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When the highly personal egocentric attitude is first displaced by the Overself, there is a sense of sharp liberation and utter relief.
14.22.22.88Listen 21 Dec 2024Whoever develops these powers of the Overself must develop a strong sense of responsibility with them, an awareness that they have been entrusted to him as to a custodian. The grace which allows them can also disallow them.
13.21.5.56Listen 20 Dec 2024How is one to describe this experience? It is an expansion, and yet also a concentration, of consciousness.
14.22.4.14Listen 19 Dec 2024Karma, being made by human will, is subject to human modification. Fate, being decreed by the higher power, is not. The general fact of death is an example of fate, and in this sense the poet James Shirley’s line: “There is no armour against Fate,” is true. But the particular fact of death, its time and manner, may be alterable.
6.9.3.31Listen 18 Dec 2024It is prudent to keep away from temptation—at least until enough positive strength has been developed to risk the test …
5.6.3.82, ExcerptListen 17 Dec 2024The Quest teaches a man the art of dying to the animalistic and egoistic elements in himself. But it does not stop with these negative results. It trains him also in the art of re-creating himself by the light of the ideal.
2.1.1.32Listen 16 Dec 2024In a certain type of person the most important factor in the inner life is the cultivation of the harder qualities like will, decision, execution, endurance, determination, energy, and the like.
3.2.5.57Listen 15 Dec 2024The self-image which he holds may continue to keep him tied or help to set him free.
6.8.4.382Listen 14 Dec 2024Whoever wants to seek for Truth will learn more if he sets up as a standard: Nothing but the best—why settle for less?
16.25.5.161Listen 13 Dec 2024The contribution of intellect is indispensable. But it is not enough. It leaves a most important part of the psyche—the intuition—still untouched.
5.7.1.197Listen 12 Dec 2024The saying that “experience is the best teacher” is one I often thought should be altered to “experience is most often the only teacher.” It is surely better to be taught by reflection and intuition.
6.9.4.96Listen 11 Dec 2024As the human mind develops, it forms higher and higher conceptions of the deity until, finally, it is lifted above itself into a tremendous experience. It loses itself in the deity itself, and when it returns to normal living, it does not need to seek further. I do not refer here to the experience which several mystics have had called “the glimpse,” but something which is of a once-and-for-all nature and which does not, in its essence, ever leave him.
16.25.2.26Listen 10 Dec 2024To play the role of spiritual adviser to any person is to accept a grave responsibility.
16.25.5.67Listen 9 Dec 2024When he finds that he has been following his own will even at those times when he believed he was following the higher self’s will, he begins to realize the extent of the ego’s power, the length of the period required for its subdual, and what he will have to suffer before this is achieved.
6.8.4.356Listen 8 Dec 2024The highly personal man is too full of himself to leave any room for the soul, with its utter impersonality, to enter his field of awareness.
11.16.14.134Listen 7 Dec 2024In the end philosophy is not only for the minority of well-educated minds or for the elite of the persons refined by culture, upbringing, innate sensitivity, but also for the majority who can take it in partially; here and there some points can be grasped and accepted …
13.20.2.23, ExcerptListen 6 Dec 2024Meditation is not a one-sided but a two-sided affair. We begin to practise by being mentally active, but after getting well into it, we can continue only by being mentally passive.
4.4.1.144Listen 5 Dec 2024Throughout the darkest period of intense suffering, the Overself was all the time present, supporting and strengthening him to bear what there could be no escape from, what his higher destiny had irrevocably willed in order to detach him still further from egoism and personal ties. He was in its hands always, in joy and in sorrow alike.
8.12.3.69Listen 4 Dec 2024Where can he find this peace or practise this presence except in himself? This done, he can go about his daily business anywhere and everywhere.
14.22.3.73Listen 3 Dec 2024Socrates once declared, “I am a man and like other men a creature of flesh and blood.” He was married and had three sons. Yet this did not prevent him from attaining a lofty wisdom and the highest intellectual clarity and magnificent moral rectitude.
9.13.2.469Listen 2 Dec 2024Failure to act at the right time in the right way may bring its own karmic consequences.
6.9.3.239Listen 1 Dec 2024… The Grace is a heavenly superhuman gift … It was a flaming experience of Grace which changed Saul, the bitter opponent, into Paul, the ardent apostle …
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 30 Nov 2024In this strange experience when his life passes before his mind’s eye like a pageant but he does not feel that the figure he is watching is really himself, he learns the truth—or rather has the possibility of learning it—that even the personal ego is also a changing transitory appearance.
6.8.4.398Listen 29 Nov 2024If a man will not come to this quest willingly, because it leads to Truth and he loves Truth, then he must be forced onto it, unwillingly, because there is no other way to alleviate his burdens and reduce his miseries.
2.1.2.171Listen 28 Nov 2024He may test the authenticity of his inner experiences in various ways but one of them is to remember that if they begin with doubt and end with certainty, or begin with fear and end with joy, they represent a movement from the ego to the Overself. But if this order is reversed, they represent nothing more than a movement within the ego and are therefore to be distrusted.
11.16.14.154Listen 27 Nov 2024In this strange experience he seems to be doing nothing at all, to be mentally quite inactive, all his forces having reached a full stop. Yet the Overself is intensely active.
15.23.7.48Listen 26 Nov 2024We must refuse to chain ourselves either to the past or to the future by refusing to chain our thoughts to them. That is to say, we must learn to let them come to rest in the timeless Void.
13.19.4.218Listen 25 Nov 2024The man whose weakness when confronted by temptation is so great that his yielding is plainly predictable, can not be said to have the same freedom of choice that the man of strong self-mastery has.
6.9.4.66Listen 24 Nov 2024How close he comes to the truth may depend on how deeply he cares for it.
12.18.1.90Listen 23 Nov 2024Inexplicable and incomprehensible though the fact must be to the human intellect, the One infinite Mind never loses its own character even though it is seemingly incarnated into the myriad forms of an evolving universe, never loses itself in them.
16.27.2.26Listen 22 Nov 2024These brief enlightenments give us clues to both the true way and the true goal. They point within.
14.22.6.383Listen 21 Nov 2024
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