Day by day
… The factors of karma and Grace are always present and their operation in different life situations may always be different and cannot be foreseen.
12.18.5.253, ExcerptListen 1 Mar 2018Out of visible light which rapidly increased in intensity and drew nearer, the face and form of Jesus appeared in this twentieth century of ours to two mystics, Sundar Singh in India and Martinus in Denmark. They saw him plainly, heard him speak clearly. In both cases they were already familiar with his name and story. Out of a not very dissimilar light, Jesus appeared to Saul on the Damascus Road… What is the secret? It is contact with the Overself, Grace.
14.22.5.96, ExcerptListen 2 Mar 2018If the beauty of his experience penetrates his heart deeply enough, it will not fail to bring about a change in his life. It will also point out the direction in which the change is to be made.
14.22.7.73Listen 3 Mar 2018… The first value of repentance is that it makes a break with an outworn past. The second value is that it opens the way to a fresh start. Past mistakes cannot be erased but future ones can be avoided…
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 4 Mar 2018Now that he has entered the blank silence he must be prepared to wait patiently for what is about to unfold itself. This next development cannot be forced or hurried; indeed, that attempt would effectively prevent its manifestation.
15.23.7.261Listen 5 Mar 2018This sense, force, or feeling within him, which calls itself I, has its innermost part in that which observes it, the Overself.
6.8.1.70Listen 6 Mar 2018Death is the entrance to a new kind of being, a renewed form of life, another period in which old experience is assimilated and the next phase (reincarnation) prepared for.
1.9.0.15Listen 7 Mar 2018… The ego will do everything possible to preserve its existence and devise every possible means to secure its future…
6.8.4.342, ExcerptListen 8 Mar 2018… He who wishes to stimulate others to start on the spiritual Quest, to help those who have already started to find the right direction in which to travel, and to make available to the public generally the leading truths of spiritual knowledge, feels that this is the most worthwhile activity. The effective and enduring preparation for this is first to spiritualize oneself and therefore it is up to him to carry on even more ardently with his efforts than he has done hitherto.
3.2.8.64, ExcerptListen 9 Mar 2018The world exists for the training of ever-ascending living things--from their early start as protoplasmic cells to their later development as human beings.
16.26.4.182Listen 10 Mar 2018All quests involve some travelling, the periodical shift from one point to another. The spiritual quest involves constant intellectual travelling, but only a single important shift--that from the ego's standpoint to the Overself’s.
3.2.4.5Listen 11 Mar 2018The ego may have to be broken to bits, if necessary, to let the Grace enter in, to open a way through passivity replacing arrogance.
6.8.4.425Listen 12 Mar 2018To put oneself regularly into the practice of this remembrance is to come within the cheering warmth of these higher truths.
15.23.6.174Listen 13 Mar 2018In a broad general division, philosophy finds three causes of sickness. They are wrong thinking, wrong living, and bad karma. But because karma merely brings back to us the results of the other two, we may even limit the causes of disease to them. And again because conduct is ultimately the expression of thought, we may limit the cause of disease finally to a single one of wrong thinking… But the thinking which produced the sickness may belong to the far past, to some earlier reincarnation, and not necessarily to the present one…
7.10.3.7, ExcerptListen 14 Mar 2018Human beings are given more than one chance to redeem themselves. Such is the mercy of the higher power.
2.1.2.427Listen 15 Mar 2018Many who ask for Grace would be shocked to hear that the troubles which may have followed their request were actually the very form in which the higher power granted the Grace to them.
12.18.5.262Listen 16 Mar 2018The ego, with its petty conceit and private desires, shuts him in on itself and cuts him off from the universal life, with its truth and reality and power.
6.8.4.119Listen 17 Mar 2018The number of objects and creatures, stars and suns is by a natural necessity infinite. Infinite being can only express itself infinitely. The worlds cannot be counted; the space which contains them cannot be measured.
16.26.1.230Listen 18 Mar 2018When his commerce with God becomes his most important activity and remembrance of God the most habitual one, solitariness grows deeply on a man. His need for friends grows less.
3.3.5.6Listen 19 Mar 2018Those who will not learn from correct reflection about their experiences will have to learn from kicks delivered by the fresh karma they make.
6.9.3.54Listen 20 Mar 2018… The mystic who sits in an hour-long meditation is not wasting his time, even though he is indulging in something which to the sceptic seems meaningless. On the contrary, his meditation is of vital significance…
2.1.2.1, ExcerptListen 21 Mar 2018It is a privilege to come into the company of a great soul, but even more so to come into intuitive affinity with him. This is far more necessary than coming into geographical propinquity with him, for when that happens the link will not be severed by death, but his unseen presence will continue to be a vital thing.
16.25.5.212Listen 22 Mar 2018… The divinity is there, within you; have faith that it is so and entrust yourself to it.
15.23.6.138, ExcerptListen 23 Mar 2018It cannot be said that these truths have been kept from the masses. Rather, the masses' own limitations have kept them from these truths.
12.17.1.266Listen 24 Mar 2018The same possessions which enslave one man may set another free. For where the first uses them to strengthen desires, nourish passions, increase selfishness, and exploit humanity, the second may use them to build character, improve intelligence, foster meditation, and serve humanity…
3.2.7.125, ExcerptListen 25 Mar 2018The ego´s desires, habits, and ways of thought have been established through many earth lives.
1.9.0.32Listen 26 Mar 2018The smallest one-celled creature is alive with an energy which comes from the universal energy that is the expression of the World-Mind.
16.26.1.216Listen 27 Mar 2018If anyone wants to see a better world he must make his contribution toward it. And this demands inexorably that he begin with himself and make his character and conduct better.
7.11.3.490Listen 28 Mar 2018When he sees how the little personal self has brought him so much pain sorrow disappointment and waste of years, that even when it brought him success the latter turned out to be false and deceptive, he will become disgusted with it. He will not want to live with the ego any longer and will yearn to get away from it altogether.
2.1.2.283Listen 29 Mar 2018It is an old, known fact that the truth can be very disturbing and that is why it is more honoured than practised. Let us ask, To whom is it disturbing? and we shall find that the answer refers to the personal ego.
6.8.4.123Listen 30 Mar 2018He feels sincerely that he has been entrusted with a revelation, that he has a message to deliver which is valuable and important to thousands of people, and that the task of delivering it is an exalted service, a holy privilege that needs no other reward than the moral satisfaction it brings him…
12.17.1.117, ExcerptListen 31 Mar 2018
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