Day by day
We carry the divine presence with us everywhere we travel. We do not directly profit by it simply because we are not directly conscious of it. The effort to arouse such awareness is a worthwhile one, bringing rich reward in its train.
14.22.3.11Listen 1 Aug 2012Memorable are those minutes when we sit in silent adoration of the Overself, knowing it to be none other than our own best self. It is as though we have returned to our true home and rest by its hallowed hearth with a contentment nowhere else to be known. No longer do we possess anything; we are ourselves ineffably possessed…
12.18.1.39, ExcerptListen 2 Aug 2012If any work, institution, or organization is centered in the Overself it cannot fall into the base, negative, or selfish currents which, in the historic past, have polluted, poisoned, and sometimes destroyed so many tasks and enterprises.
2.1.4.34Listen 3 Aug 2012There is a shorter and better way to practical wisdom. What the ordinary man arrives at only after the several events of long years, the wiser one will arrive at earlier by intuition and reflection.
6.9.4.98Listen 4 Aug 2012Whatever be the personal problem, if reason, experience, and authority cannot solve it, carry it inwards to the deep still centre. But you must learn to wait in patience for the answer, for the blockage is in you, not in it. A day or a month may pass until the response is felt, thought, or materialized.
14.22.1.142Listen 5 Aug 2012The sufferer should use whatever physical medical means are available--both orthodox and unorthodox ones. At the same time he should practise daily prayer. But he should not directly ask for the physical healing for its own sake. He should ask first for spiritual qualities and then only for the physical healing with the expressed intention of utilizing his opportunity of bodily incarnation to improve himself spiritually.
7.10.5.135Listen 6 Aug 2012The higher purpose of existence is to advance man until he can live in the awareness of his divine selfhood.
16.26.4.94Listen 7 Aug 2012... He knows that each experience which comes to him is what he most needs at the time, even though it be what he likes least. He needs it because it is in part nothing else than his own past thinking, feeling, and doing come back to confront him to enable him to see and study their results in a plain, concrete, unmistakable form…
13.20.1.175, ExcerptListen 8 Aug 2012As the two interact--the human purpose and the World-Idea--each man slowly unfolds his intelligence, which is the fusion of intellect with intuition, and this culminates in Enlightenment, the ultimate and revelatory Insight.
16.26.4.220Listen 9 Aug 2012... We must understand that heaven and hell are deep inside the heart and not places to which we go…
6.9.1.182, ExcerptListen 10 Aug 2012... He will now feel at least the same satisfaction in yielding to the higher self's bidding that he formerly felt in yielding to the lower one's desires. And with the bidding will come the needed strength, courage, and wisdom to obey it. The world's opposition and danger may be recognized but will not deter him. It is not by his own will that he engages himself in such work, but by a will that supports and guides him better than ever he could support or guide himself. This he clearly comprehends and gladly accepts.
14.22.2.89, ExcerptListen 11 Aug 2012Every test is a teacher to guide us to a higher level, a providential friend to give us the quality we most need.
3.2.3.96Listen 12 Aug 2012As the interior word delivers its message to him day by day, as he advances in understanding through receiving it and in character by obeying it, he will have the best evidence that this quest which he first tried as an experiment is becoming a priceless experience.
14.22.2.124Listen 13 Aug 2012Mankind is led by easy preparatory stages towards the highest philosophy. Only when they are well grounded in true religion or mysticism and sound metaphysics is the full and final revelation made to them.
12.17.6.83Listen 14 Aug 2012In that last battle when he comes face to face with the ego, when it has to put off all its protective disguises and expose its vulnerability, he must call upon the help of Grace. He cannot possibly win it by his own powers.
6.8.4.414Listen 15 Aug 2012... Act as the Long Path requires by working on and improving the self, but think as the Short Path enjoins by holding the attitude ”There is nothing to be attained. Realization is already here and now!”
15.23.5.154, ExcerptListen 16 Aug 2012... Because the interrelation of outward karma to inner character is so close, he should understand that these difficulties are linked up with his inner state, and that he begins to solve them by removing the imperfection of that inner state…
2.1.5.85, ExcerptListen 17 Aug 2012Grace is a cosmic fact. If it were not, then the spiritual outlook for the human race, dependent entirely on its own efforts for the possibility of spiritual progress, would be poor and disheartening.
12.18.5.1Listen 18 Aug 2012... The Short Path makes life considerably pleasanter because you are supposed to make a 180 degree turn, putting your past behind you, looking first on the bright side, the sunny side, of your spiritual life. Very often a glimpse is given which starts you off on the Short Path…
15.23.5.56, ExcerptListen 19 Aug 2012If he can come to this belief in the reality of his own higher self, he can come into all the knowledge he needs, all the help he needs, by heeding its guidance (felt intuitively) and by applying its injunctions to his daily life.
14.22.5.60Listen 20 Aug 2012When one is working without a teacher, he must necessarily intensify his efforts. He should strive to develop a greater awareness of the meaning of all past and present experiences in the light of his new knowledge, to be more objective in his observance of himself, his thoughts and actions in every situation, and, finally, to recognize the fact that his own daily life is the material presented him to work on.
3.2.4.41Listen 21 Aug 2012... As at the beginning, so at the end of this path, the unveiling of the Overself is not an act of any human will. Only the Divine Will--that is, only its own Grace--can bring about the final all-revealing act, whose sustained consciousness turns the aspirant into an adept…
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 22 Aug 2012It is an inner emptiness gained by casting out desires and attachments, habits and tendencies, so that the heart is wide open to receive life's greatest gift--Grace. The craving to acquire personal possessions is a hard thing to still but once done we are rewarded a hundredfold.
3.2.7.17Listen 23 Aug 2012Wherever the fortunes of life may take you and whatever the dangers it may bring you, I hope you will always keep the thought of the Divine Overself as the best talisman to cling to. It is in these terrible times that you may come to appreciate more than ever the value of faith in divine wisdom behind life and assured immortality after death.
9.13.4.345Listen 24 Aug 2012The Glimpse comes as a benediction and as a grace. The heart should be grateful, immensely grateful for its visitation. It possesses a beauty which is not of this world, which gives joy to the heart.
14.22.6.206Listen 25 Aug 2012If a man comes to this quest by thought or by suffering or by fate, he will end by love if he remains with it, love of that which shines forth during his first glimpse, love of the Overself. It is like the child losing, then finding, its parent.
2.1.5.328Listen 26 Aug 2012The effort at this higher stage (Short Path) is not to follow fixed schedules for mental quiet but constantly to remember Overself…
15.23.6.198, ExcerptListen 27 Aug 2012The beginner needs knowledge, needs to attend lectures, study books, discuss ideas, and even debate the criticism of them. But the man who has done all that needs to move on, to get into the testing ground where teachings and values must prove themselves--that is, into life itself.
3.2.5.103Listen 28 Aug 2012The needs of this age emphatically demand action in the outer world. Quite a few people of talent, position, vision, or influence have adopted these views, and will take their place in the forefront of things when the destined hour of the New Age sweeps down.
13.20.2.73Listen 29 Aug 2012That is a valuable meditation which, whether at odd moments or for fixed periods, returns again and again to dwell on the nature of the Overself and disregards all lesser topics. Such frequent remembrances and such fixed meditations become indeed a kind of communion and are usually rewarded sooner or later by a glimpse.
14.22.5.57Listen 30 Aug 2012The higher self is the ultimate spiritual guide whom he is to revere and the real spiritual helper on whom he is to rely.
2.1.6.822Listen 31 Aug 2012
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