Day by day
He should sometimes ask himself for how many more years may he hope to be given the chance which every lifetime gives a man to transcend himself.
3.2.8.9Listen 1 Aug 2013The Quest will come to an end when he turns away from teachers and teachings and begins to receive instruction from within himself. Previously all that he got was someone else's idea; now he is acquiring firsthand knowledge.
15.24.4.69Listen 2 Aug 2013Practice of the As If exercise is like being spiritually reborn and finding a new way of life. It gives courage to those who feel grievously inadequate, hope to those who feel hooked by their past failures.
15.23.6.111Listen 3 Aug 2013Is it not ironical that the Overself projects the ego so far that it denies its source, and then waits indefinitely for the ego to give itself back?
6.8.1.170Listen 4 Aug 2013What a man sees and thinks is only an awareness gleaned by the shallower part of himself. There is his deeper being--indeed, the term part is quite inapplicable here--his real essence, the greater Consciousness from which thoughts and emotions emerge for their limited lives. To find and know this is a duty to which he must one day come.
2.1.1.118Listen 5 Aug 2013There comes a time when he has to turn his back on the past, for the old man is becoming a stranger and a new man is coming to birth. Memories would obstruct this process.
3.2.7.20Listen 6 Aug 2013We are like flowers torn from our natural soil and suffering the misery of separation. Our fervid mystical yearnings represent the recognition of our need to reunite with our Source.
12.17.1.18Listen 7 Aug 2013With death, consciousness takes on a new condition but does not pass into mere emptiness, is not crumbled away with the fleshly brain into dust. No! It survives because it is the real being of a man.
6.9.1.57Listen 8 Aug 2013The Short Path provides him with the chance of making a fresh start, of gaining new inspiration, more joy.
15.23.1.180Listen 9 Aug 2013There are many who are earnest in thought and steadfast in aspiration but who, despite this, have never had any mystical experience, never known any psychical phenomena, and never felt any ecstatic uprush. They may be consoled to learn that, philosophically, these happenings are not at all the most significant indicators of spiritual advancement. The ennoblement of character, the development of intuition, and the cultivation of inner equilibrium are more important.
11.16.2.105Listen 10 Aug 2013There are resources within man's grasp that could redeem his character and transform his life, yet they lie untouched and undeveloped.
14.22.3.63Listen 11 Aug 2013... Beneath this conscious desire for fresh experiences there is the unconscious longing for That which is the permanent core of selfhood. The stilled, one-pointed, and reverent mind may know it, the self may dissolve in it.
14.22.3.10, ExcerptListen 12 Aug 2013... If the true self is found, all the qualities and attributes which pertain to it will also be found, naturally and automatically, at the same time. How could the qualities and attributes of the lower nature thrive or even exist in that rarefied air…?
15.23.2.41, ExcerptListen 13 Aug 2013If a man understands that life is like a dream and is mental at bottom, and if as a result he practises a certain kind of detachment, there will descend upon his character a calmness and a serenity for which he will not even have to work, given sufficient time.
15.24.3.103Listen 14 Aug 2013... Sometimes men catch a glimpse of this other self which is really their own best self and which is not something to be attained by a progression since it is forever present…
6.8.1.143, ExcerptListen 15 Aug 2013Even those who are satisfied to continue permanently the Long Path's preparatory disciplines will one day find an inner impulsion rising spontaneously within themselves and leading them to the Short Path.
15.23.4.158Listen 16 Aug 2013The creative faculty should be cultivated and developed as both a great aid to, and an expression of, spiritual growth.
9.14.2.13Listen 17 Aug 2013The businessman who does not know that the true business for which he was put on earth is to find the Overself, may make a fortune but will also squander away a lifetime. His work and mind have been left separate from his Overself's when they might have been kept in satisfying harmony with them.
2.1.1.85Listen 18 Aug 2013How is it that I am--and know that I am--substantially the same man today as yesterday, that I remember the happenings of a year ago? The answer must be that there is a continuous self, or being, or mind, in me, distinct from its thoughts or experiences.
6.8.1.97Listen 19 Aug 2013It is possible that he may fall into the mistaken belief that because he has relieved himself of the duties and toils of the Long Path, he has little else to do than give himself up to idle dreaming and lazy optimism. No--he has taken on himself fresh duties and other toils, even though they are of a different kind. He has to learn the true meaning of pray without ceasing as well as to practise it. He has to meditate twenty times a day, even though each session will not be longer than a minute or two. He has to recollect himself, his essential divinity, a hundred times a day…
15.23.6.206, ExcerptListen 20 Aug 2013He should learn to cultivate the feelings of peace whenever they are strongly present. He should give himself to them completely, putting aside everything else. For they will bear to him something hidden inside of them that is even still more valuable.
15.24.2.38Listen 21 Aug 2013He will have to learn the art of standing aside from himself, of observing his actions and analysing his motives as though they belonged to some other person. He may cease to practise this art only when his actions reflect the calm wisdom of the Overself and when his motives reflect its detached impersonality.
3.2.6.11Listen 22 Aug 2013Man as scientist has put under observation countless objects on earth, in sea and sky. He has thoroughly examined them. But man as man has put himself under a shallower observation. He has limited his scrutiny first to the body, second to what thinking can find. Yet a deeper level exists, where a deeper hidden self can be found.
2.1.1.164Listen 23 Aug 2013The practice of extending love towards all living creatures brings on ecstatic states of cosmic joy.
15.23.6.60Listen 24 Aug 2013Even the shell-shocked soldier who suffers from an almost total amnesia, forgetting his personal identity and personal history, does not suffer from any loss of the consciousness that he exists. Its old ideas and images may have temporarily or even permanently vanished, but the mind itself carries on.
6.8.1.100Listen 25 Aug 2013... Through the understanding of the Short Path he searches knowingly, not wanting another experience since both wanting and experiencing put him out of the essential Self. He thinks and acts as if he is that Self, which puts him back into It…
15.23.6.110, ExcerptListen 26 Aug 2013It is an irony of life that a man can plainly see the physical ego, but that on which it depends for existence, the Overself, he does not see. Therefore he neglects or ignores the attention it needs and misses much of the opportunity that a reincarnation offers to further his inner unfoldment.
6.8.1.119Listen 27 Aug 2013Life offers man a variety of meanings, but in the end one meaning comes to the top of all the others and that is the meaning which shall reveal the truth about his relation to God.
2.1.1.89Listen 28 Aug 2013... What shall it profit a man if he hear a thousand lectures or read a thousand books but hath not found his Overself? The student must advance to the next step and seek to realize within his own experience that which is portrayed to him by his intellect…
2.1.1.111, ExcerptListen 29 Aug 2013The first duty of man, which takes precedence over all other duties, is to become conscious of his Overself. This is the highest duty and every other duty must bow before it…
2.1.1.117, ExcerptListen 30 Aug 2013The Quest has two aspects. One is the constant accumulation of right thoughts, feelings, and acts, along with the constant elimination of wrong ones. The other aspect called the Short Path is the constant remembrance and contemplation of the Overself.
3.2.5.209Listen 31 Aug 2013
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