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In 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 2025It is such glorious moments—refreshing to the will and revelatory to the mind—which alone can compensate for (or justify, if you prefer the word) the long littleness, the recurring torment of living.
14.22.4.119Listen 9 Jun 2025There is only room in your mind for a single thought at a time. Take care, then, that it be a positive one
1.13.0.10Listen 8 Jun 2025Although the sage withdraws with the onset of sleep from wakeful awareness, he does not withdraw from all awareness. A pleasurable and peaceful sense of impersonal being is left over. In this he rests throughout the night.
16.25.2.184Listen 7 Jun 2025Finding the Overself is one thing, and the first thing, but letting it take over is another thing.
14.22.2.46Listen 6 Jun 2025… the World-Mind is impenetrable by human power. This agnostic conclusion does not, however, touch the validity of the mystic’s more legitimate claim, that the human soul is knowable and that an unshakeable union with it is attainable.
16.25.1.59, ExcerptListen 5 Jun 2025… those who have discovered the life beyond ego have incurred a duty. Perhaps destiny will give them the privilege to be of humble service in a way commensurate with the time’s need.
8.12.4.198, ExcerptListen 4 Jun 2025To bring others a message which elevates them and a truth which inspires them, the Interior Word will speak through him as him. This is a wonderful phenomenon when it happens.
14.22.2.163Listen 3 Jun 2025It takes much inner experience, much reflection on the immutable laws, and much outer experience that confirms those laws before his confidence in the divine wisdom becomes as unshakable as a rock, and before all negative moods become powerless to touch him.
3.2.2.97Listen 2 Jun 2025The doubts and fears, the hesitations and suspicions, the jealousies and bitternesses, the enmities and hatreds of common life can never enter here.
14.22.3.139Listen 1 Jun 2025When the picture of himself is no longer pleasing to him but on the contrary, painful, he is beginning to see truly. When he passes from the stage of self-pity to that of self-loathing he is beginning to progress effectively.
3.2.2.102Listen 31 May 2025At some mysterious moment a higher power takes possession of him, dictates his thoughts, words, and acts. Sometimes he is amazed by them, by their difference from what he would normally have thought, spoken, or done.
14.22.2.71Listen 30 May 2025Somewhere in Shakespeare there is that phrase about our human “exits and entrances” which, with its reversal of the natural order of birth and death, I take to mean our reincarnation.
6.9.2.177Listen 29 May 2025It is also possible to take any revered person as a master and, in one’s own mind, make him the teacher. Even though no meeting on the physical level may occur, one’s attitude of attention and devotion in meditation will draw from him a reaction which will telepathically give whatever guidance is needed at the time.
2.1.6.749Listen 28 May 2025Whatever mental-emotional clouds the day may bring, he does not detain them but lets them pass over him. This would seem a superhuman feat, but it becomes possible when he turns them over to the higher power.
15.24.3.128Listen 27 May 2025There was one question which Jesus left unanswered. It was Pontius Pilate’s “What is truth?” There was one question which Buddha heard several times but always refused to answer. It was “What is Reality?” Since truth is the knowledge of reality, both amount to the same.
16.28.2.61Listen 26 May 2025… Such is the insecurity of the present-day world that the few who have found security are only the few who have found their own soul, and inner peace.
2.1.2.1, ExcerptListen 25 May 2025Yes, the Glimpse will gently go away, its fine exaltation will subside, but neither its lustrous meaning nor its loving memory will ever be forgotten.
14.22.7.68Listen 24 May 2025First, he must attempt to lift himself upwards, taking the needed time and making the needed effort. Then he will feel that some other force is lifting him gratuitously—this is the reaction, Grace.
12.18.5.158Listen 23 May 2025Three happenings must show themselves: to be given direction, to feel an impulsion towards it, and to practise purification as a necessary requisite for the journey. Two warnings are needed here: fall not into the extreme of unbalance, and depend not on what is outside. One reminder: seek and submit to grace. It may be imageless or found anywhere anytime and in any form—a work of art, a piece of music, a living tree, or a human being—for in the end it must come from your own higher individuality and in your own loneliness.
2.1.2.2Listen 22 May 2025The good karma or God allows him this glimpse of a loftier world in which he could live and thus put his personal turmoil to flight.
14.22.5.105Listen 21 May 2025This freedom from inner conflict, this disburdenment of troubling complexes, this liberation from gnawing unrest, releases his mental and emotional energies for concentration upon his work.
15.24.2.122Listen 20 May 2025In those situations wherein it is totally helpless to save itself from danger and death, every creature sends forth an anguished cry from the heart. And this is as natural to animals as to human beings …
12.18.2.18, ExcerptListen 19 May 2025
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