Day by day
Each difficulty surmounted, each weakness resisted will fortify his will and increase his perseverance. It will evoke the better part of his nature and discipline the baser, and thus fit him more adequately to cope with the next ones.
5.6.1.436Listen 1 Jun 2020The man who has seen the light and experienced its warmth will prefer his own way of living if it is the consequence of his awakening.
2.1.5.172Listen 2 Jun 2020Tension may be eased by the simple exercise of total relaxation. At least twice a day, the student should stretch out and lie perfectly still. He must endeavour to consciously relax every part of the body. Breathing should be slowed down and kept at an even pace, the intake matching the outflow. The exercise need only take a few minutes--or until all signs of tension are gone.
3.3.3.3Listen 3 Jun 2020… As long as he believes that he is the body he must reincarnate in the body.
1.9.0.27, ExcerptListen 4 Jun 2020The illuminate exerts his influence upon others spontaneously and effortlessly rather than deliberately and purposely. He need make no effort but the benign power and light will radiate naturally from him just the same and reach those who come within his immediate orbit. It is sufficient for them to know with faith and devotion that he is and they receive help and healing. The Overself works directly through him and works unhindered upon all who surrender themselves to it.
16.25.4.257Listen 5 Jun 2020In most human relations, egoism in one person is replied by egoism in the other.
5.6.2.62Listen 6 Jun 2020He creates, not to express his small personality as so many others do, but to escape from it. For it is to the divine which transcends him, which is loftily impersonal, that he looks for inspiration.
9.14.2.41Listen 7 Jun 2020Nothing is more fortifying to the will than to do something every day along the lines of a declared intention to which all habit and environment are opposed.
3.2.6.55Listen 8 Jun 2020In this book I have considered myself to be a sensitive recording instrument, carefully and minutely registering the impressions received from these higher states of consciousness.
1.12.0.33Listen 9 Jun 2020… The purpose of this brief glimpse is to call him to more serious, more frequent, and sterner efforts, and to arouse in him increased ardours of moral self-improvement. It has shown him his finest potentialities of virtue; now he has to realize them…
14.22.8.107, ExcerptListen 10 Jun 2020… To be a liar and a hypocrite is as obstructive to the pursuit of truth as it is distorting to the reception of truth. Every lie--and even, to a lesser extent, every white lie--obstructs the light on his path and to that extent prevents him from finding his way to that region where the false simply does not and cannot exist…
5.6.5.228, ExcerptListen 11 Jun 2020In the end, it is no external person who can save us but only the internal soul itself. The master may point out the way to discover that soul, he may even be useful in other capacities, but he cannot do what it is ultimately the business of the divine in us to do.
16.25.5.188Listen 12 Jun 2020The overlooked part is his consciousness; the forgotten self is his knowing power. These exist uninterruptedly, even in apparently subconscious forms like deep sleep and swoon. Yet he denies this share of his in the Real Being, identifies with the body instead of making it merely an object of awareness.
14.22.3.40Listen 13 Jun 2020His quest of the Overself must be an untiring one. It is to be his way of looking at the world, his attitude toward life.
5.6.1.434Listen 14 Jun 2020Long ago Buddha said that if we make room in our minds for negative, bitter thoughts of complaint, outrage, or injury against those who mistreat us, we shall not be free and will remain unable to find peace.
7.11.5.88Listen 15 Jun 2020The person, young or old, who has his mind set on higher things than pleasures of the moment and is willing to sacrifice a fragment of time, attention, and interest to such studies and such meditations, will find his refusal to conform to other people's ways is repaid in inner growth on the quest.
2.1.3.66Listen 16 Jun 2020… Whereas ancient man sacrificed the animal outside him upon the altar of God-worship, modern man understands that he has to sacrifice the animal inside him…
12.17.3.70, ExcerptListen 17 Jun 2020There is an Indian formula covering three progressive stages of the quest: Hearing, Reflection, Enlightenment. It means: Receiving instruction (from guru or text), Thinking constantly over the teachings until they are thoroughly assimilated, Experiencing glimpses of a mystical nature. With the end of this third phase, the aspirant has not only to repeat and prolong the glimpses until his whole life is permeated by the wisdom and peace which is their fruit, but also to receive and apply the highest and final philosophic doctrine. With this, his enlightenment becomes natural, effortless, unbroken. It is unified with his activity, established whether he is busy in the world or seated in meditation.
2.1.5.300Listen 18 Jun 2020Epictetus: ”There is only one thing for which God has sent me into the world, and that is to perfect my nature in all sorts of virtue or strength; and there is nothing that I cannot use for that purpose.”
13.20.1.175, ExcerptListen 19 Jun 2020The great worlds which move so marvellously and rhythmically through our sky, however, must leave the more reflective minds with a wondering sense of the sublime intelligence which has patterned the universe.
16.26.1.12Listen 20 Jun 2020It is to the Overself that he must give his ultimate allegiance.
2.1.3.71Listen 21 Jun 2020It is one of the side effects of philosophy that it purifies human affection, takes the littleness out of it, and lifts it to a higher and wider plane. This may bring some pain or it may bring a shared pleasure, depending on those involved in the experience.
5.6.2.58Listen 22 Jun 2020This wisdom is latent in the bad as well as the good man. Any moral condition will suffice as a starting point. Jesus spoke to sinners as freely as to those of better character. His words were not wasted as the sequence showed. Krishna promised salvation even to those who had committed great crimes.
2.1.2.471Listen 23 Jun 2020In this state the thought-making activity comes to an end, the intellect itself is absorbed in the still centre of being, and a luminous peace enfolds the man.
15.23.7.112Listen 24 Jun 2020The artist, the thinker, or the mystic must not neglect the muscular vigour and health of body that can be obtained through physical yoga. This would include deep breathing, stretching exercises, and a diet of light and easily digested foods which will not dull inspiration.
4.5.5.79Listen 25 Jun 2020He could not tell others how to struggle out of the depths if he had not himself done so, how to realize the soul if he himself had not realized it. But this is only his first qualification. His second is that he has cultivated the special virtue of compassion for others throughout the whole course of his mystical life…
16.25.5.10, ExcerptListen 26 Jun 2020Because they sought to help the multitude for whom they came, rather than the elite, sages used the popular language to deliver their teachings. Hence Buddha spoke in Prakrit rather than in Sanskrit, Jesus in Aramaic rather than Hebrew.
13.20.2.310Listen 27 Jun 2020The mind is called pure not only when passions and desires have ceased surging through it, but also when thoughts and pictures have ceased to arise, especially the personal self-thought.
15.23.7.152Listen 28 Jun 2020To become a fuller human being a man must acquire education and culture. Both he and his life will be enriched. But unless he keeps humility, his egoism may grow too.
5.6.5.11Listen 29 Jun 2020We live in a universe which is only one amid an infinity of other universes whose patterns, as we find with individual living things, show infinite differences of detail while sharing certain basic general forms.
16.26.1.231Listen 30 Jun 2020
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