Day by day
There is one quality which re-enters man when the spring season re-enters the yearly cycle. It is hope.
3.3.6.421 Apr 2011He will be an inspired man in his labours of spiritual service or artistic expression. He will be aware that a power greater than his own is working through him and affecting others. And he will know that this power comes from the secret God within himself.
14.22.2.922 Apr 2011The Overself is always present in man's heart. If he does not receive awareness of this fact in his mind, that is because he makes no proper and sustained effort to do so.
14.22.3.323 Apr 2011Death can open out higher possibilities to the man who leaves this existence in faith, who trusts the Overself and commits himself to its leading without clinging to the body which is being left.
6.9.1.1214 Apr 2011When the Grace has led him sufficiently far, he will be distinctly aware of an inner presence. It will think for him, feel for him, and even act for him. This is the beginning of, and what it means to have, an egoless life.
14.22.8.1125 Apr 2011The intuition must lead all the rest of man's faculties. He must follow it even when they do not agree with its guidance. For it sees farther than they ever can, being an efflux from the godlike part of himself which is in its way a portion of the universal deity. If he can be sure that it is not pseudo-intuition, truth in it will lead him to life's best, whether spiritual or worldly.
14.22.1.2466 Apr 2011The great experience is soon over; the released insight lasts but a few minutes or hours, but its memory lasts long. It is a delectable foretaste and warming anticipation of what his continued spiritual development may bring to man. It lifts him far above himself and out of his ordinary state of consciousness, yielding sharper understandings and creating deeper sympathies.
14.22.7.47 Apr 2011We live all the time in unfailing, if unconscious, union with the Overself.
14.22.3.348 Apr 2011... Mental peace is a fruit of the first and lowest degree of illumination, although thoughts will continue to arise although gently, and thinking in the discursive manner will continue to be active although slowly. But concentration will be sufficiently strong to detach him from the world and, as a consequence, to yield the happiness which accompanies such detachment…
16.25.2.97, Excerpt9 Apr 2011There is nothing wrong in the daily contact with the world, attending to duties, being practical, effective, even successful in profession, business, or other work, and rearing a family, provided all this is done within the remembrance of the higher power.
15.24.3.16310 Apr 2011He may be sure of this, that whatever action the Overself's leading causes him to take will always be for his ultimate good even though it may be to his immediate and apparent detriment.
14.22.1.27211 Apr 2011The Kingdom is within you, not somewhere else, not in an ashram, not even at the feet of a guru: Jesus' declaration is literally accurate.
2.1.3.8412 Apr 2011I began to enter consciously into the real ”I” and to comprehend by realization that it was always there, that nothing new had been found, and that this was eternal life.
14.22.3.3613 Apr 2011Everything that exists in time must also exist in change. The Overself does not exist in time and is not subject to change.
14.22.3.24614 Apr 2011The aspirant may have already discovered for himself some of the inner benefits of the Quest. Once the Overself has been experienced as a felt, living presence in the heart, it loosens the grip of egoistic desires--together with their emotional changes of mood--on one's consciousness and lifts it to a higher level, where he will soon become aware of a wonderful inner satisfaction which remains calm and unruffled despite outward circumstances to the contrary...
2.1.5.419, Excerpt15 Apr 2011... He has first to establish the connection with the Overself so that its strength and understanding will then rule him effortlessly. The moment this connection is established, the aspirant will become aware of results from the descent of Divine Grace upon his personality. Such a moment is unpredictable, but, for the individual who sticks to the Quest, its arrival is sure.
2.1.5.419, Excerpt16 Apr 2011A continuous insight, present all the time, is the goal, not a passing glimpse.
14.22.8.3517 Apr 2011... The mystery of Mind is a theme upon which no aspirant can ever reflect enough: first, because of its importance, and second, because of its capacity to unfold his latent spirituality...
16.28.2.100, Excerpt18 Apr 2011That beautiful state wherein the mind recognizes itself for what it is, wherein all activity is stilled except that of awareness alone, and even then it is an awareness without an object--this is the heart of the experience.
15.24.4.619 Apr 2011A sensitive person may be gently influenced by such beauty of Nature to pause and gaze, holding himself still for the while, admiring and appreciating the scene, until he is so absorbed that he is lost in it. The ego and its affairs retreat. Unwittingly he comes close to the delicious peace of the Overself.
3.3.6.10220 Apr 2011Constant reflection on metaphysical and ethical themes reaches a point where one day its accumulated weight pushes him around the corner into a mystical realization of those themes no less surely than meditation might have done.
5.7.7.221 Apr 2011By this grace the past's errors may be forgotten so that the present's healing may be accepted. In the joy of this grace, the misery of old mistakes may be banished forever. Do not return to the past--live only in the eternal Now--in its peace, love, wisdom, and strength.
12.18.5.7422 Apr 2011To use possessions while being inwardly detached from them, to work as actively as if one had the ambition to succeed while all the time as indifferent toward success as toward failure--this is part of the freedom he seeks and gains.
3.2.7.18323 Apr 2011So stick to this quest with the iron determination not to stop until you have realized the truth. Don't worry about the remoteness of the goal; leave all the results to fate and do the best you can. With proper guidance the goal can be brought infinitely nearer than it seems. Those who know truth want to share it; what else do they care for? Make up your mind and progress from can't to can!
8.12.4.22824 Apr 2011Too much remembrance of the world leads to too much forgetfulness of the higher purpose of our life in the world.
8.12.4.14525 Apr 2011When he is willing to let go of the self-centered ego and the grace can manifest, there may be this union with his higher nature, with the Overself. It is usually not a permanent experience but the possibility of its becoming one is always there. Then the new outlook seems perfectly natural.
14.22.8.3326 Apr 2011The revelation wells up slowly, quietly, deeply; it is unfaltering and continues so long as he does not interrupt or interfere with it by his own thoughts. It is really his own innermost guide and guru, his higher self.
14.22.6.40027 Apr 2011The duty to which we are called is not to propagate ideas but to offer them, not to convert reluctant minds but to satisfy hungry ones... There are individuals today to whom these teachings are unknown but who possess in the deeper levels of their mind latent tendencies and beliefs, acquired in former lives, which will leap into forceful activity as soon as the teaching is presented to them.
13.20.2.1628 Apr 2011Whoever has benefited by these ideas is under an obligation to make them available to whoever else may be ready to receive them...
8.12.4.28, Excerpt29 Apr 2011There is no such act as a one-sided self-giving. Karma brings us back our due. He who spends his life in the dedicated service of philosophic enlightenment may reject the merely material rewards that this service could bring him, but he cannot reject the beneficent thoughts, the loving remembrances, the sincere veneration which those who have benefited sometimes send him...
16.25.3.552, Excerpt30 Apr 2011
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