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Until he finds his Overself, no man can escape this coming back to the earthly life. And this remains true whether he loves the world or is disgusted by it.
6.9.2.212Listen 1 Jul 2012... The momentary glimpse of the true self is not the ultimate experience. There is another yet more wonderful lying ahead. In this he will be bound by invisible hoops of wide selfless compassion to all living creatures…
14.22.8.107, ExcerptListen 2 Jul 2012... There exists a supreme reality beyond the awareness of sense or intellect; there exists a soul in man which is rooted in this reality; the higher purpose of human life is to establish full consciousness of and communion with this soul…
13.20.1.55, ExcerptListen 3 Jul 2012The world is not illusion...Nor is it purposeless. It exists to evolve the individual entities to their goals.
13.19.1.20, ExcerptListen 4 Jul 2012A man cannot look in two directions at one and the same time. He may look at himself, his ego, or he may turn away and look above, at his Overself. In the latter case, if he has sufficiently thinned away the obstructions to it, grace may descend and lift his ego up to unite with his Overself. Then, and then alone, he will be able to live in both.
15.23.5.177Listen 5 Jul 2012... Here then is a teaching, very old and very wise, which summarizes all human knowledge, actual and possible, and which shows man how best to shape his personal and practical life. I am not its originator. I can but try to re-present it to a troubled, broken, and blinded world which waits for this knowledge in modern form…
13.20.1.325, ExcerptListen 6 Jul 2012... The ego comes to slow birth in finite consciousness out of utter unconsciousness and, later, to recognition and union with its infinite source. That source, whence it has emanated, remains untouched, unaffected, ever knowing and serenely witnessing. The purpose in this evolution is the ego's own advancement. When the Quest is reached, the Overself reveals its presence fitfully and brokenly at first but later the hide-and-seek game ends in loving union.
16.26.4.256, ExcerptListen 7 Jul 2012Freedom is a tremendous word whose meaning goes much beyond the average man's idea of it. He is not free who is in bondage to narrow prejudice, strong attachment, unruled desire, and spiritual ignorance.
5.6.1.94Listen 8 Jul 2012... Without the yearning the advent of Grace is unlikely, and without Grace there can never be any realization of the Overself…
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 9 Jul 2012It is both the irony and tragedy of life that we use up its strictly limited quota of years in pursuits which we come later to see as worthless and in desires which we find bring pain with their fulfilment. The dying man, who sees the cinema-film of his past flash in review before his mental eyes, discovers this irony and feels this tragedy.
6.8.4.355Listen 10 Jul 2012There are times when the Overself accepts no resistance, when it acts with such compelling force that the man is unable to disobey. But such happenings are special ones.
14.22.2.75Listen 11 Jul 2012Ironically enough, pain and suffering are not always necessary. But only the few understand this. They may learn quietly from philosophy within a few years what humanity at large must learn brutally through suffering, and relearn again in every epoch.
9.13.1.62Listen 12 Jul 2012Events and environments are attracted to man partly according to what he is and does (individual karma), partly according to what he needs and seeks (evolution), and partly according to what the society, race, or nation of which he is a member is, does, needs, and seeks (collective karma).
6.9.3.210Listen 13 Jul 2012... It is no truer message than this: ”Seek for the divine within yourself, return to it every day, learn how to continue in it and finally be it.”
16.26.4.170, ExcerptListen 14 Jul 2012I have always recommended to those who feel strong enough to be able to do so, to refrain from joining any organization, to keep their freedom, while at the same time studying the doctrines of whatever organizations interest them, whatever religions engage some of their attention. This freedom enables them to look anywhere, to study everything, to question courageously, to keep breadth of view, depth of thought.
2.1.3.127Listen 15 Jul 2012There is a time in his progress when he should put aside all intellectual problems for the time being and concentrate on the two most important tenets of mystical philosophy. They are: that man in his deepest being is an immortal soul, and that there is a path whereby he may discover it for himself.
3.2.9.61Listen 16 Jul 2012The human situation is a paradox. We are at one and the same time inhabitants of a world of reality as well as a world of appearance. A true human life must embrace both aspects, must be spiritual as well as physical, must integrate the intuitive as well as the intellectual.
9.13.0.2Listen 17 Jul 2012... Whoever comes eventually to mystical experience of the reality of his own Higher Self will recognize the infinite number of ways in which nature throughout life is beckoning him…
2.1.1.62, ExcerptListen 18 Jul 2012The consciousness which inheres in the personal self is the palest possible reflection of the intensely real consciousness which inheres in the Overself.
13.19.3.7Listen 19 Jul 2012... When his weaknesses are counterbalanced by earnest aspiration and faith, if he never deserts his Ideal no matter what happens, if he clings to his desire for conscious attainment of unity with the Overself as the highest goal life offers and measures all other rewards accordingly, then the student may always count on the assistance which brought him safely through his time of crisis.
3.2.3.141, ExcerptListen 20 Jul 2012The innermost being of man, his mysterious Overself, links him with God. It does not change with time nor die with the years. It is eternal.
6.9.1.14Listen 21 Jul 2012He who is owned by things and no longer owns them should turn to asceticism and practise the virtue of renunciation. But he who is so enamoured of asceticism that he shrinks from comfort and shudders at the sight of pleasure should turn away from renunciation. Balance is required.
3.2.7.41Listen 22 Jul 2012Here is this wonderful potency in man lying largely unused, this faculty of intuition that links him with a higher order of being.
14.22.1.14Listen 23 Jul 2012Those who recur often to thoughts of their past get trapped by it and kept prisoner of the ego. Remorse for sins committed and self-pity for being the victim of other people's sinning--both are soon overdone and create more obstacles to be overcome on the quest.
3.2.1.154Listen 24 Jul 2012A man is really free when his intuition directs his intellect and rules his energies.
14.22.1.252Listen 25 Jul 2012There is nothing more important in life than the Quest, and the time will come when the student discovers that there is nothing more enjoyable as well. This is inevitable in a Quest whose essential nature is one of infinite harmony and unbroken peace. No worldly object, person, or pleasure can ever bestow the satisfaction experienced in uniting with the Overself.
2.1.1.166Listen 26 Jul 2012The man who faithfully obeys the injunctions and practices the regimes of philosophy can never be a failure, whatever the world says. Nor can he be unemployed, for he understands that his real employer is the Overself and that the work he is doing will not end while life does not end.
13.20.1.389Listen 27 Jul 2012This is knowledge of the highest order, that everything around us and within us, every bit of Nature and creature, the experience of life with a physical body and of death without it - all are but forms of consciousness.
13.21.2.97Listen 28 Jul 2012If a man wants continual access to the Overself, he must remember that it is not free; there is a high price to be paid--the price of continual submergence of the ego.
6.8.4.10Listen 29 Jul 2012... The divine self is always there within him, it is never absent from him, not even for a second. It is the unfailing witness of all his efforts and aspirations. When he has tried hard enough and long enough it will suddenly shed all its Grace upon him.
2.1.5.89, ExcerptListen 30 Jul 2012Our world is but a fleeting symbol, yet we may not disdain it. For it is the arched entrance under which we must pass through to the infinite life.
16.26.1.188Listen 31 Jul 2012
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