1. DIVINITY IN HEART IS PERSONAL, IN THE VOID IS IMPERSONAL
"When I feel the divine presence in my heart, I acknowledge God as Personal; but when, going deeper in silent contemplation, I vanish in the infinite immeasurable Void, I must afterwards call Him Impersonal."
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2. "BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD"
"'Be still and know that I am God' is not only to be interpreted as enjoining the practice of meditation but as enjoining it to the farthest possible extent--the coma-like, rigid trance experienced by Saint Catherine of Siena and the young Ramana Maharshi."
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3. PRESENCE OF THE OVERSELF
"The Overself is neither a cold metaphysical concept nor a passing wave of emotion. It is a Presence--sublime, sacred, and beneficent--which grips your heart, thought, and body by its own mysterious power, making you regard life from a nobler standpoint."
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4. FOUR EXPRESSIONS OF PURE MIND
"The Mind's first expression is the Void. The second and succeeding is the Light, that is, the World-Mind. This is followed by the third, the World–Idea. Finally comes the fourth, manifestation of the world itself."
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5. REMEMBER THAT YOU ARE A PILGRIM
"Bring again and again into remembrance the fact that you are a pilgrim, that this world is but a camp, and that the situations in which you find yourself, or create for yourself, should be regarded not from the worldly point of view only, but still more from that of this quest of the Overself."
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6. ARE WE SEALED INSIDE OUR SENSES?
"This thought that we are hermetically sealed in our five senses, that our sense-world is but a mere fragment of the total existence, and that such existence is itself a mere shadow of reality, is enough to awe us into a feeling of utter insignificance and helplessness."
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7. LIFE AND FATE DRAW US TOWARDS THE SOUL
"This divine soul never withdraws from man's life, is never absent from man's fate. For the very purpose of these last two is to draw him to seek and find the soul.
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8. WORLD IS SCHOOL
"Here, in this physical world, the ego is put to school. Here it learns lessons, sins and suffers, yields to passion and then checks it, responds to intuition and is led upward.
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9. ALL ARE WITTINGLY OR UNWITTINGLY SEEKING HIGHER SELF
"No man has any choice as to whether or not he should seek the kingdom of heaven, his higher Spiritual Self. Every man is seeking it, knowingly or unwittingly, and is preordained to do so. There is no escape. There is no satisfaction for him outside it.
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10. PAIN BELONGS TO LIMITED BEING
"Pain and suffering belong to the worlds of limited being, not to the world of infinite being. If man has to endure them, it is because they serve to remind him of this, to warn him against self-deception and to arouse him to take the homeward path.
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11. STILLNESS IS UNDERSTANDING, INSIGHT & EXPERIENCE
"The Stillness is both an Understanding, an Insight of the mind, and an Experience of the being. The whole movement or vibration comes to a stop.
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12. MAN'S ESSENCE IS LIVING MIND
"Man is what he is. Nothing can alter that. Out of the immortal, benign, eternal Mind he came, to It he shall return. Meanwhile It is his very essence, that is, It is life.
13. QUEST ENDS IN LOVE
"If a man comes to this quest by thought or by suffering or by fate, he will end by love if he remains with it, love of that which shines forth during his first glimpse, love of the Overself. It is like the child losing, then finding, its parent.
14. QUEST A PARADOX OF SELF-RELIANCE AND SURRENDER
"Such is the strange paradox of the quest that on the one hand he must foster determined self-reliance but on the other yield to a feeling of utter dependence on the higher powers.
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15. SAFEGUARD THE PRESENCE BY REMEMBRANCE
"If the past is unredeemable, and the future unpredictable, what more practical course is open than to safeguard the present by constant remembrance of the divine?"
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16. ATTACH YOURSELF TO INFINITE BEING, NOT A GURU
"To attach oneself to a guru, an avatar, one religion, one creed, is to see the stars only. To put one's faith in the Infinite Being and in its presence within the heart, is to see the vast empty sky itself. The stars will come and go, will disintegrate and vanish, but the sky remains."
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17. WORLD MIND IS WISE ENOUGH TO WORK WITHOUT A PLAN
"The intelligence which works so untiringly in the world around us knows what to do without having to prepare a plan. It does not need to think in the way human beings think. Being infinite, its wisdom is infinite."
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18. THERE IS EVIL HERE, EVEN IF NO ULTIMATE EVIL
"What may be true on the ultimate level--the non-existence of evil, the reality of the Good, the True, the Beautiful--becomes false on the level of duality. Here the twofold powers, the opposites, do exist, do hold the world in their sway. To deny relative evil here is to confuse different planes of being."
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19. IN THE END PEACE REPLACES PASSION
"In the end and after many an experience, he will come to see that peace must take the place of passion, truth must banish falsity, and reality must come through the illusion which covers it."
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20. MIND ABOVE ENERGY OR MATTER
"MIND is the Real, Energy is its appearance. Matter is the form taken by radiation or energy. It is not that the truth lies between two extremes but that it lies above both."
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21. A TEACHER CAN ONLY KINDLE DISCIPLES CAPACITIES
"No teacher and no book, however inspired, can transform a disciple into something new. What they can and usually do is to kindle the disciple's latent capacities, to bring out his innate views, and to clarify his vague tendencies."
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22. FIND THE GODLIKE AND YOU WILL FIND THE GOOD
"In finding the godlike within himself, he finds also the Good. And from that stems forth goodwill toward all. It is really love active on a higher plane, love purified of self and cleansed of grossness."
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23. MAN IS MIND INDIVIDUALIZED - KOAN
"Man is Mind individualized."
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24. SEARCH FOR NOT JUST REALITY, BUT BEAUTIFUL REALITY
"For us it is not enough to search for reality. We search also for the Beautiful Reality. We need its presence as enjoyably visible here and comfortably felt now.
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