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Miguel de Molinos: “It is useless to trust in the interior way of contemplation if the obstacles which hinder their progress and spiritual blight be not removed from the path of those souls that are called.” In other words, the Long Path work must clear a way for the Short Path work.
15.23.4.18Listen 19 Apr 2024His life silently becomes a witness to the fact of the Overself’s continuous presence.
16.25.2.328Listen 18 Apr 2024The internal work of Grace is only possible if the aspirant assents to the direction it is taking and supports the transformation it is effecting. If it is severing him from an attachment which he is unwilling to abandon and if he withholds his consent, the Grace itself may be forced to withdraw. The same may happen if he clings to a desire from which it seeks to free him.
12.18.5.229Listen 17 Apr 2024To the degree that a man practises constructive thinking and harmonious feeling, to that degree will he help to draw progressive events and helpful chances to himself.
4.4.6.175Listen 16 Apr 2024Every situation in human life can be approached from two possible points of view. The first is the limited one and is that of the personal self. The second is the larger one and is that of Universal Self. The larger and longer view always justifies itself in the end.
14.22.3.396Listen 15 Apr 2024The human mind is fortunate in this, that it has a connection with the Divine Mind …
16.25.1.47, ExcerptListen 14 Apr 2024We are called to give others–animals as well as humans–the same treatment that we call on God to give us.
4.5.3.18Listen 13 Apr 2024If he has become enlightened, a discerning eye may note the fact by his body and his actions, by his silences and his utterances. But an ignorant eye may note nothing at all.
16.25.2.254Listen 12 Apr 2024There is a proper time for all acts and attitudes. The improper time to drop mystical technique and quit meditational exercises is when you are still a novice, still aware only of thoughts and emotions on the ordinary plane. The proper time to abandon set practices is when you are a proficient, when you have become adequately aware of the divine presence. Then you need engage yourself only in a single and simple effort: to persevere in paying attention to this presence so as to sustain and stretch out the welcome intervals of its realization.
3.2.9.19Listen 11 Apr 2024Seek the centre of inner gravity and try to stay in it. Try to avoid being pulled out of it by emotions and passions, whether your own or other people’s, by anxieties and troubles–in short, by the ego.
15.24.2.21Listen 10 Apr 2024To enter into the presence of a high inspiration, feel its ennoblement, and understand its message, brings a deeply satisfying joy.
2.1.5.369Listen 9 Apr 2024These glimpses come at the most unexpected of times and in the most unexpected places … Reports have been received which reveal that they may come abruptly during the strain and pressure of business or professional activity, as well as during the relaxation of leisure hours, at the beginning, the middle, and the end of the day, during pleasurable periods or amid great suffering.
14.22.6.1, ExcerptListen 8 Apr 2024When he believes he is communing with God he is actually communing with his own inner reality. The enlightenment that seems to come from outside actually comes from inside himself.
16.25.1.102Listen 7 Apr 2024He will have gone far intellectually when he can understand the statement that mind is the seeker but Mind is the sought.
16.28.2.108Listen 6 Apr 2024There is a single source of Life which envelops the universe and pervades man. By its presence in himself he is able to exist physically and function mentally.
7.10.2.1Listen 5 Apr 2024Before a man complains that he is unable to get intuition, he should remember that his own moral fault may be responsible for this. It can not only prevent him from receiving true intuitions but also from responding to them in action.
14.22.1.180Listen 4 Apr 2024Meditation is inner work to attain the soul’s presence. It is sometimes quickly resultful, but more often goes on for a long time before that attainment is realized.
4.4.1.188Listen 3 Apr 2024It is not at all necessary to assume unbearable physical positions and torment oneself trying to maintain them. The less attention one need give to the presence of one’s own body the better will be the conditions for successful practice. What is really necessary is to obey one simple rule: keep the body still, refuse to move it about or to fidget any limb. This physical quiet is both the prelude to and preparation for mental quiet. Any position in which one feels able to settle down comfortably and sit immobile is a good position.
4.4.2.164Listen 2 Apr 2024Meditation is important in this Quest. It must be learnt. It helps to create a condition wherein the holy presence can be felt, where before there was nothing, and where the holy guidance can be given.
4.4.1.32Listen 1 Apr 2024To describe the wonders and benefits, the delights and beauties of these glimpses will whet the appetite of people without satisfying it. Hence they will then be led to ask how such a glimpse is to be obtained.
14.22.5.1Listen 31 Mar 2024The art of meditation is accomplished in two progressive stages: first, mental concentration; second, mental relaxation. The first is positive, the second is passive.
4.4.1.148Listen 30 Mar 2024His work is to prepare the ground and sow the seed; Nature will do the rest. That is to say, he is to arrange the favourable physical circumstances and the proper psychological concentration in which inspiration can most easily be born.
3.2.4.28Listen 29 Mar 2024The silent secret part of the self is forever there, forever asking a little surrender of attention. But few give it.
14.22.3.64Listen 28 Mar 2024Sometimes it is high wisdom to desert the world for awhile, resting in a hermitage or reposing with Nature. For a fresh point of view may be found there, what is happening within oneself may be better understood, the tired mind may gain some concentration, and the fringe of inner peace may be touched.
3.3.1.172Listen 27 Mar 2024The “I” knows itself as the Overself when it ceases to limit itself to the individual entity, thereby liberating its will to the full extent at last …
6.8.1.49, ExcerptListen 26 Mar 2024The experience of being gripped and physically shaken by some extraordinary power will also occur at certain intervals along this path. This is not to be feared but rather to be welcomed. It always signifies a descent of grace and is a herald of coming progress of some kind or other.
3.2.9.27Listen 25 Mar 2024So long as we persist in taking the ego at its own valuation as the real Self, so long are we incapable of discovering the truth about the mind or of penetrating to its mysterious depths …
6.8.4.386, ExcerptListen 24 Mar 2024… The quest of the Overself must begin with a discipline of the underself.
3.2.1.81, ExcerptListen 23 Mar 2024If he can develop the facility to sustain his meditation and keep off distracting thoughts, he can gain a cooler vision in worldly matters and a clearer one in spiritual matters.
4.4.1.331Listen 22 Mar 2024He may ask himself whether he has any competence for such a great task. But this is to forget that he has been led to this point, to the quest, that the same higher self or power which out of its grace did this can lead him still farther.
2.1.2.117Listen 21 Mar 2024… Jesus said, “Except ye become as little children ye cannot enter the kingdom of Heaven.” What did he mean? Consider the minds of children in whom the ego is but little developed. How egoless they are. How spontaneous and immediate is their knowledge of the world around them …
3.2.3.29, ExcerptListen 20 Mar 2024
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