Day by day
What is newer than a new dawning day? What a chance it offers for the renewing of life too! And how better to do this than to take a positive affirmative Declaration like, I Am Infinite Peace! as the first morning thought, and to hold it, and hold on to it, for those first few minutes which set the day's keynote? Then, whatever matters there will be to attend, or pressing weighty duties to be fulfilled, we shall carry our peace into the midst of them.
4.4.6.113Listen 1 Apr 2015... Let the ego be passive to the intuitive influences so that actions are dictated by them without interference from it, rather than by aggressive desires, and hence become karma-free…
15.24.3.290, ExcerptListen 2 Apr 2015It is a strange fact to which science as well as philosophy, experience as well as intuition, can testify, that thought from one mind can be brought into another mind, that the feeling of one man may affect the feeling of another without the use of written message or spoken word. If there were no common mind among all men, this could never happen, could never have been possible. If they were not all rooted in a universal consciousness, however secret and hidden it be, such silent transmission between their individual consciousnesses could never have been possible.
11.16.14.57Listen 3 Apr 2015... He who depends on externals plays dice with his happiness. He who depends on his own Overself attains unfailing serenity.
15.24.3.279, ExcerptListen 4 Apr 2015The illumination is possible for all men because they are incarnate in human and not animal forms. But all men are not willing to pay its price in mental control and emotional subjugation.
2.1.5.131Listen 5 Apr 2015... No man is so down, so sinful, so weak, or so beaten that he may not make a fresh start. Let him adopt a childlike attitude, placing himself in the hands of his higher self, imploring it for guidance and Grace. He should repeat this at least daily, and even oftener. Then let him patiently wait and carefully watch for the intuitive response during the course of the following weeks or months…
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 6 Apr 2015... Fate provides him with difficulties from which it is often not possible to escape. But what must be borne may be borne in either of two ways. He may adjust his thinking so that the lessons of the experience are well learnt. Or he may drop it, for he need not carry the burden of anxiety, and remember the story of the man in the railway carriage who kept his trunk on his shoulders instead of putting it down and letting the train carry it. So let him put his trunk of trouble down and let the Overself carry it.
15.24.3.264, ExcerptListen 7 Apr 2015We came to this earth to understand ourselves, bit by bit.
6.8.1.162Listen 8 Apr 2015It is quite possible to visit in dream a place where the individual has not been during his present and waking life. This is not a trick of the mind; rather it is one of the powers of the mind to be able to see or be at a distance from the body.
13.19.3.83Listen 9 Apr 2015... He must pray first to be liberated from the heavy thraldom of the senses, the desires, and the thoughts. He must pray next for the conscious presence of the Overself... His yearning for such liberation and such presence must be unquestionably sincere and unquestionably strong... The Overself is not merely a concept - but a living reality…
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 10 Apr 2015The soul in man, the Overself, is linked with, or rooted in, the soul in the universe, the World-Mind.
16.25.1.11Listen 11 Apr 2015With this larger outlook comes a larger acceptance of the past, of bygone deeds and thoughts, however one may regret actions or feel guilty or embarrassed about emotions. For if there is to be a forgiveness of others, there must also be forgiveness of one's self. And if one has outgrown one's past self, it should be as if one were looking upon another being, a stranger being.
13.19.2.56Listen 12 Apr 2015Thought, feeling, and will are the three sides of a human being which must find their respective functions in this quest. Thought must be directed to the discrimination of truth from error, reality from appearance. Feeling must be elevated in loving devotion towards the Overself. Will must be turned towards wise action and altruistic service. And all three must move in effective unison and mutual balance.
13.20.3.111Listen 13 Apr 2015Epictetus helps us to understand, and our intellect to define, the Overself. ”Do you not know,” he says, ”that you carry a god within you? . . . You are a distinct portion of the essence of God and contain a part of Him within yourself.”
14.22.3.335Listen 14 Apr 2015We who find ourselves in old age with brittle bones and shrunken flesh, with wrinkled face and greyed hair, may find this a depressing experience. But like every other situation in life there is another way to look at it--perhaps in compensation for what we suffer. And that is to sum up the lessons of a lifetime and prepare ourselves for the next incarnation so that we shall better perform the necessary work on ourselves when that comes.
