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The Quest of the Overself is none other than the final stage of mankind´s long pursuit of happiness.
1.1.0.1Listen 1 Jun 2019… Every time he stills the restless thoughts in silent meditation he is giving up the ego; every time he puts the desires aside in a crucial decision he is giving up the ego; every time he disciplines the body, the passions, the activities, he is giving up the ego…
1.1.0.33, ExcerptListen 2 Jun 2019…It is through such rare glimpses, such exalted moments, when they become conscious of a presence, higher and more blessed than their ordinary state, that men are drawn to the Quest in the effort to recapture those moments and those moods…
14.22.7.221, ExcerptListen 3 Jun 2019There are two biblical quotations, one from the Song of Solomon and one from Saint Paul, that accurately refer to the Overself. This indeed is the real soul of man, whose finding here and now, during our life on earth, is the task silently set us by life itself.
14.22.3.296Listen 4 Jun 2019Another sign that the time may have come for a change to the Short Path is when meditation no longer yields satisfying results but becomes irksome and difficult.
15.23.4.164Listen 5 Jun 2019If you want to know where you will go after you are dead, I shall tell you for I have been there. You go nowhere, no place. As awareness of this earth and the earthly body fade away, soon after dying, you will simply enter the condition of awareness to which your character entitles you.
1.9.0.11Listen 6 Jun 2019… The philosophical meaning of egoism is that attitude of separateness not from another individual on the same imperfect level as ourself but from the one universal life-power which is behind all individuals on a deeper level than them all. We are separated from that infinite mind when we allow the personal ego to rule us, when we allow the personal self to prevent the one universal self from entering our field of awareness…
1.5.0.38, ExcerptListen 7 Jun 2019That glimpse is his initiation into the spiritual life and therefore into the sacrificial life. It is but the first step in a long process wherein he will have to part with his lower tendencies, give up his ignoble passions, surrender his baser inclinations, and renounce egoistic views.
14.22.8.26Listen 8 Jun 2019There is much confusion of understanding about what happens to the ego when it attains the ultimate goal… The true unity is with one's own higher indestructible self…
14.22.3.108, ExcerptListen 9 Jun 2019The ego is not really killed--how without body and intellect, emotion and will, could anyone act in this world?--but the centre of being is moved out of it to the Overself.
1.8.0.20Listen 10 Jun 2019Even many of those who have had the good fortune to come into contact with philosophy have either misunderstood it and so missed their opportunity, or neglected it because its disciplines seemed too troublesome.
13.20.2.238Listen 11 Jun 2019The Long Path is needed because it leads to a measure of release from egoism and animalism. But it does not directly lead to the discovery of the Overself, its truth and reality. That is the Short Path's work.
15.23.4.27Listen 12 Jun 2019Where there is no attempt at self-improvement there is inevitable deterioration. Nature does not let us stand still.
2.1.5.31Listen 13 Jun 2019Emotional worry, whether it be worry about worldly and personal affairs or even about the spiritual quest, will vanish if one surrenders one's life to the Overself entirely. That is the only way to enjoy real freedom from worry; that is inner peace.
12.18.4.150Listen 14 Jun 2019… The fact is that the Long Path is incomplete without the Short one.
15.23.5.156, ExcerptListen 15 Jun 2019The ego-self is the creature born out of man´s doing and thinking, slowly changing and growing. The Overself is the image of God, perfect, finished, and changeless. What he has to do, if he is to fulfill himself, is to let the one shine through the other.
1.8.0.35Listen 16 Jun 2019Each of us has been endowed with intelligence, determination, and ability, so that we may use these in order to grow spiritually--and to learn how to properly care for ourselves and others.
9.13.2.648Listen 17 Jun 2019To eradicate anger he should cultivate its opposite—forgiveness.
5.6.3.75Listen 18 Jun 2019The incapacity of some persons to receive the teaching is illusory. The fault lies really in the inefficiency of those who present it--in their failure to make it clear enough, vivid enough, logical enough, to render it intelligible…
13.20.2.267, ExcerptListen 19 Jun 2019We may take comfort in the fact that the Overself never at any moment abandons or obliterates the human personality, however debased it becomes. Nor could it do so, whatever foolish cults say to the contrary, for through this medium it finds an expression in time-space.
14.22.3.392Listen 20 Jun 2019To anticipate the sunset hour or await the break of dawn, with body unmoving and mind absorbed, is one timing of this exercise which allies itself with Nature's helpful rhythm.
3.3.7.17Listen 21 Jun 2019Regard, affection and friendliness, sympathy, fellow-feeling and love are not feelings to be thrown away because he has taken to the philosophic quest. On the contrary, they may become valuable stepping-stones in his progress if he treats them aright, if he evaluates them correctly, purifies them emotionally, and ennobles them morally.
1.6.0.42Listen 22 Jun 2019Yes the ego is there and must be there if we are to live on this plane. But it can undergo a spiritual rebirth and no longer be a tyrant who denies us our spiritual birthright and our spiritual consciousness but rather a channel serving that consciousness.
6.8.1.222Listen 23 Jun 2019… When feeling a descent of the stillness the aspirant is told to drop whatever he is doing and to hold himself in the stillness as long as he can or as long as it is there…
15.23.6.200, ExcerptListen 24 Jun 2019The intelligence which sometimes solves our problems for us during dreams is of a higher quality than that which ordinarily solves them during wakeful hours. It is indeed of the same order as that which we call intuition.
13.19.3.54Listen 25 Jun 2019Writing, which is an exercise of the intellect to some, is an act of worship to me. I rise from my desk in the same mood as that in which I leave an hour of prayer in an old cathedral, or of meditation in a little wood.
8.12.5.301Listen 26 Jun 2019We must put out of our minds every weakening impulse by instant reference to the strength of the Overself, every evil thought by a call to the infinite good of the Overself. In this way character is uplifted and made noble.
5.6.1.146Listen 27 Jun 2019Whoever wishes to attract people to philosophy must start by supporting its preachings with the attractiveness of his own personal example in day-to-day living. He must continue by practising love to all and depending on the power of truth. He must end by praying for others in secret and offering himself to the Divine as a pure instrument of service.
13.20.4.260Listen 28 Jun 2019The forming of a good character is the beginning, the middle, and the end of this work.
1.6.0.36Listen 29 Jun 2019… The more he looks in things and to persons for his happiness, the less he is likely to find it. The more he looks in Mind for it, the more he is likely to find it. But as man needs things and persons to make his existence tolerable, the mystery is that when he has found his happiness in Mind they both have a way of coming to him of their own accord to complete it.
12.18.4.143, ExcerptListen 30 Jun 2019
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