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The 30 latest published notes
Take karma, for instance: They may mouth this doctrine a hundred times yet, never having thought it out for themselves, they do not understand its far-reaching implications.
5.6.4.53Listen 24 Oct 2021Such memorable glimpses of a higher state of being, which encourage and reassure him, may occur not only at the beginning of his spiritual career but also at the beginning of each new cycle within it.
14.22.4.52Listen 23 Oct 2021… the fatuousness of seeking for true and lasting happiness in the unstable affairs of material life is being etched deeply in his heart. He is being taught the wisdom of seeking to live in the consciousness of the Christ within him …
9.13.4.201, ExcerptListen 22 Oct 2021The personal pronoun “I” really represents the Overself, the divine part of man. What people usually refer to as “I”—the body or the intellect or the emotions—is not the basic “I” at all.
14.22.3.362Listen 21 Oct 2021No age is unsuited to the study and practice of philosophy. No one is too young to begin it, nor too late.
2.1.2.138Listen 20 Oct 2021This inner quiescence, this emotional calm, this being at peace with oneself, this refusal to be upset or feel hurt, is one of those conditions which make possible the discovery of the true being.
5.6.3.72Listen 19 Oct 2021A mind cleansed, centered, quietened, and emptied is what he must offer; the revelation and benediction are what he is given.
15.23.7.286Listen 18 Oct 2021Music can express the mystical experience better than language; it can tell of its mystery, joy, sadness, and peace far better than words can utter. The fatigued intellect finds a tonic and the harassed emotions find comfort in music.
9.14.4.301Listen 17 Oct 2021That which claims to be the “I” turns out to be only a part of it, the lesser part, and not the real “I” at all. It is a complex of thoughts.
6.8.2.7Listen 16 Oct 2021He can no more help being on the quest than he can help being on this earth. The hunger to know the inner mysteries of life, and the aspiration to experience the Soul's peace and love will not leave him alone. They are part of him, as hands or feet are parts of him.
2.1.2.251Listen 15 Oct 2021The Overself is so close to God, so akin to the World-Mind, that no man need look farther, or aspire higher.
14.22.3.309Listen 14 Oct 2021If the quest is good only for our brighter hours and not for our darker ones, it is no good at all. But if men desert it because of their troubles, then they have neither properly understood it, nor ever adequately followed it. For the quest is our best support when times are worst and emergencies are gravest.
9.13.1.327Listen 13 Oct 2021Sometimes a quick friendship means that he is reviving an old spiritual relationship out of the hidden past, out of the numerous incarnations which have been lost in time…
5.6.2.224, ExcerptListen 12 Oct 2021When a man feels the authentic urge to walk a certain way, but cannot see how it will be possible either because of outer circumstances or of inner emotions, let him trust and obey it. For if he does so, the Grace of the Overself will manipulate these circumstances or alter his feelings accordingly …
12.18.5.207, ExcerptListen 11 Oct 2021… you may correctly say that the Teacher, Prophet, or Guide is a medium for the Overself. While he is still embodied, still using an intellect and body (an ego), he can only be a medium, not more. He is the Overself but working through, and therefore necessarily limited by, a human individuality …
16.25.5.200, ExcerptListen 10 Oct 2021When I feel the divine presence in my heart, I acknowledge God as Personal; but when, going deeper in silent contemplation, I vanish in the infinite immeasurable Void, I must afterwards call Him Impersonal.
12.17.2.155Listen 9 Oct 2021He is to keep the mind concentrated inwardly on the real self every wakeful moment until it will stay by itself in the real self. The aim is not to entertain a passing idea but to surrender to a habit which remains.
15.23.6.222Listen 8 Oct 2021This is the reality that is hidden in me and you, in the whole universe itself. It acts everywhere and exists eternally.
16.27.2.33Listen 7 Oct 2021These moments, when spiritual presence is distinctly felt, may be rare or frequent, misunderstood or recognized, but they are moments of blessing. And this is true even if they open the door only slightly and let in merely a chink of light.
14.22.4.92Listen 6 Oct 2021His attitude towards those situations in life which are difficult or trying will show how far he has really gone in the Quest. If he has not undergone the philosophic discipline, he will either analyse these situations in a wrong egoistic way or else avoid analysing them altogether.
5.6.1.463Listen 5 Oct 2021To unwrap his inner self of thoughts, emotions, desires, motives, and passions; to decide what is worth keeping and what needs cutting out in it, this is his first task.
4.4.4.142Listen 4 Oct 2021… each will come to God in the end but he will come as a purified transformed and utterly changed person …
2.1.3.97, ExcerptListen 3 Oct 2021If it be asked whether there is any purpose in life, the answer must be “Yes!—to perfect ourselves and know ourselves; to find the happiness which comes as a fruit of such fulfilment.”
16.26.4.92Listen 2 Oct 2021It is nonsense to say that any man is alone in his trouble. He is in the great World-Idea, part of it, belonging to it, sustained by it.
16.26.4.102Listen 1 Oct 2021The message of Jesus, which was so largely a call to repentant deeds and changed thoughts, is needed today by us all much more than it was needed by the Jews of his time.
12.17.5.124Listen 30 Sep 2021We have come into incarnation for a purpose: life is our business here, not running away from it. When certain renunciations are called for, they are part of this preparation for life, because they are needed in the fulfilment of this purpose.
3.2.7.24Listen 29 Sep 2021In that benign atmosphere, negative thoughts cannot exist.
14.22.3.114Listen 28 Sep 2021At this point he may lose touch with the outer world and no longer see or sense it in any way. The consciousness sinks away from place and form, the passing of time and the solidity of matter, into its own being.
15.23.7.65Listen 27 Sep 2021The ego knows well how to cover up its ugliest activities with the noblest self-justifications.
6.8.3.116Listen 26 Sep 2021… there was no hope for progress unless the Overself came to my rescue and, out of its Grace, brought about the desired state …
8.12.1.2, ExcerptListen 25 Sep 2021The practice of Remembrance begins with an act of choice, since it throws out of the mind all that it conveniently can without interfering with the work or matter in hand.
15.23.6.221Listen 24 Sep 2021
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