Day by day
The sum total of our past actions and thoughts, and especially of our tendencies, constitutes our character and makes us what we are today.
6.8.3.23Listen 1 Mar 2021… the bodily position in which the flash catches him should not be changed in any way. All kinds of excuses for such a change will be suggested by the ever restless lower mentality, but they should be resisted and refused. Even the pretext that it would be better to go to his usual place of meditation should be unacceptable. The contemplation should start and continue to its close in the very spot where the light first flashed …
14.22.8.107, ExcerptListen 2 Mar 2021… love must marry knowledge, pity must shed its warm rays upon the cold intellect. Enlightenment of others must be the price of one's own enlightenment …
5.6.1.60, ExcerptListen 3 Mar 2021He has first to find out what it is that keeps him from the higher self. And, this known, he will see the need and value of the philosophic discipline as a means of eliminating these obstacles.
13.20.3.77Listen 4 Mar 2021… the notion that life first attains individual self-consciousness in man is justified in philosophy and by experience. What is it of which he alone is conscious? It is of being himself, his ego. In all earlier stages of evolution, consciousness is entirely veiled in its forms and never becomes self-aware …
16.26.4.237, ExcerptListen 5 Mar 2021When the mind is clogged by memories, hoarded from the ego's past experience, it cannot free itself from the ego, and ”come home.”
6.8.4.74Listen 6 Mar 2021While the Long Path man is busy worrying about the evil in himself and in the world, the Short Path man is busy smiling at the good in the Overself and in the World-Idea.
15.23.5.33Listen 7 Mar 2021Salvation is for all, the atheist and the devotee, the wicked and good, the ignorant and learned, the indifferent and earnest. It is only the time of its realization that is far off or near at hand but realization itself is certain … The New Testament parallels the Bhagavad Gita's promise of ultimate salvation for all, sinners and good alike. It says: ”God willeth that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.” –1 Tim. 2:4.
12.17.1.192, ExcerptListen 8 Mar 2021There are deep places in men's hearts and minds into which they rarely venture. And yet treasures are hidden there—flashes of intuition, important revelations, extra strengths, and above all a peace out of this world.
14.22.3.226Listen 9 Mar 2021Emotion is an unreliable adviser but refined, purified, and liberated from egotism, it becomes transformed into intuition.
5.6.3.28Listen 10 Mar 2021The Long Path requires the aspirant to work on himself, make various reforms, practise certain exercises, and contribute his own personal efforts in various ways. But the Short Path is less concerned with what he does than with what is done to him. Why? Because it is the path of grace. He is to be passive, to receive.
15.23.5.107Listen 11 Mar 2021… the remembrance should become the unmoved pivot upon which the pendulum of external activity swings perpetually to and fro …
15.23.6.176, ExcerptListen 12 Mar 2021Hemmed in as he is by inheritances not only from his personal past history but also from society's, it would be futile to talk of having complete freedom of choice. But it would be an error in thought and conduct to behave as if he had no freedom at all. Some measure of it does exist, since in most of his situations, if not in all, he is always faced with at least two possible lines of choice—a higher and a lower one.
6.9.4.28Listen 13 Mar 2021In its own perfect silence and with its own perfect patience, the Overself awaits us.
14.22.3.84Listen 14 Mar 2021One must not be premature in demanding final union with the Overself. That comes only after years of all-round development. One must first prepare himself inwardly to receive it; only then may he expect the ultimate union. This preparation affects the whole personality—intellect, emotion, will, and intuition.
13.20.3.254Listen 15 Mar 2021If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others—to your family or friends, and to all those whom destiny draws across your path that day.
3.3.1.4Listen 16 Mar 2021Whoever approaches the Divine Source of all things comes into the aura of its Power and the perception of its Light.
14.22.4.156Listen 17 Mar 2021The contemplation of universal laws and metaphysical truth chastens the feelings and elevates the thoughts. This study causes man to forget himself, to turn aside from his little ego, and thus helps to clear a path to discovery of his Overself.
5.7.7.175Listen 18 Mar 2021The seeker on the Long Path tries to eliminate his baser feelings and to cultivate his nobler ones. But in all this effort he is looking at himself alone, purifying and improving his ego but still his own ego.
3.2.1.191Listen 19 Mar 2021He who knows and feels the divine power in his inmost being will be set free in the most literal sense of the word from anxieties and cares. He who has not yet arrived at this stage but is on the way to it can approach the same desirable result by the intensity of his faith in that being. But such a one must really have the faith and not merely say so. The proof that he possesses it would lie in the measure with which he refuses to accept negative thoughts, fearful thoughts, despondent thoughts …
13.20.3.97, ExcerptListen 20 Mar 2021When the divine is utterly forgotten in the press of daily activity, the negative, the foolish, and the self-weakening will be easily remembered.
3.3.2.55Listen 21 Mar 2021The tremendous event of dying and leaving the body does not interrupt his quest.
6.9.1.106Listen 22 Mar 2021The awareness that he existed on this planet made its grievous and troubled life more bearable, gave a little meaning to what seemed otherwise quite chaotic. For his own higher development reminded, nay assured, us that there was some sort of an evolution going on, that there was a goal and a purpose behind it all …
16.25.4.71, ExcerptListen 23 Mar 2021In theological language the Long Path stands for repentance from sin, the Short Path for faith in the Overself.
15.23.5.130Listen 24 Mar 2021Recollections of the desired or feared past snare you still further in the ego. Anticipation of a desired or feared future do the same. But by letting both go, living in the eternal Now, you weaken the ego.
13.19.4.191Listen 25 Mar 2021… all that the aspirant can hope to do is to thin down the volume of the ego's operations and to weaken the strength of the ego itself; but to get rid of the ego entirely is something beyond his own capacity. Consequently, an outside power must be called in. There is only one such power available to him … and that is the power of Grace …
6.8.4.424, ExcerptListen 26 Mar 2021Even if there were no joy in the realization of the Overself it would still be worth having, for it would still be richly loaded with other treasures. But the joy is also there and always there.
15.24.4.117Listen 27 Mar 2021The key word here is reverence. It ought to enter every remembrance and every meditation.
12.18.1.35Listen 28 Mar 2021Those who seek this mystic communion with the Overself, this sublime glimpse of its hidden face, must make the Quest their chosen path.
14.22.5.11Listen 29 Mar 2021To take advantage of the helplessness of so many animals when confronted by man's deadly weapons, cruel snares, or powerful contrivances is a sin. The karmic scales of life will read off an appropriate penalty for it. Ordinary human brutality to these creatures is bad enough but scientific brutality by vivisection is worse.
5.6.7.9Listen 30 Mar 2021The continuous remembrance of the Overself as the unseen background upon which the personal panorama unfolds itself enables us to keep a proper perspective upon events and affords us the final cure of troublesome ills.
15.23.6.248Listen 31 Mar 2021
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