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The time at the disposal of an old man is too short to make himself over again, however repentant he may be, but it is not too short for him to do the one thing just as needful, if not more so. He can hand this problem, just like any other hard problem, over to the higher power, and let the past go. It will then no longer be his anxious concern.
9.13.3.214Listen 19 Aug 2026The “I” who looks at this world-spectacle must itself be looked at if we want to know the truth about both.
6.8.1.18Listen 18 Aug 2026“Each [thing] is proceeding back to its origin,” said Lao Tzu. This is why change is incessant in the universe, why only the Origin is without it, and why Lao Tzu further explained that “to understand the Changeless is to be enlightened.”
16.26.2.28Listen 17 Aug 2026The Long Path is concerned with techniques, how to practise and apply them. But techniques can only improve the human instrument, make it better able to receive enlightenment; they cannot of themselves give enlightenment.
3.2.1.200Listen 16 Aug 2026To say that the ego keeps us captive is only one way of stating the problem. That we are infatuated with it, is another way.
6.8.3.38Listen 15 Aug 2026A modern way of spiritual living for busy city-dwellers would be to carry out all normal duties but to retreat from them from time to time into rural solitude for special meditation and study. In the town itself, they should manage to find a half to one hour every day for prayer and mental quiet.
3.3.1.3Listen 14 Aug 2026Although the two Paths are so sharply divided from one another in theory, they not seldom overlap in fact.
15.23.5.32Listen 13 Aug 2026When he lets himself get cluttered up with an excess of possessions, each demanding his attention, interest, and care, not to speak of his time, his needs get confused with wants, reality with illusions.
3.2.7.129Listen 12 Aug 2026He seems, in this desolate “night,” to be up against a blank wall. But with patience he may find a way out. It is well to remember Abraham Lincoln’s “This too will pass.”
15.23.3.53Listen 11 Aug 2026The need today is for compounds of inspired visionaries and determined workers.
9.13.4.311Listen 10 Aug 2026What comes with the years and which is ascribed to the older people is the wisdom of practical living. This is merely information, knowledge from experience in practical affairs; it is not the wisdom which comes from the deeper being, the deeper self. That will arise only when one looks for it, aspires to it.
2.1.1.114Listen 9 Aug 2026His experiences in this life were largely decided for him in a previous life on earth.
6.9.2.127Listen 8 Aug 2026When he can retreat within his own mind and enjoy the peace he finds there, how little can the busy thrusting beckoning world attract him?
3.3.1.20Listen 7 Aug 2026He is fortunate who hears the summons from within and obeys it. For despite its demands, it brings him ever closer to peace of mind.
12.18.4.146Listen 6 Aug 2026He may have his doubts, hesitations, criticisms, and even rebellions later—they may stretch out far in time—but in the end they cannot alter his course. For the quest he was born; to the quest he must surrender. The obligation is a lifelong one.
3.2.3.171Listen 5 Aug 2026Philosophy sees the whole route and therefore can correctly point out the next step forward to those who are still groping their way along it.
13.20.1.222Listen 4 Aug 2026The third stage of practice, contemplation, is definitely a joyous one. There is a subtle feeling of great comfort, sublime ease, at times even expanding into a rich and refined blissfulness.
15.23.7.95Listen 3 Aug 2026To bring the divine presence into the midst of one’s work and one’s work continually into the divine presence—this is an inspired and worthwhile active life.
13.20.1.344Listen 2 Aug 2026If someone were to compile a list of the famous ones who found in philosophy the truth they could find nowhere else, the names would stretch from the Far East to the Far West, from pre-Greek antiquity to postwar modernity.
13.20.1.291Listen 1 Aug 2026He is wrong to object that you can’t hold two different thoughts at the same time and that hence you can’t remember God and attend to worldly details simultaneously. You can. God is not a thought, but an awareness on a higher level …
15.23.6.256, ExcerptListen 31 Jul 2026But the essential thing is what we do with the mind. Socrates nurtured his philosophy in what was for that time a large city; he did not need, like Thoreau, to withdraw into Nature’s solitudes.
3.3.5.43Listen 30 Jul 2026He should believe that he is at that moment receiving that which he is praying for. But he should do so only if he feels no contrary indication of coldness or doubt, and only after he has made contact with the power through pure worship or meditation.
12.18.2.63Listen 29 Jul 2026It is there in all, whether it be latent or patent, this impulse in each man to improve and better himself into a person of worth. Ultimately it develops, in this body or a later one, into the aspiration to transcend himself.
2.1.2.447Listen 28 Jul 2026In the earlier stages of his development the aspirant is helped by being told exactly what to do. But in the later stages the less this is done the better for him.
3.2.2.104Listen 27 Jul 2026Even when a situation becomes quite critical, a here-and-now matter, he should not give way to panic. The first move after the first shock should be to restore and maintain calm, the second to consider what he is to do—a question for which he should look not only to thinking for an answer but also to intuition.
15.24.2.64Listen 26 Jul 2026If one thing is clear about the coming age, it is that henceforth a brusquely awakened humanity refuses to drift helplessly but intends energetically to give a positive direction to its fate and fortune.
9.13.4.252Listen 25 Jul 2026When a man begins to seek out his real nature, to find the truth of his real being, he begins to follow the Quest.
2.1.1.11Listen 24 Jul 2026From these practices he receives a feeling of courage which in turn enables him to confront the hard situations of life without flinching.
4.4.1.384Listen 23 Jul 2026The Sanskrit word for inner Balance is samadham, that poise which is maintained in all kinds of circumstances. By constantly thinking about the falsity of the ego and its phantom-like nature, it can be sublimated and its power divinely directed.
3.2.5.160Listen 22 Jul 2026I have done what I could to prevent the existence of a Brunton cult.
8.12.4.46Listen 21 Jul 2026It is not easy to translate this sacred silence into comprehensible meaning, to describe a content where there is no form, to ascend from a region as deep as Atlantis is sunk today and speak openly in familiar, intelligible language; but I must try.
15.24.4.195Listen 20 Jul 2026
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