6.9.1.44Listen 15 Apr 2015Imagine a brilliant white light shining forth in the heart and spreading into the entire body.
4.4.5.19Listen 16 Apr 2015Such a goal may be unappealing to many, held by their attachments as they are; but it is fascinating and alluring to a few, ”old souls,” much experienced after a long series of earthly lives, whose values have been altered, whose glamours and illusions have been eliminated. They feel like wanderers returning home.
2.1.5.138Listen 17 Apr 2015When we come to see that it is the body alone that expresses the coming into life and the going into death, that in the true self there is neither a beginning nor an ending but rather LIFE itself, we shall see aright.
14.22.3.345Listen 18 Apr 2015... It is because thinking must always have an object with which to occupy itself that it can never penetrate the Overself, for here there is only the One. We must renounce thoughts and things if we would enter into the Absolute…
5.7.8.2, ExcerptListen 19 Apr 2015... If it is true that Divine Grace alone can bring the quest to a successful terminus, it is likewise true that human effort must precede and thus invoke the descent of Grace. What is needed to call down Grace is, first, a humility that is utter and complete, deeply earnest and absolutely sincere, secondly, an offering of self to the Overself, a dedication of earthly being to spiritual essence, and, thirdly, a daily practice of devotional exercise…
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 20 Apr 2015It is a whisper which comes out of the utter silence, a light which glimmers where all was sable night. It is the mysterious herald of the Overself.
12.18.5.12Listen 21 Apr 2015Wang Yang-ming's disciples often remarked, The streets are full of enlightened men! By this they reiterated their Master's teaching that all men have the possibility of attaining enlightenment because all have the divine self hidden under their egoism.
16.25.1.27Listen 22 Apr 2015When the Long Path work has been done to the point that it bores, depresses, or satiates him, admission must be made that he had better leave it for a while. Here is a turning point where the Short Path must be entered both for relief and for a fresh outlook.
15.23.4.162Listen 23 Apr 2015Again and again he will have the extraordinary sensation of looking down at the game of human life as from a peak-like mental elevation. He will see the players--millions of them--vehemently struggling for trivial aims and painfully striving for futile ones. He sees how paltry is the sum-total of each individual life-activity, how bereft of mental greatness and moral grandeur it is. And, seeing, aspiration will re-dedicate itself to unfaltering devotion to the Quest within his own mind.
15.24.3.217Listen 24 Apr 2015This teaching can be understood only by those who try to live it: all others merely think they understand it. Only those who have incorporated it in their lives for a number of years can know how intensely practical philosophy is.
13.20.1.327Listen 25 Apr 2015Mostly as a result of meditation, but sometimes during an unexpected glimpse, a mystical experience of an unusual kind may develop. He feels transparent to the Overself; its light passes into and through him. He then finds that his ordinary condition was as if a thick wall surrounded him, devoid of windows and topped by a thick roof, a condition of imprisonment in limitation and ordinariness. But now the walls turn to glass, their density is miraculously gone, he is not only open to the light streaming in but lets it pass on, irradiating the world around.
14.22.6.166Listen 26 Apr 2015The mistake too commonly made is to believe that the ordinary level of consciousness is the only possible one. Successful meditation is one way of getting free from it.
13.19.3.9Listen 27 Apr 2015The people one meets, the events one confronts, and the places one visits may be highly important but they are, in the end, less important than one's thought about them.
6.9.3.388Listen 28 Apr 2015Just as a child has to learn the art of writing by slow degrees, so the student has to free his mind from erroneous views and to train his habitual thought to hold to the remembrance of the True and the Real little by little. But just as the single manipulation of an electric light switch instantly reveals all the objects in a room, so suddenly the maturation of insight reveals the here-and-now actuality of the True and the Real.
15.23.5.205Listen 29 Apr 2015There is no need to let go of his humanness in order to find his divine essence, but only of its littleness, its satisfaction with trivial aims.
2.1.5.28Listen 30 Apr 2015
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