Day by day
Meditation should be begun with a short, silent prayer to the Overself, humbly beseeching guidance and Grace…
4.4.4.219, ExcerptListen 1 Mar 2019Its chief enemy is indecision. The world is packed with people who suffer from this fault. So our greatest dramatist took this as his theme for his wonderful play, Hamlet. A little more decision on the part of the Prince of Denmark, and the series of tragedies which close the play would have been averted. But in that case the play would not have carried the lesson Shakespeare wanted it to give--how Hamlet was tortured by his own indecisiveness…
1.1.0.26, ExcerptListen 2 Mar 2019He who is sufficiently ready to recognize the Higher Purpose of Life, and who has the courage to change and improve his way of thinking, thereby replacing negative thoughts by positive ones, will certainly be rewarded by improved circumstances and greater happiness than he may already enjoy.
2.1.5.415Listen 3 Mar 2019That point in man where the two worlds of being--infinite and finite--can be said to touch, is Overself.
14.22.3.307Listen 4 Mar 2019The personal history which has gone before--let it really go and be free of the past, which can become a mental prison for unwary persons; learn to abide in the timeless, coming out of it as duties call but holding on to it as the background.
15.24.3.227Listen 5 Mar 2019… There is a vital and urgent need in human minds today of relating personal experience to the universal experience in which it has been born. Put into religious terms, it is a need of finding God.
12.17.7.60, ExcerptListen 6 Mar 2019Do not let the ego try to manage your worldly life. Do not let it even manage your search for truth! It is faulty and fallible. Better to cast the burden on the higher self and walk by faith, not knowing where you are going, not seeing what the future is.
12.18.4.91Listen 7 Mar 2019How short a time does an animal need for the rest period between its births by contrast with that needed between human births! In its case just months, in the human case, more years than it lived on earth.
6.9.1.79Listen 8 Mar 2019Whoever has had this beautiful experience, felt its glorious freedom and known its amazing serenity, has had something which he will always remember… The knowledge that a life of truth goodness and beauty is somewhere and sometime possible will continue to haunt him.
14.22.7.66, ExcerptListen 9 Mar 2019Too many individuals--and some of them are followers of this Quest--fail to remember the importance of simple prayer. There is not enough humbling of intellectual pride at the feet of the Higher Power and there is an obvious neglect of reverent worship in their attitudes and daily lives.
12.18.2.27Listen 10 Mar 2019It is our innate inertia which keeps us set in habitual outlooks and thus keeps us victims of our own past experience. We copy again every day what we did before, what we thought and felt before. We live in both the conscious and the subconscious memories, desires, fears which time has accumulated for us, and that the ego has created to bind us to itself…
13.19.4.171, ExcerptListen 11 Mar 2019The impulse which impels men to seek truth or find God comes from something higher than their ego.
6.8.4.361Listen 12 Mar 2019To make the result dependent on grace alone would be to deny the existence and power of the universal law of recompense. The need of effort can only be ignored by those who fail to see that it plays an indispensable part in all evolution, from the lowly physical to the lofty spiritual.
3.2.6.44Listen 13 Mar 2019It seems as if grace visits us at moments of its own choosing. That is the truth, but not the only truth. For study, practice of exercises, training, self-discipline, prayer, aspiration, and meditation also form a total effort which must attract grace as its reward eventually.
1.18.0.45Listen 14 Mar 2019These glimpses come quite fitfully. Rare is the person to whom the Light comes and stays, day after day, year after year. Most have to work on, with, and by themselves to convert this momentary experience into the ever-present feeling of living in the Overself.
14.22.8.100Listen 15 Mar 2019All men seek for truth either consciously and deliberately or unconsciously and blindly, but they can seek only according to their capacity and ability, circumstances and preparedness.
2.1.2.443Listen 16 Mar 2019Miguel de Molinos: ”The Soul is a pure Spirit and does not feel herself. Its acts are not perceptible.”
14.22.3.252Listen 17 Mar 2019A time comes when there is no need to try to practise the exercise, for the mantram wells up of its own accord. It then repeats itself automatically and silently in his mind alone…
4.4.6.64, ExcerptListen 18 Mar 2019In that moment of supreme sexual ecstasy, the most spiritually impoverished man gets a faded and fleeting glimpse of the love which inheres in the very nature of his higher Self. But whereas this glimpse merely torments him by its brevity and tantalizes him by its limited, faulty character, that higher impersonal love is eternal, unlimited, and supremely satisfying: it is indeed perfect love.
4.5.7.109Listen 19 Mar 2019… A nation without some genuine spiritual inspiration is a society without a spine. It will collapse when the big test comes.
12.17.7.63, ExcerptListen 20 Mar 2019His struggle for survival has ended. Henceforth his life has been entrusted to a higher power.
12.18.4.189Listen 21 Mar 2019I have seen upon the face of certain dying or just-deceased persons, an expression of joyous inner calm that reassures the sensitive onlooker not only about their inner condition at the time but also about death's aftermath.
6.9.1.102Listen 22 Mar 2019Whereas the Short Path is to be practised at all times and in all places, by continuous remembrance and constant self-recollectedness, the Long Path is to be practised at set times and in special places, by formal exercises.
15.23.5.109Listen 23 Mar 2019A man's refusal to allow spiritually intuitive feelings to awaken in him cannot obliterate the presence of the source of those feelings. He bears that presence ever within him and one day must reconcile himself willingly, knowingly, even yearningly, with it.
14.22.3.26Listen 24 Mar 2019… Harmony can be found only inside man himself, not in his relations with other men, and then only if insight is developed enough to track the ego down to its lair, expose it for what it is, and live in the peace of the Overself…
3.3.4.150, ExcerptListen 25 Mar 2019It is true that the nature of God is inscrutable and that the laws of God are inexorable. But it is also true that the God-linked soul of man is accessible and its intuitions available.
14.22.3.320Listen 26 Mar 2019The quest means disciplined emotions and disciplined living, sustained aspiration and nurtured intuition.
2.1.1.47Listen 27 Mar 2019There are disagreeable elements in our experience of life as well as pleasurable ones; but if we are ever to find peace of mind we must learn to put a reserve behind these feelings, to stand aside and scrutinize them, even in the midst of the events which produce them.
15.24.3.146Listen 28 Mar 2019There is a real need to balance our extreme tendency to activism with something of quietism, to offset our excessive doing with deeper being.
1.3.0.13Listen 29 Mar 2019We ought not to expect man to give what he is not yet ready to give. Only in the measure that he recognizes a higher purpose to be fulfilled will he renounce the ego which hinders that fulfilment.
12.18.4.77Listen 30 Mar 2019… To be severed from God is the only real sin.
4.4.6.21, ExcerptListen 31 Mar 2019
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