The human body is a part of consciousness, indeed a major part, but consciousness itself is only a part of a larger and deeper consciousness of which we are normally unaware. Yet it is in this mysterious region that the creative origin of the body-idea lies. If the ordinary "I" cannot make the body keep well by merely holding the thought, this is because the creative power lies in an "I" which transcends it. The ego which identifies itself with the body thereby stultifies its latent powers. But as soon as it begins to identify itself with pure Mind, certain powers may begin to unfold. Many cases of mystic phenomena, such as the stigmata of Catholic saints, confirm this.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The powerful knowledge

#26853 – 13.21.5.55

ME_01 – X – K1

Whoever develops these powers of the Overself must develop a strong sense of responsibility with them, an awareness that they have been entrusted to him as to a custodian. The grace which allows them can also disallow them.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The powerful knowledge

#26854 – 13.21.5.56

BN – X – D

It is not easy to authenticate the belief that the violent emotion—that is, the strong ideas—of a pregnant mother may influence the form of her unborn child. It is much easier to authenticate, however, the appearance of stigmata on the physical body in the historic cases of nuns immersed in empathic contemplation of the crucifixion of Jesus. Once we understand something of the secret of the concentrated mind we understand something of the secret of the magic.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The powerful knowledge

#26856 – 13.21.5.58

B_12 – X – K

We sin in thought first and then only in the body.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The powerful knowledge

#26862 – 13.21.5.64

BN – Z – K

That which we experience inwardly as thought must, if it be strong and sustained enough, manifest itself outwardly in events or environment or both.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The powerful knowledge

#26863 – 13.21.5.65

BN – X – D

A man's face becomes white when a strong thought of fear enters his mind; another time it becomes red when a strong thought of shame enters it. Thus mind changes the expression on his face and reveals its influence on the body.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The powerful knowledge

#26874 – 13.21.5.76

BN – X – D

No man knows how deep is the reservoir of forces—mental, volitional, or psychical—within him untapped and unused.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The powerful knowledge

#26876 – 13.21.5.78

BN – X – D

We are influencing the coming years by our thoughts. The importance of thought in forming external environment, the value of imagination in ultimately creating circumstances, and the use of visualizing the sort of life we aspire to have, are to be impressed and re-impressed on a generation which has to escape from the materialistic outlook. By this twofold process of rising to our divine source and controlling our intellectual ideas, we can begin to control our outward life in an extraordinary manner.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The powerful knowledge

#26882 – 13.21.5.84

ME_01 – P – DK

We do not dream the waking world as we dream during sleep. For the latter is spun out of the individual mind alone, whereas the former is spun out of the cosmic mind and presented to the individual mind. However, ultimately, and on realization, both minds are found to be one and the same, just as a sun ray is found to be the same as the sun ultimately. The difference which exists is fleeting and really illusory but so long as there is bodily experience it is observable. It is correct to note that the present birth-dream is caused by past tendencies; we are hypnotized by the past and our work is to dehypnotize ourselves, that is, to create new thought-habits until the flash comes of itself. But the flash itself comes during a kind of trance state, which may last for a moment or longer. It comes during the higher meditation of supramysticism.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The mystic experience

#26890 – 13.21.5.92

BN – Z – K1

In one of those apocryphal books which was rejected by those men who formed the canonical collection called the New Testament—a rejection in which they were sometimes wrong, and certainly in this instance—there occurred a saying of Jesus which runs, "When the outside becomes the inside, then the kingdom of heaven is come". Can we expand this mystical phrase into non-mystical language? Yes, here it is: "When the outside world is known and felt to be what it really is—an idea—it becomes a part of the inside world of thought and feeling. When its joys and griefs are known to be nothing more than states of mind, and when all thoughts and feelings and desires are brought from the false ego into the true Self at their centre, they automatically dissolve—and the kingdom of heaven is come".

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The mystic experience

#26891 – 13.21.5.93

B_11 – Z – K1

Think of yourself as the individual and you are sure to die; think of yourself as the universal and you enter deathlessness, for the universal is always and eternally there. We know no beginning and no ending to the cosmic process. Its being IS: we can say no more. Be that rather than this—that which is as infinite and homeless as space, that which is timeless and unbroken. Take the whole of life as your own being. Do not divorce, do not separate yourself from it. It is the hardest of tasks for it demands that we see our own relative insignificance amid this infinite and vast process. The change that is needed is entirely a mental one. Change your outlook and with it "heaven will be added unto you."

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The mystic experience

#26893 – 13.21.5.95

BA11 – ZZ – DK1

To arrive at the understanding that the universe is non-material and is mental, is to be liberated from materialism. It produces a sensation like that felt by a prisoner who has spent half a lifetime cooped up in a dark and dingy fetid dungeon and who is suddenly liberated, set free, put out of doors in the bright sunshine and fresh clean air. For to be a materialist means to be one imprisoned in the false belief that the matter-world is the real world; to become spiritual is to perceive that all objects are mental ones; the revelation of the mental nature of the universe is so stupendous that it actually sets mind and feeling free from their materialistic prison and brings the whole inner being into the dazzling sunshine of truth, the fresh atmosphere of Reality.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The mystic experience

#26894E – 13.21.5.96

BN – ZEL1/2 – K1

All those who believe in the materiality of the material world and not in its mental nature, are really materialists—even if they call themselves religious, Christians, spiritualists, occultists, or Anthroposophists. The only way to escape materialism is not to become a follower of any psychic cult or religious faith, but to enquire with the mind into the truth of matter and to be rewarded at length by the abiding perception of its mental Nature. All other methods are futile, or at best are but preparatory and preliminary steps.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The mystic experience

#26894E – 13.21.5.96

BN – ZEL2/2 – K1

Reality is inaccessible to thought so long as we regard the latter as separate from it. The moment this illusion is dropped, the truth is revealed.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The mystic experience

