Day by day
A new and higher epoch in our history will come by divine cyclic law: nothing and no one can prevent its birth. And that will occur through the incarnation of spiritually intuitive men born for this special purpose …
9.13.4.245, ExcerptListen 1 Jul 2024Grace is the hidden power at work along with his spirit’s aspiration and his efforts at discipline. This does not mean that it will continue to work if he drops both aspiration and effort. It may, but more often it will not.
12.18.5.130Listen 2 Jul 2024Intuition must be caught quickly and inspiration must be followed up at once if they are to remain and not vanish away.
14.22.1.94Listen 3 Jul 2024Those who would like to be vegetarians for compassionate reasons but feel the need of meat for maintaining strength can find proper substitutes in milk and cheese. These dairy products contain the same animal proteins as meat, and will serve as well to sustain vitality, while being free from the stain of slaughter.
4.5.3.12Listen 4 Jul 2024This knowledge that life in this world can never be fully satisfying makes him commit himself one day to the quest.
2.1.2.191Listen 5 Jul 2024The World-Mind is unique, different from any other existing or conceivable mind in the whole cosmos. Indeed, all these others can only arise out of and within it, but can never equal or transcend it.
16.27.1.61Listen 6 Jul 2024We understand correctly our relation to external possessions like chairs and carpets, but not to possessions like hands and thoughts. Here our understanding becomes confused. Our habitual speech betrays this. We say, “I am hurt” when it is really the body that is hurt, or “I am pleased” when a thought of pleasure arises within us. In the first case the body still remains an object of our experience, despite its closeness. In the second case, thinking is a function performed by us. Both are to be distinguished from our being, however interwoven with our activity.
6.8.2.68Listen 7 Jul 2024… as soon as we settle down in hope and confidence to discover the deeper forces within ourselves they begin to become active.
2.1.5.287, ExcerptListen 8 Jul 2024The Quest does not demand the renunciation of worldly business but only the renunciation of a small daily fragment of the time hitherto devoted to such business. It asks for half or three-quarters of an hour daily to be faithfully given to meditation exercises. It asserts that the fullest realization of the Overself can be attained without becoming a whole-time yogi.
3.2.8.15Listen 9 Jul 2024When the acceptance of these truths becomes instinctive, even if it remains inarticulate, he will begin to gather strength from them, to feel that the little structure of his life has nothing less than cosmic support beneath it.
3.2.9.60Listen 10 Jul 2024… philosophy affirms the existence of Grace, that what the most strenuous self-activity cannot gain may be put in our hands as a divine gift …
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 11 Jul 2024The belief among Christians and Hindus that God incarnates in human form through Christ or Krishna is not held by Muhammedans or Buddhists. That God may use a human channel at times is more rational. But this God is World-Mind, not the Unapproachable.
16.25.1.172Listen 12 Jul 2024We do not love our neighbour as ourself for the simple reason that we cannot. He loves himself quite enough anyway and does not need our addition. But, this said, we are ready to serve him amicably.
9.13.2.430Listen 13 Jul 2024… A rational funeral would be a completely private one. A rational funeral service would be one held to memorialize the memory of the deceased, and held not in the presence but in the absence of the corpse. A rational disposal would be cremation, not burial. The psychic and spiritual health of a community demands the abolition of graveyards.
6.9.1.145, ExcerptListen 14 Jul 2024These splendid moments, so filled with flashes of beauty and goodness, so tremendous in meaning and perspective, are like peeps into Paradise.
14.22.6.74Listen 15 Jul 2024We witness today much more interest in these subjects of mysticism, meditation, and Oriental religion not only among the general public, but also among college students and even among scientists who wish to investigate.
10.15.1.18Listen 16 Jul 2024Often intuition does not advise him until the time for an action or a decision or a move is nearly at hand. So he must wait patiently until it does and not let intellect or imagination construct fanciful plans which may be cancelled by intuition’s arisal.
14.22.1.77Listen 17 Jul 2024If he can succeed in refusing to identify himself with the suffering body, he will not suffer with it.
7.10.1.62Listen 18 Jul 2024These repeated prayers and constant aspirations, these daily meditations and frequent studies, will in time generate a mental atmosphere of receptivity to the light which is being shed upon him by the Grace. The light may come from outside through a man or a book, or it may come from inside through an intuition or an experience.
12.18.5.184Listen 19 Jul 2024When a man says that he has communed with God, be he a great prophet in trance or a humble layman in prayer, the truth is that he has really communed with something within himself which is so closely related to God that he may perhaps be pardoned for his error. But still it is not God. It is his soul, the Overself.
16.25.1.101Listen 20 Jul 2024It is natural for the ego to react negatively to its experiences when these bring loss or opposition. But this is so only when, as is most common, man is still unawakened, untaught, uncontrolled, and unable to enter into higher states of being.
6.8.3.42Listen 21 Jul 2024The Overself is not only a necessary conception of logical thought. It is also a beautiful fact of personal experience.
14.22.3.416Listen 22 Jul 2024Beauty is one side of reality which attracts our seeking and our love. But because it is so subtle and our perceptions are so gross, we find it first in the forms of art and Nature, only last in the pure immaterial being of the intangible reality.
9.14.1.45Listen 23 Jul 2024To believe that such a great task can be achieved without personal effort and self-control is merely to deceive themselves. It is to deny the biblical statement that only what they sow can they reap.
3.2.6.61Listen 24 Jul 2024The practice was at first undertaken because of the benefit he hoped to get from it. But, with some proficiency, it is now continued also because of the pleasure it gives him.
4.4.1.386Listen 25 Jul 2024It is a presence which can be felt directly in daily active life, although not so vividly as when removed from the world and concentrated upon in solitary meditation.
14.22.3.92Listen 26 Jul 2024How does God “create” the universe? Since in the beginning God alone is, there is no second substance that can be used for such “creation.” God is forced to use his own substance for the purpose. God is Infinite Mind, so he uses mental power—Imagination—working on mental substance—Thought—to produce the result which appears to us as the universe.
16.27.3.1Listen 27 Jul 2024To the real person, the consciousness, body, nerve, and sense organs are only objects being used as mediums and channels.
6.8.2.71Listen 28 Jul 2024The mystic attains knowledge and experience of his own soul. This is not the same as knowledge of the ultimate Reality. The two are akin, of course—much more closely than the little ego and the Real are akin. But the Godhead is the Flame of which the soul is only a spark; to claim complete union with it seems blasphemous.
16.25.1.100Listen 29 Jul 2024At the very least the glimpse leaves a beautiful memory, at the most a divine inspiration.
14.22.7.150Listen 30 Jul 2024The blind gropings of those early days give place, after many years, to the clear-sighted steps of these later ones. The completion of his quest now becomes an impending event; the quintessence of all his experience now expresses itself in this fullness of being and knowing which is almost at hand.
3.2.9.51Listen 31 Jul 2024
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