Day by day
The old Sanskrit texts tell us of the “little purpose” of human life and of the “great purpose.” All know the one but few know the other; fewer still seek to realize it.
2.1.1.91Listen 1 Jun 2023The danger of slipping into this overstress on intellectual activity and not retaining the healthy balance between it and intuitional activity, is large and real.
5.7.1.198Listen 2 Jun 2023He is the silent background counsellor for a few men who have the opportunity and capacity to serve mankind.
16.25.4.288Listen 3 Jun 2023The ripe wisdom of a sage could not possibly be the fruit of a single lifetime, but only of many lifetimes.
6.9.2.236Listen 4 Jun 2023The order which has been established throughout the cosmos is a perfect one. If the human mind fails to see this fact, it is partly because human feelings, prejudices, aversions, and attractions sway it and partly because the World-Idea unveils itself only to those who are ready.
16.26.1.36Listen 5 Jun 2023In this mood there is knowledge without thoughts, understanding without words.
14.22.6.312Listen 6 Jun 2023The ego will creep even into his spiritual work or aspiration, so that he will take from the teaching only what suits his own personal ends and ignore the rest, or only what suits his own personal comfort and be averse to the rest.
6.8.4.315Listen 7 Jun 2023Intuition, inspiration, and even grace may come directly to him through prayer, meditation, and reading.
3.2.4.62Listen 8 Jun 2023When a man finds that a condition is beyond his power to change, he may better endure it by holding the faith that all things and all conditions are ultimately ordered by the Universal Mind, and that they will work out for the best in the end.
6.9.3.153Listen 9 Jun 2023The true explanation of mystical ecstasy is not union with God but union with the Soul.
16.25.1.98Listen 10 Jun 2023The intellect’s finest function is to point the way to this actual living awareness of the Overself that is beyond itself …
5.7.1.133, ExcerptListen 11 Jun 2023A movement may begin and seek to keep itself free from organization, administration, and authority, but it is unlikely to remain so. For human beings, fallible or ambitious, frail or emotional, will sooner or later seek to impose their ideas, will, or themselves on the others.
2.1.4.53Listen 12 Jun 2023Our thinking process is bound by time and space relations, but there is something in us which is not. Ordinarily, we have no awareness of it, although it never leaves us.
13.19.4.7Listen 13 Jun 2023If he trains himself in thought control as a means to ego control, then neither flatterers nor critics can reach him with their praise or blame.
5.6.5.248Listen 14 Jun 2023In my alleged claim that every human being can develop the divinity within himself, I do not mean that we poor mortals can ever rise to the stature of the Almighty … I mean only that we have within us something that is linked with and related to God: it is our higher self, the discovery of and union with which represents the limit of our possible attainment.
16.25.1.58, ExcerptListen 15 Jun 2023To put one’s own purposes in harmony with the universe’s purpose is the most sensible thing he can do. Therefore there is nothing unpractical, irrational, or eccentric in the Quest…
2.1.1.177, ExcerptListen 16 Jun 2023From Lord Beaconsfield’s novel: “Ah,” said Coningsby, “I should like to be a great man.” The stranger threw at him a scrutinizing glance. His countenance was serious. He said in a voice of most solemn melody, “Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
1.6.0.29Listen 17 Jun 2023He begins to practise real meditation only when he begins to reach the silence of feelings and thoughts inside himself. Until then he is merely maneuvering around to attain this position.
4.4.1.229Listen 18 Jun 2023When this third stage, contemplation, is reached, there is a feeling, sometimes gradual but sometimes abrupt, that his thought activities have been cancelled out by a superior force.
15.23.7.94Listen 19 Jun 2023The ego ceaselessly invents one “duty” after another to keep him so involved in activities, often trivial, that he is never still enough to attend to the Overself’s presence and voice within. Even many so-called spiritual duties are its invention: they are not asked of him by the Overself.
1.3.0.17Listen 20 Jun 2023We need to take these occasional retreats to cleanse ourselves inwardly, to find fresh strength and gather new inspiration, to study ourselves, meditate, and understand truth.
1.3.0.12Listen 21 Jun 2023Muhammed knew the power of tears. He bade his followers to weep whenever they recited the Koran.
5.6.2.77Listen 22 Jun 2023… Only when the lessons of birth after birth etch themselves deeply and unmistakably into his conscious mind through dreadful repetition can he accept them co-operatively, resignedly, and thus put a stop to the needless sufferings of desire, passion, and attachment.
5.6.4.30, ExcerptListen 23 Jun 2023When the glimpse happens, a man comes out of himself. It may follow his admiration of a beautiful scene in Nature or his appreciation of a beautiful poem or his simple relaxed mood, but in each case he lets go of his taut self-consciousness. This allows the entry of grace.
14.22.5.34Listen 24 Jun 2023The more deeply we understand the nature of man, the more reliably shall we understand the duty of man.
2.1.1.120Listen 25 Jun 2023We know that a person can worry himself into a state of physical sickness, but there seems to be less acceptance for the opposite idea that emotions and thoughts can also produce healing and not injury.
7.10.3.43Listen 26 Jun 2023These revealings of inner life, which put its truths before the mind so vividly, seem to come by chance to some, by working for them to others …
14.22.5.82, ExcerptListen 27 Jun 2023Whatever helps to reduce the predominant influence of the ego helps his quest …
3.2.4.7, ExcerptListen 28 Jun 2023When fears and doubts, negative thoughts and pessimistic moods strongly dominate the inner life for long periods, or for a shorter one more strongly, they may provoke repercussions in the physical body and create disease.
7.10.3.44Listen 29 Jun 2023Where intuitive feeling will guide him aright to his best decisions, calculating intellect will not infrequently step in with doubts or fears and rob him of them.
5.7.1.196Listen 30 Jun 2023
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