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The bestowal of a glimpse is not merely for his pleasure and satisfaction: there are certain self-cleansing duties and self-improving obligations which follow in its train. The light it throws into him is thrown on his sins and weaknesses too. He sees them more plainly for what they are, as well as the amendment he must make. But he sees also the forgiveness which grace grants.
14.22.7.223Listen 4 Aug 2021The Godlike deepest Self in us knows and feels on its own level; therefore the intellect’s reasonings and the aesthetic feelings are reflections on a lower level of spiritual activities.
16.25.1.15Listen 3 Aug 2021… if we are to enter it, the Overself, we can and must enter while yet in the flesh. It is not a time or place but a state of life and a stage of development. It is the ego-free life. The ego is not asked to destroy itself but to discipline itself. The personal in a man must live, but only as a slave to the impersonal. These two identities make up his self.
6.8.1.208, ExcerptListen 2 Aug 2021… where, and when, will it all end? When Consciousness is led—by Grace—to itself, beyond its states, phases, and conditions where man, at last, is fit to meet God.
15.23.7.85, ExcerptListen 1 Aug 2021It was a wise teacher who said to me: “Do not demand from human beings a selflessness they are not capable of giving; demand only that they understand this is the direction toward which the divine World-Idea is pushing them. Through one way or another, they will come in the end to suffer attrition of the ego until it is finally reduced to complete subservience to Overself.”
6.8.4.197Listen 31 Jul 2021Though he has been caught up into something immensely greater than himself, he still remains an individual …
16.25.2.219, ExcerptListen 30 Jul 2021There is something godlike in every person. By finding it in ourselves, we rise above the common human life as that in turn rises above the animal.
14.22.3.68Listen 29 Jul 2021The world crisis as a sign that mankind is passing through a spiritual turning-point includes truth-seekers also. It is time for them to stop living by other men's spiritual experience and to start living by their own.
9.13.4.42Listen 28 Jul 2021… the eternal laws of karma will not cease operating merely for the asking … He must set going a series of new causes which shall produce new and pleasanter consequences that may act as an antidote to the older ones.
12.18.2.81, ExcerptListen 27 Jul 2021The traveller on this quest is a man who uses his consciousness and his will to better his character and purify his heart.
2.1.2.125Listen 26 Jul 2021… the ego cannot save itself. Why? Because secretly it does not want to do so, for that would mean its own extinction …
12.18.5.95, ExcerptListen 25 Jul 2021… if anything may be predicted of the age which we are entering, it is that the tempo of change will be tremendously accelerated, and that new inventions and new ideas will come quickly and plentifully to the front.
9.13.4.267, ExcerptListen 24 Jul 2021It is like the feeling of returning to a well-beloved home after long absence, a joy whose arisal is spontaneous and unavoidable.
14.22.6.145Listen 23 Jul 2021… the full and permanent attainment cannot emerge out of meditation alone … the path to this exalted result must traverse all three fields of yoga, metaphysics, and self-abnegating activity.
16.25.2.49, ExcerptListen 22 Jul 2021Pray by listening inwardly for intuitive feeling, light and strength …
12.18.2.77, ExcerptListen 21 Jul 2021Why should we individually undergo every possible experience? Can we not, by creative imagination, intuitive feeling, and correct thinking, save ourselves the need of passing through some experiences? This is so, but it is so only for those who have developed such faculties to a sufficient degree.
9.13.1.61Listen 20 Jul 2021The problem which the ego has created for you but which the ego cannot solve for you will dissolve under the impact of the Overself’s light.
9.13.2.223Listen 19 Jul 2021He will need to develop the ability to stand back periodically from the personal self and survey its life, fortunes, character, and doings quite impartially. During this exercise, he should adopt the attitude of a disinterested spectator seeking to know the truth about it. Hence, he should study it calmly and not take sides with it emotionally.
4.4.4.123Listen 18 Jul 2021The last thing he wants to do is to leave a sect behind him. Like the Buddha, he wants men to depend on the truth rather than on a person.
16.25.4.92Listen 17 Jul 2021If anyone or anything, a man or a book, can contribute to free us from the resentments towards others or the bitternesses towards life which poison feelings, thoughts, and health, he has rendered us a great service or the book has proved its worth.
5.6.5.170Listen 16 Jul 2021We revere God best in silence, with lips struck dumb and thoughts hid deep.
12.18.1.42Listen 15 Jul 2021It is the teacher’s duty to foster his disciple’s creativeness, not his imitativeness—to encourage the disciple to develop his own inspiration.
2.1.6.512Listen 14 Jul 2021Man’s self is not his thoughts but the consciousness which makes those thoughts possible. He stands in somewhat the same relation to them that they stand to the body: he uses them and partially expresses himself through them.
5.7.1.149Listen 13 Jul 2021Such a prophet is like a bell, calling its hearers to attend the true church within themselves.
16.25.4.83Listen 12 Jul 2021Goethe knew, and said, that if he could find out why an artistic production interested and impressed, excited or fascinated him, he could advance another step forward towards saying the Truth.
9.14.3.54Listen 11 Jul 2021This higher self is what the successful mystics of all religions have really achieved union with, despite the widely different names from “God” downwards, which they have given it.
16.25.1.119Listen 10 Jul 2021The glimpse gives him an untrammeled consciousness of this freer and higher self.
14.22.6.385Listen 9 Jul 2021If the wandering characteristic of all thoughts diverts attention and defeats the effort to meditate, try another way. Question the thoughts themselves, seek out their origin, trace them to their beginning and reduce their number more and more. Find out what particular interest or impulse emotion or desire in the ego causes them to arise and push this cause back nearer to the void. In this way, you tend to separate yourself from the thoughts themselves, refuse to identify with them, and get back nearer to your higher identity.
4.4.3.20Listen 8 Jul 2021Let us not betray the good that is in us by a cowardly submission to the bad that is in society.
9.13.2.341Listen 7 Jul 2021If the Light is not resisted, by timidity, ignorance, or egoism, it will work upon the entire human being, radically transforming his outlook, life, and consciousness.
14.22.4.159Listen 6 Jul 2021Those who feel frustrated because of the absence of mystical experience in their lives, needlessly depress themselves. For their progress to higher values, their rise above egoism to principle, their choice of true well-being over mere pleasure, show their response to the Overself and mark their real advancement better than any transient emotional experience.
6.8.4.189Listen 5 Jul 2021
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