Day by day
Seize the odd moments for Remembrance practice, escaping from the web of self-thoughts into the Void of Being.
15.23.6.178Listen 1 Aug 2022There is an area of peace hidden within every man. Its presence is the gracious gift of God but his task is to discover it.
15.24.4.53Listen 2 Aug 2022It is not only a spiritual crisis for mankind but also a spiritual opportunity.
9.13.4.37Listen 3 Aug 2022It happens on a plane above men’s heads; most of them don’t know of it explicitly at the moment. Yet they are truly rendering service through being used as channels.
14.22.2.14Listen 4 Aug 2022… it is not a new age that is here, not even its beginning, but only the dawn before the beginning of its beginning.
9.13.4.189, ExcerptListen 5 Aug 2022… The ultimate purpose of life here on earth is a spiritual one, and this must be remembered.
9.13.4.39, ExcerptListen 6 Aug 2022The personal man needs to grow and develop adequately as man. Only after this does he reach the stage when it is safe, and not premature, to undo the ego, and destroy its rule. For after this point the latter becomes a tyranny when the task now is to make it a subserviency.
2.1.5.322Listen 7 Aug 2022During meditation the basic aim is to free the mind from worldly concerns and personal desires, to present an empty, clean receptacle for the divine inpouring, if and when it is attracted by his preparedness for it.
4.4.1.152Listen 8 Aug 2022Make it a definite rule in every single instance to check your intuitions by the light of reason.
11.16.14.129Listen 9 Aug 2022The moment he awakens in the morning he should turn his attention for a few minutes to the thought of the Quest. It this is done faithfully every day, it becomes a useful exercise with excellent results in the subsequent hours.
13.19.3.160Listen 10 Aug 2022The process acts with the sureness of a chemical combination; if you quiet the ego, the Overself becomes responsively active.
15.24.4.89Listen 11 Aug 2022The stages in philosophic training usually begin with gaining a theoretical knowledge of the teachings. When this is well established, it grows in time into an aspiration for self-improvement and into an effort to mold character and conduct in conformity with the philosophic ideal. Such a maturation period is often a long and difficult one. In the third stage the “glimpse” of enlightenment begins to be experienced. The first glimpse has a far-reaching effect and is likely to be associated with the first contact with an inspired spiritual guide, or with the writings of such a man. In the case of some persons there is a different series of steps. The glimpse comes first, the theoretical study next, striving to express through living comes last.
2.1.5.330Listen 12 Aug 2022Saint John of the Cross, held unjustly as a prisoner, found his cell filled with light as he dreamed one night that the Virgin appeared to him promising help if he escaped. Martinus, the Danish mystic, told me that Jesus appeared to him in meditation surrounded by a ball of light.
14.22.4.193Listen 13 Aug 2022It is far better than being ignorant to know what is read in books or heard at lectures on this topic, but far better than both of these is to feel vividly the Overself’s presence and reality, to know the truth of It with complete certainty.
14.22.4.97Listen 14 Aug 2022The time will come when it will be found that glimpses are a proper part of human existence, are within the area of a normal life, are valid topics for study and examination by science.
14.22.4.74Listen 15 Aug 2022
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