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Somewhere in Shakespeare there is that phrase about our human “exits and entrances” which, with its reversal of the natural order of birth and death, I take to mean our reincarnation.
6.9.2.177Listen 29 May 2025It is also possible to take any revered person as a master and, in one’s own mind, make him the teacher. Even though no meeting on the physical level may occur, one’s attitude of attention and devotion in meditation will draw from him a reaction which will telepathically give whatever guidance is needed at the time.
2.1.6.749Listen 28 May 2025Whatever mental-emotional clouds the day may bring, he does not detain them but lets them pass over him. This would seem a superhuman feat, but it becomes possible when he turns them over to the higher power.
15.24.3.128Listen 27 May 2025There was one question which Jesus left unanswered. It was Pontius Pilate’s “What is truth?” There was one question which Buddha heard several times but always refused to answer. It was “What is Reality?” Since truth is the knowledge of reality, both amount to the same.
16.28.2.61Listen 26 May 2025… Such is the insecurity of the present-day world that the few who have found security are only the few who have found their own soul, and inner peace.
2.1.2.1, ExcerptListen 25 May 2025Yes, the Glimpse will gently go away, its fine exaltation will subside, but neither its lustrous meaning nor its loving memory will ever be forgotten.
14.22.7.68Listen 24 May 2025First, he must attempt to lift himself upwards, taking the needed time and making the needed effort. Then he will feel that some other force is lifting him gratuitously—this is the reaction, Grace.
12.18.5.158Listen 23 May 2025Three happenings must show themselves: to be given direction, to feel an impulsion towards it, and to practise purification as a necessary requisite for the journey. Two warnings are needed here: fall not into the extreme of unbalance, and depend not on what is outside. One reminder: seek and submit to grace. It may be imageless or found anywhere anytime and in any form—a work of art, a piece of music, a living tree, or a human being—for in the end it must come from your own higher individuality and in your own loneliness.
2.1.2.2Listen 22 May 2025The good karma or God allows him this glimpse of a loftier world in which he could live and thus put his personal turmoil to flight.
14.22.5.105Listen 21 May 2025This freedom from inner conflict, this disburdenment of troubling complexes, this liberation from gnawing unrest, releases his mental and emotional energies for concentration upon his work.
15.24.2.122Listen 20 May 2025In those situations wherein it is totally helpless to save itself from danger and death, every creature sends forth an anguished cry from the heart. And this is as natural to animals as to human beings …
12.18.2.18, ExcerptListen 19 May 2025Whoever seeks to raise his own consciousness to the Overself’s, will get most help from seeking out an individual who has already accomplished that task. In the presence of someone whose own consciousness is in the Overself, he will receive the inward inspiration which can energize and lead his personal efforts in the same direction.
2.1.6.49Listen 18 May 2025Nothing is to be held within the consciousness but rather consciousness is to let itself be held by the enveloping Grace.
15.23.7.241Listen 17 May 2025He brings his personality into his thoughts and acts, as everyone does; but even in the next and higher stage, where he becomes a spectator of that personality, it still happens, although in a subtler and diminished way. There is a further stage where ego becomes entirely subservient and consciousness is centered on a still deeper level.
6.8.4.482Listen 16 May 2025The struggles and conflicts, within men and between them, come from the ego’s presence.
7.11.2.15Listen 15 May 2025Even when one’s deep sincerity and earnest aspiration are beyond question, and even though one may have already travelled fast and far in certain directions, this may not be enough to attain enlightenment. All sides of the psyche—including some previously neglected—must be evenly balanced and developed in order to lead one to a full and lasting illumination of the whole.
3.2.5.164Listen 14 May 2025It is true that no spiritual effort is ever made in vain either in the individual struggle for progress or in the way individual progress influences others.
3.2.2.87Listen 13 May 2025In the end he will have to confess, as the English hermit Richard Rolle confessed six hundred years ago, despite his deep mystical experiences, that it is not possible to know what God is but only that he is.
16.28.2.40Listen 12 May 2025The intuition should be accorded the highest place among man’s faculties. It should always lead or direct them.
14.22.1.31Listen 11 May 2025It is not so much a matter of destroying the ego as of balancing it with the Overself, for its need of development must be recognized. Such an act will not give it equal power but put it in its proper place, as a child’s individuality needs to be balanced with its parents’.
6.8.1.179Listen 10 May 2025He may count himself fortunate if he comes under the tutelage of the Interior Word. But his good fortune will last only as long as he faithfully obeys it. The failure to do so will bring painful but educative retribution.
14.22.2.130Listen 9 May 2025… With continuous perseverance on the quest, his life becomes stabilized and his energies concentrated. His advance will be marked no less by deeper thoughts and steadier emotions, by kindlier words and nobler emotions in the ordinary round of daily life, as by subtler intuitions and serener meditations in the hidden life …
3.2.2.101, ExcerptListen 8 May 2025The Short Path precludes impatience and forbids anxiety.
15.23.1.122Listen 7 May 2025He must mentally rectify the errors of those instinctive egoistic reactions which the philosophic discipline will make him aware of—an awareness that may come quite soon after they happen or much later.
6.8.4.374Listen 6 May 2025It is not necessary to practise vigorous exercises that quickly tire one, nor to put forth strenuous exertions that make one perspire. There are mild, simple, and slow movements which can bring about the desired results without them.
4.5.5.15Listen 5 May 2025The source of intuitive knowledge lies outside the conscious mind. The vehicle which conveys that knowledge need not necessarily be within us. It may be without us, in the form of a book, a person, or an event to which we are led, guided, or prompted.
14.22.1.124Listen 4 May 2025… He may derive an astringent wisdom from all these unpleasant consequences of the lower ego’s activities …
2.1.2.282, ExcerptListen 3 May 2025Beyond all forms which consciousness can take is its very essence, consciousness in itself, alone and unique. It can never be transformed or changed and it can never disintegrate.
16.28.1.133Listen 2 May 2025The Overself throws out a clue to its existence and presence. This comes in various ways to different persons. One form is a delicate feeling drawing him inward either to deeper thought or to no thought at all. If he goes along with it even though hardly aware and half-involuntarily, he will be led by this clue to a glimpse.
14.22.5.110Listen 1 May 2025What are the blockages which prevent the soul’s light, grace, peace, love, and healing from reaching us? There are many different kinds, but they are resolvable into the following: first, all negative; second, all egoistic; and third, all aggressive. By “aggressive” I mean that we are intruding our personality and imposing our ideas all the time. If we would stop this endless aggression and be inwardly still for a while, we would be able to hear and receive what the Soul has to say and to give us.
7.11.2.24Listen 30 Apr 2025This is the general mind behind our small personal minds, the one behind the many.
14.22.3.403Listen 29 Apr 2025
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