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The divine soul dwells in every man. Therefore, every man may find it, if only he will apply the faculties he possesses.
2.1.2.448Listen 1 Apr 2017These glimpses come upon us unawares, inadvertently as it were. There is no higher experience in our past to compare with them, and no lovelier.
14.22.4.109Listen 2 Apr 2017… Consider what happens when we become intensely interested in a story unfolding itself on a cinema screen. What happens during the deepest points of such concentration? For the time being we actually forget ourselves, and we drop the whole burden of personal memories, relations, desires, anxieties, and pettinesses which constitute the ego. Temporarily the I is transcended. The attainment of the Overself is nothing more than the ability to detach, not destroy, the ego at will…
3.2.3.29, ExcerptListen 3 Apr 2017The ego is an object. The mind knows only objects. Therefore man does not know himself when he knows only ego.
6.8.2.74Listen 4 Apr 2017… There is very little that an individual can do about the world's spiritual condition, but there is a great deal that he can do to improve his own. The more he can understand the universal laws by increasing his knowledge of them, the better he will understand that even in the darkest times, when evil seems to be triumphant, still that is only temporary and limited because only the good can triumph in the end.
9.13.4.427, ExcerptListen 5 Apr 2017Out of this stillness will come the light he seeks, the guide he needs, the strength he requires.
15.24.4.137Listen 6 Apr 2017Look for the moment when grace intervenes. Do not, in ignorance, fail to intercept it, letting it pass by unheeded and therefore lost. There is a feeling of mystery in this moment which, if lingered with, turns to sacredness. This is the signal; seek to be alone, let go of everything else, cease other activities, begin not meditation but contemplation, the thought-free state.
15.23.7.246Listen 7 Apr 2017When a man becomes tired of hearing someone else tell him that he has a soul, and sets out to gain firsthand experience of it for himself, he becomes a mystic…
2.1.2.187, ExcerptListen 8 Apr 2017The very nature of reincarnation prevents anyone from completely proving it. But there is no other theory that is so reasonable to help us understand our evolution, history, capacity, genius, character, and inequality; no other so useful to help us solve the great problem of why we are here on earth at all…
6.9.2.95, ExcerptListen 9 Apr 2017The most valuable metaphysical fruit of the quantum theory is its finding that the processes of the universe which occur in space and time, emanate from what is fundamentally not in space and time.
13.19.4.18Listen 10 Apr 2017The world will change, and change for the better, when we put our schools in order, when we educate our children less in geography and more in unselfishness, less in history and more in high character, less in a dozen other subjects and more in the art of right living.
9.13.2.654Listen 11 Apr 2017He may deceive himself or others, but he cannot deceive the power of karma. Before it, he must stand responsible for his acts and receive their due effects. There is no other way he can go.
6.9.3.53Listen 12 Apr 2017Out of his own nature and in conformity with the universal plan, a stream of influences flows over him out of the past and forces his acts and thoughts to take a certain direction. He may believe that he is following this direction quite independently and freely. In this incapacity to see how limited is his present freedom lies his subtlest illusion.
6.9.4.18Listen 13 Apr 2017… It is not in the nature of our godlike inmost self to feel depressed, to suffer melancholy, or to express worry. If we are to turn to that nature as our true being and basis for living, we will reject these negatives.
9.13.1.370, ExcerptListen 14 Apr 2017… The path may be a long one, but when success comes it comes unexpectedly and the final stages are short and rapid…
3.2.2.49, ExcerptListen 15 Apr 2017Your karma is being speeded up; everything is being accelerated to a certain extent. This is necessary for a period to bring quicker progress through forcing different parts of mind and character into activity. Think how much has been accomplished since you took up these studies. Look back to your state of mind before that.
6.9.3.177Listen 16 Apr 2017The inhabitants of each planet belong to different stages of evolution: some higher and some lower. This applies not only to the human inhabitants but also to the animal and even the plant inhabitants. They pass in great waves from one planet to another at certain stages of this evolution, going where they can find the most appropriate conditions either for expression of their present stage or for the stimulation of their next immediate stage. Consequently the stragglers and laggards who fall behind pass to a planet where the conditions are of a lower nature, for there they are more at home. On the other hand, the pioneers who have outstripped the mass and can find no conditions suitable for their further development pass to a planet in a higher stage.
16.26.4.236Listen 17 Apr 2017Consciousness is the unique element in every experience…
3.2.3.29, ExcerptListen 18 Apr 2017In such critical times as these even some faith in the existence of a higher power, and some aspiration towards serving it, has protective value.
7.11.4.101Listen 19 Apr 2017The animal part of us is doomed to oblivion, the spiritual part is ageless and deathless. The physical body belongs to the animal part. All attempts to perpetuate it must fail and arise from confusing the two levels of being, the transient and the eternal.
7.10.1.36Listen 20 Apr 2017One of the helps to kindle this spark into a flame is the reading of inspired literature, whether scripture or not--the mental association through books with men who have themselves been wholly possessed by this love.
2.1.6.109Listen 21 Apr 2017Both Shankara and Ramana Maharshi blame identification with the body as ignorance, which the first says results in no hope of liberation and the second says is the root cause of all trouble. What they say is unquestionably so. But what else can happen in the beginning except this identification? It is the first kind of identity anyone knows. His error is that he stays at this point and makes no attempt to inquire further. If he did--in a prolonged, sustained, and continued effort--he would eventually find the truth: knowledge would replace ignorance.
6.8.4.384Listen 22 Apr 2017The divine soul in us is utterly above and unaffected by the sense impressions. If we become conscious of it, we also become conscious of a supersensual order of existence.
14.22.3.343Listen 23 Apr 2017We have to learn to recognize the individual self, the person, the ego, as a mind-made thing and therefore to withdraw from it, away from it, to put space between ourselves and it, and to detach ourselves more and more and more from it. As this process develops we come more and more into the Truth, the enlightenment.
6.8.4.190Listen 24 Apr 2017The third stage —- contemplation — is successfully reached when he forgets the world outside, when he neither sees nor touches it, neither hears nor smells it with his body, when memory and personality dissolve in a vacuum as the attention is wholly and utterly absorbed in the thought of, and identity with, the Overself.
15.23.7.58Listen 25 Apr 2017The ego must be there, for it is needed to be active in this world; but it need not take sole charge of the man. There is this other, this higher Self too.
6.8.1.39Listen 26 Apr 2017When you have trained yourself to empty your consciousness of its thoughts at will, your worries will naturally be emptied along with them. This is one of the valuable practical fruits of yoga.
15.24.4.114Listen 27 Apr 2017There are three signs, among others, of the Soul's presence in a Soul-denying generation. They are: moral conscience, artistic imagination, and metaphysical speculation.
14.22.3.417Listen 28 Apr 2017The ego is just as powerful whether it is condoned or condemned, for in both cases it keeps the man engaged on a self-centered quest.
6.8.3.55Listen 29 Apr 2017This wrong self-identification is not only a metaphysical error but also a mental habit. We may correct the error intellectually but we shall still have to deal with the habit. So deeply ingrained is it that only a total effort can successfully alter it. That effort is called the Quest.
1.1.0.37Listen 30 Apr 2017
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