#26895 – 13.21.5.97

BN – X – K1

Whoever understands that every object and every person he sees around him is separate only in appearance, and appears so only through the unexamined working of his mind, is becoming ripe for realization. But very few are those who have come to such advanced understanding.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The mystic experience

#26896 – 13.21.5.98

BSG_4 – ZZ – K1

There are strange, uncommon moments when we seem to be lifted out of ourselves, when the whole of the past and present existences seems but a picture in a fitful dream and when the entire stuff of the universe seems nothing other than momentary thought. At such moments we may understand by an act of intuition rather than of reflection that the world is a product of Mind, not of Matter.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The mystic experience

#26897 – 13.21.5.99

BA11 – ZZ – K

How mentalism lights up those deeper and darker sayings of Jesus! "The kingdom of heaven is within you" is then seen to be both a joyful proclamation of spiritual hope and a statement revealing a little-known fact. It proclaims a heavenly existence as being within reach of the mind that is the real man, and it tells of such existence being hidden within the mind itself. Heaven is then no far-off place or no post-mortem condition but a state attainable in this life.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The mystic experience

#26902 – 13.21.5.104

B_11 – Z – K

Why is it that during our most exalted and purest emotional happiness, such as that which comes from listening to fine music or looking at a landscape of wild grandeur or giving ourselves up to, mystical rapture, time seems to be blotted out and we remember its existence only when we are recalled to our ordinary prosaic state? Consider that this strange feeling never arises during our more worldly or more painful episodes. The explanation lies in mentalism. All human experience, including the physical, takes place in the mind. Each episode must be thought into consciousness before it can ever exist for us. If the episode is a happy one, we love to dwell on it, to linger in it, and to become absorbed by it. Such intense concentration greatly slows down the tempo of our thoughts and brings us nearer the utter thought-free stillness wherein our spiritual self forever dwells outside time and space.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The mystic experience

#26912E – 13.21.5.114

BA11 – ZZZ – K

When we understand this truth, we shall understand that the Overself is forever present with us and that this presence is more immediate and intimate than anything else in life.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The mystic experience

#26923 – 13.21.5.125

BN – Z – DEK

Mind as man is largely self-ignorant, but Mind as Mind is wholly self-illumined. For man is shut up by the body, imprisoned by the very senses to which he is so grateful for sight, hearing, and feeling. But when he comes into self-awareness he is liberated.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > The mystic experience

#26925 – 13.21.5.127

BN – Z – K

The mystery of Mind is undoubtedly the biggest mystery of all. it is necessary to grasp the following: there are two phases of Mind. The first is Consciousness in its everyday form, that is, the consciousness of this time-space-matter world. He must not confine the notion of Mind to that fragment of it which is merely a portion of what is called Mind, or, functionally regarded, merely one of its faculties. It is the transient and relatively less important portion too. Whether consciousness lives or dies, Mind will always go on because it is the hidden source. It is this Infinite Mind which has been called God, Spirit, Brahman, and so forth. He has to get the knowledge that his own little individual stream of consciousness has flowed out of this great source and will eventually return to it and disappear into it. This is Truth. This universal, impersonal Being is what all are after. The ones who seek it consciously are the people who have taken up the Quest. Those who are after it unconsciously take to drink and other sensual enjoyments and pursue the allurements of this most alluring world.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness as world

#26928E – 13.21.5.130

UR_2.3 – ZEL1/1 – DEK

Mind is governed by its own laws and conjures up its own creations. The universe, at any particular moment of its history, is formed by the action and reaction of these creations.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness as world

#26930 – 13.21.5.132

BN – ZZ – K1

Mental activity need not be conscious.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness as world

#26931 – 13.21.5.133

BN – X – K1

The ideas pass, the Mind remains. But while they exist they are included in and share the Mind's reality. The world's appearance is therefore and in this sense real enough to the conscious beings within it while it lasts. Thus the distinction between inner reality and outer appearance, while not effaced, is nevertheless reduced to secondary status.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness as world

#26932 – 13.21.5.134

BN – X – K

The mysterious question "Who Am I?" is certainly deeply important, which is why it was put forward from the very beginning of his career by Ramana Maharshi. There is also another question which one may venture to state: "Where Am I?" Am I here in the fleshly body or in the invisible mind?

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness as world

#26938 – 13.21.5.140

BN – ZZ – K

The ordinary man thinks he is the ego because he identifies with his thoughts and his body. The awakened man knows that he is the Consciousness behind both.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness as world

#26943 – 13.21.5.145

BN – Z – D

Consciousness came first: all thoughts came into being later. It made their existence possible. It is the permanent principle in man whereas they appear and vanish.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness as world

#26954 – 13.21.5.156

BN – X – D

When we look for the last explanation of the universal phenomenon, we find one persistent and ultimate reality… Consciousness.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness as world

#26957 – 13.21.5.159

UR_2.2 – ZZZ – K

Mind as we humans now know it is but the frothy tossing wave on the surface of a mile-deep ocean.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness as world

#26958 – 13.21.5.160

BN – X – K

Our own mind is a human analogue of the Universal Mind. Thus in its character and working, Nature provides an easy lesson in divine metaphysics. If we wish to obtain some slight hint as to the nature of the highest kind of mental existence, that is, of God, we must examine the nature of our own individual mind, limited and imperfect though it be. Now philosophy is not afraid to admit pantheism but does not limit itself to pantheism. It also affirms transcendentalism but does not stop with it. It declares that the Unique Reality could never become transformed into the cosmos in the sense of losing its own uniqueness. But at the same time it declares that the cosmos is nevertheless one with and not apart from the Reality.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness and pure Mind

#26964E – 13.21.5.166

BN – ZEL1/3 – K1

philosophy is not afraid to admit pantheism but does not limit itself to pantheism. It also affirms transcendentalism but does not stop with it. It declares that the Unique Reality could never become transformed into the cosmos in the sense of losing its own uniqueness. But at the same time it declares that the cosmos is nevertheless one with and not apart from the Reality. The easiest way to grasp this is to symbolize the cosmos as human thoughts and the Reality as human mind. Our thoughts are nothing other than a form of mind, yet our mind loses nothing of itself when thoughts arise. The World-Mind is immanent in but not confined by the universe in the same way that a man's mind may be said to be immanent in but not confined by his thoughts.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness and pure Mind

