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... The good and bad qualities of your character, the development or lack of development of your capacities, and the decisions made in passing or by reason are the real determinants of your life...
0.0.0.0, ExcerptListen 1 Jun 2016Hidden behind every particular thought there exists the divine element which makes possible our consciousness of that thought. If therefore we seek that element, we must seek it first by widening the gap between them and then dissolving all thoughts, and second by contemplating that out of which they have arisen.
15.23.8.159Listen 2 Jun 2016Through repeated contemplation of the void, the mind rids itself of the illusions of matter time space and personality and eventually the truth is reached.
15.23.8.114Listen 3 Jun 2016... God has set man upon this earth to fulfil and realize obscure higher purposes as well as the obvious lower ones. Man evades the challenge only at the risk of unwittingly calling into existence destructive forces that will terrorize his civilization and frighten him into remembrance of what these higher purposes demand of him.
9.13.4.84, ExcerptListen 4 Jun 2016After an active, aggressive business life one does reach the time when more emphasis should be placed on inner development. Outer acquisition can become largely a distraction as that period emerges.
3.2.7.175Listen 5 Jun 2016In a world of constantly changing scenes, fortunes, health, and relationships, a precious possession is the knowledge that there is the unseen Unchanging Real. Still more precious is awareness within oneself of ITS ever-presence.
16.28.2.105Listen 6 Jun 2016Do the senses give you any real knowledge of a world outside your mind? Is it not rather that your sensations of such a world are only ideas inside that mind, and that you have no positive assurance of the existence of anything beyond those ideas themselves?
13.21.1.7Listen 7 Jun 2016Everything that intrudes upon the mental stillness in this highly critical stage must be rejected, no matter how virtuous or how spiritual a face it puts on. Only by the lapse of all thought, by the loss of all thinking capacity can he maintain this rigid stillness as it should be maintained. It is here alone that the last great battle will be fought and that the first great fulfilment will be achieved. That battle will be the one which will give the final deathblow to the ego; that fulfilment will be the union with his Overself after the ego's death...
15.23.8.153, ExcerptListen 8 Jun 2016It is not really a goal to be reached, nor a state to be attained, nor something new to be added to what he now has or is...
14.22.3.22, ExcerptListen 9 Jun 2016... He discovers that the world of matter is ultimately space and that all material forms are merely ideas in his mind. He discovers, too, that his inmost self is one with this space, because it is formless. He perceives the unity of all life and he has found Truth, the whole Truth...
3.2.9.63, ExcerptListen 10 Jun 2016That which always remains the same, never changes, that is reality.
16.28.1.103Listen 11 Jun 2016In their haste to assert that mind is only a function of brain flesh they use the very mind whose existence, unnoticed and overlooked, makes their assertion possible.
13.21.1.117Listen 12 Jun 2016This quest is an irreversible journey. Once you have really started on it there is no turning back. You may believe that you have given it up in despair or turned away from it for a worldlier existence, but you are only fooling yourself. For one day either a deep repressed hunger will suddenly reassert itself or else a cataclysmic turn of events will drive you back to seek this last and enduring refuge of man.
2.1.2.510Listen 13 Jun 2016The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.
15.23.8.163Listen 14 Jun 2016Man has no power of his own to command Grace but he does have the power to turn away from smug satisfaction with his own ego and throw himself at the feet of the Overself--the source of Grace.
12.18.5.144Listen 15 Jun 2016At such times, unexpected and unsought though the glimpses are, he feels the nearness of God, the love of God, the reality of God. Whoever ventures to call them delusions is himself deluded.
14.22.3.431Listen 16 Jun 2016The presence is always there, always waiting to be recognized and felt, but inner silence is needed to make this possible. And few persons possess it or seek it.
15.24.4.52Listen 17 Jun 2016Remember that custom and habit are the great tyrants who enslave the mass of mankind. Real freedom is possible only when one is true to one's own self. Do not permit yourself to be hypnotized by the common indifference to these high matters, but be loyal to the promptings of the spirit.
2.1.3.57Listen 18 Jun 2016He who is possessed by this love of truth and who is so sincere that he is willing to subordinate all other desires to it will be repaid by truth herself.
12.18.1.86Listen 19 Jun 2016... Every place has its mental atmosphere, formed from thousands of thoughts bred in it; and this is why I suggest that retreat now and then into a secluded place for spiritual self-development is something worthwhile for the aspirant who is compelled to live amid the tumults of a modern city.
3.3.1.186, ExcerptListen 20 Jun 2016... The sunset's peace, the dawn's promise of hope, and the pleasure of beauty's presence are always worthwhile and should fill us with gratitude.
3.3.6.4, ExcerptListen 21 Jun 2016Love will have to enter his quest at some point--love for the Overself. For it is through this uniting force that his transformation will at the end be effected.
12.18.1.91Listen 22 Jun 2016Because it comes from within, it comes with its own authority. When it is the real thing, the seeker will not have to question examine or verify its authenticity, will not have to run to others for their appraisal of its worth or its rejection as a pseudo-intuition. He will know overwhelmingly what it is in the same way that he knows who he is.
14.22.1.236Listen 23 Jun 2016If he is to keep this wonderful inner calm, he must be vigilant that he does not accept from others the pressures they would put upon him. That is, he must be true to himself, his higher self.
15.24.3.55Listen 24 Jun 2016In the nihilistic experience of void, the mystic finds memory sense and thought utterly closed... it is simply consciousness freed from both the pleasant and the unpleasant burdens of earthly existence.
15.23.8.36, ExcerptListen 25 Jun 2016... If he wants to ferret out what is real in existence he must put himself to some trouble. He must persevere, read and re-read these pages until the meaning of it all dawns suddenly upon him, as it will if he does...
13.21.4.7, ExcerptListen 26 Jun 2016... It is perfectly natural for man to regard as the highest reality the experiences which impress themselves most forcibly upon him, which are those gained externally through his physical senses, and to regard as but half-real the experiences which impress themselves least forcibly upon him, which are those created internally by his own thoughts and fancies. But if he can be brought, as a true metaphysics can bring him, to arrive intellectually at the discernment that when he believes he is seeing and experiencing matter he is only seeing and experiencing thought, and that the entire cosmos is an image co-jointly held in the cosmic and individual minds, he will not unconsciously set up all those artificial resistances to the mystical intuitions and ultramystical illuminations which wait in the future for him.
13.21.4.7, ExcerptListen 27 Jun 2016... The men of this era have to be led closer to the freedom of their higher self...
12.17.1.219, ExcerptListen 28 Jun 2016The Overself is always within call, for its hiding place is no farther than a man's heart. But if the call does not go forth, or goes forth without faith, or is not sustained with patience, the response will not come.
14.22.3.27Listen 29 Jun 2016Just as it is the dreamer himself who unknowingly makes the figures and creates the things which appear to him, so the waking man experiences only his own thoughts of the world. When those thoughts are not there, he is not there. And his world is not there: he and his experiences are contents of the mind. It is not, as commonly fancied, that he has a mind but that he--the ego-thought--is in the mind and never apart from it...
13.21.3.29, ExcerptListen 30 Jun 2016
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