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When the inspired sentence is read, the sensitive mind comprehends that it is no longer merely reading words. It is also receiving the grace of the Presence.
9.14.4.136Listen 1 Jun 2017The Overself has no form to be pictured and weighed, measured and numbered; it makes no movement to be timed and no sound to be registered on the ear drum.
14.22.3.260Listen 2 Jun 2017It is not enough to learn to bear with others, to excuse and accept their shortcomings. He must also learn to bear with himself, to accept his own shortcomings.
15.23.1.108Listen 3 Jun 2017Alone and depending on his little, personal ego, a man can do the merest fraction of what he can do when he becomes an instrument of the Infinite Power.
14.22.3.121Listen 4 Jun 2017If his evolutionary need should require it, he will be harassed by troubles to make him less attached to the world, or by sickness to make him less attached to the body. It is then not so much a matter of receiving self-earned destiny as of satisfying that need. Both coincide usually but not always and not necessarily. Nor does this happen with the ordinary man so much as it does with the questing man, for the latter has asked or prayed for speedier development.
6.9.3.247Listen 5 Jun 2017It is a quest to become conscious of Consciousness, to explore the I and penetrate the mystery of its knowing power.
2.1.1.20Listen 6 Jun 2017… We are animals in one part of our nature, human beings in the second part, and sometimes angelic in the third part. All make one creature. We learn what our bodies are through the physical senses. We learn a part of what the mind is through our thoughts. We learn still more about the mind's deeper phases through our non-thoughts--that is, intuitions.
16.26.4.54, ExcerptListen 7 Jun 2017His way to the goal is blocked by the ego…
6.8.4.95, ExcerptListen 8 Jun 2017Perhaps the most wonderful thing which the illuminate discovers is that his independence from the infinite life power never really existed and was only illusory, that his separation from the Overself was only an idea of the imagination and not a fact of being…
14.22.3.35, ExcerptListen 9 Jun 2017There is nothing else like it; nothing with which the Overself could be compared.
14.22.3.259Listen 10 Jun 2017…Prayer is not only asking, it is first and foremost an act of worship and love of God. Only after that is done you may ask for something for yourself--mainly, of course, for spiritual things and not material…
12.18.2.5, ExcerptListen 11 Jun 2017Seekers do not come under the power of Grace until they have done, to a sufficient extent, what the Long Path requires from them. Then only are they likely to be ready for the Short Path, and to benefit by the Grace associated with it.
15.23.4.44Listen 12 Jun 2017All the great prophets have made special mention of the fact that the task of spiritually enlightening others is the most important and most beneficial activity in which any man can engage…
3.2.8.64, ExcerptListen 13 Jun 2017It is more prudent to be habitually suspicious of his own ego, and its motives, than not.
6.8.4.164Listen 14 Jun 2017… Humility is the first step on this path. We should realize how little we really know when confronted by the great mysteries of life…
12.18.3.46, ExcerptListen 15 Jun 2017… The mind is drawn so deeply into itself and becomes so engrossed in itself that the outer world vanishes utterly. The sensation of being enclosed all round by a greater presence, at once protective and benevolent, is strong. There is a feeling of being completely at rest in this soothing presence…
15.23.7.11, ExcerptListen 16 Jun 2017Those who have had this overwhelming experience require no arguments to make them believe in the soul. They know that they are the soul.
14.22.3.438Listen 17 Jun 2017If you want a workable and faultless prayer, what is better than the one which Socrates habitually used, ”Give me that which is best for me”, or the one which some older pagan used, ”May I love, seek, and attain only that which is good”?
12.18.2.47Listen 18 Jun 2017If discovery of Truth is the discovery of the answer to “Who Am I?“ then what better Master can there be than the “I“ itself…?
2.1.6.839, ExcerptListen 19 Jun 2017… In choosing a suitable formula for his own use, the student should bear in mind that it is not only remembrance that is needed, but loving remembrance. The mantram for such repetition must not only remind him of the Overself but attract him to it. Hence, it should be one that inspires devotion and uplifts character. It should embody spiritualizing thought and gather ennobling emotion around it…
4.4.6.4, ExcerptListen 20 Jun 2017These glimpses come on rare occasions, for the mind's tumult is hard to still--only the Overself's Grace can do so.
14.22.5.89Listen 21 Jun 2017What is the hidden metaphysical meaning of the Quest? It is that the infinite self in man finds that it cannot achieve adequate self-expression in the finite and imperfect life of the world. The ego may try as it will, do what it may, but the bliss, wisdom, serenity, and perfection that are the natural attributes of the Overself, in the end elude its every move. There is ultimately no alternative except to let go of searching and grasping the outer world, and retreat within. There, deep inside its own being the journey to enduring satisfaction will thenceforth be. This is the Quest leading to discovery of Overself.
2.1.1.39Listen 22 Jun 2017The traits and tendencies which a man receives from the preceding births constitute in their totality the personal self which he knows as ”I.”
6.9.2.33Listen 23 Jun 2017Through art man can create images of those qualities and attributes he finds in the Overself: its beauty, its order, its intelligence. Whether these images come through the medium of music or painting, of sculpture or poetry, they may bring their audience into a mood, a glimpse, or a thought closer to their source.
9.14.1.68Listen 24 Jun 2017He enters the third stage, contemplation, when the thought or thing on which he fixed his mind alone remains there whereas the consciousness that he is meditating vanishes. He finishes this stage when this residue is none other than the Overself, thus transcending his personal self and losing it in the Overself.
15.23.7.93Listen 25 Jun 2017Stillness is both a sign that sense and thought, body and intellect, have been transcended and a symbol of the consciousness of the presence of the Overself.
14.22.3.213Listen 26 Jun 2017By watching our thought life, keeping out negatives, and cultivating positive ideas, full of trust in the higher laws, we actually start processes that eventually bring improvement to the outer life.
6.9.3.169Listen 27 Jun 2017There is an orderly structure in the universe and an orderly pattern in the lives of its creatures. If everything else is governed by laws, why not the growth of man's spirituality?
16.26.4.98Listen 28 Jun 2017He must use his combined reason and intuition, that is, intelligence, to discern the handiwork of karma in the pattern of some of the external events of his own life.
6.9.3.171Listen 29 Jun 2017When the state of egolessness is first reached, it will be in deep meditation. The second stage of its development will be when it is temporarily reached in active life, the third and last when it is established there.
14.22.8.111Listen 30 Jun 2017
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