#26964E – 13.21.5.166

BN – ZEL2/3 – K1

The World-Mind is immanent in but not confined by the universe in the same way that a man's mind may be said to be immanent in but not confined by his thoughts. Furthermore, not only may we find it helpful in the effort to understand the relation which the cosmos bears to the World-Mind, to compare it with the relation which a thought bears to its thinker or his speech to a speaker, but when we consider how our own mind is able to generate thoughts of the most multivaried kind, we need not be surprised that the Universal Mind is able to generate the inexhaustibly varied host of thought-forms which constitute the cosmos.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness and pure Mind

#26964E – 13.21.5.166

BN – ZEL3/3 – K1

What is the reality behind all our experiences? Since they are thoughts, and since thoughts are made possible by Consciousness, it must be the Consciousness. This remains true even when the "I" is unaware and unconscious, because limited and little, being only a thought itself, an object known like other objects; the Real is still there but hidden.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness and pure Mind

#26973 – 13.21.5.175

BN – Z – D

When we come at last to perceive that all this vast universe is a thought-form and when we can feel our own source to be the single and supreme principle in and through which it arises, then our knowledge has become final and perfect.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness and pure Mind

#26976 – 13.21.5.178

BA11 – ZZ – DK1

That which is always in the background of all thoughts is Consciousness. Without it they could never appear nor exist, whereas Consciousness exists in its own self-sufficiency.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness and pure Mind

#26987 – 13.21.5.189

BN – Z – D

The true being, World-Mind, was there before men's thoughts began.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness and pure Mind

#26989 – 13.21.5.191

BN – Z – K

Every kind of experience, whether it be wakeful, dream, hypnotic, or hallucinatory, is utterly and vividly real to the ego at the time its perceptions are operating on that particular level. Why, then, amidst such bewildering relativity, do we talk of divine experience as being the ultimate reality? We speak this way because it is concerned with what bestows the sense of reality to all the other forms of experience. And that is nothing else than the central core of pure Mind within us, the unique mysterious source of 'all' possible kinds of our consciousness. This, if we can find it, is what philosophy calls the truly real world.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness and pure Mind

#27003 – 13.21.5.205

UR_2.2 – Z – K1

The mental images which make up the universe of our experience repeat themselves innumerable times in a single minute. They give an impression of continuity and permanency and stability only because of this, in the same way that a cinema picture does. If we could efface them and yet keep our consciousness undiminished, we would know for the first time their source, the reality behind their appearances. That is, we would know Mind-in-itself. Such effacement is effected by yoga. Here then is the importance of the connection between mentalism and mysticism.

Mentalism > The Key To the Spiritual World > Consciousness and pure Mind

#27004 – 13.21.5.206

BN – Z – DEK1

He feels the Presence of something higher than himself, wise, noble, beautiful, and worthy of all reverence. Yet it is really himself—the best part come at last into unfoldment and expression.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration and the Overself

#27006 – 14.22.0.2

BN – Z – DM

The spiritual nature can only be discovered spiritually—not intellectually, not emotionally, and certainly not physically. Such a spiritual discovery can only be attained intuitively.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27007 – 14.22.1.1

BN – Z – D

The mystery into which we have been born is not penetrable by weaving fancy or logical intellect. But intuition, if we are patient enough and willing enough to follow it, can lead us into an overwhelming experience where we discover that IT is there, always there.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27008 – 14.22.1.2

BN – Z – D

It is not through any intellectual process of reasoning from premise to conclusion that we come to know we exist, but through an immediate and spontaneous intuition.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27009 – 14.22.1.3

BN – X – D

Where ego merely believes, intuition definitely knows.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27012 – 14.22.1.6

BSG_5 – Z – D

The discovery of its presence makes possible a form of communication between person and Overself which is passive, not active. That is, he is directed guided or corrected in and through his human faculties, intuitively. The person acts, does, thinks, speaks, and decides as if he were doing so completely alone. But he is not: he is responding to the Overself, to the effects of its presence, now unhindered by his ego.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27014 – 14.22.1.8

BN – ZZZ – DK

There is a faculty in man which knows truth when it sees it, which needs no argument, reflection, or cogitation to attest or prove what it knows.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27018 – 14.22.1.12

BSG_5 – ZZ – D

There is another way of knowing beside the ordinary way, through the channels of eyes or thoughts, a way which can be found only by quietening the mind and stilling the emotions.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27019 – 14.22.1.13

BA11 – ZZ – DK

Here is this wonderful potency in man lying largely unused, this faculty of intuition that links him with a higher order of being.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27020 – 14.22.1.14

BN – X – D

How many minds have pondered over life and searched for its meaning, only to feel baffled in the end, and held back by their own limitations? For although the active intellect naturally asks such questions, only the intuition can answer them adequately. But the latter is the least cultivated of all our faculties and the most torpid, and this is why we have no access to the answers, and why the questions remain troublesome or even torturing.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27023 – 14.22.1.17

BN – X – D

The intuition is a mystical faculty, whose messages may dawn slowly on the conscious mind or emerge into it suddenly.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27026 – 14.22.1.20

BN – X – D

These intuitive feelings tell us that a deeper kind of Being is at the base of our ordinary consciousness.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27027 – 14.22.1.21

BN – X – D

It is almost impossible to put into thoughts that which is above thoughts. But hints, suggestions, and symbols may render some service. Only intuition, which comes up by itself, can come closer still to the truth and deliver what is more like it.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27028 – 14.22.1.22

BN – Z – D

If we lack the capacity to comprehend, gauge, or perceive the Infinite, we do have the capacity to feel its presence intuitively.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27031 – 14.22.1.25

