The 30 latest...
The 30 latest published notes
The World-Mind is in us all, reflected as ”I” …
16.27.2.42, ExcerptListen 22 May 2022… A deep serenity unknown before takes possession of him, and an exquisite calm settles over him. In these moments of joyous beauty, the bitterest past is blotted out…
14.22.8.107, ExcerptListen 21 May 2022The ego cannot produce an egoless result. This is why the Long Path is only preparatory and cannot be a sufficient means to a successful end.
15.23.2.125Listen 20 May 2022The Long Path is concerned with the human struggle to approach the divine, the Short Path with intuition of the divine presence in the human.
15.23.5.58Listen 19 May 2022Appreciation of these truths is the beginning of the philosophic life. Application of them is the end.
13.20.4.299Listen 18 May 2022The Short Path frees him from all gnawing regrets about the past, with its sins of commission and of omission, its errors and follies, its mistakes and deficiencies. Instead it puts his mind to work upon their contraries—what is beautiful and worthy, what is truthful and serene, what is pure and noble …
15.23.1.63, ExcerptListen 17 May 2022It is said death levels all. This is true only on the visible side of it, for on the other side each goes to his own state of consciousness—what he has fitted himself for. Untied from the body, he enters the atmosphere to which he belongs.
1.0.9.12Listen 16 May 2022He who has ascended to these higher levels of being, reflects the changed point of view in all his personal relationships. Resentment collapses, forgiveness arises.
13.20.1.300Listen 15 May 2022When everything within, when thoughts, emotions, and desires are silenced, it is inevitable that the personal will shall also be silenced. What then has to be done will be done, but it will be done through him.
15.24.3.313Listen 14 May 2022If he is willing to give the intuitive forces mastery within himself, then he will have to exert his will against the egoistic ones.
6.8.4.215Listen 13 May 2022… The Overself, whose Grace was the initial impetus to all his efforts, steps forward, as it were, and begins to reveal its presence and working more openly. The aspirant becomes conscious of this with awe, reverence, and thankfulness. He must learn to attend vigilantly to these inward promptings of Divine Grace. They are like sunbeams that fructify the earth …
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 12 May 2022The last marks of the ego’s grip will linger on him in various subtle forms. Perhaps the willingness to be saved himself while leaving behind so many others entangled in illusion is the final mark to be erased…
13.20.4.217, ExcerptListen 11 May 2022When we are disgusted with the pettiness of mankind we may turn in appreciation to the grandeur of Nature.
3.3.6.85Listen 10 May 2022Whatever we constantly concentrate on provides one of the factors in reincarnation. If we love a race or an individual strongly enough, we shall sooner or later necessarily be drawn into their orbit when reincarnating. It is equally true, however, that if we hate a race or an individual strongly enough we shall have the same experience. Both love and hate are forms of concentrated thought. The nature of concentration, whether it be that of like or dislike, attraction or repulsion, does not alter its strength.
6.9.2.186Listen 9 May 2022Too often prayer is mere soliloquy, a man talking to his own ego about his own ego, and heard only by his own ego. It would be far better for him to learn how to keep his thoughts silent, to put himself into a receptive listening attitude; what he may then hear may convince him that “the Father knoweth what ye need.”
12.18.2.70Listen 8 May 2022… It often happens to one on this path that what he greatly needs does not come to him when he prematurely asks for it but only comes when the need is actually ripe. This combination of doing his bit and then trusting in God will carry him through all his difficulties.
3.2.2.90, ExcerptListen 7 May 2022This constant preoccupation with the ego gives a subtle power and importance to it, and draws him away from his real being in the Overself. For it is what he takes into his consciousness which affects him in character and body, in thought and conduct.
15.23.2.101Listen 6 May 2022It is the highest possible form of self-recognition. It is the discovery of who and what we really are.
14.22.4.36Listen 5 May 2022Plant, animal, and human bodies pass through this cycle of growth, maturity, decay and death. All this means being exposed to different forces, different experiences, resulting in the development of consciousness.
6.9.2.232Listen 4 May 2022A writer, teacher, preacher, or spiritual guide who gives out high ideals ought to be the first man to follow them himself.
16.25.5.35Listen 3 May 2022It must be remembered that these higher laws are established throughout the cosmos, not merely in our part of it …
16.26.4.164, ExcerptListen 2 May 2022We have a message for this age and we shall descend into the marketplace and give it …
8.12.3.174, ExcerptListen 1 May 2022Life remains what it is—deathless and unbound. We shall all meet again. Know what you are, and be free. The best counsel today is, keep calm, aware. Don't let the pressure of mental environment break into what you know and what is real and ultimately true. This is your magic talisman to safeguard you; cling to it. The last word is—Patience! The night is darkest before dawn. But dawn comes.
1.12.0.44Listen 30 Apr 2022To put an end to this constant working of the mind, this manufacture of thoughts without apparent stop, is the purpose of yoga. But by the practice of philosophy, by the utter calm, thoughts end themselves.
15.23.7.186Listen 29 Apr 2022The vain man, the stupid man, or the lustful man cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. He must first be humble enough to silence the ego, intuitive enough to expose its deception, and strong enough to overcome its desires.
3.2.4.19Listen 28 Apr 2022We come into birth as distinct persons—even babies begin to show their individual differences with characters formed already in previous existences. This is one reason why some amount of tolerance, some acceptance of one another as we are, is necessary if we are to live peaceably together.
6.9.2.62Listen 27 Apr 2022The effect of his studies and meditations will slowly but surely reveal itself in his life. His world outlook will sparkle with vitality, his speech will form itself with precision, his deeds will be wise and more virtuous. For philosophy, unlike metaphysics, is not only a theory to be learned from books but even more an integral way of life to be practised in society.
13.20.1.335Listen 26 Apr 2022The ego expresses desires and preferences, the intellect thinks and remembers, the body's sense organs experience and perceive the world outside. None of these three is the real “I”-ness of a man.
6.8.1.62Listen 25 Apr 2022He will come to the point where he will give up the burden of always trying to do something for his spiritual development, the burden of believing that it rests entirely upon his own shoulders.
12.18.4.12Listen 24 Apr 2022We have to accept the fact that most people have an immense capacity for being quite comfortable within the limits of the ego, and have no wish to get away from them to a higher level.
6.8.4.130Listen 23 Apr 2022Hindu religion worships light in its intensest form—the sun. The Hindu holy men say that the sun-bath is good for the body; if taken when its rays are mild—that is, at dawn and at dusk—it can cure the body of many diseases. They further claim this practice will re-absorb the semen into the blood stream and thus strengthen the physical body.
7.10.2.68Listen 22 Apr 2022
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