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Although the possibility of this discovery and awareness of Overself and establishment in it has always been with every man at every moment, the probability has not. For he has to develop the equipment for maturing from animal through man’s gathered experience to this full establishment in full union with his highest being …
16.26.4.258, ExcerptListen 11 May 2021The response provoked in you by the entry of these ideas will determine your future.
2.1.1.156Listen 10 May 2021His personal destiny or spiritual dedication will decide his future course—whether deliberately to remain obscure and avoid the notice which excites opposition, or publicly to accept a mission and bring inspiration to a particular kind of activity.
13.20.4.271Listen 9 May 2021All those thoughts and memories which now compose the pattern of his life have to be put aside if he is to deny himself.
6.8.4.408Listen 8 May 2021We know that Plato regarded his birth during his master’s lifetime as better than all the good fortune that aristocratic birth had bestowed upon him. And yet Socrates himself declared that he had no regular disciples and that anyone or everyone was free to hear him.
16.25.5.170Listen 7 May 2021There is not one cell in the whole organism of man which does not reflect in miniature the pattern, the proportions, and the functions of the immense cosmos itself.
16.26.4.192Listen 6 May 2021The simple discovery of what he really is leads to large implications. He sees his aims in life, his goals and ambitions, his desires and attitudes, under a different light …
14.22.7.148, ExcerptListen 5 May 2021Where the Overself lives fully in a man, he will not need to consider whether an act is righteous or not. Righteous acts will flow spontaneously from him and no other kind will be possible …
5.6.1.108, ExcerptListen 4 May 2021Why did Jesus warn men not to look for the Christ-self in the deserts or the mountain caves? It was for the same reasons that he constantly told them to look for it within themselves, and that he counselled them to be in the world but not of it.
2.1.5.61Listen 3 May 2021… they who think that the purpose of human incarnation is to increase pleasures and accumulate property have learned nothing from the instability of life and insecurity of possessions which have marked the period now passing …
13.20.1.325, ExcerptListen 2 May 2021What is wrong if we claim some happiness from this world, provided we keep our balance, the heart anchored to an allegiance higher than the world, the mind always remembering for what it is really here?
9.13.2.174Listen 1 May 2021When the great liberation from his ego is attained, his entire physical organism will reflect the experience. All its muscular tautness will vanish; hands, shoulders, neck, facial expression, and legs will relax spontaneously of their own accord as his mind relaxes. He will be transformed.
3.3.3.35Listen 30 Apr 2021The common interpretation of the Biblical sentence, ”Dust thou art, and to dust thou shalt return,” was interpreted by the Jewish medieval Kabbalists and by initiated Rabbis of antiquity as referring to reincarnation.
6.9.2.193Listen 29 Apr 2021Philosophy is profoundly religious, but it is not a religion. Men belonging to different folds may study and practise it.
12.17.6.185Listen 28 Apr 2021He should be prepared to devote years to intense efforts in self-examination and self-improvement. This is the foundation for the later work. Once the character has been ennobled, the way to receiving guidance and Grace will be unobstructed.
4.4.4.219Listen 27 Apr 2021He receives too many confidences ever to be surprised by any of them, too many confessions ever to be shocked … For his compassion and insight, his tolerance and realism embrace the whole range of human feeling or human behaviour.
16.25.3.289Listen 26 Apr 2021The best form of social service is the one which leads others to the higher understanding of truth …
3.2.8.122, ExcerptListen 25 Apr 2021… I would be failing in a duty to those less fortunate if through fear of being thought a boaster I failed to state that my researches have led me to the certain discovery of the soul …
2.1.2.1, ExcerptListen 24 Apr 2021The personality is always limited and chained, the higher individuality always infinite and free.
14.22.3.365Listen 23 Apr 2021Why should the last dying days of cut flowers bring joy, happiness, uplift, and inspiration to anyone?
5.6.7.16Listen 22 Apr 2021… this doctrine, that the ego repeatedly visits our plane in fresh physical forms, is demanded by reason, supplied by intuition, and verified by revelation.
6.9.2.95, ExcerptListen 21 Apr 2021If he practises goodwill to others, it is more likely that the higher power will bestow grace upon him through others.
5.6.5.34Listen 20 Apr 2021The illusion of the ego stands behind all other illusions. If it is removed, they too will be removed.
6.8.4.466Listen 19 Apr 2021When the mind enters into this imageless and thoughtless state, there is nothing in it to resist the union with divine consciousness.
15.23.7.155Listen 18 Apr 2021The man who can live without troubles has yet to be found, but the man who can live without worry about them may be found wherever philosophy is found.
6.9.3.156Listen 17 Apr 2021… what was formerly an occasional glimpse will now become a permanent sight. The intermittent intuition of a guardian presence will now become the constantly established experience of it. The divine presence has now become to him an immediate and intimate one. Its reality and vitality are no longer matters for argument or dispute, but matters of settled experience …
16.25.2.296, ExcerptListen 16 Apr 2021To the extent that he purifies and ennobles himself, he qualifies himself for the reception of superior insight.
5.6.1.20Listen 15 Apr 2021The mind is prevented from knowing the truth by its own defects limitations or deficiencies, by its own passions self-centeredness and possessiveness. The philosophic discipline sets up as an objective the elimination of these hindrances…
3.2.1.3, ExcerptListen 14 Apr 2021It is stupid to bring into conversation with others beliefs which they are certain to scoff at but which one cherishes as holy.
5.6.5.310Listen 13 Apr 2021It is literally a going out of his little self into the liberating enlightening Overself.
14.22.6.281Listen 12 Apr 2021The aspirant must remember always that his immediate duty lies in self-preparation, self-discipline, and self-improvement. The building of fine character on the quest is quite as important as the efforts of aspiration and meditation, even more so, for the former will lead to the dissolving of egoism, and without this the latter are of little avail.
5.6.1.11Listen 11 Apr 2021
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