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He will know what both the fullness and the fulfilment of life mean only when the consciousness that the Spirit is his own very self comes to life within him.
1.1.0.69Listen 1 Sep 2024… Love is essential to meditation; it is a binding force comprised of devotion and reverence. The aim is to become united. Success in meditation is to become one with the Higher Self (unity). Meditation should be a yearning to come home to one’s place in the universe..
1.4.0.35, ExcerptListen 2 Sep 2024It is not enough to lull the mind: the heart’s feeling must be stimulated and directed in aspiration and devotion, warm and strong toward the Overself, which by reaction, arouses a certain force, the Spirit-Energy, which acts for a short time to prepare him for deeper, more concentrated contemplation.
1.4.0.34Listen 3 Sep 2024The differences between human beings still remain after illumination. The variations which make each one a unique specimen and the individual that he is, still continue to exist. But the Oneness behind human beings powerfully counterbalances.
16.25.2.189Listen 4 Sep 2024It is inadvisable to fast in winter as the cold weather is easily felt. The best times are spring, summer, and early autumn. Especially suitable times are: (a) at the two equinoxes, March 21 when the sun crosses the equator on its northward journey and thus inaugurates the spring season, and about September 23 when it again crosses the equator on its southward journey and inaugurates the autumn season and (b) at the summer solstice, when the sun changes its course and reverses its direction. This happens about June 21. At these three dates, Nature is preparing her great cyclic changes throughout the world and in Man. It is then that the cleansing of man’s body prepares him for these changes.
4.5.4.63Listen 5 Sep 2024The glimpse will be lengthened when he himself develops: it will then no longer be abnormal, or supernormal, but a constant experience.
14.22.8.78Listen 6 Sep 2024A man can respond to events or to prophets, to demands or to experiences, only on the level of his own capacity and mentality. We have no right to ask that he shall be better or wiser.
6.9.2.58Listen 7 Sep 2024The quest is unattractive to sinners and unnecessary to saints. It is for those who are not wholly indifferent to worldly desires nor yet too strongly attached to them.
2.1.2.97Listen 8 Sep 2024The Orphic Mysteries were found in Greece and its colonies, in Macedonia, Thrace, Asia Minor, and southern Italy. Their revelations concerned the mystery of Deity, the nature of the soul, and its relationship with the body. For humanitarian, hygienic, and purificatory reasons a meatless diet was prescribed.
10.15.6.32Listen 9 Sep 2024If he begins to think of himself as the doer of this service, the helper of these people, he begins to set up the ego again. It will act as a barricade between him and the higher impersonal power. The spiritual effectiveness of his activity will begin to dwindle.
1.2.0.41Listen 10 Sep 2024As the old questions about existence—whether of man, the universe, or God—clamour in the mind for answers, a conflict goes on inside the young and educated about what they are to do with their lives.
9.13.3.31Listen 11 Sep 2024… So far as religion consists of a sense of reverence for a higher power and an attempt to live a good life in accordance with the ethical injunctions of the great religious founders, it is a definite necessity for the mass of humanity …
4.4.1.120, ExcerptListen 12 Sep 2024The ego is by nature a deceiver and in its operations a liar. For if it revealed things as they really are, or told what is profoundly true, it would have to expose its own self as the arch-trickster pretending to be the man himself and proffering the illusion of happiness.
6.8.3.79Listen 13 Sep 2024A flower is as good an object to concentrate on as any other. Indeed it is better, for he may also try to make his own heart one with the flower’s heart.
1.4.0.75Listen 14 Sep 2024A spoken word or a written book which reaches through a man’s ordinary everyday character to his better self renders him a service which may be fleeting or lasting. The result will depend on whether or not he follows up the mood invoked.
9.14.4.178Listen 15 Sep 2024At first he will find nothing more on the path than what his efforts can secure for him. This is why the earlier years often seem so long, so sterile, and so monotonous. But during the next period grace mingles with his efforts and encouraging results then appear. The third and last stage witnesses the gifts of the Overself falling like ripe plums into his lap without any further efforts on his part. Here all is done by the simple working of grace …
3.2.2.117, ExcerptListen 16 Sep 2024When the two are one, when ego and Overself no longer remain at a distance from one another, man experiences his first illumination. What will happen thereafter is wrapped in mystery.
14.22.6.69Listen 17 Sep 2024It is for those who feel that their lives ought to hold something more than the mere gaining of material necessities or even the mere satisfying of intellectual urges.
2.1.2.185Listen 18 Sep 2024It is legitimate to say that something godlike is within me, but it is quite illegitimate to say “I am God.” For the fragrance of a flower is after all not the same as the flower itself.
1.25.0.16Listen 19 Sep 2024The mystical aspirant has always been enjoined since earliest times to seek an environment for the practice of his exercises amidst the solitudes and beauties of Nature, where nothing disturbs and everything inspires.
4.4.2.81Listen 20 Sep 2024If he has real inner peace he will never know the mental shock and nervous collapse which come to numbers of people when bereavement or loss of fortune comes. Such a calamity may not be preventable, but the emotional suffering it causes may be cut off at the very start by a philosophic attitude toward life generally.
15.24.2.128Listen 21 Sep 2024He should try to put himself into the future and look back on this present period.
4.4.4.158Listen 22 Sep 2024There are existences for beings on levels and in times and spaces different from ours. The level we know and the humans we see only partially manifest the World-Idea.
16.26.4.240Listen 23 Sep 2024He has brought over from earlier births a number of subconscious memories, tendencies and complexes, unfulfilled desires and unexpressed aspirations. These have to be dealt with, either by increasing eradication or by diminishing satisfaction, so that they no longer interrupt the calm tenor of the mind.
15.24.2.167Listen 24 Sep 2024The destruction of our egoism must come from the outside if we will not voluntarily bring it about from the inside. But in the former case it will come relentlessly and crushingly.
6.8.4.427Listen 25 Sep 2024If he loses his ego utterly and completely so that no trace of it exists at all, he would have to die, for his body is part of the ego. But he lives on. This shows that what he really loses is not the ego-nature but the ego-will. It is replaced by the higher will.
6.8.1.215Listen 26 Sep 2024This thing, this fleshly body, which ascetics have hated and saints have despised, is a holy temple. The divine Life-force is always latently present in it and, aroused, can sweep through every cell making it sacred.
4.5.2.28Listen 27 Sep 2024The points of this experience are the difficulty of describing it precisely, the joy it yields and the peace it brings, the feeling of a finer self and the sense of a higher presence, the appraisal of its preciousness and the fading away of worldly desires.
14.22.6.67Listen 28 Sep 2024Once he realizes that he cannot face two ways simultaneously, he will force himself to make a choice between them. The ego or the Overself?
15.23.4.123Listen 29 Sep 2024We are incarnated to be educated. Experience provides the lessons, and necessity gives the disciplines.
6.9.2.146Listen 30 Sep 2024
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