Day by day
… where, and when, will it all end? When Consciousness is led—by Grace—to itself, beyond its states, phases, and conditions where man, at last, is fit to meet God.
15.23.7.85, ExcerptListen 1 Aug 2021… if we are to enter it, the Overself, we can and must enter while yet in the flesh. It is not a time or place but a state of life and a stage of development. It is the ego-free life. The ego is not asked to destroy itself but to discipline itself. The personal in a man must live, but only as a slave to the impersonal. These two identities make up his self.
6.8.1.208, ExcerptListen 2 Aug 2021The Godlike deepest Self in us knows and feels on its own level; therefore the intellect’s reasonings and the aesthetic feelings are reflections on a lower level of spiritual activities.
16.25.1.15Listen 3 Aug 2021The bestowal of a glimpse is not merely for his pleasure and satisfaction: there are certain self-cleansing duties and self-improving obligations which follow in its train. The light it throws into him is thrown on his sins and weaknesses too. He sees them more plainly for what they are, as well as the amendment he must make. But he sees also the forgiveness which grace grants.
14.22.7.223Listen 4 Aug 2021We need these occasional confirmations from the Overself of its own existence.
14.22.4.113Listen 5 Aug 2021Our elders are worthy of respect, but their counsel is worthy of heeding only if they are old in soul as well as body, only if they have extracted through many lifetimes all the wisdom possible from each one …
9.13.3.200, ExcerptListen 6 Aug 2021… if a man cultivates the habit of barring entrance to negative thoughts and of instantly throwing weakening ones out of his mind, his character will strengthen itself more quickly …
13.20.3.82, ExcerptListen 7 Aug 2021If death is the price of dwelling in this space-time world, then a spaceless and timeless world where there is no “here” and no “there,” no “then” and no “now,” no change from one stage to another, would also be an immortal one …
6.9.1.184, ExcerptListen 8 Aug 2021To hold any idea in the mind during meditation, and to hold it with faith, sympathy, and pleasure, is to make it a part of oneself. If care is taken that these ideas shall be positive, constructive, and elevating, then the profits of meditation will show themselves in the character and the personality.
1.4.0.77Listen 9 Aug 2021The need of withdrawing at certain times from outer contact with other human beings will be felt and if so should be obeyed. If he disregards it, he misses an opportunity to progress to a higher stage.
3.3.5.89Listen 10 Aug 2021… one day he will see the whole of the picture, not just the lower part of it, and he will understand that it is his own Overself which has brought him to—and led him safely through—the disheartening experiences of his present incarnation.
3.2.9.38, ExcerptListen 11 Aug 2021Those who engage in unselfish service are temporarily loosened somewhat from the ego. This of course is true only to the extent that the service is done with pure, and not with ulterior or mixed or quite selfish, motives.
13.20.4.238Listen 12 Aug 2021The ego slides from off his shoulders like a heavy overcoat and he feels delightfully free.
14.22.6.222Listen 13 Aug 2021The normal man thinks he is body plus mind, with emphasis on the body. But self-questioning and analysis show that, although he certainly has these two things and is certainly associated with them, the “I” is in fact neither of them. It is, by contrast, not changing and quite elusive. It is not in space, as the body is, nor in time, as the mind is. It is, in fact, a mystery…
14.22.3.340, ExcerptListen 14 Aug 2021If anyone really wants to progress, let alone succeed, I do not know any way of escaping these two indispensable conditions: exercise and perseverance …
3.2.2.71, ExcerptListen 15 Aug 2021… The “As if I am enlightened” exercise is a changeover from humbly aspiring to a higher level to creatively imagining oneself as being there already …
15.23.6.142, ExcerptListen 16 Aug 2021Humility: See all men and women according to the Holy Ghost that is within them; always remember that the outer picture is still being worked on.
12.18.3.60Listen 17 Aug 2021His fidelity to the Quest will be tested, both by specially critical periods and by everyday happenings. On the one side, temptations will call him; on the other, difficulties will deter him. Will he bend the knee before the world’s idols? Will he stand strong amid the world’s turmoil? Only when the hour of testing comes can he know.
9.13.1.87Listen 18 Aug 2021When what he receives from within at the intuitive level is transplanted without at the active level, it becomes complete.
13.20.4.305Listen 19 Aug 2021The student is warned to be on guard against his own ego, which may feed his vanity and conceit with the false idea that he is much more advanced than he really is.
6.8.4.328Listen 20 Aug 2021This particular function of the Overself was known also to the more percipient among men of the Middle Ages and of antiquity. Thus Epictetus: “Zeus hath placed by the side of each, a man’s own Guardian Spirit, who is charged to watch over him.”
14.22.3.302Listen 21 Aug 2021Whether he is leisurely at ease or actively at work, the practice of Remembrance can go on—the only difference between the two states being a difference of its intensity and vividness.
15.23.6.220Listen 22 Aug 2021The tests show whether he has become sufficiently strong to translate his ideals into action, whether he has conquered his passions and ruled his emotions at the bidding of those ideals, whether he will be willing to take the path of self-denial when the lower nature seeks to lure him away from the path.
3.2.3.68Listen 23 Aug 2021How can the ego’s self-effort bring about the grand illumination? It can only clear the way for it, cleanse the vehicle of it, and remove the weaknesses that shut it out … Only the divine can give the divine. That is to say, only by grace can illumination be attained …
12.18.5.162, ExcerptListen 24 Aug 2021If he identifies with the ego as a real entity by itself, and not as the complex of thoughts and tendencies which it is, he is caught in the net of illusion and cannot get out of it.
6.8.2.33Listen 25 Aug 2021It seems to be a law of the inner life that we have to ask for the inner help that is needed long long before it begins to manifest.
12.18.2.192Listen 26 Aug 2021When this consciousness takes hold of a man, it takes him by surprise. Infinity is so utterly different from what he was experiencing a few minutes earlier that its wonder, its truth, its beauty, its love fill him abruptly, as if in descent from the skies.
14.22.6.5Listen 27 Aug 2021To the degree that we loose ourselves from the ego's grip, to that degree we loose ourselves from its mental anxieties and emotional agitations. As its power wanes, our care-free peace waxes.
6.8.4.475Listen 28 Aug 2021This is the magic talisman which will strengthen and save you, even though you go down into Hades itself—this faith and love for the inner self.
12.18.1.22Listen 29 Aug 2021… the truth-seeker will begin to turn inward in quest of unity with his own soul and outward in quest of unity with mankind. Life is the guide that is bringing him home to himself and to kindlier relation to his fellows …
13.20.3.82, ExcerptListen 30 Aug 2021The weariness of life which shows itself in the desire not to be born again at all, in the yearning for Nirvanic peace, may come from having endured too deep suffering. But it may also come from having saturated oneself with experiences of all kinds during a series of reincarnations far longer than the average one. It is then really a desire to extinguish the tired ego.
6.8.4.353Listen 31 Aug 2021
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