Day by day
What is wrong if we claim some happiness from this world, provided we keep our balance, the heart anchored to an allegiance higher than the world, the mind always remembering for what it is really here?
9.13.2.174Listen 1 May 2021… they who think that the purpose of human incarnation is to increase pleasures and accumulate property have learned nothing from the instability of life and insecurity of possessions which have marked the period now passing …
13.20.1.325, ExcerptListen 2 May 2021Why did Jesus warn men not to look for the Christ-self in the deserts or the mountain caves? It was for the same reasons that he constantly told them to look for it within themselves, and that he counselled them to be in the world but not of it.
2.1.5.61Listen 3 May 2021Where the Overself lives fully in a man, he will not need to consider whether an act is righteous or not. Righteous acts will flow spontaneously from him and no other kind will be possible …
5.6.1.108, ExcerptListen 4 May 2021The simple discovery of what he really is leads to large implications. He sees his aims in life, his goals and ambitions, his desires and attitudes, under a different light …
14.22.7.148, ExcerptListen 5 May 2021There is not one cell in the whole organism of man which does not reflect in miniature the pattern, the proportions, and the functions of the immense cosmos itself.
16.26.4.192Listen 6 May 2021We know that Plato regarded his birth during his master’s lifetime as better than all the good fortune that aristocratic birth had bestowed upon him. And yet Socrates himself declared that he had no regular disciples and that anyone or everyone was free to hear him.
16.25.5.170Listen 7 May 2021All those thoughts and memories which now compose the pattern of his life have to be put aside if he is to deny himself.
6.8.4.408Listen 8 May 2021His personal destiny or spiritual dedication will decide his future course—whether deliberately to remain obscure and avoid the notice which excites opposition, or publicly to accept a mission and bring inspiration to a particular kind of activity.
13.20.4.271Listen 9 May 2021The response provoked in you by the entry of these ideas will determine your future.
2.1.1.156Listen 10 May 2021Although the possibility of this discovery and awareness of Overself and establishment in it has always been with every man at every moment, the probability has not. For he has to develop the equipment for maturing from animal through man’s gathered experience to this full establishment in full union with his highest being …
16.26.4.258, ExcerptListen 11 May 2021The present, despite its constant changes of form, is always with us. Why? Because our innermost real being, without those changes, is always with us.
13.19.4.137Listen 12 May 2021Envy not those with good fortune. The gods have allotted them a portion of good karma, but when this is exhausted they will be stripped of many things, except those inner spiritual possessions.
6.9.3.337Listen 13 May 2021He who perpetually feels the presence of the divine soul within himself, thereby obtains an effortless control of himself.
14.22.3.138Listen 14 May 2021The ego is the shadow-self accompanying the light-self, or Overself. The ego holds all that is dark in the man’s character.
6.8.3.15Listen 15 May 2021We see every indication around us that the old order of foolish ideas and self-centered ideals is undergoing its last stages of existence. Its cultural possibilities are close to exhaustion.
9.13.4.417Listen 16 May 2021The Overself’s take-over is not always the same but changes with the time and the occasion, the person and the place. It may be gentle, quiet, almost unmarked at first, or it may be like a tremendous force, commanding and irresistible.
14.22.6.2Listen 17 May 2021The Quest is not to be looked upon as something added to his life. Rather it is to be his life itself.
2.1.1.71Listen 18 May 2021Every circumstance and environment, every fresh experience and personal contact is an instruction sent by the one unseen Infinite Mind, who should be regarded as the real Master.
16.25.5.185Listen 19 May 2021Our deliverance from the miseries of life hangs solely on our deliverance from the bondage to the ego.
6.8.4.1Listen 20 May 2021God is ever present with us but we are ever turning away from him …
14.22.3.28, ExcerptListen 21 May 2021Why are they seeking truth? Because they have at last become sensitive enough to respond to the existence of the diviner self within them, the Overself in which only truth exists. The fact of its existence has pressed them subconsciously from within and finally provoked them into feeling a need to become aware of, and co-operative with, the Overself.
2.1.2.258Listen 22 May 2021Confucius’ injunction to acquire specific virtues is Long Path, whereas Lao Tzu’s counsel to let the mind become empty so that Tao may enter it is Short Path.
15.23.5.36Listen 23 May 2021We invite the future through our aspirations. We get the consequences of our thinking, feeling, and doing. Nature has no favouritism but gives us our deserts.
6.9.3.214Listen 24 May 2021… if he does not forget the final purpose of all this worldly activity, that through the body’s life and the mind’s existence he may seek and find his true self, the Overself, the inner failure and superficiality of so many lives will be avoided.
9.13.2.182, ExcerptListen 25 May 2021When a man falls totally asleep, when no thoughts and no dreams are active, he has withdrawn (or more accurately been withdrawn) into the centre of his being. He can go no farther inwards. He is really alone with the Overself but, being unable to harmonize with it, the principle of consciousness is not active.
13.19.3.144Listen 26 May 2021In the end the heartlessly cruel punish themselves, though whether here in this life, in purgatory after death, or in some future re-embodiment is another matter.
5.6.5.323Listen 27 May 2021The ego is nothing more than a shadow … It exists—a word whose very meaning, to be placed outside, is also metaphysically true. For he who immerses himself in its consciousness places himself outside the consciousness of Overself.
6.8.2.29, ExcerptListen 28 May 2021That wonderful time when he can look straight into himself, through ego to Overself, awaits his endeavours.
2.1.5.157Listen 29 May 2021It is here, in the ordinary and uneventful tasks of the day, that he may find just as much opportunity to practise nonattachment, to suppress egoism, and to express wisdom.
9.13.2.188Listen 30 May 2021… More and more its light will enter his mind …
14.22.8.91, ExcerptListen 31 May 2021
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