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The attrition of the ego will come out of this incessant struggle against it, but the atrophy of the ego will not. For who is the struggler? It is the ego himself. He will not willingly commit suicide, although he will deceptively allow a steady grinding-down of his more obvious aspects.
6.8.4.437Listen 1 Apr 2021… man may use his human faculties to transcend his present level…
16.26.4.46, ExcerptListen 2 Apr 2021The same education which frees a man from superstition may cause him to miss the subtler knowledge of his real inner being, so that his mind wrongly believes itself to be a product of the body.
5.7.6.82Listen 3 Apr 2021The glimpse may come only once or twice in a lifetime to one quester yet repeat itself twentyfold to another person.
14.22.6.49Listen 4 Apr 2021The law which pushes us into, or out of, physical bodies is a cosmic law. There is no blind chance about it.
6.9.2.161Listen 5 Apr 2021In one sense all attempts to meditate on spiritual themes are attempts to awaken intuition. For they achieve success only when the activity of the thinking intellect is stilled and the consciousness enters into that deep silence wherefrom the voice of intuition itself issues forth.
4.4.4.38Listen 6 Apr 2021We must not imagine that the subordination of this sense of personal identity leads to any loss of consciousness—rather the reverse. Man becomes more, not less, for he emerges into the fullness and freedom of one universal life. He thinks of himself as: ”I, A.B., am a point within the Overself,” whereas before he only thought: ”I am A.B.”
14.22.3.398Listen 7 Apr 2021He needs to recover his conscious relationship to the Overself: the subconscious one is never lost.
2.1.1.110Listen 8 Apr 2021The condition of spiritual dryness about which he may complain is a common phenomenon in the mystical life. It arises from various causes but he need not doubt that it will pass away.
3.2.9.41Listen 9 Apr 2021The attitude of pursuing an objective, of searching for a truth, however admirable in the early stages, becomes an obstruction in this the latest stage.
15.23.1.123Listen 10 Apr 2021The aspirant must remember always that his immediate duty lies in self-preparation, self-discipline, and self-improvement. The building of fine character on the quest is quite as important as the efforts of aspiration and meditation, even more so, for the former will lead to the dissolving of egoism, and without this the latter are of little avail.
5.6.1.11Listen 11 Apr 2021It is literally a going out of his little self into the liberating enlightening Overself.
14.22.6.281Listen 12 Apr 2021It is stupid to bring into conversation with others beliefs which they are certain to scoff at but which one cherishes as holy.
5.6.5.310Listen 13 Apr 2021The mind is prevented from knowing the truth by its own defects limitations or deficiencies, by its own passions self-centeredness and possessiveness. The philosophic discipline sets up as an objective the elimination of these hindrances…
3.2.1.3, ExcerptListen 14 Apr 2021To the extent that he purifies and ennobles himself, he qualifies himself for the reception of superior insight.
5.6.1.20Listen 15 Apr 2021… what was formerly an occasional glimpse will now become a permanent sight. The intermittent intuition of a guardian presence will now become the constantly established experience of it. The divine presence has now become to him an immediate and intimate one. Its reality and vitality are no longer matters for argument or dispute, but matters of settled experience …
16.25.2.296, ExcerptListen 16 Apr 2021The man who can live without troubles has yet to be found, but the man who can live without worry about them may be found wherever philosophy is found.
6.9.3.156Listen 17 Apr 2021When the mind enters into this imageless and thoughtless state, there is nothing in it to resist the union with divine consciousness.
15.23.7.155Listen 18 Apr 2021The illusion of the ego stands behind all other illusions. If it is removed, they too will be removed.
6.8.4.466Listen 19 Apr 2021If he practises goodwill to others, it is more likely that the higher power will bestow grace upon him through others.
5.6.5.34Listen 20 Apr 2021… this doctrine, that the ego repeatedly visits our plane in fresh physical forms, is demanded by reason, supplied by intuition, and verified by revelation.
6.9.2.95, ExcerptListen 21 Apr 2021Why should the last dying days of cut flowers bring joy, happiness, uplift, and inspiration to anyone?
5.6.7.16Listen 22 Apr 2021The personality is always limited and chained, the higher individuality always infinite and free.
14.22.3.365Listen 23 Apr 2021… I would be failing in a duty to those less fortunate if through fear of being thought a boaster I failed to state that my researches have led me to the certain discovery of the soul …
2.1.2.1, ExcerptListen 24 Apr 2021The best form of social service is the one which leads others to the higher understanding of truth …
3.2.8.122, ExcerptListen 25 Apr 2021He receives too many confidences ever to be surprised by any of them, too many confessions ever to be shocked … For his compassion and insight, his tolerance and realism embrace the whole range of human feeling or human behaviour.
16.25.3.289Listen 26 Apr 2021He should be prepared to devote years to intense efforts in self-examination and self-improvement. This is the foundation for the later work. Once the character has been ennobled, the way to receiving guidance and Grace will be unobstructed.
4.4.4.219Listen 27 Apr 2021Philosophy is profoundly religious, but it is not a religion. Men belonging to different folds may study and practise it.
12.17.6.185Listen 28 Apr 2021The common interpretation of the Biblical sentence, ”Dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return,” was interpreted by the Jewish medieval Kabbalists and by initiated Rabbis of antiquity as referring to reincarnation.
6.9.2.193Listen 29 Apr 2021When the great liberation from his ego is attained, his entire physical organism will reflect the experience. All its muscular tautness will vanish; hands, shoulders, neck, facial expression, and legs will relax spontaneously of their own accord as his mind relaxes. He will be transformed.
3.3.3.35Listen 30 Apr 2021
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