Day by day
When body and feeling are cleansed by disciplinary regimes, when the intellect is inspired by meditational exercises, one is ready for the Short Path.
15.23.1.135Listen 1 May 2016... The karma made in past births is like a shot from a gun; we cannot recall it and must endure the consequences. But once we have surrendered ourself to the Spiritual Preceptor, he guides our hands and prevents us from shooting out further bad karma.
6.9.3.146, ExcerptListen 2 May 2016Remembrance of the past, and especially attachment to it, supports the ego, maintains and preserves it. The quester must hold his memories loosely for, after all, this present life is only one of a string which in itself is only a dream.
13.19.4.187Listen 3 May 2016Jesus likened the Kingdom of Heaven to a grain of mustard seed, which was a simile among the Jews for anything exceedingly small. Why did he do so? Because, in its first onset, the Kingdom is not an experience but an intuition--and the latter begins as an exceedingly faint and tiny leading.
14.22.1.281Listen 4 May 2016The forces of heredity and the dominion of environment would appear to be the overwhelming impulsions of a man's actions. But let the Soul arise in its masterful urgency, and they vanish!
14.22.2.99Listen 5 May 2016Every man's individual life-path is unique. It may not be to his best interests to conform to a technique imposed upon him by another man or to confine his efforts to a pattern which has suited others. What may be right for another man who is at a different stage of development may be wrong for the aspirant.
2.1.5.206Listen 6 May 2016The ability to discriminate between appearance and reality, between the false I and the true I, is developed by subjecting the reports of the senses to the criticism of the intellect, by checking emotion with reason, by standing aside from all of these faculties with the intuition, and by diving deeper and deeper into one's essence in meditation.
13.20.3.81Listen 7 May 2016However badly we all reflect the Overself in the personality, however tiny broken and distorted the reflected image usually is, still it is a reflection. It is within the capacity of all to make it a better one, and within the capacity of a few to make it a perfect one.
6.8.1.129Listen 8 May 2016When you speak of ”an experience” you imply that first, there is an experiencer and second, there is an object of which he has an experience. That is, you refer to the realm of duality. It may be lofty, inspiring, unusual, but it is an event with a beginning and an ending; it is inside time, however variously the sense of time changes. It is not to be identified with the Real.
16.28.2.143, ExcerptListen 9 May 2016On the Short Path he becomes aware of the fact of forgiveness. He leaves out the constant self-criticism and self-belittling, the painstaking self-improvement practices, of the other Path and begins to take full note of this saving fact.
15.23.5.29Listen 10 May 2016We may live in the mere succession of events and so remain victims of time, or we may, while still noting them, raise our consciousness out of such involvement to a level so high as to become a mere spectator of them.
13.19.4.154Listen 11 May 2016A man acts philosophically when wisdom and service become the motive power behind his deeds...
13.20.5.25, ExcerptListen 12 May 2016If he keeps on fixing his attention upon fighting the wandering characteristic of his thoughts, he may find after many attempts that the task seems impossible. Why is this? It is because at the same time he is limiting himself to attention upon the ego. Let him move in the opposite direction and turn to the Short Path, let the thoughts fix themselves on the Overself, upon Its great stillness, Its serene impersonality...
15.23.4.72, ExcerptListen 13 May 2016... The inequalities and injustices, which trouble many, are all balanced sooner or later by the law of recompense (karma). Each person receives in return precisely what he or she gives out; thus there is justice in the world, despite appearances to the contrary...
6.9.1.181, ExcerptListen 14 May 2016... For those aspirants who will be satisfied with nothing short of achieving the Highest, the need of transcending the ego takes precedence over everything else, even over the body's healing.
7.10.5.141, ExcerptListen 15 May 2016Power, whether it be worldly or spiritual, always brings responsibility with it.
13.21.5.44Listen 16 May 2016... Ordinarily we live in our thoughts, in our little selves, even if the thoughts are spiritual. Therefore we have to keep away from all thoughts. If you want to think of the Overself, which is without any form, it is not possible. We try, but any idea, form, or shape is wrong. You cannot imagine it. So better not to try but to be still...
3.2.1.209, ExcerptListen 17 May 2016More than anything, men need today to find some kind of contact with the Higher Power which is behind them, and behind the universe.
12.17.7.16Listen 18 May 2016The totality of the immeasurably rich nature of the universe never reaches the human senses. This is not their fault. They cannot help but receive nothing more than a limited selection from it. There are numerous vibrations beyond their range and also beneath it. And yet we have the temerity to assert that the world of our experience, the only one we know, is the real world and that all others are illusory!
13.21.1.29Listen 19 May 2016Glimpses have been had more often than most people believe but enlightenment that is continuous and always present is rare.
16.25.2.20Listen 20 May 2016Inwardly and daily he returns to this idea that all is Idea, that the familiar world--its places and people, its city life seething with activity, its vaunted civilization and polished culture--has no other existence than in his consciousness and takes its reality from that...
13.21.5.16, ExcerptListen 21 May 2016It is not to be expected that anyone can dissociate himself from the false identification with the ego before he has fully become convinced of the ego's unreality.
6.8.4.366Listen 22 May 2016More than any other author, Lao Tzu has put in the tersest and simplest way the importance, the meaning, and the result of the sitting-still practice, the patient waiting for inner being to reveal itself, the submissive allowing of intuition to be felt and accepted.
15.23.7.270Listen 23 May 2016Most persons have no inclination to wake up when dreams are pleasant, whereas when they are frightening they soon awaken. So too the dream of worldly life does not impress them with the need of true religion until it becomes tragic or severely disappointing. Only when sorrow drives them to question the value of living do they take a real interest in non-worldly urges.
2.1.2.172Listen 24 May 2016It is not the objects of conscious attention which are to be allowed to trap the mind forever and divert the man from his higher duty. It is the consciousness itself which ought to engage his interest and hold his deepest concentration.
15.23.8.129Listen 25 May 2016Truth already exists within man. He has to bring it from the centre to the circumference of his consciousness. If it is hidden from his view, that is only because he has not looked deep enough or has not cleared away the obstructions to his view. Those obstructions are entirely within his lower self, and may be removed by practice of the philosophic discipline.
13.20.3.76Listen 26 May 2016We repeat these appearances on earth in a constant process and a long cycle of time. But contrast it with the beginninglessness and endlessness of life itself. What is this but a fraction of a fraction of a moment?
6.9.2.165Listen 27 May 2016The sudden Olympian elation which the glimpse gives, the unfamiliar feeling that it is like looking through a window on an entirely different and wholly glorious world of being, the inner knowing that this is reality--these things make it a benediction.
14.22.6.153Listen 28 May 2016The personal man will survive death but he will not be immortal. The I which outlives the fleshly body will itself one day be outlived by the deeper I which man has yet to find.
6.9.1.183Listen 29 May 2016When time stops, he feels that he has found his higher Self, that the ordinary everyday self is a shallow one. The other never changes, whereas the lower one changes during the years and with moods during the day.
13.19.4.116Listen 30 May 2016In the nihilistic experience of void, the mystic finds memory sense and thought utterly closed, he knows no separate thing and no particular person... it is simply consciousness freed from both the pleasant and the unpleasant burdens of earthly existence.
0.23.8.36, ExcerptListen 31 May 2016
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