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The 30 latest published notes
… it may be said that the Short Path develops inspiration and evokes intuition.
15.23.1.151, ExcerptListen 15 Jun 2021Creative Meditation Exercise: He may think of probable meetings during the next day, if he is practising at night, or of the coming day if at morn, of events that are likely to happen then, and of places where he may have to go. Alongside of that he may imagine how he ought to conduct himself, how to think and talk under those circumstances. And always, if the exercise is to prove its worth, he should take the standpoint of his better, nobler, wiser self, of the Overself.
4.4.4.229Listen 14 Jun 2021We may know when we have entered into the awareness of the Self, for in that moment we shall have gone out of the awareness of the world. The spiritual records which have been left behind by the great mystics, and which evidence this rarer experience of the race, all testify to this.
15.23.7.318Listen 13 Jun 2021When he is so sunk in abstraction that he does not notice even the presence of another person, his meditation has gone as deep as it ought to.
4.4.4.85Listen 12 Jun 2021… a man who has practised meditation all his life and apparently got no results, may very likely be given the reward at the moment of death.
3.2.3.178, ExcerptListen 11 Jun 2021The amount of energy he pours into sustaining the ego and holding to illusions to his own detriment could just as well be poured into sustaining a quest of the Overself to his own gain.
6.8.4.165Listen 10 Jun 2021The quest of truth by a mind deformed by hate, anger, bias, bitterness, or greed, or deficient in concentration, calmness, or aspiration must end in a failure … This is why the Long Path is needed.
3.2.1.59, ExcerptListen 9 Jun 2021Those who feel an emptiness in their hearts despite worldly attainments and possessions may be unconsciously yearning for the Overself.
2.1.2.28Listen 8 Jun 2021The spiritual emblem combining a circle and some other form stands for reconciliation of the Overself and the ego, for integration of man’s higher and lower nature.
4.4.5.56Listen 7 Jun 2021Humanity still clings much too strongly to its egoism in most matters, despite the tuition of war crisis and upheaval; this is the very standpoint which must be abandoned, or at least markedly modified, if humanity is not to pass through further large-scale suffering. And this in turn must itself be the fruit of an awakening to the higher purpose of earthly life …
9.13.4.210, ExcerptListen 6 Jun 2021They will one day feel mercy for the animals and desist from the custom of slaughtering, cooking, and eating them. Of course, the slaughter is done indirectly, by others acting on their behalf. But some of the guilt remains.
4.5.3.128Listen 5 Jun 2021At the very moment that any problem produces thoughts of despondency, turn that problem over to the higher power again, and try to remain inwardly calm.
9.13.2.298Listen 4 Jun 2021It is more than a short respite from personal troubles, more than a white magic which leads him away from a hard and crazy world: it is a return to the source of Life.
3.3.1.129Listen 3 Jun 2021On the Short Path he does little to free himself from a weakness, a desire, or a passion. It goes, falls away of its own accord, if he looks to the Higher Self rather than to the management of his own ego for salvation. It is in this spontaneous way, too, that the attitude of detachment begins to appear in his character and little by little—but sometimes swiftly—becomes established…
15.23.1.168, ExcerptListen 2 Jun 2021What is the purpose of this Long Path inner work upon himself? It is to clear a way for the inflow of grace, even to the most hidden parts of his character.
15.23.4.46Listen 1 Jun 2021… More and more its light will enter his mind …
14.22.8.91, ExcerptListen 31 May 2021It is here, in the ordinary and uneventful tasks of the day, that he may find just as much opportunity to practise nonattachment, to suppress egoism, and to express wisdom.
9.13.2.188Listen 30 May 2021That wonderful time when he can look straight into himself, through ego to Overself, awaits his endeavours.
2.1.5.157Listen 29 May 2021The ego is nothing more than a shadow … It exists—a word whose very meaning, to be placed outside, is also metaphysically true. For he who immerses himself in its consciousness places himself outside the consciousness of Overself.
6.8.2.29, ExcerptListen 28 May 2021In the end the heartlessly cruel punish themselves, though whether here in this life, in purgatory after death, or in some future re-embodiment is another matter.
5.6.5.323Listen 27 May 2021When a man falls totally asleep, when no thoughts and no dreams are active, he has withdrawn (or more accurately been withdrawn) into the centre of his being. He can go no farther inwards. He is really alone with the Overself but, being unable to harmonize with it, the principle of consciousness is not active.
13.19.3.144Listen 26 May 2021… if he does not forget the final purpose of all this worldly activity, that through the body’s life and the mind’s existence he may seek and find his true self, the Overself, the inner failure and superficiality of so many lives will be avoided.
9.13.2.182, ExcerptListen 25 May 2021We invite the future through our aspirations. We get the consequences of our thinking, feeling, and doing. Nature has no favouritism but gives us our deserts.
6.9.3.214Listen 24 May 2021Confucius’ injunction to acquire specific virtues is Long Path, whereas Lao Tzu’s counsel to let the mind become empty so that Tao may enter it is Short Path.
15.23.5.36Listen 23 May 2021Why are they seeking truth? Because they have at last become sensitive enough to respond to the existence of the diviner self within them, the Overself in which only truth exists. The fact of its existence has pressed them subconsciously from within and finally provoked them into feeling a need to become aware of, and co-operative with, the Overself.
2.1.2.258Listen 22 May 2021God is ever present with us but we are ever turning away from him …
14.22.3.28, ExcerptListen 21 May 2021Our deliverance from the miseries of life hangs solely on our deliverance from the bondage to the ego.
6.8.4.1Listen 20 May 2021Every circumstance and environment, every fresh experience and personal contact is an instruction sent by the one unseen Infinite Mind, who should be regarded as the real Master.
16.25.5.185Listen 19 May 2021The Quest is not to be looked upon as something added to his life. Rather it is to be his life itself.
2.1.1.71Listen 18 May 2021The Overself’s take-over is not always the same but changes with the time and the occasion, the person and the place. It may be gentle, quiet, almost unmarked at first, or it may be like a tremendous force, commanding and irresistible.
14.22.6.2Listen 17 May 2021We see every indication around us that the old order of foolish ideas and self-centered ideals is undergoing its last stages of existence. Its cultural possibilities are close to exhaustion.
9.13.4.417Listen 16 May 2021
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