Day by day
He will bear witness in thought and speech to the joy of this awakened consciousness.
16.25.3.269Listen 1 Sep 2023From the hill on whose side I dwell, at the very edge of Montreux, my window looks across sloping vineyards. It has a long view. This means much when one has to live closed in a small apartment every day, every year, with fifty families in the same building. I like the freedom of solitude, the view through unobstructed space. To let the green scenery take my thoughts away into a pleasant harmony with Nature for a few minutes at least, is a daily need, not a luxury. To sit even longer and go far away in consciousness until an unworldly quiescence is reached, is my evening bread.
3.3.6.51Listen 2 Sep 2023In those glorious enchanted moments which immediately succeed the glimpse, almost anything seems possible.
14.22.7.32Listen 3 Sep 2023Interior Word. When he succeeds in penetrating the still depths of his being, another mind will appear to superimpose itself on his own, directing, teaching, and inspiring him. It will speak to him out of the silence within himself yet it will not be his own voice. Its tone will be friendly, and when he becomes familiar with it he will know it to be none other than the voice of the Holy Spirit, the word of the Higher Self.
14.22.2.123Listen 4 Sep 2023… ”I sometimes have a feeling, in fact I have it very strongly, a feeling of interference . . . that some guiding hand has interfered,” confessed Winston Churchill in a speech during October, 1942 …
14.22.1.256, ExcerptListen 5 Sep 2023Those who feel tempted to do so, may study the public cults and listen to the public teachers but it would be imprudent to join any of the first or follow any of the second. It would be wiser to remain free and independent or they may be led astray from the philosophical path.
2.1.3.176Listen 6 Sep 2023A teaching which helps men and women to meet adversity with courage, opposition with serenity, and temptation with insight can surely render a real service to the modern world.
13.20.1.284Listen 7 Sep 2023If he finds that the meditation period has not been fruitful, nevertheless let him be assured that it has not been wasted. The habit of sacrificing a part of every day to it has been kept. It is its own reward for such loyalty.
4.4.2.317Listen 8 Sep 2023In that moment he feels on the very verge of eternity, about to lose himself in its impersonal depths.
14.22.6.25Listen 9 Sep 2023… Compassion thins the ego’s strength and assists us to become properly equipped to achieve insight into Truth …
11.16.2.62, ExcerptListen 10 Sep 2023At odd moments in the very midst of worldly activity he is to recall what his mental and emotional state was like when he reached peak heights during formal meditation in seclusion. And for the brief space of those moments he is to try by creative imagination to feel that he is back on those heights.
15.23.6.182Listen 11 Sep 2023It is true that conscience is the voice of the Overself in the moral life of man, but it is also true that he seldom hears its pure sound. Most often he hears it mixed with much egotism.
14.22.1.174Listen 12 Sep 2023It is now and not in some future time of achievement that he should, in this exercise, regard only his best self as his Identity.
15.23.6.132Listen 13 Sep 2023Philosophy demands that we actualize our ideals. Wisdom must flower in deeds that accord with it or it is not wisdom. Action is the decisive factor …
13.20.1.357, ExcerptListen 14 Sep 2023… It was a simple shepherd on Mount Horeb who, during a glimpse, asked “Who art Thou?” Came the answer: “I am He Who IS!”
14.22.3.325, ExcerptListen 15 Sep 2023The student should not go about criticizing or abusing others. He should not do so because it is mentally unhealthy and hinders his own progress, because it will one day bring down criticism or abuse upon his own head, because he has to foster a compassionate outlook, and because he ought to understand that everybody on earth is indeed here owing to his own imperfection …
5.6.5.307, ExcerptListen 16 Sep 2023The aim is to sit there totally absorbed in his thought or, at a more advanced level, rigidly concentrated in his lack of it.
4.4.3.168Listen 17 Sep 2023… Although self-efforts are not enough of themselves to guarantee the oncoming of Grace, they are still necessary prerequisites to that oncoming. His intellectual, emotional, and moral disciplines are as needed to attract that Grace as are his aspirations, yearnings, and prayers for it …
6.8.4.210, ExcerptListen 18 Sep 2023The philosopher is not interested in drawing attention to himself but only to his ideas, his discoveries, and his revelations.
13.20.5.160Listen 19 Sep 2023Some people seem hungry for Truth. This is because society has starved them and given them no satisfaction other than a surface one.
2.1.2.302Listen 20 Sep 2023The man who tries for years vainly to transcend his human nature is released by this experience. He no longer tortures himself practising excessive asceticisms.
14.22.7.94Listen 21 Sep 2023The Overself Remembrance Exercise is so simple that it is called an exercise only for name’s sake. In the beginning it requires effort just like any other practice …
15.23.6.176, ExcerptListen 22 Sep 2023… Cease this identification with the personality, and you will find the Overself.
6.8.4.203, ExcerptListen 23 Sep 2023He understands then what it means to do nothing of himself, for he feels clearly that the higher power is doing through him whatever has to be done, is doing it rightly, while he himself is merely watching what is happening.
16.25.2.257Listen 24 Sep 2023The liberation from further reincarnations can be attained while still here in the flesh, but the full completion of its consequent inner peace can come only after final exit from the body.
16.25.2.112Listen 25 Sep 2023When justice is done to a man for the injuries he has done to others, when his wrong actions end in suffering for himself, he may begin to learn this truth--that only the Good is really able to triumph.
6.9.3.276Listen 26 Sep 2023If a man has acting talent, let him try it on this visualization exercise: let him copy the characteristics of illumination. It will be immensely more profitable to him than copying those of some worldly role on a stage. The latter may gain him a livelihood; the former will gain him LIFE.
15.23.6.134Listen 27 Sep 2023Even though we reach a higher kind of civilization one day, human differences will continue to express themselves.
16.26.4.232Listen 28 Sep 2023… Prince Gautama was carefully sheltered by his parents from the sights of human suffering. So when, in his twenties, he saw for the first time a sick man, a dead man, and a decrepit old man, he was filled with horror and renounced the world of royal luxury to become a monk …
10.15.1.308, ExcerptListen 29 Sep 2023Something more is needed than what books or even gurus can give him. This can only be found within himself. The courage needed for such a standpoint must also be found, and can be, within himself.
2.1.3.292Listen 30 Sep 2023
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