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Know Consciousness without its objects--and you are free!
14.22.5.67Listen 1 Apr 2013If he asks himself: What are the ultimate values of human life?--and if he clearly answers this question--he will find himself able to answer most of the immediate questions which concern the strategic policies, tactical details, and practical problems of human life…
3.2.4.48, ExcerptListen 2 Apr 2013We achieve a total surrender of the ego only when we cease to identify ourselves with it. In this aspiration is the key to a practical method of achievement.
12.18.4.117Listen 3 Apr 2013All metaphysical study and all mystical exercises are but preparations for this flash of reality across the sky of consciousness which is here termed insight. The latter is therefore the most important experience which awaits a human being on this earth…
13.20.4.155, ExcerptListen 4 Apr 2013The promptings that come from this inner being are so faintly heard at first, however strong on their own plane, that we tend to disregard them as trivial. This is the tragedy of man. The voices that so often mislead him into pain-bringing courses--his passion, his ego, and blind intellect--are loud and clamant. The whisper that guides him aright and to God is timid and soft.
14.22.1.201Listen 5 Apr 2013Once the Overself is felt in the heart as a living presence, it raises the consciousness out of the grip of the egoistic-desire parts of our being, frees it from the ups and downs of mood and emotion which they involve. It provides a sense of inner satisfaction that is complete in itself and irrespective of outside circumstances.
14.22.3.104Listen 6 Apr 2013The man who is established in the Overself cannot be deflected from the calm which it gives into passions, angers, hatreds, and similar base things. Calmness has become his natural attitude.
15.24.2.113Listen 7 Apr 2013When one is allowed a glimpse of the World-Idea, he feels that he understands at last why he came here, what he has to do, and where his place is. It is like an immense enlargement of the mind, an escape from the littleness of the ego, and a finding-out of a long-hidden secret.
16.26.4.121Listen 8 Apr 2013The universe comes forth from the World-Mind, from its own being and its own substance. Therefore the universe is divine, therefore God is present in every atom and likewise in every one of us. Whoever denies the existence of God denies the very essence of his own self.
16.27.2.37Listen 9 Apr 2013The beauty we see in a single flower points to a MIND capable of thinking such beauty. In the end Nature and Art point to God.
3.3.6.1Listen 10 Apr 2013The wise man lets the Overself's presence flow through his life, never blocks it by his ego nor turns it aside by his passions.
14.22.2.63Listen 11 Apr 2013The refinement and evolution of a human being requires not only a cultivation of his intellectual faculties, not only of his heart qualities, but also of his aesthetic faculties. All should be trained together at the same time. A love of the beautiful in nature and art, in sunsets and pictures, in flowers and music, lifts him nearer the ideal of perfection.
3.2.5.43Listen 12 Apr 2013Where the heart goes, there soon or late the other faculties will follow. This is why it is so important to let the Overself take possession of the heart by its total surrender in, and to, the Stillness.
15.24.4.90Listen 13 Apr 2013If the mind can reach a state where it is free from its own ideas, projections, and wishes, it can reach true happiness.
15.24.1.77Listen 14 Apr 2013There is only this one Mind. All else is a seeming show on its surface. To forget the ego and think of this infinite and unending reality is the highest kind of meditation.
16.28.2.102Listen 15 Apr 2013The master will teach with love what the student must learn with reverence.
2.1.6.553Listen 16 Apr 2013This idea, or belief, that we must go somewhere, meet someone, read something, to accomplish life's best fulfilment is the first and last mistake. In the end, as in the beginning, we have nothing else to do except obey the ancient command to LOOK WITHIN.
4.4.1.7Listen 17 Apr 2013... Every verbal explanation really fails to explain the Overself unless and until we know it for ourself within ourself and as ourself.
5.7.8.2, ExcerptListen 18 Apr 2013Life in the flesh is a gift if we are using it rightly but it becomes a curse if we are not. Every incarnation should be used to help one get somewhat farther in doing this job of achieving an Overself-inspired existence.
6.9.2.227Listen 19 Apr 2013All our ordinary experience comes to us through sense responses or intellectual workings. But here is a kind of experience which does not come through these two channels. It is not a series of sensations nor a series of thoughts. What is it, then? Philosophy says it belongs to the transcendental world.
14.22.4.5Listen 20 Apr 2013Human experience is our laboratory for higher experiment. The world is our school for spiritual discovery. The vicissitudes of personal circumstance are our field for ethical achievement…
9.13.1.2, ExcerptListen 21 Apr 2013The would-be philosopher should not feel bound by labels, categories, and other fences which people want to put on others simply because they themselves live quite willingly surrounded by such fences and cannot understand someone who refuses to do so. Philosophy is a path which ends in the pathless--a way to the inner freedom which comes with truth.
13.20.1.153Listen 22 Apr 2013When we come at last to perceive that all this vast universe is a thought-form and when we can feel our own source to be the single and supreme principle in and through which it arises, then our knowledge has become final and perfect.
13.21.5.178Listen 23 Apr 2013This is the wonder of the Short Path--that it teaches us to refuse at once every thought which seeks to identify us with the feeble and unworthy self. This is the gladness of the Short Path--that it urges us to accept and hold only those thoughts which identify us directly with the strong and divine Overself, or which reflect its goodness and wisdom.
15.23.1.143Listen 24 Apr 2013In those moments when he touches the still centre of his being, he forgets his miseries and enjoys its happiness. This provides a clue to the correct way to find real happiness, which so many are seeking and so few are finding. It lies within.
15.24.1.79Listen 25 Apr 2013Thinking is mental action, just as moving is physical action. The admonition Be still and know that I am God refers not only to the body but also to the mind. Both are to cease from activity if the higher consciousness is to be attained.
15.24.4.86Listen 26 Apr 2013The man who, according to the Bible, is made in the image of God is not the earthly man, visible to all and speaking in a voice that sounds in physical ears. He is to be found in the deep centre of consciousness, where there is only a Void, and he speaks in silence to the attentive mind, not to other persons.
16.26.4.73Listen 27 Apr 2013Too much absorption with outward things, too little with inner life, creates the unbalance we see everywhere today. The attention given by people to their outer circumstances amounts almost to obsession.
3.3.2.118Listen 28 Apr 2013You may believe in a religion, but it is not enough to believe in philosophy; you have also to learn it. Nor can it be learnt through the head alone, it has also to be learnt through the heart and the will. Therefore, do not expect to master it within a few years but allot your whole lifetime for this task.
3.2.9.64Listen 29 Apr 2013The rites and forms of religion arise logically from the point of view that God is separate from, and external to, the creatures in the universe. Hence the worship of, and communion with, God must be an external affair too. The theories and exercises of mysticism, however, arise from the point of view that God is internally linked to all creatures.
11.16.1.43Listen 30 Apr 2013
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