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Such is the all-round development of the human psyche offered by philosophy. It balances mystical intuiting by logical thinking, religious belief by critical reflection, idealistic devotion by practical service.
13.20.3.430Listen 1 Aug 2017After all, if this teaching helps some readers penetrate the mystery of the higher power even just a little, it will really help them a lot.
8.12.3.188Listen 2 Aug 2017These teachings are not the result of conjecture nor the mirror of opinion. They are insights got by an opening of the inner eyes. This fact must be pointed out, in all humility, if they are to carry to any reader the revelatory understanding which they have already brought the writer.
8.12.3.58Listen 3 Aug 2017After the descent of grace, he feels lifted by a power stronger than his own above the stormy passions and unpleasant greeds, the petty egotisms and ugly hatreds which agitate the mass of mankind.
12.18.5.319Listen 4 Aug 2017When the end of life comes, and a man goes out of it like a candle in the wind, what then happens depends upon his character, his prevailing consciousness, his preparedness, and his last thoughts.
6.9.1.83Listen 5 Aug 2017There, in the deepest state of contemplation, the awareness of a second thing--whether this be the world of objects outside or the world of thoughts inside--vanishes. But unconsciousness does not follow. What is left over is a continuous static impersonal and unchanging consciousness. This is the inmost being of man…
15.23.7.293, ExcerptListen 6 Aug 2017Jesus' use of the metaphor, the Son and the Father, was intended to point out that man, in his inner self, was born of, and is still in relation to, the Higher power, God.
16.25.1.5Listen 7 Aug 2017We do not understand the depths of our own being, the mystery in which it is grounded. I speak for mankind in general, not for those few great ones who have banished illusion and ignorance.
2.1.1.93Listen 8 Aug 2017Only when he sees that he himself is the prime cause of his own troubles, and that other people have been not more than the secondary cause, does he see aright.
6.9.3.178Listen 9 Aug 2017… The felicitous experience of the Overself may come briefly during meditation. It comes abruptly. At one moment the student is his ordinary egoistic self, struggling with his restless thoughts and turbulent feelings; at the next the ego suddenly subsides, and every faculty becomes quiescent. All the disciple has to do is to be nonresistant to the divinity which is taking possession of him, to receive lovingly and not strive laboriously…
14.22.8.107, ExcerptListen 10 Aug 2017A man can hold only one thought at a time… Applying this, it follows that it is his holding of the thought of his personal separate ego alone which prevents him achieving identification with the Overself…
6.8.4.31, ExcerptListen 11 Aug 2017The qualifications required from him are love of the highest, desire for truth, conformity of living to the divine laws, and balance in his own person.
2.1.2.60Listen 12 Aug 2017Where a wrong is done us by someone generally we may be sure that the experience represents the expiation of a wrong which we have done to someone in a past incarnation. It is useless to cry out against the injustice of the injury when the cause lies deep within our own history. It is best to put aside the natural feeling of resentment and, understanding as well as we may what it is we are expiating, take its lessons to heart.
9.13.2.420Listen 13 Aug 2017Within is mastery, within is colossal power--but you have not yet touched it. However little you have so far accomplished you can still do big things.
2.1.5.23Listen 14 Aug 2017There are different stages in the development of people: some stand on the lower, some on the higher ones--and others fill in the space between. There is no equality among human beings, in character or manners, in intelligence or intuitiveness…
16.26.4.201, ExcerptListen 15 Aug 2017We leave the body with the first death and the ego with the second death. But this is not the end. In the Overself we find our final being.
6.9.1.82Listen 16 Aug 2017In the last reckoning life is really a process whereby the individual becomes conscious of his own true identity. The spiritual nature of man does not exist potentially, but actually…
13.19.4.75, ExcerptListen 17 Aug 2017All the experiences of life are in the end intended to induce us to seek wholeheartedly for the Overself. That is, to lead us to the very portal of the Quest.
2.1.2.475Listen 18 Aug 2017The philosophical teaching is that the return of every prophet is an inward event and not a physical one. The common people, with their more materialist and less subtle apprehension, expect to see his body again. The initiates expect only to find his mental presence in themselves.
12.17.1.76Listen 19 Aug 2017That which sustains each individual mind is a universal one. Therefore, that which is best for him in social and ethical action must also fulfil the requirement of being what is best for all. Otherwise it is incomplete.
13.20.4.235Listen 20 Aug 2017It is out of such a splendid balance of utter humility and noble self-reliance that the philosopher gets his wisdom and strength. He is always kneeling metaphorically before the Divine in self-surrendering renunciation and often actually in self-abasing prayer. Yet side by side with this, he is always seeking to develop and apply his own intellect and intuition, his own will and experience in life…
13.20.5.16, ExcerptListen 21 Aug 2017The same Overself is behind us all, contains us all.
14.22.3.81Listen 22 Aug 2017The Short Path will bear fruit in several virtues, which will come of their own accord and without his trying to gain them. In this way it will help him calm his passions and discipline his ego, even though his thoughts and meditations make no reference to them.
15.23.1.152Listen 23 Aug 2017… Why not try the opposite course, the Short Path, which silences the ego, not by striving to do so but by ignoring it through fastening attention upon the Overself?
15.23.2.131, ExcerptListen 24 Aug 2017This is a paradox of the Short Path, that on the one hand he practises this exercise of playing the game of being enlightened, and on the other of freely confessing his faults, limitations, and weaknesses but just as freely accepting them. Thus a curious peace of mind settles in him and becomes naturalized. But it is not a spurious peace. It rejects worry or anxiety and negates fear.
15.23.1.169Listen 25 Aug 2017How true is the Bible's metaphorical statement that man shall not look upon the face of God and live. Yes, he, the ego, must die if God is to be present.
6.8.4.52Listen 26 Aug 2017When a man or woman comes into fuller awareness of the True Self he arrives at the same time at the discovery of his true work, together with the capacity to perform it…
13.20.1.321, ExcerptListen 27 Aug 2017The remembrance that I am too old to squander time comes back periodically but always it is confronted and defeated by the realization that I will be reborn again, that in these future embodiments I shall have all the time needed.
8.12.6.117Listen 28 Aug 2017There is hope for all because there is Grace for all. No man is so sinful that he cannot find forgiveness, cleansing, and renewal.
12.18.5.93Listen 29 Aug 2017All men come back to bodily life again if they leave a residue of karma. All karma that is not brought to an end by bringing the mind's bondage to the ego-thought to an end, makes reincarnation inescapable.
6.9.2.17Listen 30 Aug 2017I have witnessed some advanced souls going through the process of passing to another sphere of consciousness, the process we call death, who spread mental sunshine around so that the bereaved ones gathered at the bedside felt it as a consoling counterbalance to their natural human grief. The truth made some kind of impression upon them that this universal event in Nature can actually be a change to brighter, happier, and freer existence.
6.9.1.84Listen 31 Aug 2017
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