Day by day
We have a message for this age and we shall descend into the marketplace and give it …
8.12.3.174, ExcerptListen 1 May 2022It must be remembered that these higher laws are established throughout the cosmos, not merely in our part of it …
16.26.4.164, ExcerptListen 2 May 2022A writer, teacher, preacher, or spiritual guide who gives out high ideals ought to be the first man to follow them himself.
16.25.5.35Listen 3 May 2022Plant, animal, and human bodies pass through this cycle of growth, maturity, decay and death. All this means being exposed to different forces, different experiences, resulting in the development of consciousness.
6.9.2.232Listen 4 May 2022It is the highest possible form of self-recognition. It is the discovery of who and what we really are.
14.22.4.36Listen 5 May 2022This constant preoccupation with the ego gives a subtle power and importance to it, and draws him away from his real being in the Overself. For it is what he takes into his consciousness which affects him in character and body, in thought and conduct.
15.23.2.101Listen 6 May 2022… It often happens to one on this path that what he greatly needs does not come to him when he prematurely asks for it but only comes when the need is actually ripe. This combination of doing his bit and then trusting in God will carry him through all his difficulties.
3.2.2.90, ExcerptListen 7 May 2022Too often prayer is mere soliloquy, a man talking to his own ego about his own ego, and heard only by his own ego. It would be far better for him to learn how to keep his thoughts silent, to put himself into a receptive listening attitude; what he may then hear may convince him that “the Father knoweth what ye need.”
12.18.2.70Listen 8 May 2022Whatever we constantly concentrate on provides one of the factors in reincarnation. If we love a race or an individual strongly enough, we shall sooner or later necessarily be drawn into their orbit when reincarnating. It is equally true, however, that if we hate a race or an individual strongly enough we shall have the same experience. Both love and hate are forms of concentrated thought. The nature of concentration, whether it be that of like or dislike, attraction or repulsion, does not alter its strength.
6.9.2.186Listen 9 May 2022When we are disgusted with the pettiness of mankind we may turn in appreciation to the grandeur of Nature.
3.3.6.85Listen 10 May 2022The last marks of the ego’s grip will linger on him in various subtle forms. Perhaps the willingness to be saved himself while leaving behind so many others entangled in illusion is the final mark to be erased…
13.20.4.217, ExcerptListen 11 May 2022… The Overself, whose Grace was the initial impetus to all his efforts, steps forward, as it were, and begins to reveal its presence and working more openly. The aspirant becomes conscious of this with awe, reverence, and thankfulness. He must learn to attend vigilantly to these inward promptings of Divine Grace. They are like sunbeams that fructify the earth …
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 12 May 2022If he is willing to give the intuitive forces mastery within himself, then he will have to exert his will against the egoistic ones.
6.8.4.215Listen 13 May 2022When everything within, when thoughts, emotions, and desires are silenced, it is inevitable that the personal will shall also be silenced. What then has to be done will be done, but it will be done through him.
15.24.3.313Listen 14 May 2022He who has ascended to these higher levels of being, reflects the changed point of view in all his personal relationships. Resentment collapses, forgiveness arises.
13.20.1.300Listen 15 May 2022It is said death levels all. This is true only on the visible side of it, for on the other side each goes to his own state of consciousness—what he has fitted himself for. Untied from the body, he enters the atmosphere to which he belongs.
1.0.9.12Listen 16 May 2022The Short Path frees him from all gnawing regrets about the past, with its sins of commission and of omission, its errors and follies, its mistakes and deficiencies. Instead it puts his mind to work upon their contraries—what is beautiful and worthy, what is truthful and serene, what is pure and noble …
15.23.1.63, ExcerptListen 17 May 2022Appreciation of these truths is the beginning of the philosophic life. Application of them is the end.
13.20.4.299Listen 18 May 2022The Long Path is concerned with the human struggle to approach the divine, the Short Path with intuition of the divine presence in the human.
15.23.5.58Listen 19 May 2022The ego cannot produce an egoless result. This is why the Long Path is only preparatory and cannot be a sufficient means to a successful end.
15.23.2.125Listen 20 May 2022… A deep serenity unknown before takes possession of him, and an exquisite calm settles over him. In these moments of joyous beauty, the bitterest past is blotted out…
14.22.8.107, ExcerptListen 21 May 2022The World-Mind is in us all, reflected as ”I” …
16.27.2.42, ExcerptListen 22 May 2022The World-Mind holds in one eternal thought the entire World-Idea.
16.27.2.16Listen 23 May 2022The World-Idea holds within itself the laws which rule the world, the supreme intention which dominates it, and the invisible pattern which forms it.
16.26.1.67Listen 24 May 2022The more one learns about the World-Idea, the more one wonders at it. To go farther and co-operate with it is to find peace.
16.26.4.142Listen 25 May 2022It is the presence of the Overself within us which makes more consciousness possible, whether it be the consciousness of the dream or the consciousness of waking.
14.22.3.295Listen 26 May 2022It is vital to see clearly the difference between teachings that spring from and serve only the ego, and those that spring from and lead to the Overself.
13.20.3.153Listen 27 May 2022Meditation is not to be regarded as an end in itself but as one of the instruments wherewith the true end is to be attained.
1.0.4.2Listen 28 May 2022… The attraction toward the divine need not mean repulsion from the world. There is room in human life for both the heavenly and the earthly. To deepen knowledge and increase beauty, to spread compassion and to uplift man—this is our work today.
13.20.1.425, ExcerptListen 29 May 2022In that blessed moment he sinks his identity into the Reality which he has reached.
14.22.6.283Listen 30 May 2022The experiences of life will in the end overcome these inner resistances. The silent instruction multiplied during the re-embodiments will defeat the psychological defense mechanisms set up against unpalatable truths or new ideas. It is the repetition and deepening of all these lessons through the accumulating rebirths that enables wisdom to penetrate consciousness completely and effectively.
6.9.2.237Listen 31 May 2022
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