Day by day
The seeker must remember that his Real Guide is his own divine Soul, or Higher Self; that it is This which led him to his present stage of awareness, whilst my books were merely used as instruments. It is to this Self that he should address his prayers and petitions for Grace and Guidance.
8.12.4.65Listen 1 Apr 2023In that peace-filled oblivion of the lesser self there is renewal of life and rebirth of goodness in, and by, the Overself.
15.24.4.148Listen 2 Apr 2023There is so much power and light in these quiet periods that the public ignorance of meditation is more than regrettable.
3.3.1.137Listen 3 Apr 2023As a highly personal “I” competing against other “I”s, there can be only endless friction and intermittent anxiety. As impersonal I-ness, dwelling in the eternal Now, there are none to compete against and nothing even to compete for.
6.8.4.448Listen 4 Apr 2023Jesus’ saying “Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest” means: “Cast aside your burden of attachments, desires, thoughts; then the real I-nature will alone be left, and you will have true peace, rest from the ego’s heaviness.”
15.24.3.185Listen 5 Apr 2023It is significant that animals tend to live in herds. As man matures, he reaches more and more individuality.
16.26.4.205Listen 6 Apr 2023Through all this range of experience, human consciousness is evolving, is coming closer to the level where it will be able to take the next step forward and upward …
9.13.4.44, ExcerptListen 7 Apr 2023The Long Path expresses a partial truth. The Short Path expresses another—although higher—partial truth. Bring the two parts together and the result will be that whole truth which man must have for the adequate guidance of his life.
15.23.5.153Listen 8 Apr 2023It was enough for an ancient prophet to state the truth. Today he must do more than that: he must state the reasons why it is true.
12.17.7.11Listen 9 Apr 2023In this brief interval when he feels himself to be in the presence of the Overself, when goodwill, peace, and wisdom become living eternal realities rather than mere mocking words, the littleness vanishes from life and a sacred grandeur replaces it.
14.22.6.70Listen 10 Apr 2023In the search for guidance when we have to make a momentous decision, or take an important step, it is well to go into the “Silence” with our problem …
14.22.1.118, ExcerptListen 11 Apr 2023The enlightened man may outwardly appear to live like others, a normal and ordinary life, but whether he does so or not, there will always be this vital difference between him and ordinary men: that he never forgets his true nature.
13.20.5.82Listen 12 Apr 2023The Overself is there and in its presence he becomes indifferent to the praise of friends or the venom of enemies.
14.22.3.165Listen 13 Apr 2023The human being cannot go farther in its pilgrimage than the discovery of his own origin, his Overself.
16.25.1.104Listen 14 Apr 2023We shall discover the truth about what we really are in the measure that we discover the error of believing that we are the ego and nothing more. This discovery will take effect and bring us on the way towards realization and liberation only to the extent that we live it, for philosophy is not philosophy unless it is practised in life.
6.8.4.40Listen 15 Apr 2023The modern struggle for existence is nothing new. It is the same sky and the same world of pre-historic times. The scenes have been changed only in details; the actors, men and women, remain the same but they are now more experienced. Incessant struggle has ever been the lot of the human race.
6.9.3.261Listen 16 Apr 2023… The spiritual darkness of the human race is the real root of its external troubles. Only its spiritual illumination will really remove those troubles permanently …
9.13.4.259, ExcerptListen 17 Apr 2023L.C. Soper: ”The mind has to be still, not made still. Effort only leads to a rigid mind. When it realizes the futility of effort to penetrate to reality, the mind becomes still. There is only a self-forgetting attentiveness.”
15.23.7.168Listen 18 Apr 2023Philosophy affirms, not on the basis of theoretical speculation but on that of direct experience, that every human being has a divine soul from which it draws life, consciousness, and intelligence.
13.20.1.59Listen 19 Apr 2023When we come to know more fully and more really what we are, we have to bow, humbled, in heartfelt adoration of the Mind of the World.
12.18.3.18Listen 20 Apr 2023Genuine philosophy is a living force actively at work in molding the character and modifying the destiny of its votaries.
13.20.1.61Listen 21 Apr 2023The dictionary defines individuality as separate and distinct existence. Both the ego and the Overself have such an existence. But whereas the ego has this and nothing more, the Overself has this consciousness within the universal existence. That is why we have called it the higher individuality.
14.22.3.394Listen 22 Apr 2023Will the West ever admit the notion of karma to its mind? I feel assured that it will do so. This is because it will have to admit the idea of rebirth which, once accepted, introduces karma as its twin.
6.9.3.102Listen 23 Apr 2023As a serious Quaker, John Woolman was, as he himself wrote, “a man taught to wait in silence, sometimes many weeks together, until he hears God’s voice.”
15.24.4.142Listen 24 Apr 2023A few minutes every day for relaxing the thoughts and feelings will help one to endure the harassments of time and activity. A little study now and then will reveal the Higher Purpose behind it all—and there is one!
3.3.1.169Listen 25 Apr 2023Many will dispute this possibility, but it is certainly possible for your higher self to guide and instruct you directly—through and within yourself. It is not an existence far apart from yourself.
14.22.3.148Listen 26 Apr 2023In every affair he knows where he stands, but more in the sense that he listens and obeys the higher guidance than in any other.
16.25.3.297Listen 27 Apr 2023… If anything may be predicted of the age which we are entering, it is that the tempo of change will be tremendously accelerated, and that new inventions and new ideas will come quickly and plentifully to the front.
9.13.4.267, ExcerptListen 28 Apr 2023A meatless diet is advisable for aspirants, where circumstances permit, as the brain fed on it is less resistant to meditation.
4.5.3.9Listen 29 Apr 2023There is no doubt that the man who has completely mastered relaxation can let it pass into meditation more easily and quickly than the man who has not.
3.3.3.27Listen 30 Apr 2023
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