Day by day
Meditation is important in this Quest. It must be learnt. It helps to create a condition wherein the holy presence can be felt, where before there was nothing, and where the holy guidance can be given.
4.4.1.32Listen 1 Apr 2024It is not at all necessary to assume unbearable physical positions and torment oneself trying to maintain them. The less attention one need give to the presence of one’s own body the better will be the conditions for successful practice. What is really necessary is to obey one simple rule: keep the body still, refuse to move it about or to fidget any limb. This physical quiet is both the prelude to and preparation for mental quiet. Any position in which one feels able to settle down comfortably and sit immobile is a good position.
4.4.2.164Listen 2 Apr 2024Meditation is inner work to attain the soul’s presence. It is sometimes quickly resultful, but more often goes on for a long time before that attainment is realized.
4.4.1.188Listen 3 Apr 2024Before a man complains that he is unable to get intuition, he should remember that his own moral fault may be responsible for this. It can not only prevent him from receiving true intuitions but also from responding to them in action.
14.22.1.180Listen 4 Apr 2024There is a single source of Life which envelops the universe and pervades man. By its presence in himself he is able to exist physically and function mentally.
7.10.2.1Listen 5 Apr 2024He will have gone far intellectually when he can understand the statement that mind is the seeker but Mind is the sought.
16.28.2.108Listen 6 Apr 2024When he believes he is communing with God he is actually communing with his own inner reality. The enlightenment that seems to come from outside actually comes from inside himself.
16.25.1.102Listen 7 Apr 2024These glimpses come at the most unexpected of times and in the most unexpected places … Reports have been received which reveal that they may come abruptly during the strain and pressure of business or professional activity, as well as during the relaxation of leisure hours, at the beginning, the middle, and the end of the day, during pleasurable periods or amid great suffering.
14.22.6.1, ExcerptListen 8 Apr 2024To enter into the presence of a high inspiration, feel its ennoblement, and understand its message, brings a deeply satisfying joy.
2.1.5.369Listen 9 Apr 2024Seek the centre of inner gravity and try to stay in it. Try to avoid being pulled out of it by emotions and passions, whether your own or other people’s, by anxieties and troubles–in short, by the ego.
15.24.2.21Listen 10 Apr 2024There is a proper time for all acts and attitudes. The improper time to drop mystical technique and quit meditational exercises is when you are still a novice, still aware only of thoughts and emotions on the ordinary plane. The proper time to abandon set practices is when you are a proficient, when you have become adequately aware of the divine presence. Then you need engage yourself only in a single and simple effort: to persevere in paying attention to this presence so as to sustain and stretch out the welcome intervals of its realization.
3.2.9.19Listen 11 Apr 2024If he has become enlightened, a discerning eye may note the fact by his body and his actions, by his silences and his utterances. But an ignorant eye may note nothing at all.
16.25.2.254Listen 12 Apr 2024We are called to give others–animals as well as humans–the same treatment that we call on God to give us.
4.5.3.18Listen 13 Apr 2024The human mind is fortunate in this, that it has a connection with the Divine Mind …
16.25.1.47, ExcerptListen 14 Apr 2024Every situation in human life can be approached from two possible points of view. The first is the limited one and is that of the personal self. The second is the larger one and is that of Universal Self. The larger and longer view always justifies itself in the end.
14.22.3.396Listen 15 Apr 2024To the degree that a man practises constructive thinking and harmonious feeling, to that degree will he help to draw progressive events and helpful chances to himself.
4.4.6.175Listen 16 Apr 2024The internal work of Grace is only possible if the aspirant assents to the direction it is taking and supports the transformation it is effecting. If it is severing him from an attachment which he is unwilling to abandon and if he withholds his consent, the Grace itself may be forced to withdraw. The same may happen if he clings to a desire from which it seeks to free him.
12.18.5.229Listen 17 Apr 2024His life silently becomes a witness to the fact of the Overself’s continuous presence.
16.25.2.328Listen 18 Apr 2024Miguel de Molinos: “It is useless to trust in the interior way of contemplation if the obstacles which hinder their progress and spiritual blight be not removed from the path of those souls that are called.” In other words, the Long Path work must clear a way for the Short Path work.
15.23.4.18Listen 19 Apr 2024The more he internalizes his attention, and the less he responds to the sense-impressions, the nearer he draws to the spiritual presence in his heart.
4.4.3.207Listen 20 Apr 2024If it were not for the presence of a few human lights in our world, and for their mostly silent but sometimes open activity, that world would have deteriorated spiritually, morally, to an extent far below what it has done.
7.11.3.338Listen 21 Apr 2024It is neither the ego thinking of the Overself nor the Overself thinking of itself. All thoughts are absent from this experience. It is rather that the Overself contemplates and knows itself in the moment that the ego is withdrawn into it.
14.22.6.269Listen 22 Apr 2024With the thought of the higher power, an image will spontaneously spring up in his mind. It will be the image of that man who manifests or represents it to him.
2.1.6.844Listen 23 Apr 2024In the depths of meditation, when one is sitting still and enchanted, all egoism gone for the moment and all care suspended, it is possible to understand what the word Heaven really means.
15.24.4.166Listen 24 Apr 2024The energy which appears to us as light is the basis of the universe, the principle from which all things are made.
14.22.4.152Listen 25 Apr 2024Adherence to philosophy is the most fundamental act of a man’s life. He cannot be emotionally rushed into it, as he can into adherence to a religious cult. It is the result of growth.
13.20.2.324Listen 26 Apr 2024The intuition is to collate all these different functions of the personality, and direct them towards its truest welfare.
14.22.1.251Listen 27 Apr 2024All he can do is to accept the inner gift when it is offered, which is not so easy or simple a feat as it sounds. Too many people brush it off because its beginnings are so delicate, so faint, as not to point at all plainly to their glorious consequences.
12.18.5.282Listen 28 Apr 2024When the two selves become one, the inner conflict vanishes. Peace, rich and unutterable, is his.
13.20.5.9Listen 29 Apr 2024Deprived of the physical presence of his master, he is forced to seek and find the mental presence. At first he does this as a substitute for what he cannot get, but later he learns to accept it as the reality.
16.25.5.247Listen 30 Apr 2024
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