Day by day
Imagine and believe that the Master is here in your room, sitting in his accustomed chair or position. Then behave and meditate as you would do if in his presence.
4.4.5.17Listen 1 Sep 2017… This inner work leads the practitioner--if he is willing to go so far--deeper within the self. What does he find there if efforts are successful? A beautiful quietude, an unearthly sense of having moved to another plane of being, a closer communion with spirituality…
15.24.2.164, ExcerptListen 2 Sep 2017Everyone can give his assent to the statement that his physical environment is not himself, but it requires great penetration to give his assent to the equally true statement that his thoughts are not himself.
6.8.1.71Listen 3 Sep 2017It is not a question of choice between the two paths. The beginner can hardly comprehend what the Short Path means, let alone practise it. So perforce he must take to the Long one. But the intermediate, weary of its toils and defeats, turns with relief to the other path, for which his studies and experiences have now prepared him.
15.23.4.115Listen 4 Sep 2017Continued and constant pondering over the ideas presented herein is itself a part of the yoga of philosophical discernment. Such reflection will as naturally lead the student towards realization of his goal as will the companion and equally necessary activity of suppressing all ideas altogether in mental quiet. This is because these ideas are not mere speculations but are themselves the outcome of a translation from inner experience…
13.20.4.66, ExcerptListen 5 Sep 2017… The strength to set aside the patterns of thought imposed on his mind by long habit is required…
13.20.3.15, ExcerptListen 6 Sep 2017It may properly be said that no man ever comes to the end of this Search. But that is because he one day comes to know that the seeking attitude is itself one of the last obstacles, and must be dropped.
15.23.5.239Listen 7 Sep 2017The more I travel the world of living men and study the recorded experiences of dead ones, the more I am convinced that mystical powers, religious devotion, intellectual capacity, and ascetic hardihood do not possess anything like the value of noble character…
11.16.2.90, ExcerptListen 8 Sep 2017… A third phase becomes necessary, the phase of getting rid of the ego altogether; this can be done only by the final dissolving operation of Grace, which the man has to request and to which he has to give his consent…
15.23.5.206, ExcerptListen 9 Sep 2017My Initiations into the Overself. (1) A force welled up in the heart, rose to the head, then passed forwards into space. As it left the body, I knew I was not the body…
8.12.3.60, ExcerptListen 10 Sep 2017My Initiations into the Overself. (5) In that deep silence the ego was integrated with the Overself. The operation was almost wholly done through the power of Grace. It descended in overwhelming force and crushed out the ego's tyrannical rule.
8.12.3.60, ExcerptListen 11 Sep 2017My Initiations into the Overself. (7) During the illumination there was no jubilant ecstasy, no emotional excitement, no unbalancing rapture. It was a happy peace, a calm abidance in beauty, love, wisdom.
8.12.3.60, ExcerptListen 12 Sep 2017My Initiations into the Overself. (9) I found I could go on thinking, or not thinking, while still remaining in the higher awareness.
8.12.3.60, ExcerptListen 13 Sep 2017My Initiations into the Overself. (11) As this presence held me, it gave me an invulnerable peace and a strange detachment from personal matters or outer happenings.
8.12.3.60, ExcerptListen 14 Sep 2017… We shall understand that the Overself is forever present with us and that this presence is more immediate and intimate than anything else in life.
13.21.5.125, ExcerptListen 15 Sep 2017There is only one real loneliness and that is to feel cut off from the higher power.
2.1.3.340Listen 16 Sep 2017Before he reaches a certain stage he will necessarily have to seek guidance from without, from books and teachers, because of his uncertainty, lack of confidence, and ignorance. But after he reaches it, it will be wiser and safer for him to seek guidance from within. The higher self will impart all the knowledge he needs, as and when he needs it.
3.2.9.22Listen 17 Sep 2017There are little graces, such as those which produce the glimpse; but there is only one great Grace: this produces a lasting transformation, a deep radical healing and permanent enlightenment.
12.18.5.13Listen 18 Sep 2017The stage of contemplation has its own definite signs. Prominent among them are its thought-free emptiness, its utter tranquillity, its absence of personal selfishness.
15.23.7.92Listen 19 Sep 2017If, in meditation, he feels as if he had always been sitting there, it means he touched eternity, timelessness.
13.19.4.114Listen 20 Sep 2017… He cannot behave differently from the way he does--that is, if he is not on the quest and therefore not struggling to rise beyond himself. His own past--and it stretches back farther than he knows--created the thoughts, the acts, and the conditions of the present.
6.9.2.39, ExcerptListen 21 Sep 2017This increasing loss of memory which afflicts so many elderly people need not be a cause of emotional depression, as it so often is: we have more likelihood of some measure of mental peace when the burden of unneeded or excessive memories falls away. It is something for which to be grateful.
9.13.3.172Listen 22 Sep 2017There is a gratifying secret entwined with this injunction to serve mankind. Whoever gives himself in such service will inevitably receive a boomerang-like return one day when others will display a readiness to serve him. For karma is a divine law which brings back to him whatever he has given forth…
13.20.4.307, ExcerptListen 23 Sep 2017Suggestion pours in from his origins and devotions, his background and dedications, his experience and relationships, from all the past generations and past reincarnations which have made his ego what it is.
11.16.15.90Listen 24 Sep 2017Sins of omission are just as important karmically as sins of commission. What we ought to have done but did not do counts also as a karma-maker.
6.9.3.89Listen 25 Sep 2017The spiritual instinct may appear to be totally dormant in a man but it is never killed. In another birth, and after other experiences, it will return.
12.17.1.30Listen 26 Sep 2017When the ego is sufficiently crushed by its frustrations or failures--and sooner or later this may happen to most of us--it will turn, either openly or secretly, to the admission that it needs outside help. And what other help can it then find than Grace, whether mediated directly from the Overself or indirectly through a master?
12.18.5.117Listen 27 Sep 2017The Long Path is splattered with discouragements. Only those who have sought to change themselves, to remould their characters, to deny their weaknesses, know what it is to weep in dissatisfaction over their failures. This is why the Short Path of God-remembrance is also needed. For with this second path to fulfil and complete the first one, Grace may enter into the battle at any moment and with it victory will suddenly end the struggles of many years, forgiveness will suddenly wipe out their mistakes.
15.23.5.170Listen 28 Sep 2017The first service of the Master is to point out the way, both inwardly and outwardly, to the disciple. This shortens his journey by several lifetimes, which would otherwise have to be spent in wanderings, explorings, gropings, and searchings.
2.1.6.442Listen 29 Sep 2017… We concentrate on the essential thing--rooting out the ego…
15.23.5.183, ExcerptListen 30 Sep 2017
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