Day by day
... You will begin by asking yourself ”Who am I?” and, when you comprehend that the lower nature cannot be the real you, go on to asking the further question: ”What am I?” By such frequent self-studies and self-discriminations, you will come closer and closer to the truth.
4.4.4.36, ExcerptListen 1 Sep 2011The Overself knows what you are, what you seek, and what you need.
7.10.5.138Listen 2 Sep 2011The Overself does have the power to heal the diseases of the body by its Grace, but whether that Grace will be thus exercised or not is unpredictable. It will do what is best for the individual in the ultimate sense, not what the ego desires. For the Divine Wisdom is back of everything every time.
7.10.5.140Listen 3 Sep 2011The secret of concentration is ... practise concentration! Only by arduous effort and persistent, diligent endeavours to master his attention will he finally succeed in doing so. No effort in this direction is wasted and it may be done at any time of the day.
4.4.3.160Listen 4 Sep 2011This is the abiding essence of a man, his true self as against his ephemeral person. Whoever enters into its consciousness enters into timelessness, a wonderful experience where the flux of pleasures and pains comes to an end in utter serenity, where regrets for the past, impatience at the present, and fears of the future are unknown.
14.22.3.183Listen 5 Sep 2011It is in those uplifted moments that one has the possibility of coming near to confirm the Pythagorean belief that the human soul is an emanation of the Universal Divine Mind.
14.22.6.322Listen 6 Sep 2011Let him play the part of a witness to his own ego, through all its experiences and vicissitudes. In that way he will be emulating by effort those enlightened men to whom the part comes easily and naturally by their own development.
15.23.6.100Listen 7 Sep 2011With knowledge, wisdom, and understanding developing in him along with devotion, aspiration, and reverence, and with the two trends culminating in appropriate action, his quest will be properly balanced, sane, and productive.
13.20.3.371Listen 8 Sep 2011Whoever wishes to pluck the fruits of meditation in the shortest time must practise with both perseverance and regularity. This advice sounds platitudinous, but it happens to be true within the experience of most students…
4.4.2.365, ExcerptListen 9 Sep 2011The universe is perfect because God is perfect. But it is for each man to find and see this perfection for himself, otherwise the trouble and tragedy in life may obstruct his vision and obscure his path.
16.26.1.37Listen 10 Sep 2011But because we affirm that the powers of evil will destroy themselves in the end, this must not be mistaken to mean that we may all sit down in smug complacency. We ought not to make this an excuse for inaction. On the contrary, it should inspire us to stronger efforts to preserve the noblest things in life from their attack.
7.11.1.52Listen 11 Sep 2011Truth and love will conquer in the end--however far off that be--for they are deeply buried in the hearts of men and will be slowly uncovered by the instruction which life itself gives. We must acquire something of God's patience.
9.13.1.369Listen 12 Sep 2011He will come to perceive that his real strength lies in remembering the higher self, in remembering the quest of it, and, above all, in remembering the two with intense love, devotion, and faith.
12.18.1.6Listen 13 Sep 2011The flower's beauty is simply a pointer, reminding us to think, speak, and behave beautifully.
3.3.6.55Listen 14 Sep 2011The Short Path is, in essence, the ceaseless practice of remembering to stay in the Stillness, for this is what he really is in his innermost being and where he meets the World-Mind.
15.23.1.97Listen 15 Sep 2011It is this grandeur of self that is the magnetic pole drawing us to the Good, the Beautiful, the Just, the True, and the Noble. Yet itself is above all these attributes for it is the Attributeless, the Ineffable, and Infinite that human thought cannot grasp.
14.22.3.178Listen 16 Sep 2011The exercise of watching a thought arise and vanish and then intently holding on to the interval before the next thought arises, is a hard one. It needs months and years of patient practice. But the reward, when it comes, is immense.
15.23.8.168Listen 17 Sep 2011Only when the intellect, after admiring its own massive historical achievement, will turn upon itself and perceive how puny is that by contrast with the still-awaited answer to the question, What am I?--only then will the possibility of higher forces coming to its aid be realizable.
5.7.1.82Listen 18 Sep 2011The thought of the Overself may easily open the gate which enters into its awareness.
4.4.4.28Listen 19 Sep 2011... He pretends to be what he aims to become: thinks, speaks, acts, behaves as a master of emotion, desire, ego because he would be one. But he should play this game for, and to, himself alone, not to enlarge himself in others' eyes, lest he sow the seed of a great vanity.
15.23.6.109, ExcerptListen 20 Sep 2011The Long Path brings the self to a growing awareness of its own strength, whereas the Short Path brings it to a growing awareness of its own unreality. This higher stage leads inevitably to a turnaboutface, where the energies are directed toward identification with the One Infinite Mind. The more this is done, the more Grace flows by reaction into the Self.
15.23.5.61Listen 21 Sep 2011The wonder and joy of finding himself to be a channel of blessing, teaching, healing peace, and uplift to others will increase as the results themselves increase.
14.22.2.95Listen 22 Sep 2011The experience explains a man to himself for the first time, lights up the fact that he lives in two planes at one and the same time. It reveals his ego as the illusion which envelops his consciousness and his Overself as the reality behind his consciousness.
14.22.6.315Listen 23 Sep 2011What is the practical use of enquiring, ”To whom is this experience happening? To whom this pain, this joy, this distress, or this good fortune?” First, it makes him remember the quest upon which he is embarked by reminding him that it is the ego which is feeling these changes and that he is not to identify himself with it and thus limit his possibilities if he really seeks the higher self behind it. Second, it suggests that he look for the root of his ego and with it his hidden ”I” instead of merely being swept away by what is happening within the ego itself.
15.23.6.108Listen 24 Sep 2011The real bar to the entry of grace is simply the preoccupation of his thoughts with himself. For then the Overself must leave him to his cares.
12.18.5.208Listen 25 Sep 2011... All that the ego can do is to create the necessary conditions out of which enlightenment generally arises, but it cannot create this enlightenment itself. By self-purification, by constant aspiration, by regular meditation, by profound study, and by an altruistic attitude in practical life, it does what is prerequisite. But all this is like tapping at the door of the Overself. Only the latter's Grace can open it in the end…
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 26 Sep 2011Too soon he will find that the rebirth was not a durable spiritual event but a temporary one. It offered a picture of something for which, from then on, he must start working in earnest. It was a glimpse only but it provided testimony, evidence, confirmation.
14.22.8.6Listen 27 Sep 2011To complain that you get no answer, no result from going into the silence indicates two things: first, that you do not go far enough into it to reach the intuitive level; second, that you do not wait long enough for it to affect you.
15.24.4.124Listen 28 Sep 2011Whoever finds his Overself and draws from it the will and desire to serve others, will radiate joy, confidence, and peace to them.
14.22.2.83Listen 29 Sep 2011The first question is also the final one; it is quite short, quite simple, and yet it is also the most important question which anyone could ever ask, whether of himself or of others. This question is: ”What is consciousness?” Whoever traces the answer through all its levels will find himself in the end in the very presence of the universal consciousness otherwise called God.
13.19.3.32Listen 30 Sep 2011
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