Day by day
From that high source of inspiration may come great actions, immense inner strength, superb artistic creativity, and a beautiful, delicate inner equilibrium.
14.22.2.84Listen 1 Jun 2024As a support for the beginning period of practice itself, as a means to fix attention, a particular physical object or sound may be chosen. He may gaze at a chink of light shining in a dark room or listen to the pendulum-swing of a metronome. Whatever is thus isolated from the outer world for concentration, is used merely as a jumping off platform from which to enter the inner world.
4.4.5.6Listen 2 Jun 2024The same power which, when misgoverned, drags men down into materialism, also lifts them into spiritual awareness when directed upward.
5.6.4.1Listen 3 Jun 2024No men are without their sense of the Overself, but they miscomprehend and therefore misapply it. The result is that ego, the little part, is conceived to be the whole, the All.
14.22.3.346Listen 4 Jun 2024In the lengthy writings of the fathers of the early Christian Church, we can find approval of belief in the doctrine of reincarnation expressed by Saint Methodius, Origen, Synesius, and Pamphilius.
6.9.2.203Listen 5 Jun 2024And you will perceive that the Overself is always there, albeit you will have repeatedly to raise your eyes from earth and your mind from ego to come into realization of this truth.
14.22.3.69Listen 6 Jun 2024If a man can give up his fears and anxieties to the higher self, because he is convinced that it is better able to manage his problems than the egoistic self, because he believes in trusting to its wisdom rather than to his own foolishness, yet does not evade the lessons implicit in those problems, his surrender becomes an act of strength, not of weakness.
12.18.4.73Listen 7 Jun 2024The “I” is still here, not the old familiar petty uncertain creature but another “I,” a gloriously transformed one.
6.8.1.228Listen 8 Jun 2024The mind keeps on moving about until sleep overcomes it . . . and because it never stopped to collect itself, it still does not know the higher and better part of itself—the Overself.
14.22.3.47Listen 9 Jun 2024He should ask of each day what it has yielded in this lifelong struggle for the realization of higher values.
3.2.5.92Listen 10 Jun 2024A glimpse may exalt the man and give him inspiration, but above everything else it attests for him the fact that he is fundamentally Spirit. This is the commonest kind of Glimpse but there is another kind which, in addition to doing these things, opens mysterious doors and provides inlooks to the working of secret laws and occult processes in Nature, the world and the life of man. This kind of glimpse may fitly be termed “a revelation.”
14.22.6.305Listen 11 Jun 2024Let him immerse himself in that feeling and little by little a powerful sense of well-being will penetrate his heart.
15.23.6.196Listen 12 Jun 2024Just as the World-Idea is both the expression of the World-Mind and one with it, so the Word (Logos) mentioned in the Bible as being with God is another way of saying the same thing. The world with its form and history is the embodiment of the Word and the Word is the World-Idea.
16.26.1.71Listen 13 Jun 2024There is a spiritual element in every man. It is his essence.
14.22.3.13Listen 14 Jun 2024To describe the ego as “little” and the personality as “petty” is to look at it from outside, where it is lost among such a multitude of others; but to look at it from within the man himself is to find it vastly important, dominating his consciousness, a giant holding him down …
6.8.4.104, ExcerptListen 15 Jun 2024The teaching that is most worthwhile comes directly from your own inner being, not from another’s.
14.22.1.287Listen 16 Jun 2024The most satisfying proofs will come to him that the Overself is really guiding the course of his outer life and really inspiring the course of his inner life.
14.22.1.275Listen 17 Jun 2024I have always preached the gospel of hope, because if it does nothing more, it encourages effort, gives a tonic to one's spirit, and helps one through the darkest moments. As the Comte de Saint Germain said: “Every tunnel has its end.”
15.23.3.50Listen 18 Jun 2024Every person maintains his or her individuality during and after the perishing of the body-thought …
6.9.1.181, ExcerptListen 19 Jun 2024That alone is true culture which refines taste, improves character, lifts standards, corrects behaviour, and teaches self-control.
5.6.5.2Listen 20 Jun 2024The travelling Goethe wrote his friends in Germany about a Princess he met in Naples—she was young, gay, and superficial—who advised him to go to her large country estate in Sorrento where “the mountain air and lovely view would soon cure me of all philosophy!” Some of us, however, would only be more incited by them to philosophy.
3.3.6.103Listen 21 Jun 2024When the coming of night brings repose to Nature and silence to the landscaped scenes, we experience a stillness outside the self comparable to the stillness which contemplation brings out inside the self.
3.3.7.48Listen 22 Jun 2024The best a man can hope for, in rising above the ego and the world, is to rise into awareness of his true soul …
16.25.1.106, ExcerptListen 23 Jun 2024If your passion is transferred from a passing object or human body to the more durable and beautiful soul, you will be progressing from a lower to a higher plane.
5.6.4.125Listen 24 Jun 2024The final “I” is not the “I” of the senses nor of the desires but a deeper entity, free and unattached, serene and self-sufficient.
6.8.1.91Listen 25 Jun 2024Inside ourselves there is not one ego but several. We live in a condition of recurring feelings that successively contradict one another, deny each other, or shame each other. The “I” is really torn into pieces, each claiming ascendency but none holding it permanently. The animal, the human, and the angel jostle elbows in our hearts. We are degraded today, elevated tomorrow. The quest seeks to integrate all these different egos.
6.8.3.18Listen 26 Jun 2024The cosmos exists in a great harmony for it obeys laws which are divinely perfect.
16.26.1.16Listen 27 Jun 2024It is the soul speaking truth to the intellect out of its larger range of life. Its voice is best and easiest heard when the consciousness is turned inward away from the sense-existence and brought as near to stillness as we can make it.
14.22.2.125Listen 28 Jun 2024When the will is feebler than the imagination, the life loses its balance.
3.2.5.126Listen 29 Jun 2024All possessions are left behind when a man makes his exit from this world. Every physical belonging, however prized, and even every human association, however beloved, are taken abruptly from him by death. This is the universal and eternal law which was, is, and ever shall be. There is no way to cheat or defeat it. Nevertheless there are some persons who, in a single particular only, escape this total severance. Those are the ones who sought and found, during their earthly life, the inspiration of a dead master or the association with a living one. His mental picture will vividly arise in their last moments on earth, to guide them safely into the first phase of post-mortem existence, to explain and reassure them about the unfamiliar new conditions.
6.9.1.115Listen 30 Jun 2024
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