an entire lifetime may be set by a single mistake, itself the consequence of ungoverned emotion or passion.
6.9.4.90Listen 8 Feb 2021Sometimes we are pushed to perform deeds which turn out to be our finest ones, or our most fortunate ones, although at the time we did not know this. Who is the pusher? In those cases it is either karma or grace.
12.18.5.267Listen 9 Feb 2021It is not too late at any period of life, even in old age, to obtain a firm footing upon the spiritual path and gain its satisfying rewards.
2.1.1.134Listen 10 Feb 2021They are messages brought from the infinite for the blessing and guidance of finite man. But he must recognize their value and esteem their source.
14.22.1.116Listen 11 Feb 2021Those who formerly could not bring themselves to believe that God exists are dumbfounded when they discover that He not only exists but even exists within themselves.
12.17.3.78Listen 12 Feb 2021The improvement of character is both a necessary prelude to, and essential accompaniment of, any course in these practices of meditation. Without it, self-reproach for transgressions or weaknesses will penetrate the peace of the silent hour and disturb it.
4.4.1.488Listen 13 Feb 2021Most people are like sleep-walkers, caught up in their own illusions. Their belief that they are awake is the biggest of these illusions.
2.1.2.362Listen 14 Feb 2021When we can fully accept the truth that God is the governor and manager of the universe, that the World-Mind is behind and controlling the World-Idea, then we begin to accept the parallel truths that all things and creatures are being taken due care of and that all events are happening under the divine will. This leads in time to the understanding that the ego is not the actual doer, although it has the illusion of doing, working, and acting. The practical application of this metaphysical understanding is to put down our burdens of personal living on the floor and let Providence carry them for us: this is a surrender of the ego to the divine.
12.18.4.2Listen 15 Feb 2021If in the end—and sometimes well before—karma catches up with a man, it is not all painful; the term need not fill him with foreboding. For the good he has thought and done brings a good come-back too.
6.9.3.200Listen 16 Feb 2021The glimpse comes and the glimpse goes, suddenly or slowly, and this coming and this going are independent of his will. This does not, however, mean that he is totally helpless in the matter. Instruction or experience or both can teach him what those conditions are which assist the onset of the glimpse and those which obstruct it.
14.22.5.52Listen 17 Feb 2021Those who wish to respond to the quest's silent invitation must begin by repentance, continue by self-discipline, and end by surrender.
3.2.7.123Listen 18 Feb 2021In the end, after many a life on earth, he will find that much of what he looks for in others will have to be found in himself. But it will not be found in the surface self. It lies deeply submerged, in a region where the purest forms exist.
14.22.3.236Listen 19 Feb 2021If he really believes in this teaching, he will seek to bring it into every area of his life. There is no area from which it can rightly be left out, not even from that of the kind of food he eats.
4.5.3.84Listen 20 Feb 2021It is not an exclusiveness born of spiritual pride but of spiritual humility. For the philosopher feels profoundly that he must respect other people's viewpoint because it is the result of their own individual experience of life.
13.20.5.155Listen 21 Feb 2021The Law is relentless but it is flexible: it adjusts punishment to a man's evolutionary grade. The sinner who knows more and who sins with more awareness of what he is doing, has to suffer more.
6.9.3.251Listen 22 Feb 2021How extraordinary is this stillness that it can convey meaning without making use of words! For the communication is made through feeling, not through intellect. But inevitably, when the stillness ends, the mind begins to work, and the intellect begins to work upon the experience and translates it into words.
15.24.4.217Listen 23 Feb 2021The achievement may seem too hard but it is not impossible. The best guarantee of that is the ever-presence within him of the divine soul itself.
2.1.5.145Listen 24 Feb 2021We may call it evolution if we wish but the actuality is not quite the same. The universe is being guided to follow the World-Idea—this is the essence of what is happening.
16.26.4.175Listen 25 Feb 2021When this awareness is so stabilized that it maintains itself at all times awake or asleep, he is at the end of the quest.
16.25.2.174Listen 26 Feb 2021The problem of philosophic attainment is one which man cannot solve by his own unaided powers. Like a tiny sailing boat which needs both oars and a sail for its propulsion, he needs both self-effort and grace for his progress. To rely on either alone is a mistake.…
3.2.9.18, ExcerptListen 27 Feb 2021The same forces which bring us into the experience of a new reincarnation also deprive us of the memory of previous reincarnations.
6.9.2.121Listen 28 Feb 2021
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