Day by day
When critical moments arrive in a man's life his best recourse is first to calm not to panic, second to remember and turn towards the Overself. In that way he does not depend on his own small resources alone, but opens himself to the larger ones hidden in his subconscious.
5.6.3.88Listen 1 Jul 2011The Quest contains two parts. In the first, or Long Path, the aspirant is made into a new person. In the second, or Short Path, he is made into an illumined one.
15.23.5.41Listen 2 Jul 2011The Overself takes his thoughts about it, limited and remote though they are, and guides them closer and closer to its own high level. Such illumined thinking is not the same as ordinary thinking. Its qualitative height and mystical depth are immensely superior. But when his thoughts can go no farther, the Overself's Grace touches and silences them. In that moment he knows.
4.4.4.18Listen 3 Jul 2011Mankind has entered a new cycle, one wherein each man must learn something of the truth for himself. In former cycles he did not need to bear this responsibility. In the present one, he must accept it.
7.11.3.339Listen 4 Jul 2011The key to right conduct is to refuse to identify himself with the lower nature. The hypnotic illusion that it is really himself must be broken: the way to break it is to deny every suggestion that comes from it, to use the will in resisting it, to use the imagination in projecting it as something alien and outside, to use the feelings in aspiration towards the true self, and the mind in learning to understand what it is.
5.6.1.50Listen 5 Jul 2011... The mystery of the universe is in the end the mystery of mind. The reasonable question to which scientists should address themselves, and will in the end have to, is ”What is Mind?” To call it brain, flesh, is a misleading answer.
13.21.3.29, ExcerptListen 6 Jul 2011The very idea of a quest involves a passage, a definite movement from one place to another. Here, of course, the passage is really from one state to another. It is a holy journey, so he who is engaged on it is truly a pilgrim. And as on many journeys, difficulties, fatigues, obstacles, delays, and allurements may be encountered on the way, yes! And here there will certainly be dangers, pitfalls, oppositions, and enmities too. His intuition and reason, his books and friends, his experience and earnestness will constitute themselves as his guide upon it. There is another special feature to be noted about it. It is a homeward journey. The Father is waiting for his child. The Father will receive, feed, and bless him.
2.1.1.25Listen 7 Jul 2011Men act out of self-interest; but through ignorance of the higher laws, especially that of karma, they may act against that interest.
6.9.3.61Listen 8 Jul 2011The incentive to seek happiness will always be present so long as the consciousness of the Overself is absent. But so soon as that is found, the incentive vanishes. For then we are that which was sought--seeker, search, and object blend into one.
15.24.1.109Listen 9 Jul 2011He may have to weep for a mere glimpse of the soul. But this got, he will certainly weep again for its return. For he knows now by unshakeable conviction and by this vivid demonstration that the durable realization of the Soul is what he is here on earth for.
14.22.7.130Listen 10 Jul 2011The mineral, the plant, and the animal have the infinite Life-Power within them, too, but they do not know that they have it. Man alone can know his own divinity...
16.26.4.38, ExcerptListen 11 Jul 2011An intuition comes into the mind suddenly. But so does an impulse. Therefore it is not enough to take this mark alone to identify it. It is strong; so is an impulse. It is clear; so is an impulse. To separate the deceptive appearance from the genuine reality of an intuition, look for the trail of assurance, relief, and peace to follow in its wake.
14.22.1.216Listen 12 Jul 2011The more he tries to fight the ego, the more he thinks about it and concentrates on it. This keeps him still its prisoner. Better is it to turn his back on it and think about, concentrate on the higher self.
6.8.4.161Listen 13 Jul 2011Once he has experienced the glimpse he will understand why his next goal is to experience it again, and why his final goal is to attain it in permanence.
14.22.8.63Listen 14 Jul 2011... The Overself Remembrance Exercise is to be practised at all times, in all places and under all bodily conditions. It consists of the constant loving recall to mind of the existence of, and his inner identity with, the Overself. It involves the repeated and devoted recollection that there is this other and greater self, a warm, felt, living thing, overshadowing and watching over him. It should be continued until he is able to keep the thought of the Overself as a kind of setting for all his other thoughts...
