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He need not torment himself trying to understand everything in the teaching, if he finds many parts too difficult. It is enough to start with what he can understand and apply that to daily living. This will lead later to increased intuitive capacity to receive such ideas as he had to pass by for the time being.
3.2.5.94Listen 1 Mar 2015... What we have done or desired in former incarnations predetermines a large part of the picture of our present one. Yet, the connection between this cause and this effect is unseen by us until someone else, a master of insight, shows it to us…
13.19.1.40, ExcerptListen 2 Mar 2015When his thoughts are brought into a stilled condition and his awareness fully introverted, a state resembling sleep will supervene but, unlike sleep, it will be illumined by consciousness.
15.23.7.40Listen 3 Mar 2015The true mystic is always pleased to learn that an individual has started upon the spiritual quest in earnest. He knows that nothing else in life will yield such satisfaction, especially in these times of world crisis when the need for inner support is greater than ever before. There cannot be any true or lasting outward form of security today.
2.1.1.148Listen 4 Mar 2015The divine presence is there, its power is consequently there too. He may avail himself of it by Grace. Let him look to it then. But where is he to see it? Jesus provides the clearest answer: The kingdom of heaven is within you. His hope of help can find its realization coming from one direction only--from the deeper part of his own self.
15.23.1.17Listen 5 Mar 2015The secret path is an attempt to establish a perfect and conscious relation between the human mind and that divinity which is its source.
2.1.1.21Listen 6 Mar 2015The universe was never created for the first time for it has always and incessantly appeared and disappeared, activated and rested, come forth, evolved, and retreated into latency.
16.26.1.171Listen 7 Mar 2015Just as the eye cannot see itself as a second thing apart, so the Overself (which you are) cannot objectify itself…
14.22.3.216, ExcerptListen 8 Mar 2015Whoever wishes to develop beyond the spiritual level of the mass of mankind must begin by changing the normal routine of mankind. He must reflect, pray, and meditate daily. He must scrutinize all his activities by the light of philosophy's values and ethics…
3.2.5.4, ExcerptListen 9 Mar 2015The Grace is always present since the Infinite Power, from which it originally comes, is always present.
12.18.5.25Listen 10 Mar 2015The earlier the age at which a man begins these studies and practices the better for him. To be born into a family where they already prevail, is to have an exceedingly good destiny. But however late in life anyone comes to them, it is never too late…
2.1.1.132, ExcerptListen 11 Mar 2015Among the benefits of old age is the fact that one can look back and try to comprehend what one had to do to uplift oneself in this lifetime. While one was involved in the experiences, their real lessons were too often obscured by unbalanced emotion or blocked by fast-held ego.
9.13.3.132Listen 12 Mar 2015When one is up against an especially difficult situation for which no immediate solution can be found, it will help him if he will use the time while waiting for the change--which will come--in order to deliberately cultivate greater patience and forebearance, as well as a more objective attitude.
3.2.3.130Listen 13 Mar 2015When Christ taught that he who would find his life must first lose it, he meant simply that one must first lose his attachments.
15.24.3.183Listen 14 Mar 2015Peace of mind can be enjoyed in this world: there is no need to wait for passage to the next one.
2.1.5.174Listen 15 Mar 2015All things contribute to the making of man--the history of his past and the climate of his land, the people among whom he is born, and his own particular tendencies. The most important is his karma.
6.9.2.21Listen 16 Mar 2015This last stage, where the presence and picture of the Master are displaced by the pictureless presence of the disciple's own spirit, is accurately described in the words of Jesus to his disciples: ”It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you . . . when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth.”...
16.25.5.285, ExcerptListen 17 Mar 2015... The great mass of humanity are moving in the right direction, despite appearances to the contrary, and they shall enter the kingdom of heaven one day. Do not doubt that; the guarantee is that they are in their hidden selves already divine.
7.11.1.22, ExcerptListen 18 Mar 2015When men come to understand that the law of compensation is not less real than the law of gravitation, they will profit immensely.
6.9.3.86Listen 19 Mar 2015The danger in both cases is in limiting one's efforts to the single path. It may invite disaster to give up trying to improve character just because one has taken to the Short Path. Yet it may invite frustration to limit one's efforts to such improvement. The wise balance which philosophy suggests is not to stop with either the Short or the Long Path but to use both together.
15.23.5.160Listen 20 Mar 2015He identifies himself with all the movements of thought, emotion, or passion--and thus misses his real being.
6.8.4.7Listen 21 Mar 2015The bedside notebook and pencil will be better used for the intuitions with which we may awake from deep sleep than for the pictures which may survive from dream.
13.19.3.91Listen 22 Mar 2015Aspiration which is not just a vague and occasional wish but a steady settled and intense longing for the Overself is a primary requirement. Such aspiration means the hunger for awareness of the Overself, the thirst for experience of the Overself, the call for union to the Overself. It is a veritable power which lifts one upward, which helps one give up the ego more quickly, and which attracts Grace. It will have these desirable effects in proportion to how intensely it is felt and how unmixed it is with other personal desires.
12.18.1.53Listen 23 Mar 2015We may dwell in mystical inner fellowship with God but we may not become as God…
16.25.1.55, ExcerptListen 24 Mar 2015The illuminatory experience may come to one who is without previous preparation, seeking, effort, or self-discipline. But if it comes so unexpectedly it leaves just as unexpectedly. The visitant is transient. The effects are permanent. If it be asked why it should come to such a person, who neither desired nor strove for it, when others are unable to secure it despite years of seeking, the answer must be that he worked for it in earlier lives. He has forgotten himself for an interval but the illumination recalls him to the quest even though it passes away: hence the permanency of its moral and mystical results.
14.22.7.217Listen 25 Mar 2015When he no longer looks only to the established tradition offered him by others but also and more deeply into his own inner consciousness, he is then following the way pointed to by Jesus and Buddha and Lao Tzu. For this is how and where the soul reveals itself.
12.17.3.83Listen 26 Mar 2015Even great men are not all great. How saddening to watch one fall into some negative feelings, born of the ego's limitations, into quite unnecessary embitterment, and pay for the fall with impaired health or personal trouble!
8.12.6.80Listen 27 Mar 2015Science suppresses the subject of experience and studies the object. Mysticism suppresses the object of experience and studies the subject. Philosophy suppresses nothing, studies both subject and object; indeed it embraces the study of all experience.
13.20.1.21Listen 28 Mar 2015One may experience a sense of loss if he has not recovered the degree of awareness achieved in previous incarnations.
6.9.2.110Listen 29 Mar 2015None of us can do more for our spiritual growth than to get out of its way! This business of trying to do something with the mind or practise some exercise with the body in order to come closer to the Overself is based on the Long Path belief that it is we who have the power to attain that desire and desirable state. But instead of trying to reach the Overself, why not let the Overself reach us? This can be done only if we will get out of its way.
15.23.5.235Listen 30 Mar 2015Henceforth he lives on and for the quest, killing in his heart all other desires.
12.18.1.69Listen 31 Mar 2015
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