Day by day
… This world is seemingly full of worry and woe. I still try to remember that there is another world—not so far off as most imagine—where ineffable bliss holds its inhabitants as permanent captives.
8.12.4.220, ExcerptListen 1 Jul 2023At every stage of this quest, from that of the veriest postulant who has just entered upon it to that of the well-advanced proficient, the need of subduing the ego is ever-present.
6.8.1.194Listen 2 Jul 2023”I am the way, the Truth,” announced Jesus. Who is this I? In the narrow and shallower sense it is the master. In the broader and deeper sense, it is the Christ-self within, the spiritual consciousness.
14.22.3.354Listen 3 Jul 2023These animal desires belong to the body. What are we? Are we that or a mind using a body? Or Mind using a mind and a body? This last is indeed the truth. When we find it out for ourselves, and hold to it through the years, how long can these desires keep their strength? We may be assured that they dwindle and go.
4.5.7.4Listen 4 Jul 2023It is not easy for the beginner to know how valid is the intuition he feels or the guidance he gets. Where any doubt exists it is better to wait before accepting the one or obeying the other.
11.16.14.150Listen 5 Jul 2023At some point during your prayer surrender your personal self to God, and your personal will to His Will.
12.18.2.46Listen 6 Jul 2023The indifference toward unalterable or the resignation to unavoidable suffering preached by so many prophets … is admittedly quite hard to accomplish. For it depends in part on a complete concentration upon that which suffering cannot touch—the hidden soul …
9.13.2.404, ExcerptListen 7 Jul 2023The Glimpse is in very truth a magic spell cast over a man’s whole being so that he neither feels nor reacts as he did before. For a short time he is born again, a new person.
14.22.7.197Listen 8 Jul 2023If a man is seriously embarked on this quest, he will understand that when a desirable object is being put into his possession, or torn away from it, his sincerity will be tested by the impersonality with which he regards the event and deduces its meaning.
3.2.3.81Listen 9 Jul 2023What a man is, needs, or has done puts him just where he is.
6.9.2.36Listen 10 Jul 2023How much of the glimpse, experience, or message is truly inspired by a higher source, and how much is merely added, imagined, or misconceived by his own little ego-mind, is a question that the beginning quester should have the humility to ask himself. What is authentic will easily survive such careful discriminating judgement.
11.16.14.157Listen 11 Jul 2023The obligation is laid upon him to respond to the Overself’s demand that he shall make an endeavour to rise above the animal level of his being … He has indeed to engage in a holy war.
1.6.0.51, ExcerptListen 12 Jul 2023The ego can find many dodges and give many pretexts to prevent him from making the first humiliating gesture of mental surrender. They are intended to protect its own life or power and to keep him, through pride, from making any space for the Overself’s entry.
6.8.3.65Listen 13 Jul 2023Meditation is no longer limited to a few Christian monasteries and Oriental ashrams but has spread among laymen around the world.
4.4.1.63Listen 14 Jul 2023One should be profoundly grateful for even a single glimpse. It is a grant of grace.
14.22.5.107Listen 15 Jul 2023When we comprehend that the pure essence of mind is reality, then we can also comprehend the rationale of the higher yoga which would settle attention in pure thought itself rather than in finite thoughts. When this is done the mind becomes vacant, still, and utterly undisturbed …
15.23.8.130, ExcerptListen 16 Jul 2023We must accept the higher fact that beneath the egoic differences there subsists the Overself's unity and it is our sacred duty to realize it inwardly while tolerating difference outwardly.
9.13.2.414Listen 17 Jul 2023Refinement of the way one lives, thinks, speaks, and acts is not only a positive value but in its indirect result actually contributes to the spiritual quest …
1.6.0.54, ExcerptListen 18 Jul 2023Eugene Sandow, once the strongest man in Europe, confirms the point. He said, “It is a matter of the mind. If you concentrate your mind upon a set of muscles for three minutes a day, and say ‘Do thus and so,’ they respond.”
4.5.5.117Listen 19 Jul 2023Because all his meditation exercises can succeed only to the extent that he succeeds in becoming utterly relaxed, the importance of this ability must be noted.
1.3.0.18Listen 20 Jul 2023If they do not come to this quest with enough reverence, they are led later to the reverence by the quest.
12.18.1.38Listen 21 Jul 2023… An old Sanskrit text, the Tripura, says: ”Of all requisites Divine Grace is the most important. He who has entirely surrendered to his larger self is sure to attain readily. This is the best method.”
12.18.4.94, ExcerptListen 22 Jul 2023To attain this advanced stage is to attain the capacity to enter directly and immediately into meditation, not merely at a special time or in a particular place, but always and everywhere.
16.25.2.164Listen 23 Jul 2023The quest often begins with a great sadness but always ends with a great happiness …
2.1.5.365, ExcerptListen 24 Jul 2023A time like the present should not be used as an excuse to escape into the past but as an inspiration to bring in the future.
7.11.3.340Listen 25 Jul 2023To a certain individual it may be said: “I have faith in you—but the real You has yet to make an appearance. When it does you will then find your real work in life.”
8.12.4.218Listen 26 Jul 2023… No longer satisfied with worldly life, he will seek the kingdom of heaven in his heart. The physical manifestation will depend on circumstances, situation, family, country, and outer or inner guidance.
3.2.7.16, ExcerptListen 27 Jul 2023Philosophy includes religion but not “a” religion. It is universal, not sectarian.
13.20.1.445Listen 28 Jul 2023His personal identity is taken away for a while, to be replaced by a higher one.
14.22.6.278Listen 29 Jul 2023Any man may detect the presence of divinity within himself, if he will patiently work through the course prescribed by authoritative books or a competent guide. It is not the prerogative of spiritual genius alone to detect it.
2.1.5.399Listen 30 Jul 2023… Efforts to establish peace permanently cannot possibly do so fully and finally until the human race comes into a larger obedience to the higher spiritual laws.
7.11.3.347, ExcerptListen 31 Jul 2023
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