BN – Z – D

We can convince the intellect that the soul exists—but the only really adequate proof is intuitive personal experience of it.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27035 – 14.22.1.29

BN – Z – D

The discovery of the soul's existence is not a result of intellectual analysis or of emotional feeling but of intuitive experience.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27036 – 14.22.1.30

BN – Z – D

The intuition should be accorded the highest place among man's faculties. It should always lead or direct them.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27037 – 14.22.1.31

BN – Z – D

Knowledge of the facts concerning man and his nature, his general destiny and spiritual evolution, can be gained by the intuition; but information concerning the details of his personal history must be gleaned, if at all, by the psychical faculty.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27038 – 14.22.1.32

BN – Z – K1

The intuition appears indirectly in aesthetic ecstasy and intellectual creativity, in the pricking of conscience, in the longing for relief from anxieties, or peace of mind. It appears directly only in mystical realization.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27039 – 14.22.1.33

BN – X – K1

The intuition comes from, and leads to, the Overself.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27040 – 14.22.1.34

BN – Z – DK1

It is the strength or feebleness of our intuition which determines the grade of our spiritual evolution. What begins as a gentle surrender to intuition for a few minutes, one day resolves into a complete surrender of the ego to the Overself for all time.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27041 – 14.22.1.35

BN – Z – DK1

To find your way to the major truths it is not enough to use the intellect alone, however sharpened it may be. Join intuition to it: then you will have intelligence. But how does one unfold intuition? By penetrating deeper and hushing the noise of thoughts.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27043 – 14.22.1.37

BN – Z – D

Intuition tells us 'what' to do. Reason tells us 'how' to do it. Intuition points direction and gives destination. Reason shows a map of the way there.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27044 – 14.22.1.38

BN – ZZ – DK1

We may oppose one thing to another if both are on the same plane, but not if they are on unequal planes. Intuition is not anti-intellectual but super-intellectual.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27046 – 14.22.1.40

BN – X – DK

When intuition guides and illuminates intellect, balances and restrains the ego, that which the wise men called "true intelligence" rises.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27047 – 14.22.1.41

BN – Z – D

The intuition never needs to hunger for truth. While the intellect is seeking and starving for it, the intuition already knows and feels it.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27048 – 14.22.1.42

BN – Z – D

Intuition is truth drawn from one's own self, that is, from within, be it a practical or a spiritual truth, whereas intellect squeezes its conclusion out of presented evidence, that is, from without.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27049 – 14.22.1.43

BN – Z – D

Ordinarily, ample time is needed to accumulate data and deliberate properly before correct decisions or judgements can be made. None of this is necessary to make them intuitively, for the intuition itself operates out of time and beyond thought.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27052 – 14.22.1.46

BN – Z – D

An intuitive idea is quite different from one derived from the customary process of logical thinking. Unless it is distorted or muddled by the man himself, it is always reliable. Can we say the same of an intellectual idea?

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27053 – 14.22.1.47

BN – X – D

The intuition should give orders which the intellect should carry out. The reasoning and practicality needed to do so and to attend to their details will then be provided by the intellect itself. But the original function of giving direction and the authority of giving command will be vested in the intuition alone.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27061 – 14.22.1.55

BN – Z – D

What the thinking intellect in him cannot receive, the mystical intuition can.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition the Beginning

#27063 – 14.22.1.57

BN – X – D

His first step is to detect the presence of the higher Power consciously in himself through vigilantly noting and cultivating the intuitions it gives him.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27066 – 14.22.1.60

BN – X – D

He must educate himself to recognize the first faint beginnings of "the intuitive mood" and train himself to drop everything else when its onset is noticed.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27067 – 14.22.1.61

BN – Z – D

Intuitive feelings are so easily and hence so often drowned in the outer activity of the body, the passions, the emotions, or the intellect, that only a deliberate cultivation can safeguard and strengthen them.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27068 – 14.22.1.62

BN – X – D

The secret is to stop, on the instant, whatever he is doing just then, or even whatever he is saying, and reorient all his attention to the incoming intuition. The incompleted act, the broken sentence, should be deserted, for this is an exercise in evaluation.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27072 – 14.22.1.66

BN – Z – DEK1

The intuition grows by use of it and obedience to it.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27075 – 14.22.1.69

BN – Z – DK

The intuitive faculty can be deliberately cultivated and consciously trained.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27076 – 14.22.1.70

BN – X – K1

Intuitive guidance comes not necessarily when we seek it, but when the occasion calls for it. It does not usually come until it is actually needed. The intellect, as part of the ego, will often seek it in advance of the occasion because it may be driven by anxiety, fear, desire, or anticipation. Such premature seeking is fruitless.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27077 – 14.22.1.71

BN – Z – DK1

When one has reviewed a problem [Editor's note: 'a certain type of problem'] from all its angles, and has done this not only with the keenest powers of the mind but also with the finest qualities of the heart, it should be turned over at the end to the Overself and dismissed. The technique of doing so is simple. It consists of being still. In the moment of letting the problem fall away, one triumphs over the ego. This is a form of meditation. In the earlier stage it is an acknowledgment of helplessness and weakness in handling the problem, of personal limitations, followed by a surrender of it (and of oneself) to the Overself in the last resort. One can do no more. Further thought would be futile. At this point Grace may enter and do what the ego cannot do. It may present guidance either then, or at some later date, in the form of a self-evident idea.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27078 – 14.22.1.72

BN – ZZZ – DEK1

The commonest error is to try to produce and manufacture intuition. That can't be done. It is something which comes to you. Hence don't expect it to appear when concentrating on a problem, but if at all 'after' you've dismissed the problem. Even then it is a matter of grace—it may or may not come.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27079 – 14.22.1.73

BN – X – DK1

The giving up of all earthly desires, the liberation of the heart from all animal passions, the letting go of all egoistic grasping—these attitudes will arise spontaneously and grow naturally if a man is truly quest-minded, so that his intuition will assert itself little by little.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27082 – 14.22.1.76

