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… 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 2024In this ecstatic mental silence, the personal will is given up, the impersonal Overself is given mastery.
14.22.6.277Listen 21 Oct 2024… thoughts of bitterness, resentment, criticism, and condemnation strongly held and long sustained against other persons can and very often do easily produce liver trouble. So long as that kind of thinking and feeling continues, so long will the liver trouble continue. The proper way to heal it, therefore, is to get at the psychological seat of the trouble—that is, effect an inner change …
7.10.5.4, ExcerptListen 20 Oct 2024It is a kind of pre-vision in which he sees, as Moses saw the Land of Canaan, the Promised Land toward which he journeys.
14.22.8.21Listen 19 Oct 2024The ultimate value of all this activity in business, profession, politics, family, and so on is not in carrying them on successfully, but in using them to carry one’s own mind nearer to enlightenment.
9.13.2.317Listen 18 Oct 2024Cremation is a definite and emphatic challenge. If one really believes that the soul of man is his real self, or even if one believes that the thinking power of man is his real self, then there can be no objection to it, but, on the contrary, complete approval of it. The method of burying dead bodies is fit only for one who believes that this thinking power is a product of the body’s brain, that is, for a materialist.
6.9.1.143Listen 17 Oct 2024No one really knows how this enlightenment first dawns on him. One moment it was not there, the next moment he was somehow in it.
16.25.2.82Listen 16 Oct 2024It is from this source that he will draw both strength to rise above his own temptations and love to rise above other men’s hatred.
14.22.3.134Listen 15 Oct 2024It is a queer notion which regards a philosopher as a man without feeling, only because he has brought it under control. Not that it is altogether to his credit that he has been able to do so, for grace must share some credit too. There is plenty of feeling in his communion with the Higher Self.
12.18.1.21Listen 14 Oct 2024We cultivate intuition not so much by strengthening it little by little as by removing the obstacles to it.
11.16.14.133Listen 13 Oct 2024It is easy to take one’s opinion as something more than it is. But no one who really gets an intuition, a revelation, or an awareness from the Overself can mistake it as something less than it is. For it is unique in presentation and experience.
11.16.14.153Listen 12 Oct 2024… If anything can give sanity, it is the calm and balance of philosophy …
11.16.3.116, ExcerptListen 11 Oct 2024… When his mind has habituated itself to this kind of keen, abstract thinking and in some measure has developed the capacity to rest absorbed in its own tranquil centre, when the emotions have purified themselves of personal and animal taints, he has prepared himself for the highest kind of knowledge …
3.2.9.1, ExcerptListen 10 Oct 2024The ego is behind each point of resistance in a man which holds him down from advancing further on this quest.
7.11.2.17Listen 9 Oct 2024No single human faculty is alone adequate to the search for truth. All must be used, including intuition, and finally crowned by a new one—insight.
5.7.1.214Listen 8 Oct 2024Symeon, Byzantine mystic, theologian, and saint who flourished near Constantinople nine hundred years ago, thus explains the foundation principle of meditation: “Sitting alone, withdrawn mentally from the world around, search into your innermost heart.”
4.4.1.171Listen 7 Oct 2024The point now attained in human evolution by the ego offers us the key to a correct understanding of the world crisis.
9.13.4.196Listen 6 Oct 2024The circumstances in which he finds himself and the events which happen to him are not more to a man than what he thinks and does about them. For his reaction, his attitude are more often within his control than they may be.
6.9.4.30Listen 5 Oct 2024Such is the untouched depth of the human being that when a man prays to God he really prays to himself, his Overself.
12.18.2.199Listen 4 Oct 2024He need not make the reform in his habits of living until he is not only intellectually convinced of its need but also inwardly feels that the right time, the psychological moment, for it has arrived. In that way it will be unforced and natural, while its course and results will be lasting.
4.5.7.137Listen 3 Oct 2024He will have to grow into this higher consciousness. No other way exists for him.
5.6.1.42Listen 2 Oct 2024Humanity will within a certain time—not in our time—humbly submit as it once did in prehistoric times to rulers guided by true sages and adopt the higher forms of government inspired by the true facts of life. Philosophers will then be not merely the witnesses of their age but also its activators. Then only will humanity at last prevent outer war, even though its own moral nature will still need much more growth. With that recognition, Nature herself will grow kindlier and the area of other forms of human suffering will diminish noticeably.
16.26.4.231Listen 1 Oct 2024We are incarnated to be educated. Experience provides the lessons, and necessity gives the disciplines.
6.9.2.146Listen 30 Sep 2024Once he realizes that he cannot face two ways simultaneously, he will force himself to make a choice between them. The ego or the Overself?
15.23.4.123Listen 29 Sep 2024The points of this experience are the difficulty of describing it precisely, the joy it yields and the peace it brings, the feeling of a finer self and the sense of a higher presence, the appraisal of its preciousness and the fading away of worldly desires.
14.22.6.67Listen 28 Sep 2024This thing, this fleshly body, which ascetics have hated and saints have despised, is a holy temple. The divine Life-force is always latently present in it and, aroused, can sweep through every cell making it sacred.
4.5.2.28Listen 27 Sep 2024If he loses his ego utterly and completely so that no trace of it exists at all, he would have to die, for his body is part of the ego. But he lives on. This shows that what he really loses is not the ego-nature but the ego-will. It is replaced by the higher will.
6.8.1.215Listen 26 Sep 2024The destruction of our egoism must come from the outside if we will not voluntarily bring it about from the inside. But in the former case it will come relentlessly and crushingly.
6.8.4.427Listen 25 Sep 2024He has brought over from earlier births a number of subconscious memories, tendencies and complexes, unfulfilled desires and unexpressed aspirations. These have to be dealt with, either by increasing eradication or by diminishing satisfaction, so that they no longer interrupt the calm tenor of the mind.
15.24.2.167Listen 24 Sep 2024There are existences for beings on levels and in times and spaces different from ours. The level we know and the humans we see only partially manifest the World-Idea.
16.26.4.240Listen 23 Sep 2024He should try to put himself into the future and look back on this present period.
4.4.4.158Listen 22 Sep 2024
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