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The discovery of the soul's existence is not a result of intellectual analysis or of emotional feeling but of intuitive experience.
14.22.1.30Listen 1 Sep 2014There is in the very midst of humanity today, albeit hidden and awaiting its hour of manifestation, that which is the very opposite of what has already manifested itself through the evil channels. There is divine pity as against barbarous cruelty, sublime wisdom as against materialistic ignorance, altruistic service as against aggressive selfishness, and exalted reverence against hard atheism. There is the recall to a forgotten God. There is redemptive grace. There is a hand outstretched in mercy to the worst sinner, and in consolation to the worst sufferer. Those who are mystically sensitive feel its presence even now, however intermittently.
7.11.3.65Listen 2 Sep 2014The truth is that the Overself's power has worked upon him in advance of his own endeavours. The urge to seek a close and conscious relationship with it, the decision to enter upon the quest--these very thoughts stemmed from its hidden and active influence.
12.18.5.324Listen 3 Sep 2014If he wants the full Grace he must make the full surrender. He should ask for nothing else than to be taken up wholly into, and by, the Overself. To ask for occult powers of any kind, even the kind which are called spiritual healing powers, is to ask for something less than this.
12.18.4.100Listen 4 Sep 2014... The Quest of the divine soul has become his pole star. It was natural for him to feel repelled at first by the idea of overcoming the ego but now he sees its desirability. This will not mean giving it up in practical life however; for while he is in the flesh the ideal is to find a proper balance between egoism and altruism because he needs both…
2.1.5.89, ExcerptListen 5 Sep 2014... Until his development has reached the point where a genuine intuition is at once recognized as such and a pseudo-intuition quickly detected for what it is, he must not abandon the use of reason but rather regard it as a most valuable ally.
14.22.1.195, ExcerptListen 6 Sep 2014His innate tendencies may still be there for a time--they constitute his karma--but the grace keeps them in check.
12.18.5.317Listen 7 Sep 2014There is another way of knowing beside the ordinary way, through the channels of eyes or thoughts, a way which can be found only by quietening the mind and stilling the emotions.
14.22.1.13Listen 8 Sep 2014The moment we become convinced that the universal life has a higher purpose than the mere reproduction of the species, that moment our own individual life takes on a higher meaning, a glorious significance.
2.1.1.178Listen 9 Sep 2014Out of the grand mystery of the Overself, the first communication we receive telling us of and making us feel its existence, is Grace.
12.18.5.5Listen 10 Sep 2014There is a faculty in man which knows truth when it sees it, which needs no argument, reflection, or cogitation to attest or prove what it knows.
14.22.1.12Listen 11 Sep 2014When we keep ourselves busy with everything external and our minds with thoughts about everything external, the intuition is unable to insert itself into our awareness. Even if it whispers to us, we will not realize what is happening. If we continue to ignore it, we may lose the capacity to hear it at all. It is then that we have to retrain ourselves to do so. The practice of meditation is one such way of training our receptivity.
14.22.1.123Listen 12 Sep 2014The aim of the mystic is to know what he is, apart from his physical body, his lower emotion, his personal ego; it is to know his inner-most self. When this aim is successfully realized, he knows then with perfect certitude that he is a ray of the divine sun.
14.22.3.374Listen 13 Sep 2014To let the intuitive feelings come through requires an inner passivity which meditation fosters but which extroversion inhibits.
14.22.1.104Listen 14 Sep 2014There is only one Overself for the whole race, but the point of contact with it is special and unique, and constitutes man's higher individuality.
14.22.3.381Listen 15 Sep 2014The sage is a man who lives in constant truth-remembrance. He has realized the existence of the Overself, he knows that he partakes of Its life, immortal and infinite. He has made the pilgrimage to essential being and returned again to walk amongst men, to speak their language, and to bear witness, by his life amongst them, to Truth.
16.25.2.300Listen 16 Sep 2014The object seen, the eye which sees it, and the act of seeing are all part of a mentally created scene; all are idea.
13.21.2.172Listen 17 Sep 2014Grace works magically on the man who opens himself humbly and sensitively to receive it. His personal feelings undergo a transformation into their higher impersonal octaves. His very weaknesses provoke occasions for gaining effortlessly their opposite virtues. His selfish desires are turned by Grace's alchemy into spiritual aspirations.
12.18.5.311Listen 18 Sep 2014At the end of all its adventures, the lower self may indeed have to go, but the indestructible higher self will not go. In this sense there is no utter annihilation of the individual, no complete mergence of it into an all-swallowing ocean of cosmic consciousness…
14.22.3.389, ExcerptListen 19 Sep 2014Every thought which comes down to us from that serene height comes with a divine authority and penetrating force which are absent from all other thoughts. We receive the visitant with eagerness and obey it with confidence.
14.22.1.243Listen 20 Sep 2014What, it has been asked, if I get no glimpses? What can I do to break this barren, monotonous, dreary, and sterile spiritual desert of my existence? The answer is if you cannot meditate successfully go to nature, where she is quiet or beautiful; go to art where it is majestic, exalting; go to hear some great soul speak, whether in private talk or public address; go to literature, find a great inspired book written by someone who has had the glimpses.
14.22.5.13Listen 21 Sep 2014The ineffable peace and exquisite harmony which take hold of his heart are the first results of grace.
12.18.5.326Listen 22 Sep 2014But the main object of the quest is, after all, not these secondary betterments in bodily health, nerve, character, self-control--welcome as they are--but the discovery of truth and the living within the presence of the divine.
2.1.5.110Listen 23 Sep 2014The mystery into which we have been born is not penetrable by weaving fancy or logical intellect. But intuition, if we are patient enough and willing enough to follow it, can lead us into an overwhelming experience where we discover that IT is there, always there.
14.22.1.2Listen 24 Sep 2014The indispensable prerequisite to mystical illumination is self-surrender. No man can receive it without paying this price…
12.18.4.70, ExcerptListen 25 Sep 2014The discovery of its presence makes possible a form of communication between person and Overself which is passive, not active. That is, he is directed guided or corrected in and through his human faculties, intuitively. The person acts, does, thinks, speaks, and decides as if he were doing so completely alone. But he is not: he is responding to the Overself, to the effects of its presence, now unhindered by his ego.
14.22.1.8Listen 26 Sep 2014If the personality has been unevenly developed, if its forces have not been properly harmonized with each other and defects remain in thinking, feeling, and willing, then at the threshold of illumination these defects will become magnified and overstimulated by the upwelling soul power and lead to adverse psychical results.
11.16.7.112Listen 27 Sep 2014He knows, having aligned himself harmoniously with the higher power that supports the universe, that it surely can and will support the little fragment of the universe that is himself. A sublime confidence that he will be taken care of in the proper way pervades him in consequence.
12.18.4.190Listen 28 Sep 2014There is a power which inspires the heart, enlightens the mind, and sanctifies the character of man. It is the power of Grace.
12.18.5.18Listen 29 Sep 2014... The truth is that the mind creates its own objects--but not the individual, finite mind; only the Mind which is back of it and which is infinite and common to all individuals. This is difficult to understand, so to make it easier one has to think of dream. In that state he can see cities, men, women, and children, mountains and flowers, hear voices, feel pain, and so forth. What is more, everything is so real then that at the time it is the waking state to him, not dream. Now who created all these scenes and things? Not his finite mind, for he is not conscious of having done so. Hence there is a larger mind within him which has this power of manufacturing scenes, objects, and events so vividly that he takes them to be real. This reality is a myth or, as the Indians call it, Maya.
13.21.3.88, ExcerptListen 30 Sep 2014
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