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The 30 latest published notes
When a man finds that a condition is beyond his power to change, he may better endure it by holding the faith that all things and all conditions are ultimately ordered by the Universal Mind, and that they will work out for the best in the end.
6.9.3.153Listen 9 Jun 2023Intuition, inspiration, and even grace may come directly to him through prayer, meditation, and reading.
3.2.4.62Listen 8 Jun 2023The ego will creep even into his spiritual work or aspiration, so that he will take from the teaching only what suits his own personal ends and ignore the rest, or only what suits his own personal comfort and be averse to the rest.
6.8.4.315Listen 7 Jun 2023In this mood there is knowledge without thoughts, understanding without words.
14.22.6.312Listen 6 Jun 2023The order which has been established throughout the cosmos is a perfect one. If the human mind fails to see this fact, it is partly because human feelings, prejudices, aversions, and attractions sway it and partly because the World-Idea unveils itself only to those who are ready.
16.26.1.36Listen 5 Jun 2023The ripe wisdom of a sage could not possibly be the fruit of a single lifetime, but only of many lifetimes.
6.9.2.236Listen 4 Jun 2023He is the silent background counsellor for a few men who have the opportunity and capacity to serve mankind.
16.25.4.288Listen 3 Jun 2023The danger of slipping into this overstress on intellectual activity and not retaining the healthy balance between it and intuitional activity, is large and real.
5.7.1.198Listen 2 Jun 2023The old Sanskrit texts tell us of the “little purpose” of human life and of the “great purpose.” All know the one but few know the other; fewer still seek to realize it.
2.1.1.91Listen 1 Jun 2023Life is a preparation for death, just as death is a preparation for re-entry into life.
6.9.1.47Listen 31 May 2023Nobody can earnestly work through a course in the higher philosophy without finding himself a better and wiser man at the end than he was at the beginning. And this result will come to him almost unconsciously, little by little, through the creative power of right thinking.
2.1.5.376Listen 30 May 2023Tension of some kind cannot be avoided, for all activity, physical or mental, calls it forth. It becomes harmful when it is not rightly balanced by relaxation, when it alone rules the man.
3.3.3.23Listen 29 May 2023It is the glorious moment when Adam re-enters Eden, even though he is only a visiting guest and not a permanent dweller therein.
14.22.6.226Listen 28 May 2023A man’s face becomes white when a strong thought of fear enters his mind; another time it becomes red when a strong thought of shame enters it. Thus mind changes the expression on his face and reveals its influence on the body.
13.21.5.76Listen 27 May 2023In this healing presence the past is washed away and old sins with it.
14.22.3.169Listen 26 May 2023When we can learn what the true worth of man is and wherein lies his real salvation, we shall learn the most practical of all things. For this, more than anything else, will show us how to live on earth peacefully, prosperously, healthily, and usefully.
16.26.4.3Listen 25 May 2023It may be a help to some in the attainment of inner freedom if they stop using the possessive pronoun “my” in reference to anything that belongs to them except their weaknesses.
3.2.7.132Listen 24 May 2023It is not a dreamy or drowsy state. He is more lucidly and vitally conscious than ever before.
15.23.7.44Listen 23 May 2023The soul will lead him by stages to itself. Hence it may lead him to reverence for some scriptural personage or to devotion toward some living master and then, when these have fulfilled their purpose, away and beyond them. For the quest is from the world of things and men to the world of Mind’s void; from thoughts and forms to the thought-free formless Divine.
2.1.6.796Listen 22 May 2023Such a man has no enemies, although he may have those who regard him as their enemy. For hate cannot enter his heart; goodwill towards all is its fragrant atmosphere.
16.25.3.159Listen 21 May 2023Knowledge of and deep meditation upon understanding the Void lead in the end, and more quickly than by wearisome yoga methods, to the dissolution of the thinking process.
15.23.8.123Listen 20 May 2023It is better to pass out of the physical body in possession of consciousness rather than in a state of drugged anesthesia. This applies more particularly to spiritual aspirants. But where there is great pain, local anesthesia may be unobjectionable.
6.9.1.122Listen 19 May 2023The views which anyone holds intellectually are relative to his experience and status, his innate character and reincarnatory history.
6.9.2.91Listen 18 May 2023The true mystic harbours only goodwill towards one who chooses to be his enemy, together with good wishes for the other’s well-being and for his coming closer to the higher self, hence closer to the truth.
5.6.5.321Listen 17 May 2023To the man on this Quest, the man willing to step aside from his ego, earthly misfortunes may sometimes be seen as disguising spiritual blessings if they force him to fall back on the eternal truths and his own deeper resources.
9.13.1.265Listen 16 May 2023Look back in imagination upon those wonderful glimpses and try to recapture the feeling they produced.
14.22.5.77Listen 15 May 2023… The importance given to meditation can be exaggerated. The work on oneself, on one’s character and tendencies, is also important. The study of the teachings is equally important. And so, out of all these approaches, there comes a ripening, a broad maturity which prepares the aspirant for recognition and full reception of the grace—should it come.
4.4.1.82, ExcerptListen 14 May 2023If you can go to a man you greatly dislike and remember that he, too, will one day discover his spiritual identity and express a finer, more lovable self, it will be easier to be calm, patient, just, and at ease with him.
5.6.5.131Listen 13 May 2023It is because the World-Mind supports man, gives him consciousness and energy, that he is a sharer in divine existence.
16.25.1.25Listen 12 May 2023The ultimate goal is to regard oneself as primarily a mental being and not a physical one, to cease this idolatrous identification of self with flesh, blood, and bone.
6.8.1.96Listen 11 May 2023Events may seem to happen at random, but it is not really so. They are connected with our own thinking and doing, with the pattern of the World-Idea and with the activity of the World-Mind.
16.26.1.29Listen 10 May 2023
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