Day by day
At the centre of every man's being there is his imperishable soul, his guardian angel.
14.22.3.201Listen 1 Jul 2019The illuminate is conscious of both the ultimate unity and immediate multiplicity of the world. This is a paradox. But his permanent resting place while he is dealing with others is at the junction-point of duality and unity so that he is ready at any moment to absorb his attention in either phase.
16.25.2.115Listen 2 Jul 2019In the properly developed person, the strength of a man will be united with the tenderness of a woman.
1.5.0.45Listen 3 Jul 2019A human life presents the only opportunity for attaining the realization of Overself. It ought not to be taken away from any man, however evil he may be, and however remote from this goal, in punishment for his crime.
16.26.4.44Listen 4 Jul 2019The glimpse is hard to get but easy to lose. It slips away if he interferes with it by becoming intellectually analytic or emotionally conceited during its brief reign.
14.22.5.172Listen 5 Jul 2019… If you will look into your heart and mind, deep enough and long enough to penetrate beneath the tumult of desires that daily distract your attention, you may then discover peace.
1.4.0.5, ExcerptListen 6 Jul 2019The philosopher seeks to attain a proper equilibrium which will enable him to move within the world of turmoil, conflict, egocentric men, and materialistic aims and yet keep in continuous contact with the consciousness of his Overself.
13.20.3.299Listen 7 Jul 2019So long as there are others acutely conscious of their spiritual need, so long must he go out among them. He does not do this by an external command but only by an internal one--the command of compassion…
16.25.4.29, ExcerptListen 8 Jul 2019… In short, let him know himself. He may then have a key to better knowledge of other things, especially of the meaning of his own life.
2.1.5.248, ExcerptListen 9 Jul 2019… He has to let the universal life power which is already within him take full possession of his heart and mind. The thing that prevents this is the personal ego, which thinks itself to be complete and which has separated itself from the universal life power. The philosophical discipline is intended to overcome this egoism, or as Jesus said: Give up your self if you would find it.”
3.2.4.47, ExcerptListen 10 Jul 2019Some things inside his own being are blocking his way to the Overself. An effort--determined, continuous, and daring--is needed to clear them. They are emotional and passional in appearance, egoistic in essence.
3.2.1.181Listen 11 Jul 2019Do not let the past hold you down. Do not let dust-laden memories keep you down. Make today a fresh day, a new beginning.
2.1.5.261Listen 12 Jul 2019Our habitual trend of thinking on earth will necessarily be the habitual trend of thinking with which we shall start spirit-life although we shall not end that life with it.
1.9.0.10Listen 13 Jul 2019The practice of recollection was, and still is, used by the Sufis, Muhammedan mystics, to draw the feelings more and more away from the earthly things to the divine.
15.23.6.159Listen 14 Jul 2019It is this, the deepest part of his being, his final essential self, which is a man's Overself, and which links him with the World-Mind. It is this Presence within which evokes all his spiritual quality.
14.22.3.333Listen 15 Jul 2019There is no tie so strong, no attraction so deep as that between Master and pupil. Consequently it persists through incarnation after incarnation.
2.1.6.560Listen 16 Jul 2019The first awakening to intellectual and artistic values in a young person is an important event, as the first awakening at puberty to sex is a dynamic one. But the first awakening to the vision of what philosophy has to offer transcends them all.
13.20.1.209Listen 17 Jul 2019He becomes not only a spectator of others, but also of himself. If such detachment is seldom seen, it may be because it is seldom sought.
15.24.3.206Listen 18 Jul 2019He may be ashamed of what he did in the past but then he was that sort of man in the past. If he persists in identifying himself with the I, in time such feelings will come to him and cause this kind of suffering. But if he changes over to identifying himself with the timeless being behind the I there can be no such suffering.
5.6.1.475Listen 19 Jul 2019The differences in consciousness between an amoeba, an insect, an animal, and a human represent a line of growth.
16.26.4.185Listen 20 Jul 2019It would be unreasonable to expect anyone to give up his worldly attachments until he sees something more worthwhile. Consequently his soul gives him a foretaste, as it were, through these ecstatic moments and brief enlightenments, of its own higher values.
14.22.8.25Listen 21 Jul 2019With the onset of deep sleep we retreat into a timeless world, which swallows up and holds in suspension all our past and present existence.
13.19.3.118Listen 22 Jul 2019If there were no possibility of finding one's way from this body-prisoned, time-encased condition, then no one would ever have become self-realized, and all preaching of religion and teaching of philosophy would have been futile. But we know from history and biography that such achievement has been experienced in all parts of the world and in all centuries, so that no one should give up hope.
2.1.5.170Listen 23 Jul 2019How old is the series of experiences through which we moved unknowingly towards our present evolutionary position! How lofty is the level toward which we have yet to climb…
16.26.4.109, ExcerptListen 24 Jul 2019You are to be penitent not only because your wrong acts may bring you to suffering but also, and much more, because they may bring you farther away from the discovery of the Overself.
5.6.1.472Listen 25 Jul 2019Philosophy will have little interest for those who are eager only for animal satisfactions and human selfishnesses. It is for more evolved types, who understand that a higher life is possible and worth working for.
13.20.2.165Listen 26 Jul 2019… This is the paradox, that although a man must try to conquer himself if he would attain the Overself, he cannot succeed in this undertaking except by the Overself's own power--that is, by Grace…
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 27 Jul 2019Since it is a glimpse only, and not a completed experience, he ought not to expect his own person and personal life to be completely transformed.
14.22.8.94, ExcerptListen 28 Jul 2019It is a principle of philosophy that what you can know is limited by what you are. A deep man may know a deep truth but a shallow man, never. This indeed is one of its reasons for taking up the practice of meditation.
4.4.1.16Listen 29 Jul 2019His awareness is still only a babe; it needs to grow and growth calls for nourishment. This he is to give by the simple act of remembering and attending to it.
15.23.6.164Listen 30 Jul 2019The World-Idea's end is foreordained from the beginning. This leaves no ultimate personal choice. But there's a measure of free will in a single direction--how soon or how late that divine end is accomplished. The time element has not been ordered, the direction has.
16.26.4.115Listen 31 Jul 2019
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