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… enlightenment involves liberation from his ego, its captivity and deceitfulness.
2.1.5.293, ExcerptListen 14 Jun 2026Only he who lives from moment to moment by the clear light of its teaching, by the deepest faith in its tenets, and by the ardent feeling of its worth is a true disciple of philosophy.
13.20.3.115Listen 13 Jun 2026There is a fixed centre deep within every man. He may live in it, if he can find and keep to it, so tranquilly that all else in his thoughts and feelings and actions will be affected by its magic without being able to affect it.
15.24.3.308Listen 12 Jun 2026The risk of being carried away by the world is always present for those who try to spiritualize their life in the world rather than in a monastery or ashram. It is a risk which calls for watchfulness, management, and occasional periods of retreat.
3.3.1.198Listen 11 Jun 2026No man can get out of his own sorrows unless he can get out of his own thoughts.
15.24.3.132Listen 10 Jun 2026Every man may awaken to the presence of Christ-consciousness within himself and thus step out of the merely animal and nominally human existence. It will then be a divinely human one.
2.1.5.156Listen 9 Jun 2026The ruling ideas with which he falls asleep will form a connection with the wakeful life and profoundly influence it.
13.19.3.168Listen 8 Jun 2026The first goal is to become absorbed in this recollection of the Overself and anchored in this affirmation of it.
15.23.6.215Listen 7 Jun 2026Our attention is now so fully absorbed by externals that we never have the leisure to cultivate inwardness …
3.3.2.126, ExcerptListen 6 Jun 2026The effect of a Glimpse upon character may show itself as a passing feeling but it is the business of a quester to show it as a habit of life.
14.22.7.227Listen 5 Jun 2026Each man has only a limited fund of life-force, time, and ability. He may squander it on worldly pleasures or spend it on worldly ambitions. But if, without neglecting the duties of his particular situation, he realizes that these are changing and transient satisfactions and turns instead to the quest of the Overself, he begins to justify his incarnation.
2.1.1.84Listen 4 Jun 2026When we talk of the ego we mean the mind, the body, the senses, and the memory. For take them away and we are as nothing.
6.8.3.19Listen 3 Jun 2026The philosophic discipline shows us how we are to treat ourselves. The philosophic morality teaches us how we are to treat others. It provides both abstract principle for theory and concrete rules for conduct.
13.20.3.98Listen 2 Jun 2026After he has exhausted all worldly means and hopes, in any particular direction, where else can a man turn except backward—back to his own divine source?
3.3.2.138Listen 1 Jun 2026Out of these intense struggles with his thoughts and emotions, these repeated meditations and altruistic actions, these constant self-analyses and ardent yearnings, he will eventually get something which words can hardly describe. It will be a new sense of sacredness, an enlightened awareness of a deeper self, a blessed loving serenity.
2.1.5.420Listen 31 May 2026It is the Master’s business to lead his disciples to make their own discovery of the hidden track to the Overself.
16.25.5.84Listen 30 May 2026The aim is to achieve a concentration as firm and as steady as the Mongolian horseman’s when he gallops without spilling a drop of water from a completely filled glass held in his hand.
4.4.3.76Listen 29 May 2026If through a book we can associate ourselves with a mastermind, it represents an opportunity we cannot afford to miss.
9.14.4.191Listen 28 May 2026There is peace behind the tumult, goodness behind the evil, happiness behind the agony.
6.9.3.264Listen 27 May 2026The extraordinary thing is that when, putting aside the ego-desires, we selflessly seek to know the divine will for us in any given circumstances, the answer brings with it the strength necessary to obey it.
12.18.4.99Listen 26 May 2026Those on the quest need to know each other quite well before marrying. This means they need to know the other person’s negative as well as positive characteristics. Then they have to decide whether they are able and willing to spend the rest of their life living with those negatives, that is, whether the positive qualities which attract them are strong enough to overbalance the opposite ones.
9.13.2.448Listen 25 May 2026Two trustworthy evidences of real progress are attainment of balance and attenuation of ego.
3.2.2.72Listen 24 May 2026… If, by such frequent and impartial retrospection, the lessons of past misbehaviour have been thoroughly learnt, there is the further likelihood that the Overself’s grace may wipe out the record of evil karma waiting to be suffered, or at least modify it.
6.9.3.144, ExcerptListen 23 May 2026The stages of the Quest pass by degrees from the disciplining of the ego to the opening of consciousness to the Overself.
2.1.5.297Listen 22 May 2026The attitude towards cultism should be precisely the same as that towards all other religions with organized institutions. One may learn what they have to offer without joining them. It is needful to use one’s critical judgement and try to see clearly their limitations, deficiencies, and weaknesses along with their truths and services.
11.16.7.98Listen 21 May 2026The Long Path is an intermittent fight against the animal nature and the human ego. The Short Path is a continuous quest of the attention for the Overself.
15.23.5.105Listen 20 May 2026Each experience in this tumultuous world is a chance to get farther from our habitual egoism.
6.8.4.262Listen 19 May 2026… Only by seeking refuge in the immortality of the Overself and in discovering the truth and wisdom of the Divine Purpose, can we also learn how to endure the suffering on the ever-changing face of life. “Letting go” is the hardest of all lessons to learn; yet it is the most necessary for spiritual advancement.
6.9.1.134, ExcerptListen 18 May 2026In the recesses of his own being, a man can find peace, strength, wisdom—but only if he brings his thoughts into obedience.
4.4.1.39Listen 17 May 2026In the final reckoning we are not the disciple of this or that man but rather the disciple of the Overself.
2.1.6.832Listen 16 May 2026He has emotionally to crawl on hands and knees before the higher power in the deepest humility. This kills pride, that terrible obstacle between man and the Soul’s presence.
12.18.3.73Listen 15 May 2026
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