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It is inevitable that depressing failures and wearisome defeats should harass the pilgrim on this quest. He may grieve over them but he must not fall before them. He should accept their practical lessons but not their negative effects. An intelligent patience, a deep faith, and a quiet hope must fortify him.
3.2.3.194Listen 15 Oct 2026By withdrawing his attention into himself, by becoming conscious of Consciousness, he rebuts the world.
3.3.1.131Listen 14 Oct 2026Emotional ecstasies are not or should not be the final goal of meditation practice. They may be welcomed, but the quest ought not be pursued so far and allowed to end with them. Better the Great Peace, the Self melted in Divine Being, the mind enlightened by Divine Truth, the result a return to the world with the heart suffused by a Great Goodwill. Such is the philosopher’s goal. ...
4.4.7.21, ExcerptListen 13 Oct 2026That alone is pure authentic service which asks for no return.
3.2.8.126Listen 12 Oct 2026When they assert that they have united with God, they have, if truly attained, united with God’s deputy, their higher self, their own divine soul—which is the not the same. …
16.25.1.131, ExcerptListen 11 Oct 2026Historical disaster and outward catastrophe might destroy civilization but could not destroy humanity. Its inner life will go on.
9.13.4.414Listen 10 Oct 2026Outward changes for the better are almost always the result of improved inner conditions—that is, better, more inspired thinking, plus elimination of negative thoughts and actions
9.13.1.352Listen 9 Oct 2026Philosophy is at one and the same time a religious cult, a metaphysical system, a mystical technique, a moral discipline, and a practical guide.
13.20.1.83Listen 8 Oct 2026Concepts or ideas are clues, pointers, signposts to truth, perhaps helps towards the search, but ought not to be referred to a level beyond that of the intellect, which is limited. Fixation and dogmatism should be avoided. Words, definitions, even bibles are not absolute, but relative to our present mental state.
5.5.3.116Listen 7 Oct 2026If he understands the process whereby he arrived at illumination, he will know how to recover it if and when it fades away. But if he arrived at it by an unconscious process, then when he loses it he will not know how to help himself.
14.22.5.43Listen 6 Oct 2026Our approach to every doctrine must be to take its truth and leave its error. But we must do this in appreciation rather than in disparagement.
5.7.3.113Listen 5 Oct 2026It is of practical importance in the affairs of his life not to enter any undertaking nor make a decision nor begin a day without first entering into a meditation. This will tend to introduce proper deliberateness and dismiss hasty carelessness from his decisions, to insert intuitive guidance into his activities, and to warn him against wrong enterprises.
9.13.2.243Listen 4 Oct 2026If a man asks why he can find no trace of God’s presence in himself, I answer that he is full of evidence, not merely traces. God is present in him as consciousness, the state of being aware; as thought, the capacity to think; as activity, the power to move; and as stillness, the condition of ego, emotion, intellect, and body which finally and clearly reveals what these other things simply point to. “Be still, and know that I am God” is a statement of being whose truth can be tested by experiment and whose value can be demonstrated by experience.
14.22.3.409Listen 3 Oct 2026At this stage he will tend more and more to stop counting on fixed, pre-thought plans for future movement, actions, or arrangements, to let the guidance of the moment take over, through the silent voice of intuition.
12.18.4.183Listen 2 Oct 2026The presence of the personal ego in the dream state accounts for the presence of joys and sorrows in that state too. Its absence from deep sleep accounts for the latter’s satisfying tranquillity.
13.19.3.97Listen 1 Oct 2026It lies in your mind whether or not you shall make something worthwhile of your life. What you have learned from the past, what you think of the present, and what you seek from the future—all these ideas combine and influence the achieved result.
13.21.5.63Listen 30 Sep 2026He should not be satisfied with a mere glimpse of the pacified mind. He should hold on to it long enough to make the meditation period a glorious success.
15.23.7.299Listen 29 Sep 2026What really happened to Descartes when he lost himself in deep meditation whilst walking the quays of Amsterdam and had to be led home to his lodging? He forgot his personal identity.
6.8.4.479Listen 28 Sep 2026However distant a teacher may be, whether in country or century, by means of this written record he is able to help whoever is willing to lend his time and eyes.
2.1.6.92Listen 27 Sep 2026The asceticism which marked those two Oriental messages (Buddhism and Hinduism), will not be a suitable feature of the new message. The new one says that we are to live in the world but not to become worldly, and that we may enjoy the good things of this world so long as we do not forget also to enjoy the good things of the Spiritual Quest.
3.2.7.108Listen 26 Sep 2026If we can train the mind to be still, it will clear itself of muddy thoughts and let the Soul’s light shine through.
4.4.7.33Listen 25 Sep 2026He can begin this inner work with whatever capacities he has now, from wherever he is now on life’s road. There is no time that is not the right time, no place that is not the right place, no circumstances which cannot be put to use in some way. For there are lessons to be learnt everywhere …
2.1.5.262, ExcerptListen 24 Sep 2026Philosophy never ceases to affirm that the soul exists and that human consciousness can be raised to embrace it.
13.20.1.56Listen 23 Sep 2026His life is no longer planned out meticulously in advance; he begins to live by the day, and cannot say what he will do within a month or a year, until the time actually nears or finally arrives.
12.18.4.181Listen 22 Sep 2026If he makes himself worthy of grace, he need not worry about whether he will ever receive it. His earnest strivings will sooner or later merit it. And this is the best way to render its bestowal a likely happening.
12.18.5.197Listen 21 Sep 2026Each man who lights this candle within his own mind will soon begin to attract other men like moths—not all men nor many men but only those who are groping for a way out of their darkness.
2.1.2.47Listen 20 Sep 2026Thus in his onward march the aspirant has to overcome his sensations and emotions, his thoughts and reasonings, all indeed that he has hitherto known as himself, before he can wake up to the existence of the hidden observer.
6.8.4.173Listen 19 Sep 2026If the Overself stubbornly stays out of your range of consciousness, it is because your ego stays too much within it.
6.8.4.51Listen 18 Sep 2026In sleep, which supervenes when the intellect becomes fatigued, the latter retires to rest in the higher mind, when no thoughts arise.
13.19.3.96Listen 17 Sep 2026There is a tradition that live snails crawled all over and wholly covered the Buddha’s head to prevent his getting sunstroke when he had fallen into deep inner absorption in a place where no tree branches gave their usual shelter. Whether this is true or not, it does convey the idea that the apostle of mercy and love for the whole animal kingdom received his own love reflected back to him by members of that kingdom.
4.5.3.94Listen 16 Sep 2026The more love he can bring into this practice, the more he is likely to succeed with it. If he cannot yet feel any love for the Overself, then let him bring joy into it, the joy of knowing that he is on the most worthwhile journey in life.
4.4.2.296Listen 15 Sep 2026
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