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The 30 latest published notes
… The art of mental quiet can be pushed to a deep inner stillness and by practice can be inwardly maintained in the midst of outward activity. This is why the value placed on keeping calm is very high in both yoga and philosophy.
15.24.3.309, ExcerptListen 6 Dec 2023Meditation proves its worth, shows its best value, and merges into contemplation, when it is deepest. For then thoughts cease to flutter, the ego is lulled, the world vanishes, and the burden of the flesh with it.
4.4.1.341Listen 5 Dec 2023… As regards Enlightenment, this is not coming from self-willed effort; it is coming only by what the Overself does to him. It is a matter of Grace—unpredictable …
3.2.1.209, ExcerptListen 4 Dec 2023… The self-consciousness thus developed will not be dissolved, extinguished, or re-absorbed into the Whole again, leaving not a trace behind. Rather will it begin a new spiral of evolution towards higher altitudes of consciousness and diviner levels of being …
16.26.4.257, ExcerptListen 3 Dec 2023While fulfilling its own purpose, karma cannot help fulfilling another and higher one; it brings us what is essential to our development.
6.9.3.270Listen 2 Dec 2023… It is not pride that makes me say that the volume—The Wisdom of the Overself—which follows The Hidden Teaching Beyond Yoga is the first methodical embodiment in a modern language of this tradition, as well as the first synthetic explanation of it in scientific terminology …
8.12.4.5, ExcerptListen 1 Dec 2023Before a man comes to this path he may have to grope and stumble and struggle for years.
2.1.2.181Listen 30 Nov 2023Too intelligent to accept the narrow short-sighted view of life, too idealistic to accept a merely animal satisfaction of desires, he needs guidance. This is what the quest is for.
2.1.2.271Listen 29 Nov 2023We render much lip service to the theme of doing God’s will; hundreds of writers, speakers, and clergymen utter its praise; but how few take a practical opportunity of giving it real expression by giving up the ego.
12.18.4.44Listen 28 Nov 2023He who submits his emotions and passions to reason, and his reason to intuition, will save himself many regrets.
5.6.4.149Listen 27 Nov 2023The belief that perfect security exists is certainly a vain one so far as worldly life is concerned. But so far as the inner life is concerned, there is a full basis for it.
15.24.3.276Listen 26 Nov 2023Once we accept the soul’s existence, faith in its power and worship of its presence follow by deduction.
12.18.4.164Listen 25 Nov 2023He is not only to seek the Real, but he is also to love the Real; not only to make it the subject of his constant thoughts but also the object of his devoted worship.
3.2.5.39Listen 24 Nov 2023If the need to communicate either in prayer or in meditation with that higher power is not felt by a man, his intellect may be too powerful or his pride too strong.
12.18.3.10Listen 23 Nov 2023When this daily withdrawal becomes a congenial part of the program involved in living, as natural and necessary, as satisfying as any other human need, meditation will be successful sooner or later.
4.4.2.323Listen 22 Nov 2023In every situation where he is involved with other persons, he will consider neither his own welfare solely to the exclusion of others nor theirs to the detriment of his own. He will do what is just and wise in the situation, taking the welfare of all into consideration and being guided ultimately by the impersonal intuition of the Overself.
13.20.5.185Listen 21 Nov 2023The P.B. of l946 is not the same as the P.B. of 1926. They differ on several points, although, happily, not on the fundamental points that man’s soul is and that his duty here and now is to realize it.
8.12.3.137Listen 20 Nov 2023In the moment that there dawns on his understanding the fact of Mind’s beginninglessness and deathlessness, he gains the second illumination, the first being that of the ego’s illusoriness and transiency.
1.0.28.28Listen 19 Nov 2023Those are much mistaken who think the philosophic life is one of dark negation and dull privation, of sour life-denial and emotional refrigeration. Rather is it the happy cultivation of Life’s finest feelings.
5.6.2.7Listen 18 Nov 2023… Philosophy agrees that karma can be changed, modified or counteracted for the most part, but there are certain limits beyond which one cannot go.
6.9.3.454, ExcerptListen 17 Nov 2023The Gita enjoins unconcern about the results of activity not only because this leads to calm detached feelings as the large general result, but also because it leads to better ability to keep meditation continuously going on in the background of attention as the special result.
15.24.3.90Listen 16 Nov 2023Those who can pass in to the Void with eager anticipation and glad acceptance of it are few. Those who hover at its brink, terrified, refusing to make the plunge, are inevitably more.
15.23.8.33Listen 15 Nov 2023If a man comes into alignment with the Overself-consciousness, he is compelled to give up his earlier position of free will and free choice—for he no longer exists to please the ego alone. The regulating factor is now the Overself itself.
6.9.3.581Listen 14 Nov 2023He must begin by learning that the ego is very much the lesser part of himself, that it must be kept down in its place as an obedient servant, its desires scrutinized and disciplined or even negated, its illusions exposed and removed.
6.8.4.378Listen 13 Nov 2023The beautiful coloured fruits which the trees and bushes offer him have been saturated with beneficent solar rays, not with innocent blood.
4.5.3.96Listen 12 Nov 2023When he has made this surrender, done what he could as a human being about it and turned the results over completely to the higher self, analysed its lessons repeatedly and taken them deeply to heart, the problem is no longer his own. He is set free from it, mentally released from its karma, whatever the situation may be physically. He knows now that whatever happens will happen for the best.
12.18.4.154Listen 11 Nov 2023The ideal here is not set at becoming a sinless saint but at becoming an enlightened and balanced human being.
2.1.5.82Listen 10 Nov 2023Enshrined in the secrecy of everyman’s Holy of Holies, hidden in the depths of his heart, there is a point where he may find his indestructible link with God.
12.17.3.66Listen 9 Nov 2023If he tries to fulfil these conditions of sincere self-preparation, and if he tries to practise service, compassion, and kindliness, Grace will come …
12.18.5.199, ExcerptListen 8 Nov 2023The law of recompense has no jurisdiction over the eternal and undivided Overself, the real being, only over the body and mind, the transitory ego.
6.9.3.579Listen 7 Nov 2023The human entity has travelled through joy and suffering, experienced birth and death, experimented with good and evil for the very purpose of becoming a fully conscious entity. How then could annihilation—Vedantic or any other kind—be its ultimate fate?
16.26.4.245Listen 6 Nov 2023
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