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The Long Path strivings are lesser ones and must, at the due time, be absorbed in the Short Path’s larger ones.
15.23.4.109Listen 10 Jul 2025We make growth only by degrees because we separate ourselves from the ego only by degrees. The notion that any man can annihilate the ego overnight is an illusory one. He only seems to do so. What actually happens in such a case is that the annihilation is the final culminating event of a long, hidden process—hidden, that is to say, in former incarnations …
3.2.3.46, ExcerptListen 9 Jul 2025He is beginning to detach himself from his own ego when he is experiencing a strong self-distrust and a great doubt about the value of his own judgement.
15.24.3.197Listen 8 Jul 2025Thou!
Unseen, untouched and unknown,
The only grace I beg for
Is the grace of loving Thee!
— My prayer12.18.2.54Listen 7 Jul 2025The Short Path requires him to fall into amnesia about his spiritual past. The attempt to produce a perfect being and an impeccable character need not trouble him any farther.
15.23.4.105Listen 6 Jul 2025If he is to save himself he will need a relentless honesty about, and toward, himself. He must be uncompromising in getting at true appraisals of his motives, his actions, and his feelings.
3.2.6.17Listen 5 Jul 2025But while philosophy includes both paths, the aspirant’s individual need will indicate on which one the emphasis should be laid and when it should be transferred to the other path., and will serve as well to sustain vitality, while being free from the stain of slaughter.
15.23.4.108Listen 4 Jul 2025This is the paradox of human existence: the ego is yourself and the Overself is yourself, yet the first cannot easily contact the second.
6.8.1.16Listen 3 Jul 2025This, the real I, is always accessible to him in meditation and always is the half-known background of his conscious self at other times.
14.22.3.54Listen 2 Jul 2025To keep up the meditation for some length of time, to force himself to sit there while all his habitual bodily and mental instincts are urging him to abandon the practice, calls for arousing of inner strength to fight off inattention or fatigue. But this very strength, once aroused, will eventually enable him to keep it up for longer and longer periods.
4.4.3.29Listen 1 Jul 2025This evenness of temperament comes gradually of itself as he lives more and more with the deeper part of his being.
15.24.2.181Listen 30 Jun 2025Only when we act in and from the Overself can we really be said to act aright, for only then shall our deeds be wise and virtuous, most beneficial in the ultimate sense both to our own self and to others.
14.22.2.67Listen 29 Jun 2025How many men think and say that when their material fortunes improve, or their family problems are solved, or their living place is changed they will be able to give time and effort to the spiritual quest, but until then they must wait! But in actual fact this seldom happens. For when the improvement, solution, or change does take place, new matters call for their attention or new attachments are formed for the ego, and so the spiritual effort gets postponed again.
2.1.2.423Listen 28 Jun 2025”Believe me”, says Saint Teresa, ”by God’s help, we shall accomplish more by contemplating the Divinity than by keeping our eyes fixed on ourselves.”
15.23.2.108, ExcerptListen 27 Jun 2025Release your problems. Work in the Silence—until the Silence rules. The Infinite Intelligence will then take over your problems—to the extent that you release them to it.
12.18.4.92Listen 26 Jun 2025This glimpse of a state he has never before seen is an effective revelation. For he has now understood, felt, and experienced—lucidly—the exact meaning of that vague word “spiritual.”
14.22.6.284Listen 25 Jun 2025He must constantly examine his actions and observe his feelings. But he is to do so impartially, critically, and by the standards of the ideal for which he is striving.
4.4.4.140Listen 24 Jun 2025The Long Path gives him the chance to destroy the mental and emotional effects of the ego’s operation: the Short Path, to destroy the ego itself.
15.23.5.3Listen 23 Jun 2025The words of inspired men are like a lighthouse to those seekers who are still groping in the dark.
2.1.6.111Listen 22 Jun 2025If he is to be made whole, his everyday personality must put itself into perfect harmony with, and under the rule of, his super-personal Overself.
13.20.3.234Listen 21 Jun 2025All these practices are necessary only to shake off a man’s impressions and thoughts of the world, to cut off the person’s affairs, to stop the mind’s constant movement, and thus to bring him to the threshold of a deeper consciousness.
4.4.1.155Listen 20 Jun 2025The intuition is a mystical faculty, whose messages may dawn slowly on the conscious mind or emerge into it suddenly.
14.22.1.20Listen 19 Jun 2025In the end, no man can miss being in the presence of, or confronted by, the divine power. It is a fact which, whether he accepts or denies the idea of its existence, he must one day reckon with. This is because he has never really been separated from it, never been aware of any thing or thought except by virtue of consciousness derived from it.
16.25.1.33Listen 18 Jun 2025He sees now at long last that he has acted against his own best interests long enough: the time has come to redress the balance.
2.1.2.280Listen 17 Jun 2025… The secret of inspired action is also the secret of inspired art. The temporary inspirations of the artist can become permanent, if he or she will take the divine path. Intermittent inspiration develops ultimately into continuous contact with the sublime, when genius discovers the mysterious source which inspires it.
14.22.2.16, ExcerptListen 16 Jun 2025… Who knows one day what may happen? Perhaps if you become still enough you too may know—as the Bible suggests.
2.1.5.175, ExcerptListen 15 Jun 2025The liberated person is liberated from all intellectual dogmas, perplexities, and questionings—whether they concern the present past or future, whether they relate to himself personally or to the universe abstractly. For all these can interest only a limited egoistic consciousness.
16.25.2.316Listen 14 Jun 2025Thinking which is fact-grounded, experience-based, and correct; living which is wise, balanced, and good; meditation which goes deeper and deeper—these are some of our basic needs.
2.1.5.173Listen 13 Jun 2025A time may come when a man may tire of the whole social round, the business or professional rat-race, and desire to turn away from it—when he begins to see through its futilities, vanities, and stupidities.
2.1.2.194Listen 12 Jun 2025We must exert our own will and strength to prepare the way for, and make us receptive to, the divine grace. Thus the one complements the other; both are necessary parts of the World-Idea.
12.18.5.160Listen 11 Jun 2025It is often not easy to preserve one’s calm amid provocative or passion-filled events, but that is precisely what a philosopher must set himself to do.
15.24.2.198Listen 10 Jun 2025
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