Day by day
… The “I” differentiated itself out of the infinite ocean of Mind into a distinct individuality after a long development through the diverse kingdoms of Nature. Having thus arrived at consciousness of what it is, having travelled the spiral of growth from germ to man, the result of all this effort is certainly not gained only to be thrown away…
16.26.4.257, ExcerptListen 1 Feb 2023It is only the beginner who needs to think of the quest as separate from the common life, something special, aloof, apart. The more proficient knows that it must become the very channel for that life.
2.1.1.75Listen 2 Feb 2023To work effectively in this world of everyday without repudiating or forgetting the world of the Spirit—this is his duty.
9.13.2.159Listen 3 Feb 2023Wang Yang-ming maintained that wisdom and virtue could not be gained by meditation alone. He asserted that the daily experience of dealing with ordinary matters was also needed, providing that experience was sincerely reflected upon by conscience, reason, and intuition.
9.13.2.166Listen 4 Feb 2023The more he practises identifying himself with the timeless Now (not the passing “now”), the more he works for true freedom from besetting passions and dragging attachments. This is the Short Path, more heroic perhaps but in the end much pleasanter than the Long Path.
15.23.5.217Listen 5 Feb 2023The degree of ego-attachment which you will find at the centre of a man’s consciousness is a fairly reliable index to the degree of his spiritual evolution.
6.8.4.452Listen 6 Feb 2023Evolution is working along three lines in the human being: the intellectual, the mystical, and the moral-physical. All must be attended to … The threefold path is what philosophy asks for although religion, science or mysticism is usually satisfied with a single path. Meditation is the most important of all as without it one cannot transcend the intellect, but it is not enough by itself …
3.2.5.195, ExcerptListen 7 Feb 2023No man has free will if he is enslaved by things or affected by events outside of himself. He has it only when he is inwardly detached from them.
6.9.4.58Listen 8 Feb 2023Without the religious faith in a higher power, without the religious organizations, buildings, and bibles which keep up and channel this faith, the mass of people might have fallen into a dense materialism devoid of any moral content.
12.17.1.180Listen 9 Feb 2023A time must come, whether in this birth or a later one, when the ego must give up the struggle, which is both with itself and the Higher Power at the same time.
6.8.4.261Listen 10 Feb 2023The virtue of balance is neither easily nor quickly bought, but its cost is repaid by the values it yields—greater security, more endurance, less error, and better progress.
3.2.5.148Listen 11 Feb 2023… He is still a human being, he is not a god. Yet there is something godlike within him and this he must find and cling to for his true salvation, his only redemption. If he does this he will fulfil his purpose on earth and then only he finds true peace of mind and an end to all this restless, agitated, uncertain mental condition …
16.26.4.170, ExcerptListen 12 Feb 2023It is at such a time that he needs to go straight to the source of divine grace, to break his mental alliance with the ego and begin a joyful reliance on the Overself.
15.23.1.52Listen 13 Feb 2023It is those who create ways and means for others to follow in the search for spiritual fulfilment, the teachers and awakeners, who deserve our best honours.
16.25.3.543Listen 14 Feb 2023The divine being is present in all people, from the crudest to the most cultured.
14.22.3.56Listen 15 Feb 2023The working of karma from former lives is mostly in evidence at birth and during infancy, childhood, and adolescence. The working of karma made in the present life is mostly in evidence after the maturity of manhood has been reached.
6.9.3.213Listen 16 Feb 2023We were not born to perform magical stunts, nor were we born to be able to remember past lives or to foretell the future. We were born for one thing only and that is to discover what we really are in our deepest, innermost being, not just the crest of it.
11.16.3.89Listen 17 Feb 2023To nullify the ego is the only way to perceive and identify his real being.
6.8.4.461Listen 18 Feb 2023The individual consciousness is not alone. It is fathered by a universal consciousness. Between the two there is this link. To awaken one day and discover (in several cases, rediscover) it will be a man’s most satisfying experience.
16.25.1.29Listen 19 Feb 2023The only man you need for this great work is yourself. Stop looking outside and look within, for there is not only the material to work upon but also the god within to guide you.
2.1.5.65Listen 20 Feb 2023When the breath is deliberately inhaled or exhaled gently and evenly as an initial period of the meditation practice, the mind is slowly forced into a calm and concentrated mood.
4.5.6.41Listen 21 Feb 2023Tendencies, habits, and desires inherited from past lives may be worth following. But they may also be harmful, or negative and not easily dislodged.
6.9.2.55Listen 22 Feb 2023Deep into the centre of his being does a man’s mind withdraw as he passes out of this life, if his karma or his aspiration, his stage of development are not obstructive.
6.9.1.99Listen 23 Feb 2023The need of self-humbling before the Overself (which is not the same as self-humbling before other men) is greatest of all with the aspirant of an intellectual type …
12.18.3.2, ExcerptListen 24 Feb 2023Occult or spiritistic practices which have served their purpose in convincing their student that materialism is false, should be abandoned if he wishes to make the best use of his limited period on earth. When such a point has been reached, he should turn his thoughts in the direction of seeking the Overself alone, or his life-period will be wasted.
11.16.3.105Listen 25 Feb 2023In a rough kind of way, and after sufficient periods of time have matured, a man’s outward conditions will keep in some sort of step with his inward development.
6.9.3.387Listen 26 Feb 2023Each problem is to be solved by the simple method of turning it over to the Overself and then dismissing it from mind. The ego is faulty and blind; what it cannot solve or manage, the Overself can. But this method requires time and patience.
9.13.2.220Listen 27 Feb 2023When the great battle is over, the Overself will give him back his ego without giving him back its dominance.
6.8.4.392Listen 28 Feb 2023
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