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Once he has found out his true relationship to the higher power, the problem of settling his relationship to other human beings becomes easy.
5.6.2.217Listen 25 Jun 2022A child is born into a family not by mere chance but as the resultant of forces set agoing in the previous births both by the newly born and by its parents.
6.9.2.11Listen 24 Jun 2022It is true that we all share an animal body with the lower creatures. But that does not force us to stay on their level emotionally.
5.6.4.72Listen 23 Jun 2022The Overself’s grace meets us just at the point where our need is greatest, but not necessarily the one we acknowledge as such. We must learn to let it do what it wants to do, not necessarily what we want it to do.
12.18.5.243Listen 22 Jun 2022The eating of flesh foods and, to a lesser degree, animal products tends to keep the human consciousness limited to an outlook which is influenced by the animal propensities. If it is to become truly human, it must free itself from dependence on such foods…
1.5.0.19, ExcerptListen 21 Jun 2022… According to Islamic mystics, called Sufis, there are three main stations along the path—The first is annihilation of the ego; the second is rebirth in the Overself; and the third is fully grown union with the Overself. The Sufis assert that this final state can never be reached without the Grace of the Higher Power and that it is complete, lasting, and unchangeable.
14.22.8.28, ExcerptListen 20 Jun 2022The glimpse will affect each individual in a different way, although the feeling of stepping out of darkness into light will be common to all.
14.22.6.163Listen 19 Jun 2022What the higher self is trying to do in us may be obstructed through ignorance or assisted by knowledge.
5.7.2.7Listen 18 Jun 2022Just as we find strife, violence, and evil on the surface of human existence but divinity, harmony, and peace at its core, so we find cruelty, suffering, and malevolence on the surface of the world’s existence but intelligent beneficent purpose at its core. It is ultimately an expression of God’s wisdom, power, and love.
16.26.1.43Listen 17 Jun 2022At long last, when the union of self with Overself is total and complete, some part of his consciousness will remain unmoving in infinity, unending in eternity. There, in that sacred glory, he will be preoccupied with his divine identity, held to it by irresistible magnetism, gladly, lovingly.
16.25.2.299Listen 16 Jun 2022These are the real waking moments of a man’s life: for the rest he is asleep without ever guessing that he is.
14.22.4.17Listen 15 Jun 2022I recommend the process of cremation to dispose of the body of a deceased person. An interval of three days should take place between the death and the actual cremation, because that is the transition period which makes complete the passing out of the spirit.
6.9.1.144Listen 14 Jun 2022Philosophy rises above sects and is therefore free from sectarian dispute, friction, and hostility. It is naturally tolerant, knowing that as men rise in cultural and moral development, their beliefs will rise in truthfulness and nobility.
13.20.1.497Listen 13 Jun 2022A few minutes of the glimpse compensates fully for the lengthened years of dull mediocrity and triviality, reconciles him to the past’s sufferings.
14.22.7.168Listen 12 Jun 2022There is a useful technique to help attain this purpose. It is to refuse to identify oneself, one’s “I,” with the personal ego. This calls for frequent, if momentary, awareness of thoughts, emotions, and the body. It can be done at any time in any place and is not to be regarded as a meditation exercise.
6.8.4.159Listen 11 Jun 2022Depression cannot coexist with this realization of the presence.
15.24.2.100Listen 10 Jun 2022Destiny may bring them together for the purpose of the spiritual birth of the younger one of them, may confront them so that the elder may pass his living vision and enlarged understanding to the other.
6.9.3.331Listen 9 Jun 2022Just as there is a sun hidden behind the sun, the divinity which animates it, so in the human being there is a Mind within the mind—and that is his Overself.
14.22.3.364Listen 8 Jun 2022To carry the burdens of existence in one body after another through a long series may seem an unpleasant prospect to some minds, as it did to Gautama in India and Schopenhauer in Germany.
6.9.2.199Listen 7 Jun 2022A Christianity once existed which has long been condemned and forgotten but which is as much nearer the true teaching of Jesus as it is nearer him in time. We refer to the school of the Gnostics. Their defeat and disappearance does not lessen their truth. The Gnostic Christians of the third century accepted the pre-existence and earthly rebirths of man. With this doctrine there came naturally the law of recompense, which warns men to heed more carefully what they think and do, for the results will return equally and justly in time.
12.17.5.28Listen 6 Jun 2022The more speech and thought are kept free from negative statements about other faiths, other teachings, other persons, and other organizations, and the more we practise courtesy and silence in matters where we do not agree with them, the better will it be for our true development.
5.6.5.236Listen 5 Jun 2022A well-balanced man cannot be thrown down. He may be pushed about by circumstances but he will always keep, or return to, his centre.
13.20.3.336Listen 4 Jun 2022However busily active he may have to be to fulfil his worldly duties, inwardly his mind will repose in perfect placidity. It is this ideal state that enables him to remain secretly detached from and emotionally uninvolved with the world. Without it, he would be caught up by temptations and tribulations, and affected by them as most men are affected.
15.24.3.151Listen 3 Jun 2022Where is man’s free will? He is free to choose whether he will conform to the pattern of the World-Idea, whether he will obey or not obey the higher laws.
6.9.4.114Listen 2 Jun 2022… The discovery that the forgiveness of sins is a sacred fact should fill us with inexpressible joy. For it is the discovery that there is compassionate love at the heart of the universe …
3.2.9.67, ExcerptListen 1 Jun 2022The experiences of life will in the end overcome these inner resistances. The silent instruction multiplied during the re-embodiments will defeat the psychological defense mechanisms set up against unpalatable truths or new ideas. It is the repetition and deepening of all these lessons through the accumulating rebirths that enables wisdom to penetrate consciousness completely and effectively.
6.9.2.237Listen 31 May 2022In that blessed moment he sinks his identity into the Reality which he has reached.
14.22.6.283Listen 30 May 2022… The attraction toward the divine need not mean repulsion from the world. There is room in human life for both the heavenly and the earthly. To deepen knowledge and increase beauty, to spread compassion and to uplift man—this is our work today.
13.20.1.425, ExcerptListen 29 May 2022Meditation is not to be regarded as an end in itself but as one of the instruments wherewith the true end is to be attained.
1.0.4.2Listen 28 May 2022It is vital to see clearly the difference between teachings that spring from and serve only the ego, and those that spring from and lead to the Overself.
13.20.3.153Listen 27 May 2022It is the presence of the Overself within us which makes more consciousness possible, whether it be the consciousness of the dream or the consciousness of waking.
14.22.3.295Listen 26 May 2022
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