Day by day
If the immediate purpose of the Long Path is to train, discipline, and prepare the ego, the immediate purpose of the Short Path is to transcend it.
15.23.5.30Listen 1 Sep 2019Each person who enters our life for a time, or becomes involved with it at some point, is an unwitting channel bringing good or evil, wisdom or foolishness, fortune or calamity to us. This happens because it was preordained to happen--under the law of recompense. But the extent to which he affects our outer affairs is partly determined by the extent to which we let him do so, by the acceptance or rejection of suggestions made by his conduct, speech, or presence. It is we who are finally responsible.
5.6.1.290Listen 2 Sep 2019The thing that really matters in the life of a nation is the quality of its leaders, the character of those who guide its destinies…
9.13.2.504, ExcerptListen 3 Sep 2019… The glimpse is a fleeting one because he is still too unprepared to remain abidingly in such a lofty order of being… But he who has once seen the goal, felt its sublimity, discerned its reality, enjoyed its beauty, and known its security, should draw from the experience the strength needed for the hard upward climb.
14.22.8.107, ExcerptListen 4 Sep 2019The psychological causes of disease have only recently come under investigation by the strict methods of modern science, but the general fact of their existence was known thousands of years ago. Plato, for instance, said: This is the great error of our day, that physicians separate the inner being from the body.”
7.10.1.23Listen 5 Sep 2019The Overself is utterly above all personality yet is not bereft of a kind of individuality.
1.22.0.13Listen 6 Sep 2019Evil arises only when an entity goes astray into the delusions of separateness and materialism, and thence into conflict with other entities. There is no ultimate and eternal principle of evil, but there are forces of evil, unseen entities who have gone so far astray and are so powerful in themselves that they work against goodness, truth, and justice. But by their very nature such entities are doomed to eventual destruction, and even their work of opposition is utilized for good in the end and becomes the resistance against which evolution tests its own achievements, the grindstone against which it sharpens man's intelligence, the mirror in which it shows him his flaws.
7.11.1.12Listen 7 Sep 2019We keep nearly all our attention all the day on ourselves and only a slight part of it on the Overself. It is needful to change this situation if we want a higher state of consciousness. This is why the exercises in remembrance are much more valuable than their simplicity suggests.
1.23.0.30Listen 8 Sep 2019The wise aspirant will not hanker after manifestations of the marvellous. He wants the highest life has to offer, and he knows that nothing could be more marvellous than the realization of God as his own self.
11.16.4.102Listen 9 Sep 2019… Even when the ego rebels against itself, it is merely playing a part. It has played many different parts in the past. Appearing as a rebel is merely one more disguise in the whole series.
15.23.1.57, ExcerptListen 10 Sep 2019The failures which everyone has left behind him--whether in career, relationship, or the quest itself--do not necessarily represent wasted effort. From each of them he can salvage the tuition for a fresh start, the caution for a wiser one, and more knowledge of himself.
1.13.0.22Listen 11 Sep 2019Listen to the Roman Stoics' definition of the Overself: ”the divinity which is planted in his breast” of Marcus Aurelius; ”your guardian spirit” of Epictetus.
14.22.3.199Listen 12 Sep 2019When the Quest becomes the most important activity in a man´s life, even more important than his worldly welfare, then is Grace likely to become a reality rather than a theory in his life too.
1.18.0.55Listen 13 Sep 2019Another purpose of these glimpses is to show him how ignorant of truth he really is, and, having so shown, to stimulate his effort to get rid of this ignorance. For they will light up the fanciful or opinionative nature of so much that he hitherto took to be true.
14.22.7.222Listen 14 Sep 2019Can he detach himself from the personal aspects of the situation? Can he refuse to be guided by them or influenced by the feelings of the moment? This is his test.
15.24.3.113Listen 15 Sep 2019Inspired action becomes possible when, to speak in spatial metaphors, every deed receives its necessary and temporary attention within the foreground of the mind whilst the Overself holds the permanent attention of the man within the background of his mind.
14.22.2.57Listen 16 Sep 2019Those who have found their way to this Path leave forever behind them their aimless wanderings of the past.
2.1.2.37Listen 17 Sep 2019… He must go on with the faith and trust that obstacles are not for all time, that fluctuations on the path are inevitable, and that his own inner divine possibilities are the best guarantee of ultimate attainment. The trials of the path, as indeed the trials of life itself, are inescapable. He should endure the tribulations with the inner conviction that a brighter world awaits him; hope and faith will lead him to it.
1.11.0.12, ExcerptListen 18 Sep 2019These studies do indeed open up the loftier faculties of human intelligence, faculties which bring us to the very borderland of insight.
5.7.1.136Listen 19 Sep 2019The desires of human beings are never satiated, nor can they ever be since human beings must go on searching for final satisfaction. It is in their nature to do so. But what cannot be satiated by outer things can turn in on itself and find rest at last within.
5.6.4.164Listen 20 Sep 2019In man, Heaven and Earth unite. He is free to enjoy the one or the other. The first leads to peace of mind, the second ties him to the ego's wheel. Whoever sincerely wants access to divinity may find it, but he must make the first move.
2.1.2.17Listen 21 Sep 2019To bring about insight into the Overself requires an inner revolution, a psychological burrowing beneath the entire ego-consciousness to that secret place from where it arises.
15.23.1.56Listen 22 Sep 2019The developed mystic needs but neglects the undeveloped thinker within himself, just as the thinker needs but neglects the mystic. It is not enough to arrive at truth through mystical feelings; we must also arrive at it through metaphysical thinking…
11.16.2.142, ExcerptListen 23 Sep 2019… We must forgive others their sins against us if we would be forgiven ourselves…
1.13.0.28, ExcerptListen 24 Sep 2019… He must now and henceforth let the future take care of itself, and await the higher will as it comes to him bit by bit… It will be like crossing a river on a series of stepping-stones, being content to reach one at a time in safety and to think of the others only when they are progressively reached, and not before…
12.18.4.145, ExcerptListen 25 Sep 2019The supreme effect of Grace, its most valuable benefit, is when its touch causes the man to forfeit his ego-dominance, when it takes away the personal obstruction to the Overself.
12.18.5.120Listen 26 Sep 2019… The higher self will not yield to him completely before he has entirely detached himself from his lower nature…
14.22.8.107, ExcerptListen 27 Sep 2019We may help the Overself in drawing us to the goal by surrendering to the guidance of a competent spiritual adviser or we may obstruct it by clinging to the ego's. But an incompetent adviser will also obstruct it, and in fact become a channel for the ego's truth-obscuring tactics.
2.1.6.5Listen 28 Sep 2019Think of the Overself as an ever-deepening calm. It may seem to come spontaneously after you have practised it much and found the helpfulness.
15.24.2.160Listen 29 Sep 2019The love for which man is searching exists; it is as perfect, as beautiful, as perpetual, and as healing as he can imagine it to be. But it does not exist where he wants to find it. Only the inner kingdom holds and gives it at the end of his search. No other human being can do so unless he or she has previously entered the kingdom, and then only through all the limitations and colourings of the earthly consciousness.
5.6.2.84Listen 30 Sep 2019
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