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The 30 latest published notes
The closer he comes to the Overself the more reticent he becomes about it.
14.22.7.39Listen 20 May 2024No man is really and fully free since all men are carrying out the World-Idea. The feeling which he usually possesses that he is acting under his own power and making his own choices is due to his ignorance.
6.9.4.137Listen 19 May 2024He finds a new joy deep within himself, a new and higher meaning deep within life.
14.22.6.235Listen 18 May 2024So long as we keep ourselves focused wholly in the physical world, thoughts such as these may be read but will not reach our minds.
2.1.2.393Listen 17 May 2024The advantages of being in a position of intellectual and social, religious and personal independence are several. The chance of finding truth and, if luckily found, of expressing it, is surely larger.
2.1.3.179Listen 16 May 2024As the desires depart, they leave the heart vacant for tenancy by the Overself.
12.18.5.224Listen 15 May 2024Can we rightly say it is mere chance that our earth rotates around the sun, and does so in a certain precise measured rhythm? Is there not evidence of intelligence here?
16.26.1.20Listen 14 May 2024Jesus’ primary intention was to heal the inner man, to promote a directional change in his thought and feeling, to divert him from a sinful to a righteous attitude towards life, and to convert him from spiritual indifference to spiritual enthusiasm. The healing of the body was but a by-product and took place only after these inner processes had been successfully carried out …
7.10.5.115, ExcerptListen 13 May 2024It is not quite the same to go in search of a faith to believe in as to go in search of a truth to understand. Philosophy, however, unites the two endeavours.
13.20.1.93Listen 12 May 2024The analytical study of certain metaphysical conceptions such as God, the soul, and the ego, is necessary.
1.7.0.24Listen 11 May 2024The belief that he can do nothing to hold this glimpse or keep this mood settles on him through repeated experience. But it is not quite correct. Philosophy points out that he can thin down or remove altogether the causes of such evanescence.
14.22.8.15Listen 10 May 2024Human beings can only hope to realize the Overself which is a ray or intermediary, but not the World-Mind itself. For the latter is too vast and infinite and remote …
16.25.1.110, ExcerptListen 9 May 2024There are other forces at work in us besides those which everyone recognizes. Some are higher and nobler than our ordinary self, others lower and unworthier.
6.8.1.40Listen 8 May 2024In that sudden moment of spiritual awareness, or that longer period of spiritual ecstasy, he identifies himself no more with the projection from Mind but with pure Mind itself. In that severance from its projection, the shadow becomes the sun.
14.22.6.303Listen 7 May 2024It is this feeling that he is not in his true place that pushes a man into this search for a teaching or a teacher.
2.1.2.319Listen 6 May 2024It is out of the interplay of meditation, metaphysics, and altruistic action that insight is unfolded. No single element will alone suffice: the conjunction of all three is needed and then only can insight emerge …
13.20.4.175, ExcerptListen 5 May 2024A single decision may entirely shape the next fifty years of a young man’s future.
6.9.4.29Listen 4 May 2024To become Man as evolution intends him to be, he must draw out all his latent resources, fill out a wide experience. This is why so many reincarnations on earth are needed. Until then, his realization as Man will be an incomplete one.
6.9.2.233Listen 3 May 2024A tremendous surprise comes when the Overself shows him to himself--when, for the first time, the ego can see what it is really like by a diviner light.
6.8.1.17Listen 2 May 2024The mere number of years of existence is not enough basis on which to judge a man’s wisdom. The body’s age is quite separate from the soul’s.
9.13.3.201Listen 1 May 2024Deprived of the physical presence of his master, he is forced to seek and find the mental presence. At first he does this as a substitute for what he cannot get, but later he learns to accept it as the reality.
16.25.5.247Listen 30 Apr 2024When the two selves become one, the inner conflict vanishes. Peace, rich and unutterable, is his.
13.20.5.9Listen 29 Apr 2024All he can do is to accept the inner gift when it is offered, which is not so easy or simple a feat as it sounds. Too many people brush it off because its beginnings are so delicate, so faint, as not to point at all plainly to their glorious consequences.
12.18.5.282Listen 28 Apr 2024The intuition is to collate all these different functions of the personality, and direct them towards its truest welfare.
14.22.1.251Listen 27 Apr 2024Adherence to philosophy is the most fundamental act of a man’s life. He cannot be emotionally rushed into it, as he can into adherence to a religious cult. It is the result of growth.
13.20.2.324Listen 26 Apr 2024The energy which appears to us as light is the basis of the universe, the principle from which all things are made.
14.22.4.152Listen 25 Apr 2024In the depths of meditation, when one is sitting still and enchanted, all egoism gone for the moment and all care suspended, it is possible to understand what the word Heaven really means.
15.24.4.166Listen 24 Apr 2024With the thought of the higher power, an image will spontaneously spring up in his mind. It will be the image of that man who manifests or represents it to him.
2.1.6.844Listen 23 Apr 2024It is neither the ego thinking of the Overself nor the Overself thinking of itself. All thoughts are absent from this experience. It is rather that the Overself contemplates and knows itself in the moment that the ego is withdrawn into it.
14.22.6.269Listen 22 Apr 2024If it were not for the presence of a few human lights in our world, and for their mostly silent but sometimes open activity, that world would have deteriorated spiritually, morally, to an extent far below what it has done.
7.11.3.338Listen 21 Apr 2024The more he internalizes his attention, and the less he responds to the sense-impressions, the nearer he draws to the spiritual presence in his heart.
4.4.3.207Listen 20 Apr 2024
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