Day by day
We are here on earth in pursuit of a sacred mission. We have to find what theologians call the soul, what philosophers call the Overself…
1.1.0.5, ExcerptListen 1 Aug 2018Since truth can be looked at from different standpoints, since it has different aspects, it is desirable that there should exist a variety of doctrines and views. Where the attempt is made to congeal it into a fixed creed, for all time, a sect is created and sectarian prejudices are introduced.
12.17.4.87Listen 2 Aug 2018When one's personal life is miraculously saved during some period of great danger, perhaps in the face of death, it is for a purpose.
2.1.2.180Listen 3 Aug 2018Some who have attained sufficient proficiency in meditation have cured themselves of insomnia by affirming the divine Presence when they close their eyes in bed at night, and holding on to this affirmation.
13.19.3.171Listen 4 Aug 2018… Remember always that you are present within It and It is ever present within you. So the source of grace is in you too. Silence the ego, be still, and glimpse the fact that grace is the response to devotion that goes deep enough to approach the stillness, is sincere enough to put ego aside. Help is no farther off than your own heart. Hope on!
12.18.5.234, ExcerptListen 5 Aug 2018The personal development and mental discoveries which have been made in past incarnations do not have to be repeated afresh in the same way with each new one. What happens however is a swift recapitulation or distillation of the whole historic previous experience during the first half of the new incarnation.
1.9.0.35Listen 6 Aug 2018If a new birth is a new opportunity to gain spiritual experience, it is also a new opportunity to commit errors and acquire vices.
6.9.2.143Listen 7 Aug 2018When a man's consciousness, outlook, and character are so exalted as this is, altruistic duty becomes not a burden to be carried irksomely but a part of his path of self-fulfilment from which he would not wish to be spared.
14.22.2.77Listen 8 Aug 2018It is in the fullness of the eternal present, the eternal now, that a man can really live happily. For by seeking That which makes him conscious of the present moment, by remembering it as being the essence of his fleeting experience, he completes that experience and fulfils its lofty purpose.
1.19.0.7Listen 9 Aug 2018The ego is soon appeased by flattery, soon bruised by criticism; but the man who transcends its tyranny is able justly to evaluate both.
6.8.3.96Listen 10 Aug 2018There are stories of Socrates in the Grecian wars and of a nameless yogi in the Indian mutiny, absorbed in such deep contemplation that neither the noise and tumult nor the violence and strife of battle were enough to break it. Each remained bodily still and mentally serene for hours.
15.23.7.80Listen 11 Aug 2018There is a proper time for everything. When he has reached the age when he has to consider his own spiritual interests he should lessen his activities and save his energies for a higher service, first to himself and then to others.
3.2.8.161Listen 12 Aug 2018It would be wrong to say that the pictorial review of life experience when dying is merely a mental transference from oneself … to those persons with whom one has been in contact during the life just passed, as the pictures unveil before him. What really happens is a transference from the false ego to the true Self, from the personal to the impersonal. It is a realization of the true meaning of each episode of the life from a higher point of view.
6.9.1.114Listen 13 Aug 2018The being which he finds at the end of this inner search is an anonymous one. He may ask for a name but he will not get one. He must be satisfied with the obscure response: I Am That I Am!”
14.22.3.224Listen 14 Aug 2018For those who have made sufficient progress with the Quest, death is not a frightening experience. Once the exit from the body has been made, the rest is pleasant and peaceful.
1.9.0.19Listen 15 Aug 2018The experience may seem to happen by chance, its duration may be little more than momentary, but the impression left may last a lifetime.
14.22.7.152Listen 16 Aug 2018When there is no collision between intellect and emotion, or between intuition and egoism, or between imagination and will, it may be said that one's inner harmony has been fully attained.
13.20.3.331Listen 17 Aug 2018… Because our life-energy is continuously streaming outwards through the senses, because our selfhood is continuously identified with the body, and because our consciousness never contemplates itself, the Overself necessarily eludes us utterly.
1.1.0.5, ExcerptListen 18 Aug 2018If the man lets others draw him down below his own level, the emotion of remorse and disgust or the logic of suffering and self-preservation may force his return.
2.1.2.182Listen 19 Aug 2018Heredity can answer for a man´s face and form and nervous type but it cannot answer for his genius. Here it is necessary to bring in something quite different — the development of his talent through repeated earth lives.
1.9.0.22Listen 20 Aug 2018In every important move he will seek guidance from the intuitive levels of being as well as from the intellectual.
14.22.1.144Listen 21 Aug 2018The attitude of detached and impartial observer helps to protect him, to diminish his animality, and to correct his egoism…
15.23.6.103, ExcerptListen 22 Aug 2018Philosophy may be--indeed must be--written afresh for every fresh generation but its principles are imperishable. They cannot change. Only the methods of expounding them, only the phraseology of expressing them can change.
13.20.2.94Listen 23 Aug 2018The final grade of inner experience, the deepest phase of contemplation, is one where the experiencer himself disappears, the meditator vanishes, the knower no longer has an object — not even the Overself — to know for duality collapses. Because this grade is beyond the supreme ”Light” experience where the Overself reveals its presence visually as a dazzling mass, shaft, ball or ray of unearthly radiance which is seen whether the bodily eyes are open or closed, it has been called the divine darkness.
1.28.0.34Listen 24 Aug 2018Compassion is the highest moral value, the noblest human feeling, the purest creature-love…
1.6.0.45, ExcerptListen 25 Aug 2018Two things are required of a man before Grace will manifest itself in him. One is the capacity to receive it. The other is the co-operation with it. For the first, he must humble the ego; for the second, he must purify it.
12.18.5.206Listen 26 Aug 2018If he accepts this tenet of karma coupled with rebirth, then his awakening to a sense of responsibility for his life and the course it takes should lead in turn to a feeling of the need for self-discipline.
1.9.0.52Listen 27 Aug 2018When these two--the positive and negative currents--come together, the electric lamp lights up of its own accord. When these two--intellect and feeling--are properly coordinated, and the character is both properly developed and purified, the Overself in a person begins to shine of its own accord.
13.20.3.416Listen 28 Aug 2018If the ego would be willing to abdicate its rule for a short period, the way to a glimpse would be opened.
14.22.5.61Listen 29 Aug 2018Egoism, the limiting of consciousness to individual life as separate from the one infinite life, is the last barrier to the attainment of unity with the infinite life.
1.8.0.10Listen 30 Aug 2018He should not be discouraged because others have gone ahead on the path more quickly … The fact is that the goal he seeks is already within his grasp. He is the Overself that he seeks to unite with…
2.1.5.267, ExcerptListen 31 Aug 2018
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