15.23.6.176, ExcerptListen 15 Jul 2011Philosophic meditation will show him that his own existence is rooted in that of a higher power, while philosophic study will explain some of the laws governing his experiences from birth to death. But at the bottom of existence and experience is ineffable incomprehensible Mystery.
16.28.2.96Listen 16 Jul 2011We cannot attain reality, for we already are in it; but we can attain consciousness of it. And such consciousness arises naturally the moment we know appearance as being appearance. This knowledge may be nothing more than a second's glimpse, before old habit powerfully reasserts itself again, but it will be enough to tell us the truth.
15.23.1.12Listen 17 Jul 2011Looking at the monstrous wickedness and folly in the world today, it would seem a stupid and hopeless effort to believe that human character will become any better than it was and still is. But the fact of reincarnation, with its tremendous possibilities, restores this hope.
6.9.2.144Listen 18 Jul 2011When he can release himself from the ego's tyranny and relate himself to the Overself's guidance, an entirely new life will open up for him.
6.8.4.457Listen 19 Jul 2011There are different kinds of meditation. The elementary is concerned with holding certain thoughts firmly in the mind. The advanced is concerned with keeping all thoughts completely out of the mind. The highest is concerned with merging the mind blissfully in the Overself.
4.4.1.129Listen 20 Jul 2011... I know that all creatures are of the same divine element as myself, and to those who in their blindness do not see it I bear no resentment. The truth is at once my solace and my strength. All are my tutors, none enemies. May all men share in the peace of true enlightenment!
10.15.2.462, ExcerptListen 21 Jul 2011Somewhere at the hidden core of man's being there is light, goodness, power, and tranquillity.
14.22.3.257Listen 22 Jul 2011Dying into annihilation is one thing but dying into another form of consciousness is quite different. It is the latter which happens at the passing away of the life-force from the body.
6.9.1.21Listen 23 Jul 2011To enter into Heaven is to enter into the fulfilment of our earthly life's unearthly purpose. And that is, simply, to become aware of the Overself. This holy awareness brings such joy with it that we then know why the true saints and the real ascetics were able to disdain all other joys. The contrast is too disproportionate. Nothing that the world offers to tempt us can be put on the same level.
14.22.4.79Listen 24 Jul 2011The degree of enlightenment which a mystic has reached corresponds also to the degree of freedom from the ego which he or she has reached.
11.16.2.216Listen 25 Jul 2011The deeper mind is so close to the source of our karma that we may at times get its right guidance not only intuitively from within but also circumstantially from without.
14.22.1.100Listen 26 Jul 2011An intermittent enlightenment which comes like this in moments is only a step on the way. He should not be satisfied with it. Nothing short of total enlightenment which is permanent, constant, and ever-present ought to be his goal.
14.22.8.58Listen 27 Jul 2011If you believe that you have had the ultimate experience, it is more likely that you had an emotional, or mental, or mystic one. The authentic thing does not enter consciousness. You do not know that it has transpired. You discover it is already here only by looking back at what you were and contrasting it with what you now are; or when others recognize it in you and draw attention to it; or when a situation arises which throws up your real status. It is a permanent fact, not a brief mystic ”glimpse.”
16.28.2.139Listen 28 Jul 2011Hidden under its miseries, life keeps incredible happiness waiting for one who will search and work for it.
15.24.1.100Listen 29 Jul 2011... The short path means that you begin to try to remember to live in the rarefied atmosphere of the Overself instead of worrying about the ego and measuring its spiritual development...
15.23.5.2, ExcerptListen 30 Jul 2011When he sees life whole and therefore sees it right, he will understand why Jesus said, ”Seek ye first the kingdom of heaven and all these things shall be added unto you,” and why, if he is to insist upon any single renovation in human life, it must be its own self-spiritualization. If he is to put emphasis anywhere, it must be upon the rediscovery of the divine purpose of his earthly life.
2.1.1.90Listen 31 Jul 2011
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