BN – Z – D

Often intuition does not advise him until the time for an action or a decision or a move is nearly at hand. So he must wait patiently until it does and not let intellect or imagination construct fanciful plans which may be cancelled by intuition's arisal.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27084 – 14.22.1.78

BN – Z – D

Being guided intuitively does not mean that every problem will be solved instantly as soon as it appears. Some solutions will not come into consciousness until almost the very last minute before they are actually needed. He learns to be patient, to let the higher power take its own course.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27086 – 14.22.1.80

BN – ZZ – D

These intrusions from a realm beyond conscious thinking may be heavenly ones. If so, to resist them would be to lose much and to accept them would be to gain much. But they have to be caught on the wing. Their delicate beginnings must be recognized for what they are—precious guides.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27088 – 14.22.1.82

BN – X – D

Intuition does not always flash suddenly out of the depths of the mind into consciousness: quite often it forms itself very slowly over a period of hours, days, or even weeks.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27092 – 14.22.1.86

BN – X – D

Who hears this quiet whisper of intuition? Who, hearing, obeys? Not only is it mostly unnoticed but its guidance is also unsought; men prefer, and follow, the ego's direction.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27093 – 14.22.1.87

BSG_5 – P – D

If men followed their intuition more there would be fewer tragedies that could have been prevented or regrets that could have been avoided.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27095 – 14.22.1.89

BN – X – D

The unregarded feeling which first comes when an object, a person, or an event confronts one is mostly the correct intuition about it. But it must be caught on the wing or it will be gone.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27097 – 14.22.1.91

BN – Z – D

Intuition must be caught quickly and inspiration must be followed up at once if they are to remain and not vanish away.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27100 – 14.22.1.94

BN – Z – D

If we respectfully meet each intuitive feeling and give it our trusting collaboration, it will little by little become a frequent visitor.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27101 – 14.22.1.95

BN – Z – D

The deeper mind is so close to the source of our karma that we may at times get its right guidance not only intuitively from within but also circumstantially from without.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27106 – 14.22.1.100

BN – Z – DK

The interval between the coming and the going of an intuitive thought is so short that he must immediately and alertly respond to it. If he misses it, he will find that the mind can go back to it only with difficulty and uncertainty.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27107 – 14.22.1.101

BN – Z – D

We can receive a new truth more easily in the mind's quietude than in the mind's agitation. When thinking is stilled, intuiting begins. Such internal silence is not useless idleness, it is creative experience.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27108 – 14.22.1.102

BSG_4 – P – D

The Overself may use some event, some person, or some book as a messenger to him. It may make any new circumstance act in the same way. But he must have the capacity to recognize what is happening and the willingness to receive the message.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27109 – 14.22.1.103

BA12 – ZZZ – DK

To 'let' the intuitive feelings come through requires an inner passivity which meditation fosters but which extroversion inhibits.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27110 – 14.22.1.104

BN – X – D

Submit yourself as an empty vessel to be filled with the intuitive leading of Overself. Do not stop short of this goal, do not be satisfied with a half-and-half sort of life.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27111 – 14.22.1.105

BN – Z – D

When this first faint intrusion is sensed, the need is for utter relaxation, for becoming passive and yielding. Only so can the aspirant follow intuitive prompting more and more inwards until it becomes stronger and stronger, clearer and clearer.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27114 – 14.22.1.108

BN – Z – DK

When seeking intuitional light upon a subject, the aspirant is advised to put his body in a recumbent position. This, passive as it is, will correlate with the passivity of mind that he should cultivate at such a time.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27116 – 14.22.1.110

BN – X – D

An intuition which is vague and weak in the beginning may become clear and certain in the end—if allowed to grow.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27118 – 14.22.1.112

BN – Z – D

Have faith in your inner promptings and accept their guidance. When you are uncertain about them, wait and they will gradually clarify themselves.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27120 – 14.22.1.114

BN – Z – D

They are messages brought from the infinite for the blessing and guidance of finite man. But he must recognize their value and esteem their source.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27122 – 14.22.1.116

BN – ZZZ – DK

In these writings I have considered myself to be a sensitive recording instrument, carefully and minutely registering the impressions received from these higher states of consciousness. They are messages brought from the infinite for the blessing and guidance of finite man. But he must recognize their value and esteem their source.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27122M – 14.22.1.116

BA13 – ZZZ – DMXK

In the search for guidance when we have to make a momentous decision, or take an important step, it is well to go into the "Silence" with our problem. We may not get the answer quickly or even directly but if we are well-experienced in this kind of seeking, a light may eventually emerge from the dark and shine down on the problem.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27124 – 14.22.1.118

BN – Z – DEK

Sometimes an intuition appears as a vague feeling which haunts a man and which he cannot shake off.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27127 – 14.22.1.121

BN – X – D

If he firmly believes in his own hidden intuitive powers, he will be able to ascribe much of his success to his readiness to follow their guidance, despite the opposition of logic and circumstances.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27128 – 14.22.1.122

BN – ZZ – D

When we keep ourselves busy with everything external and our minds with thoughts about everything external, the intuition is unable to insert itself into our awareness. Even if it whispers to us, we will not realize what is happening. If we continue to ignore it, we may lose the capacity to hear it at all. It is then that we have to retrain ourselves to do so. The practice of meditation is one such way of training our receptivity.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27129 – 14.22.1.123

BN – X – D

The 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.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27130 – 14.22.1.124

BN – Z – D

We blunder in life and make endless mistakes because we have no time to listen for the Overself's voice—Intuition.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27131 – 14.22.1.125

BN – X – D

If we would heed our intuitions as much as we heed our desires, the trick would be done. Illumination would come in not too long a time.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27133 – 14.22.1.127

BN – X – D

In trying to get an intuitive answer, it is important to formulate the problem or the questions clearly and as sharply as you can.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27135 – 14.22.1.129

