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What we need to grasp is that although our apprehension of the Real is gradual, the Real is nonetheless with us at every moment in all its radiant totality. Modern science has filled our heads with the false notion that reality is in a state of evolution, whereas it is only our mental concept of reality which is in a state of evolution.
16.28.2.110Listen 1 Aug 2011To do something really worthwhile, to become creative and constructive in an inspired way, aware of the Overself, is to become godlike. We then fulfil the purpose of human existence on earth.
14.22.2.109Listen 2 Aug 2011The deep realization of the unreality of ego leads at once to sudden enlightenment. But only if this realization is maintained can the enlightenment become more than a glimpse.
6.8.4.442Listen 3 Aug 2011Mentalism is the study of Mind and its product, thoughts. To separate the two, to disentangle them, is to become aware of Awareness itself. This achievement comes not by any process of intellectual activity but by the very opposite--suspending such activity. And it comes not as another idea but as extremely vivid, powerfully compelling insight.
16.28.2.119Listen 4 Aug 2011What Grace does is to draw the man's attention away from himself, from his ego, to the Overself.
12.18.5.114Listen 5 Aug 2011The essential features of the Long Path are its concern with moral effort and its emphasis on character building; its injunctions to pray and meditate; its insistence on the constant striving for self-mastery through physical, emotional, and mental disciplines. The essential feature of the Short Path is its quest of the flash of enlightenment through intuitive feeling and metaphysical thinking. Some believe, and would be satisfied with, this flash to be brief. Others hope for its permanent abidance.
15.23.5.7Listen 6 Aug 2011Expressed in more familiar religious language, it may be said that God has put something of Himself into each one of us. But it is there only as a potential; we must make the necessary effort to make ourselves more and more conscious of it.
6.8.1.140Listen 7 Aug 2011A man's life will be less troubled and his happiness more secured, if his reason governs his body and his intuition governs his reason.
14.22.1.269Listen 8 Aug 2011There is a particular moment while a person is dying when the Overself takes over the entire process, just as it does when he is falling asleep. But if he clings involuntarily and through inveterate habit to his smaller nature, then he is only partly taken over; the remainder is imprisoned in his littleness.
6.9.1.96Listen 9 Aug 2011If the Interior Word bids him move in any direction which seems encompassed by difficulties or blocked by obstacles so that he can see no way before him, let him not doubt or fear. A way will be made by the power of the Overself. He need only obey, relax, and trust the guidance.
14.22.2.139Listen 10 Aug 2011By constant prayer and aspiration to his higher self, the student will get intuitive promptings from time to time. He should catch them when they appear and yield himself to them: in this way he will get the necessary guidance from within.
14.22.1.139Listen 11 Aug 2011Real love is not something to be withdrawn abruptly when the person who is its object annoys or offends you.
5.6.2.114Listen 12 Aug 2011If it had been possible to attain salvation in the non-physical worlds, we would not have been born in this one. We are here because nowhere else could we, in our present state of progress, find the right environment to ripen those qualities which will lead us further toward this ultimate goal.
6.9.2.222Listen 13 Aug 2011He who has attuned himself to the egoless life and pledged himself to the altruistic life will find that in abandoning the selfish motives which prompt men he has lost nothing after all. For whatever he really needs and whenever he really needs it, it will come to his hands. And this will be equally true whether it be something for himself or for fulfilment of that service to which he is dedicated. Hence a Persian scripture says: “When thou reachest this station [the abandonment of all mortal attachments], all that is thy highest wish shall be realized.”
15.24.3.85Listen 14 Aug 2011The eventual trend of evolution is through and away from personality, as we now know it. We shall find ourselves afresh in a higher individuality, the soul. To achieve this, the lower characteristics have slowly to be shed. In this sense, we do die to the earthly self and are born again in the higher self. That is the only real death awaiting us.
6.9.2.223Listen 15 Aug 2011As he sinks deeper after many relapses towards the undivided mind, as he calls on all the powers of his will and concentration to keep within focus the inner work of this spiritual exercise, he may get a sense of leading, of being directed by something within.
15.23.7.201Listen 16 Aug 2011A belief which the Occidental regards as odd, the Oriental may regard as unquestionable. Reincarnation is such a belief.
10.15.1.194Listen 17 Aug 2011... The true teaching about reincarnation is not that the divine soul enters into the captivity and ignorance of the flesh again and again but that something emanated from the soul, that is, a unit of life that eventually develops into the personal ego, does so…
16.26.4.257, ExcerptListen 18 Aug 2011To make progress inwardly is ultimately all that matters, everything else passes except the fruit of our spiritual efforts.
2.1.5.80Listen 19 Aug 2011He must look forward hopefully to the day when he can actually feel the higher self present within all his activity. It will reign in his inner world and thus be the real doer of his actions, not the ego in the outer world.
14.22.2.73Listen 20 Aug 2011It is quite possible to open doors of inner being without the aid of a teacher. One´s own higher self will give him all the guidance he needs, provided he has sufficient faith in its existence and its assistance.
14.22.3.120Listen 21 Aug 2011That a higher existence is possible for mankind may be a strong intuitive feeling or a strong religious belief. It can develop through experience of a mystical glimpse into personal realization or more lastingly, more truthfully, through experience of philosophic insight.
2.1.5.332Listen 22 Aug 2011It is a mistake to believe that to find the Overself is to find eternal monotony and boredom. On the contrary, it holds out the promise of life more abundant - of joy, happiness, and satisfaction physically as well as spiritually.
14.22.2.90Listen 23 Aug 2011We are here in this world for a higher purpose than the obvious physical one of self-preservation, for even that is contributory to it. We are here to evolve into the consciousness of Overself. Every physical experience is only a means toward such spiritual development.
16.26.4.255Listen 24 Aug 2011The man who is discontented with the world as he finds it and sets out to improve it, must begin with himself. There is authority for this statement in the life-giving ideas of Jesus as well as in the light-giving words of Gautama.
2.1.5.49Listen 25 Aug 2011No announcements tell the world that he has come into enlightenment. No heralds blow the trumpets proclaiming man's greatest victory--over himself. This is in fact the quietest moment of his whole life.
16.25.2.83Listen 26 Aug 2011Although we are divided in awareness from the higher power, we are not divided in fact from it. The divine being is immanent in each one of us. This is why there is always some good in the worst of us.
14.22.3.14Listen 27 Aug 2011The Overself is the point where the One Mind is received into consciousness. It is the “I” freed from narrowness, thoughts, flesh, passion, and emotion--that is, from the personal ego.
14.22.3.317Listen 28 Aug 2011Knowledge of law, language, or history can be collected and becomes a possession but knowledge of the Overself is not at all the same. It is something one must be: it owns us, we do not have it.
14.22.3.212Listen 29 Aug 2011There is no moment when this work of inner remembrance may stop. It ought to start at the time of rising from bed in the morning and continue to the time of retiring to bed at night.
15.23.6.205Listen 30 Aug 2011Thinking can, ordinarily, only produce more thoughts. Even thinking about truth, about reality, however correct it be, shares this limitation. But if properly instructed it will know its place and understand the situation, with the consequence that at the proper moment it will make no further effort, and will seek to merge into meditation. When the merger is successfully completed, a holy silence will pervade the consciousness which remains. Truth will then be revealed of its own accord.
16.28.2.111Listen 31 Aug 2011
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