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Saint Teresa defined the Interior Word thus: “The words were clearly formed and not to be mistaken though not heard by the body’s ear.”
14.22.2.151Listen 18 Jan 2022The World-Idea not only includes everything existent but also everything which is yet to exist.
16.26.1.91Listen 17 Jan 2022Meditation should so develop that it becomes a constant attitude of recollectedness. The set exercises in concentration for short periods belong to the earlier stages and are intended simply to obtain mental control.
15.23.6.249Listen 16 Jan 2022He is a true messenger who seeks to keep his ego out of his work, who tries to bring God and man together without himself getting in between them.
2.1.6.342Listen 15 Jan 2022The self-revilements of the Long Path must be abandoned: his eyes must look up at that other and higher Self.
15.23.1.69Listen 14 Jan 2022… the more important tenets of higher philosophy are intellectually extremely subtle, so subtle as not to be apparent at first contact with them … The repeated contact with them, however, acts as a kind of indirect meditation and removes their unfamiliarity, renders them understandable, and causes them little by little to sink into the emotional consciousness …
8.12.5.114, ExcerptListen 13 Jan 2022The ”As If am enlightened” practice aims at saturating the mind with this idea of true Identity.
15.23.6.127Listen 12 Jan 2022They betray the higher part of themselves every time they resist, reject, or merely ignore the intuitive feelings which come so delicately into consciousness.
14.22.1.151Listen 11 Jan 2022When the naturalness of living fully in the Divine Presence while working in the world becomes a daily experience, the man will be living and existing at one and the same time on different levels.
15.23.6.240Listen 10 Jan 2022The more he advances intuitively, the more will the ego’s sophistries seek to lure him astray.
6.8.3.118Listen 9 Jan 2022He cannot depend upon outward circumstances alone for his security, though he will not fail to give them their proper value and place. He knows that for total security he must also have, or at the very least have, the certitude of the Overself's protective presence.
15.24.3.273Listen 8 Jan 2022If the aspirant will cultivate a feeling of reverence toward the higher power … he will profit much.
12.18.1.7, ExcerptListen 7 Jan 2022The Overself is a part of the One Infinite Life-Power as the dewdrop is a part of the ocean.
14.22.3.324Listen 6 Jan 2022… love of one’s neighbour is an excellent virtue but it cannot displace the best of all virtues, love of the divine soul.
2.1.5.48, ExcerptListen 5 Jan 2022Another reason why glimpses are given to man is to show him — as in a magic mirror — that there is such a thing as the Overself.
14.22.6.382Listen 4 Jan 2022Only after long experience and severe reflection will a man awaken to the truth that the beauty which attracts him and the ecstasy which he seeks can be found free of defects and transiency only in the Soul within.
5.6.2.21Listen 3 Jan 2022… we shall discover—if we are both patient enough and yet persistent enough—that there is a Source within us which promises astonishing possibilities to the human race. That Source is loosely called the soul.
14.22.2.11, ExcerptListen 2 Jan 2022We must lay siege to our own soul. If the fort of mind is attacked with dogged determination, the victory is promised us. But the siege must be maintained until the day the gates open.
3.2.6.67Listen 1 Jan 2022He is situated in measurable time and in massed form, yet is trying to understand, reach, and identify that which is timeless and formless. How can it be done unless the seeking self is transformed …?
3.2.4.38, ExcerptListen 31 Dec 2021For when awareness is retracted into its source, all thoughts fall away and no second thing other than Mind itself is known to us.
15.23.8.139Listen 30 Dec 2021… in The Spiritual Crisis of Man I tried to tell what could be done to get more out of a glimpse and mentioned recapturing the memory of it as part of an exercise. It ought to be added that the best time to do such an exercise is before falling asleep at night and on waking up in the morning. It is then easier to recapture such a memory.
14.22.5.53, ExcerptListen 29 Dec 2021He has enough to do with the discovery and correction of his own deficiencies or weaknesses, not to meddle in criticism of other people’s.
2.1.5.50Listen 28 Dec 2021His personal duty is to grow spiritually all he can as quickly as possible. He must concentrate on himself, but always keep at the back of his mind the idea that one day he will be fit to serve others and do something for them too. Spiritual growth entails meditation practices kept up as regularly as possible, metaphysical study, cultivation of intuition, and a kindling of an ever increasing love for the divine soul, the true “I.” It is this soul which is the ray of God reflected in him …
3.2.5.61, ExcerptListen 27 Dec 2021These noble feelings, these lofty thoughts, these grand intuitions are welcome testimonies of the change that is happening …
3.3.4.135, ExcerptListen 26 Dec 2021It was not Christ’s death that brought his grace into the human world, but his life.
12.18.5.55Listen 25 Dec 2021Every philosophic aspirant should devote a little time to prefacing meditations or studies with a worshipful, devoted, and reverent supplication of the higher self for enlightenment.
12.18.2.184Listen 24 Dec 2021Those who prefer their own ego’s opinion to the Overself’s impersonal intuitions, remain in the ego’s darkness.
2.1.1.142Listen 23 Dec 2021The Glimpses are not completely uniform in their details. In each one there is different emphasis on a particular aspect, such as its Beauty, Power, Impersonality, or Emptiness.
14.22.6.160Listen 22 Dec 2021The “The As If I am enlightened” attitude pays well, provided it is maintained rigidly after having been assumed.
15.23.6.148Listen 21 Dec 2021The world crisis has not only made it possible for these ideas to penetrate minds which were formerly indifferent towards them, but also to show their immense value when practically and personally applied.
9.13.4.288Listen 20 Dec 2021If there is any future for a teaching it belongs to the present one. It does not have to stand on the defensive just as it does not have to use loud-speaking propagandists. Its existence is justified by humanity’s essential need of knowing what it is, what the world is, and what to make of its own life …
13.20.2.146, ExcerptListen 19 Dec 2021
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