Day by day
Why is it that despite all the visible and touchable counter-attractions, despite the innumerable failures and long years of fruitlessness, so many men have sought through so many ages in so many lands for God, for what is utterly intangible, unnameable, shapeless, unseen, and unheard? Because the simple but astonishing fact is that the Overself, which is the presence of God in them, is part of their nature as human beings…
2.1.5.11, ExcerptListen 1 May 2019Nothing can annihilate the ego during the body's lifetime, but its function can be reduced to one of mere subservience to the Overself.
6.8.1.185Listen 2 May 2019… He must humble the ego. He should do this himself, secretly, and through calm, reflective meditation; then life will not do it to him openly and through bitter external circumstances.
3.2.5.191, ExcerptListen 3 May 2019Truth needs to be expressed again and again, each time differently, because it must be expressed each time in the idiom of its period.
12.17.1.182Listen 4 May 2019If a man is not free from lust, fear, and anger, be sure he is not united with the Overself, whatever other qualities, powers, or virtues he shows.
5.6.4.86Listen 5 May 2019We ought to be glad that we do not live forever. It is a frightening thought. If there were no death we would go on and on and on, captives in the body, having tried all experiences which promised much but in the end yielded nothing. No, it is good that in the end we are released from the physical tomb, as Plato called it, and will be able to enjoy a period of dignified rest until we plunge back again into the next re-embodiment.
6.9.1.23Listen 6 May 2019Under great strain and amid grave dangers, the aspirant will find courage and endurance in the talismanic power of remembering the Higher Self. It is always there.
14.22.3.133Listen 7 May 2019The divine grace brings a man not what he asks but what he needs. The two are sometimes the same but sometimes not. It is only with the wise that they always coincide; with others they may stand in sharp conflict.
12.18.5.235Listen 8 May 2019The ego, which is so quick to complain about other people's bad treatment of it and so slow to confess its own bad conduct, is his first and worst enemy.
6.8.3.104Listen 9 May 2019He must work harder than ever on his character and, by crushing his ego, sensitize his mind for the reception of the spiritual Grace that is to come during initiation.
2.1.6.761Listen 10 May 2019He may seek, when better equipped to do so, to render service to many people. But until that time comes, it is better to go on working upon himself, improving his moral character, increasing his knowledge of the philosophic teachings, humbling himself in daily prayer and worship, and cultivating that thread of intuition which links him to the Soul.
3.2.8.66Listen 11 May 2019However disheartening the slowness of his growth may be to his emotions, the remembrance that he is a sage in embryo should always be encouraging to his reason.
5.6.1.417Listen 12 May 2019To be humble is to be willing to admit the galling fact that one's own shortcomings of character or intelligence (and not other people's) were mostly responsible for most of one's troubles.
12.18.3.48Listen 13 May 2019First there must be intellectual understanding of the truth of his real being, then he can advance to the practices which lead to its realization.
5.7.1.129Listen 14 May 2019In this deep level of meditation, he will scarcely be aware of the body. What awareness there is will objectify it as something he uses or wears, certainly not as himself. He will feel that to be a purely mental being.
15.23.7.82Listen 15 May 2019All the reincarnations which are necessary to the unfoldment of his character and capacities must be lived through.
6.9.2.150Listen 16 May 2019To the degree you keep ego out of your reaction to an enemy, to that degree you will be protected from him. His antagonism must be met not only with calmness, indifference, but also with a positive forgiveness and active love…
5.6.5.315, ExcerptListen 17 May 2019The Overself's grace will be secretly active within and without him long before it shows itself openly to him.
12.18.5.271Listen 18 May 2019This whittling away of the ego may occupy the entire lifetime and not seem very successful even then, yet it is of the highest value as a preparatory process for the full renunciation of the ego when--by Grace--it suddenly rises up in the heart.
6.8.4.422Listen 19 May 2019Where the wakeful consciousness is not easily reached owing to its preoccupations, then the dream consciousness will be more receptive to the message.
14.22.1.147Listen 20 May 2019All influences, contacts, persons, or places which destroy our balance are to be shunned as undesirable, if not evil.
3.2.5.186Listen 21 May 2019He has to develop religious veneration, mystical intuition, moral worth, rational intelligence, and active usefulness in order to evolve a fuller personality. Thus he becomes a fit instrument for the descent of the Overself into the waking consciousness.
0.2.0.5Listen 22 May 2019If his egoism is too strong, the highest part of the Overself's light will be quite unable to get through into his consciousness, no matter how fervent his aspiration for it may be.
6.8.3.161Listen 23 May 2019Plato suggests the age of fifty to be a suitable turning point for a man to pass over from mere experience of life to constant meditation upon the higher purpose of life…
9.13.3.135, ExcerptListen 24 May 2019… Whoever successfully practises the Hidden Observer meditation will experience the sense of not being alone, of being companioned by a mystic presence which brings with it a benign sense of assurance and security. He will, however, experience much more than that.
15.23.6.86, ExcerptListen 25 May 2019… Experience justifies our own attitude that religion is needed in the sense that belief in a higher Being is needed.
12.17.1.178, ExcerptListen 26 May 2019The senses which tempt him to go astray from his chosen path of conduct may be subjugated in time by right thoughts. The thoughts which distract him from his chosen path of meditation may be subjugated by persistent effort. But the ego which bars his entry into the kingdom of heaven refuses, and only pretends, to subjugate itself.
6.8.4.418Listen 27 May 2019The fundamental test and final measure of anyone´s spirituality is provided by his character. And his character is tested and measured by his actions.
1.6.0.31Listen 28 May 2019Do not insult the Higher Power by calling it unconscious; it is not only fully conscious but also fully intelligent. Your real Self, which is this power, needs neither commands nor instructions from the physical brain.
14.22.3.247Listen 29 May 2019The ideal is the fullness and harmony of balanced qualities, wasting none, denying none: the active will companioned by the mystical intuition, the pleasure-loving senses steadied by the truth-loving reason.
3.2.5.131Listen 30 May 2019The hope of educated men who understand and appreciate the services of science but who deplore its dangers and recognize its limitations, lies in the investigation and development of consciousness.
5.7.6.135Listen 31 May 2019
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