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Step 2. Philosophic Building Blocks

Changed Attitude

The Short Path calls for a definite change of mind, a thinking of totally new thoughts, a fastening of attention upon the goal instead of the way to it. It calls for a revolution, dethroning the ego from being the centre of attention and replacing it by the Overself.

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”Be still and know that I am God” is the key to the enigma of truth, for it sums up the whole of the Short Path. Paradox is the final revelation. For this is “non-doing.” Rather is it a “letting-be,” a non-interference by your egoistic will, a silencing of all the mental agitation and effort.

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All other approaches to the goal depend on a dualistic principle, which puts them on a lower plane. But the Short Path is nondual: it begins and ends with the goal itself; its nature is direct and its working is immediate.

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It is the paradox of the Short Path that it begins with the end, in order to arrive at the end!

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This is the concept which governs the Short Path: that he is in the Stillness of central being all the time whether he knows it or not, that he has never left and can never leave it. And this is so, even in a life passed in failure and despair.

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The man on the Short Path moves forward directly to fulfil his objective. Instead of working by slow degrees toward the control of thoughts, he seeks to recollect the fact that the sacred Overself is present in his mind at this very moment, that It lives within him right now, and not only as a goal to be attained in some distant future. The more he understands this fact and holds attention to it, the more he finds himself able to feel the great calm which follows its realization, the more his thoughts automatically become still in consequence.

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He has to seek for the mysterious essence of himself, which is something he touches at rare, blessed, and unforgettable moments. It allures because it is also the Perfect, ever sought but never found in the world outside.

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When he is established to some extent on the Short Path he may not only expect the expected, as most people do, but also expect the unexpected.

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… To continue action in the old way is to perpetuate the ego’s rule. But to refuse to do so, and to be still, is to create the inner vacuum which allows the higher self to enter and work through us. This is inspired action.

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He is to keep the thought of the goal itself continually before him, to give the mental consciousness as its principal occupation a meditation on the Overself. This is the basis of Short Path work and this is why, before he can hope to succeed, he must first have set himself the Long Path task of gaining some control over his thoughts.

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On the Short Path he becomes aware of the fact of forgiveness. He leaves out the constant self-criticism and self-belittling, the painstaking self-improvement practices, of the other Path and begins to take full note of this saving fact.

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The Short Path will bear fruit in several virtues, which will come of their own accord and without his trying to gain them. In this way it will help him calm his passions and discipline his ego, even though his thoughts and meditations make no reference to them.

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The real Short Path is really the discovery that there is no path at all: only a being still and thus letting the Overself do the work needed. This is the meaning of grace.

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… He who depends on externals plays dice with his happiness. He who depends on his own Overself attains unfailing serenity.

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His own efforts at this stage will consist in removing from the field of concentration every mental association and emotional influence which distracts him from attaining the stillness. When he has succeeded in removing them, he is then to do nothing at all, only to relax.

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… There is a vital and urgent need in human minds today of relating personal experience to the universal experience in which it has been born. Put into religious terms, it is a need of finding God.

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This is the wonder of the Short Path–that it teaches us to refuse at once every thought which seeks to identify us with the feeble and unworthy self. This is the gladness of the Short Path–that it urges us to accept and hold only those thoughts which identify us directly with the strong and divine Overself, or which reflect its goodness and wisdom.

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… It is no truer message than this: ”Seek for the divine within yourself, return to it every day, learn how to continue in it and finally be it.”

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… At this point seek only the Higher Self, live only with positive thought, stay only for as long as you can with the holy silence within, feel only that inner stillness which belongs to the essence of consciousness. Henceforth you are not to become this or that, not to gather the various virtues, but simply to be…

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Know Consciousness without its objects–and you are free!

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73 Philosophic Building Blocks

  • The Mystery
    • Timeless Wisdom
    • The World-Mind
    • The World-Idea
    • The Evolutionary Process
    • The Overself
    • The Overself always Present
    • The Overself never Changes
    • Beyond time, unborn, undying
    • The Overself’s Love
    • The Overself’s Grace
    • The Overself’s Gentle Voice
    • Cultivate Your Intuitive sensitivity
    • Intuition and Intellect
    • Mystical Glimpses
    • Glimpse approaching
    • Experiencing a Glimpse
    • After the Glimpse
    • Overself and Ego
  • The Ego Illusion
    • The Ego
    • Prisoners of our Past
    • The Ego is a Hindrance
    • The Ego manipulates
    • Body, Health and Diet
    • Through the Portal of Death
    • The Afterlife
    • Reincarnation
    • Reincarnation and Karma
    • Karma/Law of Reflection
    • Karma can be Balanced
  • The Turning Point
    • The Highest Purpose
    • We have a Choice
    • The Quester
    • The Spiritual Quest
    • The Inner Voyage
    • Expect Success
    • The World is our School
  • On the Long Path
    • The Ego in Focus
    • Cleansing and Testing the Ego
    • Thoughts of the Ego
    • Improvement of Character
    • Harmonious Balance
    • Meditation
    • Meditation is Necessary
    • The Power of Prayer
    • Aspiration for a Higher Life
    • In the Bosom of Nature
  • On the Short Path
    • The Overself in Focus
    • Love the Overself
    • Entering the Short Path
    • The Short Path
    • Changed Attitude
    • The Twofold Path
    • Trace the I to its Source
    • Contemplation
    • The Remembrance Exercise
    • Remember what You are
    • The As-If Exercise
    • The Witness Exercise
    • Philosophic Studies
    • Reflections
    • Reject Negativity
    • Inner Detachment
    • Positive Attitude
    • Our first Thought
    • Your Silent Partner
    • Your Inner Teacher
  • Born Again
    • Loving Surrender
    • Grace Opens the Door
    • The Enlightenment
    • The egoless State
    • The Sage
    • Compassion without End
  • A Noble Task
    • But One Big Family

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