BN – X – D

If he feels the intuition but does not attend to it then, however slightly, the very faculty which produced it begins to lose strength. This is the penalty imposed for the failure, and this shows how serious it is.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27139 – 14.22.1.133

BN – X – D

If he is always alert for this intuitive feeling, he will throw aside whatever he is doing and meditate upon it at once. He will depend more and more on these casual exercises, in contrast to the dependence on fixed routine exercises in the Long Path.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27140 – 14.22.1.134

BN – X – D

Treasure every moment when the intuition makes itself felt and, most especially, when it takes the form of a glimpse into higher truth; it is then that other things should be well put aside in order to sustain and prolong the experience.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27141 – 14.22.1.135

BN – X – D

If only he heeds its intuitive message, the higher self will not fail him. He will make his way to true balanced sanity and deep inner calm. Without searching for others, knowing that in himself God's representative resides and that this can give the right kind of help, he will depend for self-reliance on an ever-presence.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27143 – 14.22.1.137

BN – X – D

If one cultivates sufficient faith, out of the cosmic mind will come the response to his aspirations and, eventually, the answers to his questions. To receive this, one must learn to keep a constant vigil for intuitive feelings and messages of the most delicate nature, and to trust his inner promptings. His attention should always have God at its centre.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27144 – 14.22.1.138

BN – X – D

By constant prayer and aspiration to his higher self, the student will get intuitive promptings from time to time. He should catch them when they appear and yield himself to them: in this way he will get the necessary guidance from within.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27145 – 14.22.1.139

BN – X – D

Once you learn to recognize the intuitive voice, follow its dictates; do not hesitate to conform with them nor try to make up an excuse for failing to do so if the guidance is unpalatable.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27146 – 14.22.1.140

BN – ZZ – D

If the seeker will heed this intuitive feeling it may lead him to a clue, a thread by holding which he may grope his way to clearer and stronger feeling until it becomes a certainty.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27147 – 14.22.1.141

B_05 – ZZ – K

Whatever be the personal problem, if reason, experience, and authority cannot solve it, carry it inwards to the deep still centre. But you must learn to wait in patience for the answer, for the blockage is in you, not in it. A day or a month may pass until the response is felt, thought, or materialized.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27148 – 14.22.1.142

BN – Z – D

There is a feeling of sacredness, of holy peace at such moments, and they should be cherished for the precious moments that they are. They contain hints of the communion with the Higher Self, elements of something beyond the ordinary self, and possibilities of transcending the past with its debris of memories and mistakes.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27149 – 14.22.1.143

BN – Z – D

In every important move he will seek guidance from the intuitive levels of being as well as from the intellectual.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27150 – 14.22.1.144

BN – Z – D

Where the wakeful consciousness is not easily reached owing to its preoccupations, then the dream consciousness will be more receptive to the message.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27153 – 14.22.1.147

BN – X – D

Sometimes an intuition does not stay behind. It flashes through consciousness for a small fraction of a second and is gone. Unless it is detected and recognized during this quick passage while it is still fresh, we are hardly likely to do so afterwards.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27154 – 14.22.1.148

BN – X – D

They betray the higher part of themselves every time they resist, reject, or merely ignore the intuitive feelings which come so delicately into consciousness.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27157 – 14.22.1.151

BN – X – D

In the seeming self's activity, personal willpower is used and personal effort is made. In the Overself's activity, both these signs are absent. Instead there is a passive receptivity to its voice—intuitions—and obedience to its guidance.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27158 – 14.22.1.152

BN – X – D

When the inner voice says what we do not like to hear, we are apt to ignore it.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27160 – 14.22.1.154

BN – Z – D

Intuition is the voice which is constantly calling him to this higher state. But if he seldom or never pauses amid the press of activity to listen for it, he fails to benefit by it.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27165 – 14.22.1.159

BN – Z – D

In the end he will rely on this little inner voice which, if he listens humbly, speaks and tells him which way to turn.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27169 – 14.22.1.163

BN – Z – D

He will learn sooner or later by the test of experience to defer to this intuitive feeling whenever its judgement, guidance, or warning manifests itself.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27170 – 14.22.1.164

BN – X – D

Edison said that all his inventions grew out of initial flashes which welled up from within. The rest was a matter of research.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27173 – 14.22.1.167

BN – X – D

Is he fully open to intuitive feelings that originate in his deeper being, his sacred self? Or does his ego get in the way by its rigidities, habits, and tendencies? The importance of these feelings is that they are threadlike clues which need following up, for they can lead him to a blessed renewal or revelation.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27175 – 14.22.1.169

BN – X – D

The capacity to respond to spiritual intuitions is latent in all men but trained and developed in few men.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27176 – 14.22.1.170

BN – Z – DK

From this hidden source comes at times guidance, warnings, attractions, or aversions which ought to be construed as intuitive messages. But for this they must first be recognized and believed: they pass too quickly.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27177 – 14.22.1.171

BN – X – D

It is true that conscience is the voice of the Overself in the moral life of man, but it is also true that he seldom hears its pure sound. Most often he hears it mixed with much egotism.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27180 – 14.22.1.174

BN – Z – D

Before 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.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27186 – 14.22.1.180

BN – X – D

One whose mind is too sharply critical to be sensitive to finer mental radiations may fail to recognize the inner happening. This may be because he himself is not sufficiently in tune with the high frequency represented by Overself, or it may be because he is too impatient and wants something which in his case can only be had with sufficient time.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27194 – 14.22.1.188

BN – X – K

When intuition points to something unwelcome to the ego, the intellect looks for and usually finds an excuse to reject it. A man who really and sincerely wants to find the Truth should be on the lookout for hints, clues, and signs which would be useful to his Quest, for they constitute the response from the Overself to his aspiration. The Overself can furnish him with the Truth and puts these signals in his way.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Cultivating, developing intuition

