Day by day
The mere number of years of existence is not enough basis on which to judge a man’s wisdom. The body’s age is quite separate from the soul’s.
9.13.3.201Listen 1 May 2024A tremendous surprise comes when the Overself shows him to himself--when, for the first time, the ego can see what it is really like by a diviner light.
6.8.1.17Listen 2 May 2024To become Man as evolution intends him to be, he must draw out all his latent resources, fill out a wide experience. This is why so many reincarnations on earth are needed. Until then, his realization as Man will be an incomplete one.
6.9.2.233Listen 3 May 2024A single decision may entirely shape the next fifty years of a young man’s future.
6.9.4.29Listen 4 May 2024It is out of the interplay of meditation, metaphysics, and altruistic action that insight is unfolded. No single element will alone suffice: the conjunction of all three is needed and then only can insight emerge …
13.20.4.175, ExcerptListen 5 May 2024It is this feeling that he is not in his true place that pushes a man into this search for a teaching or a teacher.
2.1.2.319Listen 6 May 2024In that sudden moment of spiritual awareness, or that longer period of spiritual ecstasy, he identifies himself no more with the projection from Mind but with pure Mind itself. In that severance from its projection, the shadow becomes the sun.
14.22.6.303Listen 7 May 2024There are other forces at work in us besides those which everyone recognizes. Some are higher and nobler than our ordinary self, others lower and unworthier.
6.8.1.40Listen 8 May 2024Human beings can only hope to realize the Overself which is a ray or intermediary, but not the World-Mind itself. For the latter is too vast and infinite and remote …
16.25.1.110, ExcerptListen 9 May 2024The belief that he can do nothing to hold this glimpse or keep this mood settles on him through repeated experience. But it is not quite correct. Philosophy points out that he can thin down or remove altogether the causes of such evanescence.
14.22.8.15Listen 10 May 2024The analytical study of certain metaphysical conceptions such as God, the soul, and the ego, is necessary.
1.7.0.24Listen 11 May 2024It is not quite the same to go in search of a faith to believe in as to go in search of a truth to understand. Philosophy, however, unites the two endeavours.
13.20.1.93Listen 12 May 2024Jesus’ primary intention was to heal the inner man, to promote a directional change in his thought and feeling, to divert him from a sinful to a righteous attitude towards life, and to convert him from spiritual indifference to spiritual enthusiasm. The healing of the body was but a by-product and took place only after these inner processes had been successfully carried out …
7.10.5.115, ExcerptListen 13 May 2024Can we rightly say it is mere chance that our earth rotates around the sun, and does so in a certain precise measured rhythm? Is there not evidence of intelligence here?
16.26.1.20Listen 14 May 2024As the desires depart, they leave the heart vacant for tenancy by the Overself.
12.18.5.224Listen 15 May 2024The advantages of being in a position of intellectual and social, religious and personal independence are several. The chance of finding truth and, if luckily found, of expressing it, is surely larger.
2.1.3.179Listen 16 May 2024So long as we keep ourselves focused wholly in the physical world, thoughts such as these may be read but will not reach our minds.
2.1.2.393Listen 17 May 2024He finds a new joy deep within himself, a new and higher meaning deep within life.
14.22.6.235Listen 18 May 2024No man is really and fully free since all men are carrying out the World-Idea. The feeling which he usually possesses that he is acting under his own power and making his own choices is due to his ignorance.
6.9.4.137Listen 19 May 2024The closer he comes to the Overself the more reticent he becomes about it.
14.22.7.39Listen 20 May 2024Many men unwittingly break the higher laws of life. Others, either knowing of them or believing in them, fail to understand them well enough to apply them personally.
6.9.3.547Listen 21 May 2024When consciousness is successfully turned in on its own deepest state, which is serene, impersonal, and unchanging, it receives the experience of the divine Soul, not of the Godhead. It brings us nearer to the Godhead but does not transform us into it. We discover the divine ray within, we do not become the sun itself.
16.25.1.99Listen 22 May 2024In philosophy a man can find everything he needs for his spiritual guidance throughout life. His religious, mystical, metaphysical, and ethical requirements are all provided for. If he faithfully follows its teaching, no other system will ever attract him again.
13.20.1.263Listen 23 May 2024It is from such paradoxical moments that man learns both how insignificant he is and how great he is!
14.22.6.294Listen 24 May 2024As he receives an influx of light from the Overself, the Glimpse is experienced. But only to the degree that he has previously prepared, molded, and purified himself will he experience it correctly, completely, and safely.
14.22.5.126Listen 25 May 2024It needs some strength to deflect the onset of negative moods and to refuse to sit in darkness. It needs some patience to sit quietly waiting until one feels an entry into the presence of the Source of one’s being. Only a few are born with these qualities ready-made. Others must attain them slowly by passing through stages of training and self-discipline.
15.23.4.30Listen 26 May 2024Philosophy offers as a first truth the affirmation that we live in a universe of purpose and not one of caprice
16.26.1.2Listen 27 May 2024The nations need collective outer peace, but men themselves need personal inner peace. The two are related.
9.13.4.38Listen 28 May 2024The evil which is present in the world may show a new, exaggerated, and deceitful form but in itself is no new thing. On the contrary, it is an ancient thing. Plato predicted that if one of the gods came to this earth, he would not be allowed to live. His ethical ideals would be rejected in practice. His physical presence would be removed in murder.
7.11.3.29Listen 29 May 2024Our lives are like a jigsaw puzzle; we collect our little queerly shaped pieces and then one day the pattern is seen.
6.9.3.348Listen 30 May 2024To the sensitive person, an unspoiled scenery of lakeland or woodland, sea or mountain, brings with its silent contemplation a nostalgic longing for return to his true spiritual home.
3.3.6.39Listen 31 May 2024
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