Day by day
It is good to forget for twenty or thirty minutes each day the world and its affairs in order to remember the Overself and its serenity. This forgetfulness is exalting and uplifting in proportion to the distance it carries us from the ego.
3.3.1.24Listen 1 May 2017This is his first thrilling discovery of the Overself's existence, his first incontestable evidence of its power. No later experience can equal it in emotional feeling. It is one of the really momentous points of his life.
14.22.6.119Listen 2 May 2017The Vedas tell us that the constant remembrance and thinking of oneself as pure Spirit makes one overcome delusion and obtain Truth.
15.23.6.162Listen 3 May 2017… New life has come to birth within himself but it is still in the embryonic stage. These glimpses make him aware of the existence of his spiritual self but do not make him united with that self. They fulfil their chief purpose if they awaken him from sleep in the senses or deceit by the intellect…
14.22.8.107, ExcerptListen 4 May 2017The ego inherits the tendencies, the affinities, and the antagonisms which have shaped themselves in a long series of births behind the present one.
6.9.2.38Listen 5 May 2017The choice between submitting or not submitting to his animal genes and hormones belongs to man, but the tendency to follow them belongs to the earlier stage; it is very, very ancient and is coming under his control very, very slowly. He fulfils himself as truly human when this transcendence of his ancestry is complete.
16.26.4.47Listen 6 May 2017From the first momentary glimpse of the soul till the final rest in it, he is being led to accept the truth that the love which he wants and hopes to find outside himself must be found within himself. The true beloved is not a person but a presence…
2.1.5.406, ExcerptListen 7 May 2017In this matter the words of the Koran must be taken literally: “Believers hasten to the remembrance of Allah and leave off all business.”
15.23.6.203Listen 8 May 2017Eventually, one will tend to dislodge oneself from less worthwhile pursuits. Ordinary automatic responses to these and other worldly affairs will cease as one feels the deepening need for thought-stilling and inner peace.
3.2.2.91Listen 9 May 2017When he experiences the deepest possible state, all mental acts are suspended, all mental activities ended. This includes the act of identifying oneself with the ego. There is then nothing more to prevent the coming of enlightenment.
15.23.8.76Listen 10 May 2017Why do we come to God's presence only with our messy problems and our dark troubles? Why only as beggars, or when unhappy, miserable, unhealthy? Can we not come to Him joyously, for His own sake, for love of Him alone?
12.18.1.95Listen 11 May 2017Aesthetic appreciation of art productions, no less than harmonious rapport with Nature, leads us nearer and nearer to the divine in us, until our inner being is wholly absorbed in its ecstatic joy or unutterable peace.
9.14.1.6Listen 12 May 2017The door of his inner consciousness has opened; the regeneration of his moral nature has begun. The truth will come into the innermost chambers of his consciousness, sometimes abruptly but sometimes sluggishly. And because it comes in this way, because it comes from the god within him, it will be dynamic, creative, powerful. As he becomes aware of this sublime influx, so will he soon become aware that character is altering with it, and so will others become aware that his conduct is shaping itself around nobler standards.
14.22.7.77Listen 13 May 2017Even if the ego still lives in him, it lives thoroughly purified and utterly checked. His principle trends of thought and conduct proceed from a level beyond it.
16.25.3.316Listen 14 May 2017Let him try to look beyond his own defects to the perfection which is in the Overself, the true image of himself in which God made man.
15.23.1.62Listen 15 May 2017If he is always alert for this intuitive feeling, he will throw aside whatever he is doing and meditate upon it at once. He will depend more and more on these casual exercises, in contrast to the dependence on fixed routine exercises in the Long Path.
14.22.1.134Listen 16 May 2017Although the Long Path does not directly lead to Enlightenment, it reduces obstacles, prepares the seeker, and opens his way for entry to the Short Path, which in turn can subsequently lead to enlightenment.
15.23.4.48Listen 17 May 2017Acknowledge the inner call when it comes by simply dropping whatever you are doing and relax, be it for a minute or a half-hour. Let consciousness turn away from the world to Consciousness, attend to Attention, but do it all passively, receptively.
14.22.5.142Listen 18 May 2017If we would heed our intuitions as much as we heed our desires, the trick would be done. Illumination would come in not too long a time.
14.22.1.127Listen 19 May 2017All animals must reincarnate but men may take to the Quest and with time stop the process.
16.26.4.41Listen 20 May 2017Everyone has to feel and think and act and speak. But everyone does not perceive the consequences, near or remote, swift or slow, of these operations. Whoever chooses a wrong aim or an unworthy desire must endure the consequences of his choice. In every evil act, its painful recoil lies hidden. The process is a cumulative one. Each act begets a further one in the same downward direction. Each departure from righteousness makes return more difficult.
6.9.3.76Listen 21 May 2017It is important that the feeling of inward drawing which comes to him at times be at once followed up, whenever possible, by a withdrawal from external affairs for a few minutes and a concentration on what the feeling leads to…
14.22.1.284, ExcerptListen 22 May 2017There is hope for all, benediction for the poor and the rich, the good and the bad, for every man may come into this great light. But--some men may come more easily, more quickly, while others may drag their way.
2.1.2.473Listen 23 May 2017The books which live are those written out of this deep union with the true self by men who had overcome the false self. One such book is worth a thousand written out of the intellect alone or the false ego alone. It will do more good to more people for more years. The student may use such a work, therefore, as a basis for a meditation exercise. Its statements, its ideas, should be taken one by one, put into focus for his mind to work on.
16.25.4.16, ExcerptListen 24 May 2017I have often been asked what I thought was the secret of Buddha's smile. It is--it can only be--that he smiled at himself for searching all those years for what he already possessed.
15.23.8.189Listen 25 May 2017In looking for the beauty in Nature, a man is looking for his soul. In adoring this Beauty when he finds it, he is recognizing that he not only owns an animal body, but is himself owned by a higher Power.
3.3.6.72Listen 26 May 2017Such a double practice of the Short and Long Paths will not only lead to a fuller and better balanced progress but also to a quicker one. For these two opposite activities will work upon him in a reciprocal way. His faults will be ground to powder between them, as if they were millstones.
15.23.5.163Listen 27 May 2017Deep within his own heart, hidden within his own consciousness, every person carries all the evidence for the truth of these teachings that he or she is ever likely to need.
14.22.3.429Listen 28 May 2017You must remember that everyone without exception stands in life just where the evolutionary flow has brought him and that his outward life is the result of all those previous experiences in many, many incarnations…
3.2.8.48, ExcerptListen 29 May 2017The deeper he plunges in meditation, the less does worldly life appeal to him when he emerges from it; the old incentives which drive him begin to weaken.
15.23.7.327Listen 30 May 2017The life that is in us goes at death into the life that is in the universe. It is as secure there as it was in us. It is not lost. Thereafter it reappears in another form, another body.
6.9.1.187Listen 31 May 2017
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