#27195 – 14.22.1.189

BN – ZZ – D

No counsel could be safer and better than that which proceeds from a man to himself by way of intuition. But first let him be sure that it is intuition.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27196 – 14.22.1.190

BN – ZZ – D

All men at some time or other receive intuitive suggestions from within, whilst a few men receive them constantly. It is not therefore that intuition is such a rare and extraordinary manifestation. What is rare and extraordinary is its pure reception, its correct comprehension. For on the one hand we receive along with an intuition the suggestions of environment, education, heredity, and self-interest no less than the distortions of desire, fear, and hope, while on the other hand we receive the doubts and questionings of reason. Even if we correct the suggestions and adjust the distortions of the first group, we remain uncertain and unclear because reason naturally wants to know why? It wants to understand why an intuitive prompting should be accepted. And by the very nature of an intuition it is often something which neither past experience nor present logic can justify.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27200E – 14.22.1.194

BN – ZEL1/2 – DEK

Reason wants to understand why an intuitive prompting should be accepted. And by the very nature of an intuition it is often something which neither past experience nor present logic can justify. This is not only because all the facts of the case are not at our command but, because of their endless ramifications or superphysical character, cannot possibly be at our command. These are some of the difficulties which confront man at his present stage of evolution and which render so many so-called intuitions unreliable or undependable even though their original birth was genuinely what it claimed to be. What is the remedy? Only careful, ruthless, and impartial analysis of each and every intuition, constant vigilance over and checking of the results which ensue when they are accepted, and long self-training through several years can finally bring us to the clear recognition of what is or is not authentic intuitive guidance, suggestion, or information.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27200E – 14.22.1.194

BN – ZEL2/2 – DEK

He would not be so bad a judge of value as to prefer reason over intuition, whenever he had the absolute certainty that it was intuition. But past experience has shown how difficult it is to arrive at such certitudes, how deceptive are the masks which impulse, desire, rashness, and selfishness can assume. Until, therefore, his development has reached the point where a genuine intuition is at once recognized as such and a pseudo-intuition quickly detected for what it is, he must not abandon the use of reason but rather regard it as a most valuable ally.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27201 – 14.22.1.195

BN – Z – DEK

How can he tell if inner guidance is truly intuitive or merely pseudo-intuitive? One of the ways is to consider whether it tends to the benefit of all concerned in a situation, the others as well as oneself. The word "benefit" here must be understood in a large way, must include the spiritual result along with the material one. If the guidance does not yield this result, it may be ego-prompted and will then hold the possibility of error.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27202 – 14.22.1.196

BN – Z – DM1

An intuitive feeling is one untainted by the ego's wishes, uncoloured by its aversions.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27203 – 14.22.1.197

BN – ZZ – K1

Wrong personal intention may be negated by right intuitive guidance, but it is not easy to recognize the latter as such. The difference between a mere impulse and a real intuition may often be detected in two ways: first, by waiting a few days, as the subconscious mind has then a chance to offer help in deciding the matter; second, by noting the kind of emotion which accompanies the message. If the emotion is of the lower kind, such as anger, indignation, greed, or lust, it is most likely an impulse. If of the higher kind, such as unselfishness or forgiveness, it is most likely an intuition.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27204 – 14.22.1.198

BN – Z – DEK1

You may recognize the voice of wisdom when having to make a decision by the fact that it proceeds out of deep inner calm, out of utter tranquillity, whereas impulse is frequently born in exaggerated enthusiasm or undue excitement.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27205 – 14.22.1.199

BN – ZZZ – DK1

A compelling inner conviction or intuition need not necessarily collide with cold reason. But as an assumed intuition which may be merely a bit of wishful thinking or emotional bias, it is always needful to check or confirm or discipline it by reasoning. The two can work together, even whilst recognizing and accepting each other's peculiar characteristics and different methods of approach. Hence all intuitively formed projects and plans should be examined under this duplex light. The contribution of fact by reason should be candidly and calmly brought up against the contribution of inward rightness made by "intuition." We must not hesitate to scrap intuitively formed plans if they prove unworkable or unreasonable.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27206 – 14.22.1.200

BN – Z – K1

The promptings that come from this inner being are so faintly heard at first, however strong on their own plane, that we tend to disregard them as trivial. This is the tragedy of man. The voices that so often mislead him into pain-bringing courses—his passion, his ego, and blind intellect—are loud and clamant. The whisper that guides him aright and to God is timid and soft.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27207 – 14.22.1.201

BN – ZZ – DK1

So subtle is the oncoming and so mysterious is the working of the true intuition, so open and blatant is the fantasy that is false intuition, that the first test of authenticity is indicated here.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27208 – 14.22.1.202

BN – Z – K1

The day will come when constant effort and long practice will permit him to recognize true from pseudo-intuition with the speed and certainty with which a musically trained ear recognizes notes and times (tunes) in a played piece.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27212 – 14.22.1.206

BN – X – D

If it is authentic intuition, he will feel increasingly convinced by it as days and weeks pass until in the end its truth will seem unarguable to him.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27217 – 14.22.1.211

BN – X – D

An intuition comes into the mind suddenly. But so does an impulse. Therefore it is not enough to take this mark alone to identify it. It is strong; so is an impulse. It is clear; so is an impulse. To separate the deceptive appearance from the genuine reality of an intuition, look for the trail of assurance, relief, and peace to follow in its wake.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27222 – 14.22.1.216

BN – X – D

It is never present without certain qualities being present with it, too. There is first an utter serenity, then a steady joy, next an absolute conviction of its truth and reality, finally the paradoxical feeling of a rock-firm security despite any appearance of adverse outer circumstances.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27223 – 14.22.1.217

BN – X – D

There are four chief ways in which guidance may be given. They are: intuitive feeling, giving in a general way approbation or rejection of a proposed course of action; direct and precise inner message; the shaping of outer circumstances; and the teaching of inspired texts. If all four exist together, and if they all harmonize, then you may step forward in the fullest assurance. But if there are contradictions between them, then great caution and some delay is certainly advisable.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27227 – 14.22.1.221

