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The concept of the Overself is foundational. It provides meaning for life.
14.22.3.111Listen 1 Sep 2021Those who have passed through the disciplines of body, intellect, and emotion are no longer on the same level as those who have not. They need a teaching appropriate in every way to their higher development.
12.17.6.112Listen 2 Sep 2021He is no longer able to will for himself for the simple reason that some other entity has begun to will for him. Egoism in the human sense, sensualism in the animal sense, have both been eliminated from his heart.
16.25.2.270Listen 3 Sep 2021Every discussion which is made from an egoistic standpoint is corrupted from the start and cannot yield an absolutely sure conclusion. The ego puts its own interest first and twists every argument, word, even fact to suit that interest.
6.8.4.102Listen 4 Sep 2021Outwardly he appears to act as intensely or as vigorously as other men. But inwardly he will really be at rest in the Overself, which will lead him like a child into performing necessary actions. His mind is still, even though his body is busy. And because of this leading, his actions will be right and even inspired ones, his personal will will be expressive of a higher one.
16.25.2.297Listen 5 Sep 2021He who experiences it only intermittently may guess from this how wonderful his existence would be if he were able to experience it constantly.
14.22.8.98Listen 6 Sep 2021That crafty old fox, the ego, is quite capable of engaging in spiritual practices of every kind and of showing spiritual aspirations of every degree of warmth.
6.8.4.319Listen 7 Sep 2021The “I” is immeasurably greater than the ego which it projects or than the intellect, which the ego uses.
14.22.3.339Listen 8 Sep 2021… the reward of giving up the ego-sense is the ability to live in the deepest part of one's deepest being—the Overself …
8.12.1.2, ExcerptListen 9 Sep 2021The Long Path offers a negative process whose end result is to disidentify the man from his body. The Short Path offers a positive process whose result is to identify him with his Overself.
15.23.5.47Listen 10 Sep 2021When a man grows as unconsciously as a flower, it surprises him to discover how much larger is the area, how much deeper is the penetration, of his personal influence in the circle of people which he meets.
8.12.4.222Listen 11 Sep 2021Though overshadowed continuously by this divine being that is really his own other self, he remains nevertheless quite human.
16.25.3.368Listen 12 Sep 2021If the ego were as prone to condemn itself as it is to justify itself, or to justify others as it is to condemn them, how quick and easy would the quest be.
6.8.3.112Listen 13 Sep 2021What he learns from outside himself, from teacher or tradition, will never lead to his true fulfilment until he joins it with what he learns in the stillness from inside himself.
2.1.3.93Listen 14 Sep 2021A man who wants to pursue this quest will have to become a different man—different from what he was in the past because the old innate tendencies have to be replaced by new ones, and different from other men because he must refuse to be led unresistingly into the thoughtlessness, the irreverence, and the coarseness which pervade them.
2.1.5.26Listen 15 Sep 2021The godlike abides in each of us but only the master knows and feels its glory.
14.22.3.46Listen 16 Sep 2021Since most of us have to live in the world as laymen, or even prefer to do so, we must learn how to make use of the world so that it will promote our spiritual aspirations and not obstruct them.
3.2.5.101Listen 17 Sep 2021… We must all give life what it demands from the human—that it shall seek to transcend its present state …
16.26.4.87, ExcerptListen 18 Sep 2021To surrender is to know one’s own incompetence and to put one’s life in wiser hands.
12.18.4.27Listen 19 Sep 2021Sri Ramakrishna: “The mind ordinarily moves in the three lower chakras. But if it rises above them and reaches the heart, one gets the vision of Light . . . Even though it has reached the throat, the Mind may come down again (from utterly unworldly consciousness—PB). One ought to be always alert. Only if his mind reaches the spot between the eyebrows need he have no more fear of a fall, the Supreme Self is so close.”
15.23.7.306Listen 20 Sep 2021The death of the body does not mean the death of the mind …
6.9.1.154, ExcerptListen 21 Sep 2021… Wu-Wei, meaning inaction, not trying, is the highest teaching of Taoism and Zen … The Overself is already there. You as ego must get out of the way…
3.2.1.209, ExcerptListen 22 Sep 2021If thousands of prenatal memories were to come crowding in together, the mind's life would be horrible, crazy. Worse, one's own personal identity would be lost, merged in all the others.
6.9.2.106Listen 23 Sep 2021The practice of Remembrance begins with an act of choice, since it throws out of the mind all that it conveniently can without interfering with the work or matter in hand.
15.23.6.221Listen 24 Sep 2021… there was no hope for progress unless the Overself came to my rescue and, out of its Grace, brought about the desired state …
8.12.1.2, ExcerptListen 25 Sep 2021The ego knows well how to cover up its ugliest activities with the noblest self-justifications.
6.8.3.116Listen 26 Sep 2021At this point he may lose touch with the outer world and no longer see or sense it in any way. The consciousness sinks away from place and form, the passing of time and the solidity of matter, into its own being.
15.23.7.65Listen 27 Sep 2021In that benign atmosphere, negative thoughts cannot exist.
14.22.3.114Listen 28 Sep 2021We have come into incarnation for a purpose: life is our business here, not running away from it. When certain renunciations are called for, they are part of this preparation for life, because they are needed in the fulfilment of this purpose.
3.2.7.24Listen 29 Sep 2021The message of Jesus, which was so largely a call to repentant deeds and changed thoughts, is needed today by us all much more than it was needed by the Jews of his time.
12.17.5.124Listen 30 Sep 2021
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