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The time will come when it will be found that glimpses are a proper part of human existence, are within the area of a normal life, are valid topics for study and examination by science.
14.22.4.74Listen 15 Aug 2022It is far better than being ignorant to know what is read in books or heard at lectures on this topic, but far better than both of these is to feel vividly the Overself’s presence and reality, to know the truth of It with complete certainty.
14.22.4.97Listen 14 Aug 2022Saint John of the Cross, held unjustly as a prisoner, found his cell filled with light as he dreamed one night that the Virgin appeared to him promising help if he escaped. Martinus, the Danish mystic, told me that Jesus appeared to him in meditation surrounded by a ball of light.
14.22.4.193Listen 13 Aug 2022The stages in philosophic training usually begin with gaining a theoretical knowledge of the teachings. When this is well established, it grows in time into an aspiration for self-improvement and into an effort to mold character and conduct in conformity with the philosophic ideal. Such a maturation period is often a long and difficult one. In the third stage the “glimpse” of enlightenment begins to be experienced. The first glimpse has a far-reaching effect and is likely to be associated with the first contact with an inspired spiritual guide, or with the writings of such a man. In the case of some persons there is a different series of steps. The glimpse comes first, the theoretical study next, striving to express through living comes last.
2.1.5.330Listen 12 Aug 2022The process acts with the sureness of a chemical combination; if you quiet the ego, the Overself becomes responsively active.
15.24.4.89Listen 11 Aug 2022The moment he awakens in the morning he should turn his attention for a few minutes to the thought of the Quest. It this is done faithfully every day, it becomes a useful exercise with excellent results in the subsequent hours.
13.19.3.160Listen 10 Aug 2022Make it a definite rule in every single instance to check your intuitions by the light of reason.
11.16.14.129Listen 9 Aug 2022During meditation the basic aim is to free the mind from worldly concerns and personal desires, to present an empty, clean receptacle for the divine inpouring, if and when it is attracted by his preparedness for it.
4.4.1.152Listen 8 Aug 2022The personal man needs to grow and develop adequately as man. Only after this does he reach the stage when it is safe, and not premature, to undo the ego, and destroy its rule. For after this point the latter becomes a tyranny when the task now is to make it a subserviency.
2.1.5.322Listen 7 Aug 2022… The ultimate purpose of life here on earth is a spiritual one, and this must be remembered.
9.13.4.39, ExcerptListen 6 Aug 2022… it is not a new age that is here, not even its beginning, but only the dawn before the beginning of its beginning.
9.13.4.189, ExcerptListen 5 Aug 2022It happens on a plane above men’s heads; most of them don’t know of it explicitly at the moment. Yet they are truly rendering service through being used as channels.
14.22.2.14Listen 4 Aug 2022It is not only a spiritual crisis for mankind but also a spiritual opportunity.
9.13.4.37Listen 3 Aug 2022There is an area of peace hidden within every man. Its presence is the gracious gift of God but his task is to discover it.
15.24.4.53Listen 2 Aug 2022Seize the odd moments for Remembrance practice, escaping from the web of self-thoughts into the Void of Being.
15.23.6.178Listen 1 Aug 2022The quest we teach is no less than a quest for knowledge in completeness and a search for awareness of this Universal Self, a vast undertaking to which all men are committed whether they are aware of it or not.
2.1.1.14Listen 31 Jul 2022During these wonderful glimpses ordinary existence seems suspended.
14.22.6.234Listen 30 Jul 2022…The ego may stay in its proper place attending to the needs and sustenance of his body and intellect, but always as a subordinate to the higher self and obeisant to the higher will.
6.8.1.201, ExcerptListen 29 Jul 2022Here is the focal point of all spiritual searching, here man meets God.
14.22.3.316Listen 28 Jul 2022Pacifism is a natural and inevitable consequence of the monkish and mystic view of life. Monks may rightly submit to martyrdom, but philosophers must resist the evil forces and even fight them to the end.
5.6.7.45Listen 27 Jul 2022The ego is so taken up with itself that the time of meditation, which ought to be its gradual emptying-out, remains merely another field for its own activity.
4.4.2.338Listen 26 Jul 2022It is the unexpected situation, when there is no time to calculate a response or prepare a reply, that reveals what measure of strength we can rise to. It is in the sudden crisis—which is only a situation pushed to a complete extreme—when there is no chance to escape altogether or to evade partially, that what wisdom we have, or lack, shows itself.
9.13.1.93Listen 25 Jul 2022This divine self is the unkillable and unlosable soul, forever testifying to the source, whence it came.
14.22.3.321Listen 24 Jul 2022It comes with time and practice, this ability to move at will from activity to meditation, from working or walking to stillness or worship.
15.23.6.225Listen 23 Jul 2022We must indeed make a distinction between the conscious self which is so tied to the body and the superconscious self which is not got at or grasped by the bodily senses.
6.8.1.82Listen 22 Jul 2022Those who look to God as a healer, or as a mother, or as a father, or as a teacher are still looking for God within the ego. They are thinking of God only in relation to themselves because their first interest is in themselves. But those who look to God in the Void, and not in any relationship or under any image or idea, really find God. Therefore they really find “the peace which passeth understanding.”
16.28.2.125Listen 21 Jul 2022Every form of existence can be reduced to a form of consciousness. The final essence of all these consciousnesses is God.
16.27.3.16Listen 20 Jul 2022He must be willing and even determined to think and feel differently from those around him. How can it be otherwise when his goal is different from theirs, too?
2.1.3.23Listen 19 Jul 2022The ego does not rule men through their animalistic and materialistic desires only. It takes charge, and actively manages, their spiritual aspirations also!
1.8.0.60Listen 18 Jul 2022The Short Path rejects duality, acknowledges only identity with Perfect Being, and tries to achieve its aim by recognizing this identity. The Long Path accepts duality and tries to achieve the same aim by mastering the ego.
15.23.5.50Listen 17 Jul 2022It is proper to defend one’s life when it is menaced by aggressive men or by wild beasts, but it is against philosophic ethics to take life without a just cause, as when one kills animals for food—still more when one kills them wantonly for sport. Every higher instinct urges us to substitute compassion for cruelty in our dealings with the lower kingdom.
4.5.3.90Listen 16 Jul 2022
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