Day by day
These teachings have appeared in the world in their present form and at the present time because they correspond to a genuine need of a certain section of humanity.
13.20.2.1Listen 1 Jun 2018Those who give too few minutes during the day to thought about, remembrance of, or meditation on the higher self cannot justly demand a spiritual return out of all proportion to what they have given.
3.8.1.54Listen 2 Jun 2018When this stage is attained, the work he has to do in reorienting attention toward the Overself-thought is not any more for the particular sessions of meditation practice alone, but also to be kept up during the day's activities. Attention will have to be returned again and again…
15.23.6.204, ExcerptListen 3 Jun 2018Can we build a bridge between this sorrowful earthly life and the peaceful eternal life? Are the two forever sundered? Every seer, sage, and saint answers the first question affirmatively and the second negatively.
2.1.2.31Listen 4 Jun 2018When a man discovers that he himself is the bearer of divine forces, he ceases to run hither and thither in search of other men.
14.22.7.78Listen 5 Jun 2018The path of dealing with his shortcomings one by one is not only too long, too slow, but also incomplete and negative. It is concerned with what not to be and not to do. This is good, but it is not enough. It pertains to the little ego. He must add to it the path of remembering his higher all-self. This is a positive thing. More, it brings the Grace which finishes the work he has already started. It carries him from the ego's past into the Overself's Eternal Now.
15.23.5.173Listen 6 Jun 2018Not only all other men's bodies but also his own must be regarded as objects to Consciousness…
15.23.6.107, ExcerptListen 7 Jun 2018If we are called by the Quest to give up everything for a time or for all time it is only that we may receive something infinitely better in exchange. The Quest calls us to renunciation of earthly desires not to make us miserable but to make us happy.
3.2.7.29Listen 8 Jun 2018There is no moment when the unseen divine activity is not present in the universe. Everything is being carried on by the divine Power and divine Wisdom.
16.26.1.218Listen 9 Jun 2018The glimpse has several results: it awakens sleeping minds, it encourages questing minds, it inspires earnest minds, and it quickens growing minds.
14.22.7.118Listen 10 Jun 2018The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn, first, to let it in and, second, how to do so. The first beginning of this is to remember. The second is to recognize the inward pull. For the rest, the stillness itself will guide and lead him to itself.
15.24.4.51Listen 11 Jun 2018If he will stop looking at his own life from the shut-in standpoint of his little ego and instead look at it from the wide-angle standpoint of its place in the reincarnationary cycle of development, it will become filled with new meanings, rich with higher significances. To bring his personal idea into alignment with the World-Idea will then become both his duty and his happiness.
6.8.1.169Listen 12 Jun 2018That which is at the heart of all existence--the world's and yours--must be real, if anything can be. The world may be an illusion, your ego a fiction, but the ultimate essence cannot be either. Reality must be here or nowhere.
16.28.1.15Listen 13 Jun 2018He must not only give up the slavery of passion, but also the slavery of intellect.
15.24.4.79Listen 14 Jun 2018His ”I,” hemmed in by its ignorance and limitations, is a small affair compared with the ”I” which is drawing him onward and upward through the quest and which he must one day become. His personal self, controlled and purified, kept in its place, humbly prostrating itself before the Overself, can gratefully receive even now glimpses of that day, momentary revelations that bless the mind and put intense peace in the heart…
14.22.5.104, ExcerptListen 15 Jun 2018… The banishment of thoughts reveals the inner self…
15.23.6.88, ExcerptListen 16 Jun 2018When this inner work is sufficiently advanced, certain traits of character will either advance in strength or appear for the first time. Among them are patience, goodwill, stability, self-control, peacefulness, and equableness.
2.1.5.389Listen 17 Jun 2018The deepest meditation takes the meditator to a completely different level of consciousness. It causes him to drop all thoughts about the world and especially about himself.
15.23.7.68Listen 18 Jun 2018The ego constantly invents ways and means to defeat the quest's objective. And it does this more indefatigably and more cunningly than ever when it pretends to co-operate with the quest and share its experiences.
6.8.4.317Listen 19 Jun 2018… All things dissolve in the end, but man alone dissolves consciously into a higher Consciousness.
16.26.4.42, ExcerptListen 20 Jun 2018When the sun dips low and vanishes, when dusk begins to fall and the colours darken and merge, the mind can move with Nature into its great pause. A man whose temperament is sensitive, aesthetic, religious, psychic, or Nature-loving can profit by this passage from day to night and come closer to awareness of his soul.
3.3.7.107Listen 21 Jun 2018What is the best charity, the truest philanthropy? It is so to enlighten a man that thereafter he will find within himself all the resources he needs to manage his life so as to bring him the greatest happiness.
3.2.8.100Listen 22 Jun 2018He begins to look on the world afresh, as if for the first time. But it is the beauties, the harmonies, the inner meanings, and the higher purposes that he now sees. He becomes more attentive to the attractiveness of Nature, observes her colourings and forms with new delight.
14.22.7.81Listen 23 Jun 2018… The highest possibility which separates man from beast is attainment of insight into truth, experience of his divine source.
16.26.4.40, ExcerptListen 24 Jun 2018If the divine activity ceases in one universe it continues at the same time in another. If our World-Mind returns to its source in the end, there are other World-Minds and other worlds which continue. Creation is a thing without beginning and without end, but there are interludes and periods of rest just as there are in the individual's own life in and outside the body.
16.27.2.51Listen 25 Jun 2018The notion that the fortunes and misfortunes of life should be of little importance to a philosopher is not a correct one. To practise a calm detachment is not to ignore worldly values.
15.24.3.29Listen 26 Jun 2018This lesson, that a man is not his body, will be learnt in modern times through his reasoning intelligence as it was learnt in former times through his believing feelings.
6.9.1.179Listen 27 Jun 2018In his practical life he will evidence a compassionate heart but a clear head, a strong will but a sensitive intuition.
13.20.5.38Listen 28 Jun 2018… The meditator whose mind is centered on his own working of the meditation technique is like the karate pupil who want to cut through a brick with a single blow of the outside edge of the hand and who fixes his mind on the brick. This is a mistake. But the meditator who fixes his mind on the Overself is like the pupil who concentrates his thought on the ground below the brick itself, and this is what leads to success. Obviously, such advice is not suited to the early or elementary stages of meditation where concentration is required. On the contrary, it belongs to the more advanced stage where success comes not from trying but from letting go, relaxing.
15.23.7.33, ExcerptListen 29 Jun 2018A mighty longing for liberation from one's present condition is a prerequisite for the philosophic quest.
2.1.2.63Listen 30 Jun 2018
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