Day by day
A glimpse is a transitory state of mental enlightenment and emotional exaltation.
14.22.4.1Listen 1 Feb 2024In the world’s literatures there are many records left by persons who have had this glimpse, but each has interpreted it in his or her own way, each has reacted within the frame of his or her personal background.
14.22.4.25Listen 2 Feb 2024… In his enthusiasm and ecstasy, the student may believe he has been granted the ineffable cosmic consciousness and will enjoy it for the rest of his lifetime. But such an event is an exceedingly rare one. He will find instead he has been granted only a brief foretaste of its memorable sweetness, a momentary touch of its awakening hand …
14.22.8.107, ExcerptListen 3 Feb 2024Amid all his mental adventures and emotional misadventures, he should never lose sight of the goal, should never permit disappointment or frailty to cause desertion of the quest.
12.18.1.84Listen 4 Feb 2024He who has the courage to put first things first, to seek the inner reality which is changeless and enduring, finds with it an ever-satisfying happiness from which nothing can dislodge him. This got, it will not prevent him seeking and finding the lesser earthly happinesses. Only he will put them in a subordinate and secondary place because they are necessarily imperfect, liable to change and even to go altogether …
12.18.4.143, ExcerptListen 5 Feb 2024He will learn sooner or later by the test of experience to defer to this intuitive feeling whenever its judgement, guidance, or warning manifests itself.
14.22.1.166Listen 6 Feb 2024Dark Night of the Soul: In passing through this, the greatest humiliation he has ever experienced, and passing through it resignedly, patiently, and without rebellion, he reduces the ego to a cipher, and destroys its power over him.
15.23.3.67Listen 7 Feb 2024The time will come when values will change, when ambitions, powers, possessions, and acquisitions will all be put back into their proper places, when their tyranny over the will and the feelings will be put to an end.
2.1.5.386Listen 8 Feb 2024Socrates tried to awaken the Greeks, Jesus tried to awaken the Israelites. Their failure was followed by consequences to their people which can be traced in history. If the higher power takes the trouble to send a messenger, it is better to tremble, listen, and obey, than to sneer, reject, and suffer.
16.25.3.549Listen 9 Feb 2024If knowledge fails to reconcile science with religion and philosophy, then civilization will become the victim of a politically directed materialistic scientific knowledge, and end by destroying itself.
5.7.6.61Listen 10 Feb 2024Gautama’s assertion that “life is suffering” may be matched with Socrates’ assertion that “life is terrible.” But both Indian and Greek sage referred solely to life in the ego. Is it quite fair to stress the misery of human existence without pointing to its mystery? For that is just as much there, even if attention is seldom turned toward it. Man, in order to complete and fulfil himself, will and must rise to life in the Overself with the ego put into place, belittled and broken.
15.24.1.30Listen 11 Feb 2024The criticism of life which the pessimists like Gautama and Schopenhauer make, is too negative. This is not because it is not true but because it is not complete and hence is lopsided.
15.24.1.33Listen 12 Feb 2024No environment is ideal. Not in outward search but in deeper self-penetration shall we find true lasting happiness.
15.24.1.88Listen 13 Feb 2024Whereas ordinary mysticism seeks only to discipline the personality, philosophical mysticism seeks both to discipline and develop it.
11.16.2.81Listen 14 Feb 2024The reformation and even transformation of character is as much a sector of philosophy as the practice of concentration and the study of mind. The virtue which develops from disciplining thoughts and controlling self removes obstacles and gives power to truth’s pursuit.
5.6.1.15Listen 15 Feb 2024We suffer from stagnation and imagine that existence in the intellect and body is enough; it is not. The primary emphasis must be laid on the living principle of our being, the central self which creates both body and intellect.
2.1.1.157Listen 16 Feb 2024If he cares enough for the Quest and understands enough about the relation between it and diet, he will come sooner or later to choose his food with more resistance to habit.
4.5.3.35Listen 17 Feb 2024If he goes into the silence enough, he will become accustomed to the obstacles that bar entry and learn by practice how to deal with them.
15.24.4.33Listen 18 Feb 2024That which he finds deep within himself is, he understands intuitively, a reflected ray from that which exists behind the whole universe but it is still only a ray.
16.25.1.129Listen 19 Feb 2024That alone is the final attainment which can remain with him through all the three states—waking, dream and deep sleep—and through all the day’s activities.
16.25.2.179Listen 20 Feb 2024After this passing-over into the Overself’s rule, does he carry a loss of identity? Is he no more aware that he is the named person of the past? Were this so he could not exist in human society or attend to his duties. No!—outwardly he is more or less the same, although his pattern of behaviour betrays recognizable signs of superiority over the past man which he was. Inwardly, there is total revolution.
16.25.2.186Listen 21 Feb 2024If all his efforts are concentrated on self-improvement, then the circle of his thinking will be a small and limited one. The petty will become over-important in his own eyes and the insignificant will become full of meaning. It is needful to balance the one attitude with another—surrender to and faith in the power of Grace.
12.18.5.134Listen 22 Feb 2024The ego senses the peril in which it is placed and resorts to tricks, deceptions, and subterfuges to save itself.
6.8.3.130Listen 23 Feb 2024It comes to this, that what people try to find in many books is waiting for them within themselves, to be discovered by regularly practising the art of meditation.
4.4.1.6Listen 24 Feb 2024All problems vanish from his mind as though they had never been. He is under no necessity to concern himself about anything or anyone. “God’s in his heaven and all’s well with the world.” There is no tormenting situation to be cleared up, no difficult decision to be made, no quest to be followed through drawn-out struggles and personal self-disciplines, and inevitable disappointments. He now has the secret of it all, the blissful state of enlightenment.
16.25.2.13Listen 25 Feb 2024Although the Overself does not think, its presence makes thinking possible, and although it does not register on our five senses, it makes all sense-impressions possible.
14.22.3.241Listen 26 Feb 2024From the philosophical standpoint, it is not enough to say that a man is illumined and leave it at that. The depth and permanence of his illumination need also to be considered.
11.16.2.83Listen 27 Feb 2024If the divine presence is dwelling at the core of his mind, then the divine bliss, peace, and strength are dwelling at the core of his mind too. Why then should he let outward troubles rob him of the chance to share them? …
15.24.1.106, ExcerptListen 28 Feb 2024… These glimpses are personal experiences which help to confirm the truth of the impersonal bases underneath them and which encourage us to continue on the same path.
14.22.3.414, ExcerptListen 29 Feb 2024
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