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These brief enlightenments give us clues to both the true way and the true goal. They point within.
14.22.6.383Listen 21 Nov 2024If a man is determined to succeed in this enterprise and optimistically believes that he will succeed, his efforts will increase and be strengthened, chances will be taken from which he would otherwise shrink; and even if he falls short of his hopes, the going is likely to be farther. What Ramana Maharshi said to me at our first meeting is apposite: “That is the surest way to handicap oneself,” he exclaimed, “this burdening of one’s mind with the fear of failure and the thought of one’s failings. The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature. . . . One can and must conquer.”
2.1.5.44Listen 20 Nov 2024The ego’s rigidity must first be overcome: it shuts up consciousness within itself. If he can become aware of his imprisonment, this will be the beginning of finding freedom from the tendencies and impulses which largely compose it.
6.8.4.373Listen 19 Nov 2024The Quest is a veritable re-education of the self, leading in its turn to a noble transcendence of the self.
2.1.1.37Listen 18 Nov 2024… 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.
7.11.2.69, ExcerptListen 17 Nov 2024The more he practises keeping calm in the confrontations of worldly stress, the less difficult will it be to practise meditation. The practice not only makes it easier for intelligence to operate but also for thoughts to come under control.
5.6.3.61Listen 16 Nov 2024The Day of Judgement is not only on the other side of the grave. It may be here, on this side, and now, in this month.
6.9.3.189Listen 15 Nov 2024… If humanity is to travel upward and fulfil its higher destiny, it can do so only by enlarging its area of interest and extending its field of consciousness. It must, in short, seek to realize the Overself on the one hand, to feel its oneness on the other.
7.11.2.4, ExcerptListen 14 Nov 2024If he can combine and balance a practical attitude towards the world with a transcendental detachment from the world, he will fulfil man’s higher purpose.
13.20.1.416Listen 13 Nov 2024To find the Overself is to eliminate fear, establish harmony, and inspire living.
14.22.3.118Listen 12 Nov 2024The calmness which he carries inside himself, and which is apparent in all his bearing, has not arisen out of nothing. It has come to him out of long struggle and after varied suffering.
16.25.2.69Listen 11 Nov 2024The intellect’s finest function is to point the way to this actual living awareness of the Overself that is beyond itself. This it does on the upward path. But it has a further function to perform after that awareness has been successfully gained. That is to translate that experience into its own terms, and hence into ordinarily comprehensible ones, both for its own and other people’s benefit.
1.7.0.13Listen 10 Nov 2024The intellect is not able to get this kind of knowledge, not able to gain access to this higher dimension. But what is denied to it is granted to another of man’s faculties—insight. True, this is still only a latent one in nearly all men. But it is there and, with the Overself’s grace, can be unfolded.
13.20.4.165Listen 9 Nov 2024To live with men as one of them, yet not to live within their narrow limitations, is his duty and necessity.
9.13.2.339Listen 8 Nov 2024In the moment of his greatest trial, in the hour of his greatest danger, man looks to the Infinite for his last resource as a babe looks to its mother.
12.17.1.163Listen 7 Nov 2024Meditation first collects our forces in a single channel and then directs them toward the Overself.
4.4.1.163Listen 6 Nov 2024The possession of moral values, metaphysical capacities, and spiritually intuitive qualities which distinguish more evolved from less evolved men takes time to acquire—so much time that reincarnation must be a continuous process.
6.9.2.224Listen 5 Nov 2024”… We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered it.” Thomas Huxley
16.25.4.17, ExcerptListen 4 Nov 2024He enters into a state which is certainly not a disappearance of the ego, but rather a kind of divine fellowship of the ego with its source.
14.22.6.265Listen 3 Nov 2024The intellectual knowledge of the Truth is merely its shadow and not the Truth itself. The Truth is a higher state of awareness which leads you out of the little personal and physically materialistic everyday life into a new world of being—the world of your higher self which transcends these things …
5.7.1.203, ExcerptListen 2 Nov 2024What is happening to his characteristics, what he is learning from experience lies in more or less degree below the threshold of consciousness. Only time, with its repetitions, and thought, with its conclusions, will shift the lesson or ability into visible manifestation above the threshold.
6.9.2.228Listen 1 Nov 2024As such possibilities of error and deception exist along the aspirant’s path, it is needful for him to lay down a safe rule for his self-protection. And that is to regard all his revelations as being projections of his subconscious ego, with all the ego’s limitations and defects, until they prove themselves in time to be otherwise.
11.16.14.161Listen 31 Oct 2024Because mind is the basal reality, all this majestic progression is nothing else than an evolution from lower to higher forms of intelligence and consciousness.
16.26.4.177Listen 30 Oct 2024Philosophy will create within him a disgust for evil, a disdain for what is ignoble, a taste for what is refined and beautiful, a yearning for what is true and real.
5.6.2.22Listen 29 Oct 2024… At the point where meditation becomes contemplation, thinking paralyses itself and brings about its own temporary death!
4.4.1.140, ExcerptListen 28 Oct 2024The best kind of prayer which we can make for another person is uttered without words—that is, by leading him to the stillness; the lesser kind is to beg for him by voiced sound.
12.18.2.156Listen 27 Oct 2024We are so enmeshed in the past, in its obsessive memories, tendencies, and drives, that we tend to repeat and perpetuate its errors and stupidities.
13.19.4.210Listen 26 Oct 2024Who hears this quiet whisper of intuition? Who, hearing, obeys? Not only is it mostly unnoticed but its guidance is also unsought; men prefer, and follow, the ego’s direction.
14.22.1.87Listen 25 Oct 2024While you are thinking about a problem and in search of an answer to it, you cannot get the intuition which is its true and final solution. But when you are no longer doing so, the answer appears. This happens with the genius during the interval between two thoughts but with the ordinary man during sleep.
9.13.2.258Listen 24 Oct 2024… It is because we live in unprecedentedly troubled days that the light of philosophy is so needed. The more distressing the time in which we live, the more necessary is the quest for what will raise us above all distress …
9.13.4.273, ExcerptListen 23 Oct 2024… He who has embarked on the spiritual path should remember that more is expected from him than from ordinary people. He is expected to have a definite measure of control over his emotions and impulses and must not be carried off his feet into extremes where he loses balance. It is not possible to make good progress on the spiritual path unless some triumph over the impulsive nature is secured.
5.6.3.85, ExcerptListen 22 Oct 2024
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