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He who depends upon his own personal intellect and personal strength alone, deprives himself of the protection which a higher power could give him.
2.1.3.187Listen 1 Sep 2013This practice of picturing oneself as one ought to be, of visualizing the man free from negative qualities and radiant with positive ones that are part of the Quest's ideal, has near-magical results.
15.23.6.123Listen 2 Sep 2013Which of us has the power to change the consequences of his former actions? We may make amends, we may be penitent and perform penances. We may counter them by the opposite kinds of good deeds. But it is the business of karma to make us feel responsible for what we do and that responsibility cannot be evaded. In a certain sense, however, there is a measure of freedom, a power of creativity, both of which belong to the godlike Higher Self which each of us has.
6.9.3.550Listen 3 Sep 2013... When his own personal effort subsides, a further effort begins on his behalf by a higher power. Without any move on his own part, Grace begins to do for him what he could not do for himself, and under its beneficent operation he will find his higher will strengthening, his moral attitude improving, and his spiritual aspiration increasing…
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 4 Sep 2013When the requisite preparatory instruction has been passed through, and when the mind lets thoughts go, lets objects go, lets the ego go, it comes to know itself, to perceive itself, to discover itself as Overself.
15.23.7.31Listen 5 Sep 2013... Each of us can learn to live in the happy presence of this peace if he will prepare the way by (stoically) disciplining the thoughts he brings into every moment. He alone is responsible for them, he alone must have the hardihood to reject every one that reduces his stature to the little, time-bound, desire-filled ego.
13.19.4.182, ExcerptListen 6 Sep 2013... Is all the vast intelligence of this universe which gave birth to our own minute fragment to be forever separated from us? No! We shall live again, die again, and return again unless and until we have fulfilled the divine purpose which brought us here.
6.9.2.221, ExcerptListen 7 Sep 2013Sometimes the glimpse may pass unrecognized for what it really is, but in later years this is usually rectified.
14.22.7.237Listen 8 Sep 2013... To become conscious of Consciousness detached from its productions--thoughts--is his task…
13.21.5.16, ExcerptListen 9 Sep 2013It is well to seek and accept guidance. The error and exaggeration creep in when you become too concentrated on a single source of guidance.
2.1.3.265Listen 10 Sep 2013... He is to see himself doing successfully what he seeks to do, and the sight is to be accompanied by intense faith and firm conviction. The desirable qualities of character are to be thought of as already existing and possessed, already expressing themselves in action and living. Furthermore they are to be pictured vividly and clearly; they must be understood without any uncertainty, dimness, or hesitation.
15.23.6.112, ExcerptListen 11 Sep 2013We live in an orderly universe, not an accidental one. Its movements are measured, its events are plotted, and its creatures develop towards a well-defined objective. All this could not be possible unless the universe were ruled by immutable laws.
16.26.1.3Listen 12 Sep 2013Having no official connection with any group, sect, organization, or church leaves me free to help anyone, anywhere.
2.1.3.169Listen 13 Sep 2013When men acquire proper values, whether by reflecting over their experience or by listening to their prophets, they will recognize this truth--that nothing really matters except the search for the Overself…
2.1.1.98, ExcerptListen 14 Sep 2013When all thoughts are extinguished; when even the thought of the quest itself vanishes; when even the final thought of seeking to control thoughts also subsides, then the great battle with the ego can take place. But the last scene of this invisible drama is always played by the Overself. For only when its Grace shoots forth and strikes down this final thought, does success come.
15.23.8.152Listen 15 Sep 2013Each man has to work on himself and leave others alone. To criticize and to condemn them is easy, but it is to fail to mind one's own business. And what is one's own business? It is to work on oneself until one is aware of the divine part of oneself.
3.2.4.34Listen 16 Sep 2013He has a double existence, with the frontal part of his consciousness in time and the real part out of it. All the miseries and misfortunes which may enter into the one part will make no difference to the blessed tranquillity which permanently reigns in the other.
13.19.2.48Listen 17 Sep 2013There is a mathematical order in the cosmos, a divine intelligence behind life, an Idea for human, animal, plant, and mineral existences.
16.26.1.104Listen 18 Sep 2013... On the Long Path many students want experiences--mystical, occult, psychical ones. It is the ego wanting them and the satisfaction of progressing. The ego feels important. In the Short Path there is no desire for inner experiences of any kind. When you are already in the Real, there is no desire any more…
3.2.1.209, ExcerptListen 19 Sep 2013It is always possible for a man to gain enlightenment anytime anywhere even though it may not be probable, for he has within himself the Light itself as an ever-present Reality. What does happen and what is probable is that some moment during the course of a lifetime a glimpse may happen, and the glimpse itself is nothing less than a testimony to that ever-presence, a witness telling him that it is true and real.
14.22.3.19Listen 20 Sep 2013It is not by special intervention that the divine grace appears in his life. For it was there all the time, and behind all his struggles, as a constant unbroken radiation from the Overself. But those struggles were like the hoisting of sails on a ship. Once up, they are able to catch the wind and propulsion begins automatically.
12.18.5.139Listen 21 Sep 2013It is perhaps not that the multitudes of people are evil as that they get so immersed in working for a livelihood, rearing a family, finding some pleasures, that the little ego provides their sole being. How much they lose if they attend only to this and never to the supreme question: Why am I here?
6.8.4.145Listen 22 Sep 2013The goal is to obtain a higher consciousness which flashes across the mind with blinding light. All his effort, all his training is really for this.
13.20.3.87Listen 23 Sep 2013Once the transition period comes to an end, a subtle change enters into his attitude toward the old habits. They lose their tempting quality and instead begin to acquire a repelling one. This feeling will increase and become firmly established.
3.2.9.9Listen 24 Sep 2013If he could stop being in love with his ego and start being in love with his Overself, his progress would be rapid.
6.8.4.157Listen 25 Sep 2013... The entire length of the Long Path is an attempt at self-improvement and self-purification planned, managed, operated, and supervised by the ego itself. Is it conceivable that the ego will work for its own destruction? No!--it will never do that however much it pretends to do so…
15.23.1.57, ExcerptListen 26 Sep 2013You should imaginatively recapture it as if its benign presence comes over you, its goodwill pervades you, its guidance helps you, and its peace enfolds you.
15.23.6.209Listen 27 Sep 2013... When the outside world does him injustice or slanders him or hurts him or defrauds him, he turns inward, deeper and deeper inward, until he stands in the presence of the Overself. Then he finds absolute serenity, absolute love...
14.22.3.131Listen 28 Sep 2013His first effort is to find the obstacles which retard the enlightenment; his second, to remove them. This constitutes the Long Path.
3.2.1.1Listen 29 Sep 2013... The preliminary phases of his progress are over. Hitherto it was mostly his own efforts upon which he had to rely. Now, however, it is the Overself which will be the active agent in his development. All that is henceforth asked of him is that he remain passive, otherwise he may disturb the holy work by the interference of his blind ignorant self-will…
3.2.9.30, ExcerptListen 30 Sep 2013
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