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The 30 latest published notes
The disciple will learn in the end, by experience, that he must look to himself alone for salvation. The last words of the dying Buddha, addressed though they were to his own disciples, have been a useful guide to me: “Look not for refuge to anyone besides yourselves.”
2.1.6.720Listen 27 Nov 2021Nostradamus predicted that art and religion would dominate the coming era (the twenty-first century onwards) and that wars would no longer be waged.
9.13.4.385Listen 26 Nov 2021He may arrive at a true appraisal of life after he has experienced all that is worth experiencing. This is the longest and most painful way. Or he may arrive at it by listening to, and believing in, the teachings of spiritual seers. This is the shortest and easiest way. The attraction of the first way is so great, however, that it is generally the only way followed by humanity …
2.1.2.213, ExcerptListen 25 Nov 2021Pascal said in Le Mystère de Jesus: “Thou wouldst not seek Me, if thou didst not possess Me. Be not therefore anxious.”
15.23.1.11Listen 24 Nov 2021When considered from the long-range karmic point of view, each of us creates his own world and atmosphere. Therefore, we have no one but ourselves to thank or blame for our comfort or wretchedness. It should be remembered, too, that present correct or incorrect use of free will is right now deciding the conditions and circumstances of lives to come.
6.9.3.97Listen 23 Nov 2021The freedom to command one’s life in one’s own way can be got only by first getting the fearlessness to disregard the criticism and to ignore the expectations of other people.
2.1.3.196Listen 22 Nov 2021If you will not accept the saving truth that you are now as divine as you ever will be … then you rank yourself with those men who, as Jesus said, “love darkness rather than light,” however much you may protest against such a classification.
15.23.1.21Listen 21 Nov 2021… the general direction of his thoughts and deeds—rather than those thoughts and deeds themselves—as well as the ideal he most habitually contemplates, is what is most important and most significant in his life.
2.1.5.165, ExcerptListen 20 Nov 2021The soul’s presence is to be realized, its consciousness is to be attained. But the ego's conceit overshadows the one, its turbulence obstructs the other.
6.8.4.45Listen 19 Nov 2021Only when it becomes natural and therefore easy, continuous and therefore well-established, does meditation become completely fruitful. But this is possible only on the Short Path.
15.23.1.178Listen 18 Nov 2021… “Despair not of Allah’s mercy,” says the Koran. What are my sins compared with Thy mercy? They are but as a cobweb before the wind,” wrote an early Russian mystic, Dmitri of Rostov. ”Those who surrender to me, even be they of sinful nature, shall understand the highest path,” says the Bhagavad Gita …
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 17 Nov 2021The order of progress is from belief to knowledge, and thence to love of that which is known.
2.1.5.327Listen 16 Nov 2021… What am I? is a simple question with a complex answer. In this exercise you will repeatedly think of what you really are as distinct from what you seem to be …
4.4.4.36, ExcerptListen 15 Nov 2021Thoughts may be a hindrance to meditation merely by their presence or, if of the proper kind, a help to it. And the only proper kind is that which leads them to look toward the consciousness which transcends them.
4.4.4.31Listen 14 Nov 2021Ask yourself before sleeping the questions that puzzle you and the answers may be there, waiting for you, on waking.
13.19.3.158Listen 13 Nov 2021The ego will always have its problems. By always, one means from birth all through the years until death. This is true of every human being, although a superior human being will deal with them in a superior way.
6.8.1.223Listen 12 Nov 2021All that anyone basically possesses unlost through all his life is his “I.” All that he really is, is this same “I.” The physical body, although seemingly inseparable from it, is something lived in and used, as a house is lived in and a tool is used.
14.22.3.341Listen 11 Nov 2021So long as man’s awareness is trapped in space and time, so long will he be unable to know the reality that transcends them.
13.19.4.14Listen 10 Nov 2021Man is what he is. Nothing can alter that. Out of the immortal, benign, eternal Mind he came, to It he shall return. Meanwhile It is his very essence …
16.26.4.68, ExcerptListen 9 Nov 2021It is not wrong that we love and serve ourselves—for who else is closer?—but only that we do so by excluding the higher purpose of life.
6.8.3.163Listen 8 Nov 2021If he turns away from his problem and to the Overself, the moment its peace is felt or its message of truth is heard, he may take this as a sign that help in some way will assuredly come to him.
9.13.2.248Listen 7 Nov 2021It is certainly better to remove faults and remedy weaknesses than to leave them as they are. But it is not enough to improve, refine, ennoble, and even spiritualize the ego. For all such activity takes place under the illusion that the ego possesses reality. This illusion needs to be eliminated …
15.23.2.119, ExcerptListen 6 Nov 2021… there is no more effective or faster way to attain the goal than to ferret out egot’s very source and offer it to that Source, and finally by the path of affirmations and recollections unite oneself with it.
6.8.4.393, ExcerptListen 5 Nov 2021He who has turned all problems over to the Overself is no longer faced with the problem of solving each new problem that arises. He is free.
12.18.4.185Listen 4 Nov 2021All his finest emotions, his deepest wisdom, his creative faculties, his truth-discriminating intuitions come into being because of the Overself’s central if hidden presence.
14.22.3.147Listen 3 Nov 2021… let him forget the past, and start planning for a happier tomorrow! No one else can do this for him, but he can draw faith from the knowledge that his efforts will count towards his joyful resurrection.
5.6.2.261, ExcerptListen 2 Nov 2021… as long as he continues to cling to despondency and to misunderstand, he is shutting out the Overself and preventing its message from reaching him. Every day is a new day, with new possibilities of a fresh, determined, and more courageous approach to all daily difficulties …
5.6.2.261, ExcerptListen 1 Nov 2021… the cosmic law dooms all egos to eventual merger in their higher source, a merger which must be preceded by their dissolution …
6.8.4.406, ExcerptListen 31 Oct 2021This feeling of I-ness may be associated with the body, emotions, and thoughts—whose totality is the personal ego—or shifted in deep meditation to the rootless root of being, which is the Overself; or, it may be associated with both, when one will be the reality and the other a shadow of reality.
6.8.2.9Listen 30 Oct 2021It is not enough to receive a teaching from someone else. The truth of the teaching must be tested by personal experience, the worth of it should be measured by personal knowledge.
2.1.6.714Listen 29 Oct 2021A real need of humanity eventually finds its expression in flesh and blood. Just as an oppressive tyranny ultimately produces the rebel who overthrows it, so a growing hunger for spiritual guidance ultimately brings forth those who are to provide it.
16.25.3.531Listen 28 Oct 2021
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