Day by day
To enter this stillness is the best way to pray.
12.18.2.60Listen 1 May 2015It is not merely a personal speculation but a commonplace fact of science, an item of the accepted physiology of the senses, a known result of anatomical research, that the consciousness of what we see and feel is what we really experience, not the things themselves. In the end all our facts are mental ones, all our surroundings are known only as our own thoughts.
13.21.2.100Listen 2 May 2015The mind's chief distinguishing power is to know--whether the object known is the world around or the ideas within. When this is turned in still deeper upon itself, subject and object are one, the thought-making activity comes to rest, and the ”I” mystery is solved. Man discovers his real self, or being--his soul.
14.22.5.16Listen 3 May 2015... We did not incarnate primarily to serve each other. We incarnated to realize the Overself…
3.2.8.75, ExcerptListen 4 May 2015The World-Idea is operative on every level. It invites savage humans to outwit their fellow animals by beginning to use brain-power through arrows, slings, and primitive traps; at a higher level to compete with fellow humans and rise economically and socially by using the same power; at a still higher level to reduce sufferings and self-made miseries by practising control over self and avoidance of injury to others; then, at a still higher level, to discover and nurture their spiritual nature.
16.26.4.218Listen 5 May 2015None of us is thrown into this world against his will. All of us are here because we want to be here.
6.9.2.14Listen 6 May 2015... The time has indeed come for us to rise to meditate upon the supreme Mind. It is the source of all appearances, the explanation of all existences. It is the only reality, the only thing which is, was, and shall be unalterably the same. Mind itself is ineffable and indestructible. We never see it as it is in itself but only the things which are its passing phases.
16.28.1.3, ExcerptListen 7 May 2015If it is to be a continuous light that stays with him and not a fitful flash, he will need first, to cast all negative tendencies, thoughts, and feelings entirely out of his character; second, to make good the insufficiencies in his development; third, to achieve a state of balance among his faculties.
15.23.7.328Listen 8 May 2015We are given forms embodied in space and minds working in time whereby we may come to decipher meanings in life and the world, develop awareness of the Infinite Being that is behind both, and know our true self.
13.19.4.13Listen 9 May 2015In the Egyptian Mysteries, his capacity to resist a sexual temptation was deliberately tested. If he failed, the initiator would dismiss him, after addressing him thus: ”You have yielded to the attraction of the senses. Whoever lives in the senses remains in darkness.” If he succeeded, he would be granted leave to attend the temple college and receive instruction for some years in the mysteries of man and the universe.
3.2.3.91Listen 10 May 2015... The divinity is there, within you; have faith that it is so and entrust yourself to it.
15.23.6.138, ExcerptListen 11 May 2015The internal ego does them more harm than anything or anyone else, yet how few appeal to the Divine for protection against themselves, how many for protection against merely external evils?
12.18.2.122Listen 12 May 2015The philosopher develops the principal sides of his human nature, that is, his intelligence by reasoning, his knowledge by study, his piety by devotions, his mystical intuitiveness by meditation, and his wisdom by association with those more evolved than himself.
13.20.3.107Listen 13 May 2015His attainments in the mental, ethical, and philosophic spheres must take concrete shape in the disinterested service of humanity, or he is no illuminate.
16.25.3.133Listen 14 May 2015The fact that an event has happened or that an experience has arrived must have some significance in a man's life. It could not be there unless he had earned it or unless he needed it. If he is not willing to meet it from this approach and deal with its effect impersonally, he will miss most of its lesson.
9.13.1.45Listen 15 May 2015Every man is a victim of his own past until he awakens to this recognition--that at his best level he is divine in a timeless way, that there he may rise above this past and free himself from it.
13.19.4.214Listen 16 May 2015Whether it be a religion of impressive ceremonial and organized priesthood, or one of utter simplicity and without intermediaries, it will serve men only to the extent that it helps each individual follower to come closer to the Overself.
12.17.1.156Listen 17 May 2015Who possesses complete independence? Who has all the freedom he wants? Who is able to make his choices freely, unaffected by his circumstances, by social pressure, by events, or by heredity? The answer, of course, is no one. But, to the extent that anyone learns to control his thoughts, to become master of himself, he begins to control his fate.
6.9.4.88Listen 18 May 2015When he is established to some extent on the Short Path he may not only expect the expected, as most people do, but also expect the unexpected.
15.23.1.124Listen 19 May 2015Every new circumstance or happening in his life has some message for him from the Infinite Mind or some lesson to convey to him or some test to strengthen him. It is for him to seek out this inner significance and to re-adjust his thinking and actions in accordance with it.
9.13.1.121Listen 20 May 2015When the mental form on which he is meditating vanishes of its own accord and the mind suddenly becomes completely still, vacant, and perfectly poised, the soul is about to reveal itself. For the psychological conditions requisite to such a revelation have then been provided.
4.4.5.25Listen 21 May 2015... When he abandons further trust in his own nature and clings to no more personal hopes, he really lets go of the ego. This gives him the possibility of being open to grace.
12.18.4.15, ExcerptListen 22 May 2015When the Higher Power leads a man to a position produced by his constant aspiration to serve coupled with his personal qualifications for it, the strength and wisdom he may need to fulfil it will also be granted.
13.20.4.261Listen 23 May 2015The ego sits in the saddle all the time that he is travelling the Long Path.
6.8.4.335Listen 24 May 2015Infinite Mind releases from within itself an infinite variety of suns, stars, planets, substances, plants, and creatures. Even the process itself is an infinite one, countered only by necessary dissolutions and destructions, pauses and rests. Even universes get old and die off. All that is released into manifestation is subject to this perpetual law of movement and change, growth, decay, death, reappearance, and recurrence.
16.26.3.98Listen 25 May 2015To the fearful, uninstructed seeker everything connected with a worldly life is a stop on his upward way. To the philosophically enlightened student, it is actually a step on his upward way. He redeems the earthly environment by thinking rightly about it, turns every earthly deed into a sacrament because he views it under a divine light, and sees a fellow pilgrim in the worst sinner.
13.20.4.93Listen 26 May 2015”I regard my last eight months in prison as the happiest period in my life. It was then that I was initiated into that new world . . . which enabled my soul . . . to establish communion with the Lord of all Being. This would never have happened if I had not had such solitude as enabled me to recognize my real self…” Anwar el Sadat, former president of Egypt
3.3.5.117, ExcerptListen 27 May 2015When Jesus declared that he was the Way, he spoke as the infinite Christ-self in every man, not as the finite person Jesus. He meant that whoever sought God, the Father, had to come through this higher self, could not find him by any other channel. This only was the Way.
12.17.5.67Listen 28 May 2015His task is to discover the presence within himself of a deeper and diviner layer of the mind.
3.2.4.35Listen 29 May 2015Although the sage withdraws with the onset of sleep from wakeful awareness, he does not withdraw from all awareness. A pleasurable and peaceful sense of impersonal being is left over. In this he rests throughout the night.
13.19.3.129Listen 30 May 2015Being aware of the weaknesses or faults of another does not necessarily mean we love him less. It is an essential part of the message of love that we learn how to forgive surface characteristics by contemplating the essence of the beloved, to see what is, while also seeing deeper to what truly IS--the Divine evidenced in a particular form
5.6.2.112, ExcerptListen 31 May 2015
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