Day by day
The position of the impersonal observer is only a tentative one, assumed because it is a practical help perhaps midway toward the goal. For when it is well-established in understanding, outlook, and practice, something happens by itself: the observer and the observed ego with its body and world become swallowed up in the undivided Mind.
15.23.6.84Listen 1 Jul 2018The fruits of the Spirit are several but the list begins with inner peace. The agitation and anxiety, the desires and passions are enfeebled or extinguished.
15.24.2.106Listen 2 Jul 2018All scientific evidence indicates that there is a single power which presides over the entire universe, and all religious mystic experience and philosophic insight confirms it. Not only is this so, but this power also maintains the universe; its intelligence is unique, matchless, incredible. This power is what I call the World-Mind.
16.27.1.58Listen 3 Jul 2018… He must begin with the axiom that the ego is ceaselessly deceiving him, misleading him, ruling him…
12.18.3.20, ExcerptListen 4 Jul 2018The claims that these simpler paths like devotion or repeating a declaration can lead to the goal, are neither true nor untrue. For they lead to the philosophic path which, in its own turn, leads directly to the goal.
2.1.5.225Listen 5 Jul 2018But if the universe has no internal purpose for the World-Mind, it has one for every living entity within it and especially for every self-conscious entity such as man…
16.26.1.159, ExcerptListen 6 Jul 2018He has to learn how to surrender his egotism and swallow his pride. He has to cleanse his heart of impurity and then open it to divinity.
3.2.5.5Listen 7 Jul 2018Your handicap is the strong ego, the I which stands in the path and must be surrendered by emotional sacrifice in the blood of the heart. But once out of the way, you will feel a tremendous relief and gain peace.
6.8.4.33Listen 8 Jul 2018Shen-Hui declared, in a sermon, that Enlightenment came as suddenly as a baby's birth. But what about the nine long months of development which precedes the birth?
3.2.9.11Listen 9 Jul 2018The man whose idea of himself is strictly limited to his little ego, and who is excessively attached to it, will naturally tend to form an idea of God as being a kind of gigantic person.
12.17.1.273Listen 10 Jul 2018The only kind of service he may render is unpaid service. This condition he cheerfully accepts. For whatever he does to help others, he does out of love of the deed itself.
3.2.8.109Listen 11 Jul 2018At present this mystic experience is a fugitive one in the human species. But because it is also the ultimate experience of that species, there is no reason why it should not become a common one in the course of evolutionary development.
14.22.4.55Listen 12 Jul 2018However much we pry into the future we do not come a bit nearer real peace, whereas faithfully seeking and abiding in Overself gradually brings undying light and life.
6.9.3.473Listen 13 Jul 2018… There is no way to realize the Self which does not include going inside consciousness. Thinking, however metaphysical, cannot do it. Action, however self-denying, cannot do it. It must be found inside in the heart. The other things are needful but secondary…
11.16.1.66, ExcerptListen 14 Jul 2018People have curious ideas about what grace really is. So few, for instance, seem to see that in opening themselves up to the beauties of nature or of music and art they would be inviting the attention of grace too…
12.18.5.35, ExcerptListen 15 Jul 2018The aspiration has gotten into his bloodstream and every act, every thought follows inevitably from this one primal fact.
3.2.5.8Listen 16 Jul 2018Inner strength, divine joy, deep understanding, and unspeakable tranquillity will pervade him always and not be limited to the hours of solitary meditation. This is so because the Overself whence these things come is always with all men. Only, they know it not, whereas he has awakened to its abiding presence.
16.25.2.169Listen 17 Jul 2018Until he learns that his enemy is the ego itself, with all the mental and emotional attitudes that go with it, his efforts to liberate himself spiritually merely travel in a circle.
6.8.4.34Listen 18 Jul 2018Both anxiety about the future and regret about the past are inconsistent with the state of serene detachment. It is uplifted beyond them, and free even from being affected by the day's changes and pressures.
15.24.3.233Listen 19 Jul 2018What happened in all those earlier years is now veiled history to the enlightened man; what happens now, in the Eternal Now, is the important significant matter. Thus his mind is free from old burdens and errors. Yet, if needed, dead events can be resuscitated by intense concentration.
16.25.2.289Listen 20 Jul 2018… The value of repentance is that it is the first step to set us free from a regrettable past…
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 21 Jul 2018He stands on the very verge of non-existence. Shall he take the plunge? The courageous aspirant must not waver at this crucial moment. He must gather up all his force and draw the veil which conceals the face of Isis. A moment more--and he stands in the presence of the Unknown God!
15.23.8.51Listen 22 Jul 2018To unite the ego with the Overself is the highest achievement open to the mystic whilst yet in the flesh…
11.16.2.230, ExcerptListen 23 Jul 2018Surrender to the Higher Self is one thing; apathetic resignation to life is another. The one act gives birth to, or is the consequence of, mystical intuition. The other merely shuts out or prevents the arisal of such intuitions.
12.18.4.41Listen 24 Jul 2018The perspicacious student will cling steadfastly throughout his life to the writings of illumined masters, returning to them again and again. Their works are the truest of all, pure gold and not alloys.
2.1.6.87Listen 25 Jul 2018There are beings not subject to the same laws as those governing mankind's physical existence. They are normally not visible to men. They are gods.
16.26.4.242Listen 26 Jul 2018The mystic quietly declares that he has experimental knowledge of a higher self, a diviner self than the everyday one.
11.16.1.55Listen 27 Jul 2018When his various thoughts and feelings begin to appear as objects to his I, it is a welcome sign that he is no longer so bound to his ego as before.
6.8.4.72Listen 28 Jul 2018His role in everyday life is a double one: that of being both the world's actor and a spectator.
15.23.6.102Listen 29 Jul 2018When the two wills, higher and lower, are brought into balance and perpetually held there, he has secured the necessary conditions for enlightenment.
13.20.3.432Listen 30 Jul 2018The Buddhists call lasting enlightenment by the name of Nirvana.
16.25.2.162Listen 31 Jul 2018
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