Day by day
You are to hate nobody but to extend to everybody the sincere hand of goodwill, to bless all because in your own heart the conscious presence of the Overself has itself blessed you…
3.2.7.95, ExcerptListen 1 Apr 2012Concealed behind the passing dream of life there is a world of lasting reality. All men awaken at the moment of death but only a few men are able to resist falling at once into the astral dream. These are the few who sought to die to their lower selves whilst they were still alive. These are the mystics who enter reality.
6.9.1.66Listen 2 Apr 2012The concentration upon the glimpse must be full, complete, and sustained. If, for only a single moment, he allows his attention to be diverted toward some outer thing or person, or to be divided with some inner idea, the glimpse may instantly disappear.
14.22.5.168Listen 3 Apr 2012... The ego cannot, indeed, be destroyed so long as we need its services while in the flesh; but it can be subjugated and turned into a servant instead of permitting it to remain a master... The real enemy to be overcome is not the entity ego, but the function of egoism.
6.8.1.206, ExcerptListen 4 Apr 2012To turn one's mind instantly towards the divinity within, when in the presence of discordant people, is to silence harsh thoughts and to banish hurtful feelings. This frequent turning inward is necessary not only for spiritual growth, but for self-protection. Everything and everyone around us plays a potent influence upon our minds, and this is the best means of detaching oneself from this ceaseless flow of suggestions.
15.24.3.53Listen 5 Apr 2012Jesus did not answer when malignment and malediction were hurled upon him. Buddha kept silence when vilification and abuse were uttered against him. These great souls did not live in the ego and therefore did not care to defend it.
15.24.3.79Listen 6 Apr 2012Until the time his karma brings him the indwelling Master, the seeker must continue to prepare for what will then happen. He must seek to uncover and uproot all faults and characteristic weaknesses. He must resolve to achieve the best life--that is, one that exemplifies truth, goodness, and beauty. He must understand well the proper values to be attached to worldly matters and to spiritual ones. He must face the difficulties of everyday life with courage and with the knowledge gleaned from his study.
3.2.5.55Listen 7 Apr 2012The man that is made in the image of God is not physical man or desire-filled man or thought-breeding man but he who dwells behind all these--silent, serene, and unnoticed.
16.26.4.74Listen 8 Apr 2012Every life in the fleshly body represents an opportunity to obtain spiritual realization because man can only discover his divinity to the fullest whilst in the waking state.
2.1.1.128Listen 9 Apr 2012... The World-Mind is hidden deep within our individual minds. The World-Idea begets all our knowledge. Whoever seeks aright finds the sacred stillness inside and the sacred activity in the universe.
16.26.1.220, ExcerptListen 10 Apr 2012It is not the animal needs and their gratification but the realization of our divine possibilities which is the hidden justification of our presence in this world.
2.1.1.167Listen 11 Apr 2012It is the strength or feebleness of our intuition which determines the grade of our spiritual evolution. What begins as a gentle surrender to intuition for a few minutes, one day resolves into a complete surrender of the ego to the Overself for all time.
14.22.1.35Listen 12 Apr 2012We draw the very capacity to live from the Overself, the very power to think from the same source. But we confine both the capacity and the power to a small, fragmentary, and mostly physical sphere. Within this confinement the ego sits enthroned, served by our senses and pandered by our thoughts.
6.8.1.110Listen 13 Apr 2012When man shall discover the hidden power within himself which enables him to be conscious and to think, he will discover the holy spirit, the ray of Infinite Mind lighting his little finite mind.
14.22.3.181Listen 14 Apr 2012... The mysterious intrusion of Grace may change the course of events. It introduces new possibilities, a different current of destiny…
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 15 Apr 2012The effects of enlightenment include: an imperturbable detachment from outer possessions, rank, honours, and persons; an overwhelming certainty about truth; a carefree, heavenly peace above all disturbances and vicissitudes; an acceptance of the general rightness of the universal situation, with each entity and each event playing its role; and impeccable sincerity which says what it means, means what it says.
16.25.2.255Listen 16 Apr 2012... The day will come when science, waking more fully than it is now from its materialistic sleep, will confess humbly that the soul of man does really exist…
2.1.2.1, ExcerptListen 17 Apr 2012Ordinarily, ample time is needed to accumulate data and deliberate properly before correct decisions or judgements can be made. None of this is necessary to make them intuitively, for the intuition itself operates out of time and beyond thought.
14.22.1.46Listen 18 Apr 2012In the effacement of his own egoism, brought about by a double discipline--first, the constant shaping of the character and second, learning to live in the deepest silence of meditation--he will allow the Overself to act within and through him.
3.2.4.14Listen 19 Apr 2012A day may come when builders and architects will make a small room for silence and meditation a part of every structure--be it residential or business.
3.3.1.166Listen 20 Apr 2012”Be still, and know that I am God,” sings the Biblical Psalmist. This simply means that the movement of thoughts and emotions is to be brought to an end by entering the deepest degree of contemplation…
15.23.7.176Listen 21 Apr 2012The concept of the Overself's presence among us originated with the ancients but is validated by modern experience. This experience of the Overself provides the best evidence of its existence and reality: no other is needed…
8.12.3.20, ExcerptListen 22 Apr 2012This is the paradox: that both the capacity to think deeply and the capacity to withdraw from thinking are needed to attain this goal.
13.20.4.68Listen 23 Apr 2012... Once he has committed himself to this quest, he will find that events so arrange themselves as to indicate his sincerity, examine his motives, display his weaknesses, and find out his virtues. His devotion to the philosophic ideal will be tested, his loyalty to the goal will be tried.
3.2.3.70, ExcerptListen 24 Apr 2012It would be completely false to regard the Void as being a nothing and containing nothing. It is Being itself, and contains reality behind all things. Nor is it a kind of inertia, of paralysis. All action springs out of it, all the world-forces derive from it.
16.28.1.118Listen 25 Apr 2012Once he recognizes his responsibility toward the fulfilment of this higher purpose, for which the Infinite Wisdom has put him here, he will have to recognize also the obligation of devoting some time every day for study of, and meditation upon, it…
3.2.8.22, ExcerptListen 26 Apr 2012All human beings on this planet are imperfect. Perfection is not fully attainable here. But when a man has striven for it and advanced near to it, he will attain it automatically as soon as he is freed from the body.
16.25.2.110Listen 27 Apr 2012Those who will take the trouble to comprehend what all this means, and who will do what they can to practise the requisite exercises, will find with increasing joy that new life opening up to them.
2.1.5.388Listen 28 Apr 2012There is a strange feeling that not he but somebody else is living and talking in the same body. It is somebody nobler and wiser than his own ego.
14.22.2.78Listen 29 Apr 2012The entity which lives in the spirit world after death is the same ego that dwelt on earth, emanating from and sustained by the same Overself. In this relationship, they are still distinct and separate entities, even though as intimately connected as parent and offspring.
6.8.1.236Listen 30 Apr 2012
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