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Step 2. Philosophic Building Blocks

We have a Choice

There comes a time when the unfulfilled possibilities of a man begin to haunt him, when his innermost conscience protests against the wastage of this reincarnation.

2.1.2.2672015-12-23

It is both the irony and tragedy of life that we use up its strictly limited quota of years in pursuits which we come later to see as worthless and in desires which we find bring pain with their fulfilment. The dying man, who sees the cinema-film of his past flash in review before his mental eyes, discovers this irony and feels this tragedy.

6.8.4.3552012-07-10

A time comes in the intellectual growth of a man when he knows that he must put aside the trivialities of life and come to terms with the demands made upon him by his higher nature.

2.1.1.1752015-06-07

It is not too late at any period of life, even in old age, to obtain a firm footing upon the spiritual path and gain its satisfying rewards.

2.1.1.21342019-12-31

… Whatever is called for to bring on enlightenment exists within himself already, but it is latent and undeveloped. By study, exercise, and practice the aspirant can be his own teacher. Sooner or later he will have to take this work into his own hands. The notion that someone else can or will do it all for him is delusory…

2.1.6.722, Excerpt2011-11-27

No pleasure which is brief, sensual, and fugitive is worth exchanging for equanimity and peace, not even if it is multiplied a thousand times during a lifetime’s course.

15.24.2.522013-07-19

In man, Heaven and Earth unite. He is free to enjoy the one or the other. The first leads to peace of mind, the second ties him to the ego’s wheel. Whoever sincerely wants access to divinity may find it, but he must make the first move.

2.1.2.172019-09-21

The Overself is in the heart of every man but few care to seek it out until pressure of its grace from within, or fatigue with the world-life without, drives them to do so.

14.22.3.412017-02-23

The worst result of all this hurry and tumult and preoccupation with externals is that it leaves no time for intuitive living.

15.24.2.562015-08-03

He should sometimes ask himself for how many more years may he hope to be given the chance which every lifetime gives a man to transcend himself.

3.2.8.92013-08-01

His moral response to a happening, as also his mental attitude toward it and emotional bearing under it, are largely free. It is in this realm, moreover, that important possibilities of further spiritual growth or else materialistic hardening are available. He may renew inner strength or fall back into sensual weakness.

6.9.4.242014-04-27

Those who can bring themselves to give up all, will receive all. Those who can dare to lift themselves out of emotional oscillation will find ”the peace which passeth understanding.” Those who can perceive that they are their own obstacles in the way will in no long time perceive the truth.

15.24.3.922019-11-01

If we choose to be endlessly preoccupied with external matters, business, and pleasure, if we will not turn lovingly in the only direction to which we must turn if we are to behold our divine self, then it is useless to blame life, God, or luck for our unhappy blindness.

2.1.1.1412016-11-07

It is when a man breaks down and finally admits that he cannot go on, that both he and his life must change–it is at such a moment that he is close to the guidance and help of the Overself, if only he can recognize them and is willing to accept them.

12.18.4.72019-08-14

He can identify himself with ego or with Overself.

15.23.5.372012-05-12

There is no third way open to us. The world is rapidly moving into a new age. We may either cling to the remnants of the age that is vanishing or we may meet the age which is coming. We must make our choice…

9.13.4.214, Excerpt2013-07-05

He has tried to manage his life by himself through all these years, but the results have been too deplorable too frequently. Is it not time to let the Overself take over?

12.18.4.312016-02-01

The situation may be summed up thus: If the activity of thinking is directed towards external objects and inspired by the desire to attain or retain them, it binds a man to his spiritual ignorance. If however it is directed towards God or his divine soul and is inspired by the desire to attain it, then it leads him to spiritual intuitions.

5.7.1.1242017-01-19

If men only knew how glorious, how rich, how satisfying this inner life really is, they would not hesitate for a moment to forsake all those things which bar their way to it.

2.1.1.922010-12-27

… If humanity is to travel upward and fulfil its higher destiny, it can do so only by enlarging its area of interest and extending its field of consciousness. It must, in short, seek to realize the Overself on the one hand, to feel its oneness on the other…

12.17.7.32011-11-21

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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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