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Each experience in this tumultuous world is a chance to get farther from our habitual egoism.
6.8.4.262Listen 19 May 2026… Only by seeking refuge in the immortality of the Overself and in discovering the truth and wisdom of the Divine Purpose, can we also learn how to endure the suffering on the ever-changing face of life. “Letting go” is the hardest of all lessons to learn; yet it is the most necessary for spiritual advancement.
6.9.1.134, ExcerptListen 18 May 2026In the recesses of his own being, a man can find peace, strength, wisdom—but only if he brings his thoughts into obedience.
4.4.1.39Listen 17 May 2026In the final reckoning we are not the disciple of this or that man but rather the disciple of the Overself.
2.1.6.832Listen 16 May 2026He has emotionally to crawl on hands and knees before the higher power in the deepest humility. This kills pride, that terrible obstacle between man and the Soul’s presence.
12.18.3.73Listen 15 May 2026Only good positive thoughts were allowed to enter his head and good meatless food his stomach.
4.5.3.62Listen 14 May 2026The idea of having a sanctuary room is an excellent one and should be helpful. There is great power in having a regular place, time, habit, and manner of approach to God …
4.4.2.104, ExcerptListen 13 May 2026When the glimpse starts, it is best to remain still, and in the same bodily position whether sitting or standing, with eyes fixed at the same point.
14.22.5.147Listen 12 May 2026When this truth is at last seen, that heaven is not a place in space but a condition of being, and that therefore it can to a certain extent be realized even before death, a feeling of joy and a sense of adventure are felt …
2.1.5.361, ExcerptListen 11 May 2026When he fails to admit this first blunder, the way is opened for more blunders linked with it and possibly, emerging as a larger consequence of it.
6.9.3.143Listen 10 May 2026Once the past is properly, impersonally, understood; once the logic of its consequences is traced; once the implication of all this is practically applied, especially in self-discipline: let it go.
3.2.6.12Listen 9 May 2026There is an incalculable factor in this game of self with Overself, an unpredictable element in this quest—the Grace!
12.18.5.240Listen 8 May 2026The less he lets anything disturb the full impact of this experience, the deeper will be the impression it makes. The glimpse requires a complete concentration.
14.22.5.129Listen 7 May 2026There, in this necessity of developing, balancing, and coordinating all the parts of one’s being, is a further argument for the necessity of reincarnation. A single lifetime is too short a period in which to fulfil such a task.
6.9.2.235Listen 6 May 2026It is an important part of his task to show men what their personal lives look like from an impersonal standpoint. Hence he points out the fallacy of their egotistic actions and the foolishness of their egotistic purposes.
2.1.6.477Listen 5 May 2026The illuminate is the conscious embodiment of the Overself, whereas the ordinary man is ignorant of that which his heart enshrines. Hence, the Chinese say that the illuminate is the “Complete Man.” He is the rare flower of an age.
16.25.3.14Listen 4 May 2026In his humbling discovery that for all his physical vigour and intellectual power he is still spiritually weak, contemporary man is discovering the need of religion, mysticism, or philosophy.
9.13.4.271Listen 3 May 2026By blaming other persons, one’s own ego is served by its implied superiority.
5.6.5.294Listen 2 May 2026Grace is a powerful stimulus. It descends from a higher source, urges us to perfect our nature, equips us to complete it. Thus we are lifted up to its own higher level.
12.18.5.322Listen 1 May 2026The practice of philosophy is an essential part of it and consists not only in applying its principles and its wisdom to everyday active living, but also in realizing the divine presence deep, deep within the heart where it abides in tremendous stillness.
13.20.1.17Listen 30 Apr 2026The serenity of the Overself never varies and consequently the man who accomplishes the complete surrender to it is unvaryingly serene and unshakeably tranquil.
12.18.4.170Listen 29 Apr 2026It is a fact in many people’s lives that some of the troubles which befall them have no origin in the karma of former lives but belong solely to causes started in the present life.
6.9.3.242Listen 28 Apr 2026There are times when the Overself’s grace may manifest even in the ugly form of illness! If its entry into the everyday consciousness is blocked or twisted by materialistic scepticism, animalistic obsessions, inherited complexes, or excessive extroversion, it may forcibly make its way through them. The body may then be stricken down with sickness until such time as the blockage or distortion is removed.
7.10.5.147Listen 27 Apr 2026That is true willpower which acts from the deepest part of our being, which sets the ego aside instead of expressing it. Not only can it thrust heredity aside and master surroundings, but then only is “Thy will” done by us.
12.18.4.82Listen 26 Apr 2026The illuminated men of earlier generations, who usually appeared at the beginning of each historical epoch and from whose ranks the great social lawgivers and religion-founders were drawn, had no personal master for none was available at the time. Who taught them? It was none other than the World-Mind, operating directly through each man’s Overself and within his human consciousness. Whoever is unable to find an outward master in our own times may still find, when he has worked on himself sufficiently to be ready for it, this same direct inward help (grace) from the World-Mind if he turns to that Mind.
16.25.1.42Listen 25 Apr 2026Is it not worth noting that among those who left their spiritual mark on mankind it is the young rebels who are foremost? Both Buddha and Jesus broke with their traditions.
12.17.1.116Listen 24 Apr 2026I went both abroad on land and sea as well as within mind and heart. The higher Self, the soul, God—whatever name we like to call it by—was the object of my quest. My findings were shared in my books and interviews.
8.12.3.159Listen 23 Apr 2026When you begin to seek the Knower, who is within you, and to sever yourself from the seen, which is both without and within you, you begin to pass from illusion to reality.
14.22.5.15Listen 22 Apr 2026A time may come when what happens to him during the meditation hour will seem more important than what happens during the entire day which follows it.
4.4.1.354Listen 21 Apr 2026The quest is the most important adventure in human experience.
2.1.1.77Listen 20 Apr 2026It was Jesus’ closest relative, his own mother, who sought to sidetrack him from his mission, compelling him to exclaim, “Woman! What have I to do with thee?” It was Ramana Maharshi’s own mother who sought to drag him back from his meditation-cave to a worldly life, compelling him to tell her, in effect, not to alter a course already preordained for him. The duties towards one’s family are limited ones, whereas the duty towards one’s soul is an unlimited one.
5.6.2.214Listen 19 Apr 2026
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