BA12 – ZZ – DK

It is also needful to remember that the higher self can only be known by the higher part of the mind, that is, the intuition. The emotions are on a lesser and lower level, however noble or religious they may be. The immense satisfaction which the ecstatic raptures give is no indication that he is directly touching reality, but only that he is coming closer to it. They may seem purely spiritual, but they still belong to the ego's feeling nature and if he believes otherwise he will fall into self-deception. Only through the pure intuition, freed from emotional egoism and transcending intellectual illusion, can he really make a contact with the Overself. And that will happen in a state of utter and perfect tranquillity; there will be none of the emotional excitement which marked the successful practice of the earlier stage of meditation exercises.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27228 – 14.22.1.222

BN – X – DEK

The intuitive answer may come in one of several ways, but the commonest is either a self-evident thought or a deep heartfelt feeling.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27237 – 14.22.1.231

BN – Z – D

Because it comes from within, it comes with its own authority. When it is "the real thing," the seeker will not have to question examine or verify its authenticity, will not have to run to others for their appraisal of its worth or its rejection as a pseudo-intuition. He will know overwhelmingly what it is in the same way that he knows who he is.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27242 – 14.22.1.236

B_05 – ZZZ – DK

When a man hesitates too long over taking a course which intuition tells him he should take, and in which his higher life is concerned, it may be that destiny will intervene and make him suddenly realize that this 'is' the way, and that all doubts should be thrown out.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27246 – 14.22.1.240

BA11 – ZZZ – DK

Every thought which comes down to us from that serene height comes with a divine authority and penetrating force which are absent from all other thoughts. We receive the visitant with eagerness and obey it with confidence.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and pseudo-intuition

#27249 – 14.22.1.243

BN – Z – D

Intuition is not the equal but rather the superior of all other human faculties. It delivers the gentlest of whispers, commands from the Overself, whereas the other faculties merely carry them out. It is the master, they are the servants. The intellect thinks, the will works, and the emotion drives towards the fulfilment of intuitively felt guidance in the properly developed spiritually erect man.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Let intuition rule

#27250 – 14.22.1.244

BSG_5 – P – D

The philosopher is simultaneously a thinker and a believer, but his ruling role is neither. It is that of an intuitionist.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Let intuition rule

#27251 – 14.22.1.245

BN – X – D

The intuition must lead all the rest of man's faculties. He must follow it even when they do not agree with its guidance. For it sees farther than they ever can, being an efflux from the godlike part of himself which is in its way a portion of the universal deity. If he can be sure that it is not pseudo-intuition, truth in it will lead him to life's best, whether spiritual or worldly.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Let intuition rule

#27252 – 14.22.1.246

BN – Z – D

In the fully trained philosopher, intuition is the most active faculty.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Let intuition rule

#27256 – 14.22.1.250

BN – Z – D

The intuition is to collate all these different functions of the personality, and direct them towards its truest welfare.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Let intuition rule

#27257 – 14.22.1.251

BN – X – D

A man is really free when his intuition directs his intellect and rules his energies.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Let intuition rule

#27258 – 14.22.1.252

BN – ZZ – DK

Feeling is as much a part of true insight into the Real as knowing. It gives life to the end result. It is evoked by enlightened writings and inspired art works. Thinking may not rightly claim overlordship here, but intuition, the silent voice of the Overself, may do so.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Let intuition rule

#27260 – 14.22.1.254

UR_2.5 – ZZZ – DK

Among all the varied powers of the mind, a properly unfolded intuition is indeed one of the most priceless anyone could have. It always warns against wrong courses and often counsels the right ones.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Fruits of living intuitively

#27262E – 14.22.1.256

BSG_5 – P – DE

There is an inner light in all people which could, with time, convert their perplexed questionings into solid certitudes. There is this remarkable fact that hard problems which the unaided intellect cannot solve, gnawing anxieties upon which our past experiences throw no helpful light, may become illumined and solved with ease if we adopt this practical method of applying intuition to them. Among all the varied powers of the mind, a properly unfolded intuition is indeed one of the most priceless anyone could have. It always warns against wrong courses and often counsels the right ones. "I sometimes have a feeling, in fact I have it very strongly, a feeling of interference . . . that some guiding hand has interfered," confessed Winston Churchill in a speech during October, 1942. On the other hand, intuition may help us and allay our fears where reason alone merely increases them.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Fruits of living intuitively

#27262 – 14.22.1.256

BN – X – DEK

The man who has trained himself to listen for the voice of intuition, which means trained himself to wait for it to speak and disciplined himself to be inwardly alert yet also inwardly quiet for it, does not have to suffer the painful conflicts and tormenting divisions which others do when confronted by issues demanding a choice or a decision.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Fruits of living intuitively

#27265 – 14.22.1.259

BN – Z – D

He will find, if he accepts this intuitive leading, that although the unfavourable circumstances may remain the same, unchanged, his attitude towards them does not. Out of this inner change there will be given him the strength to deal with them, the calm to deal with them unmoved, and the wisdom to deal with them properly.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Fruits of living intuitively

#27266 – 14.22.1.260

BN – ZZ – DK

There is no single pattern that an intuitively guided life must follow. Sometimes he will see in a flash of insight both course and destination, but at other times he will see only the next step ahead and will have to keep an open mind both as to the second step and as to the final destination.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Fruits of living intuitively

#27267 – 14.22.1.261

BN – ZZ – DK1

Intuition—which Bergson called the surest road to truth—eradicates hesitancies. When you are in contact with the Overself in solving a problem, you receive a direct command what to do and you then 'know' it is right. The clouds and hesitancies and vacillations which arise when struggling between contrary points of view, melt. Whereas, if you are not in contact with the Overself, but only being carried along through karma, then you swing back and forth with emotion or opinion.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Fruits of living intuitively

#27273E – 14.22.1.267

BSG_4 – ZZZ – DEK

A man's life will be less troubled and his happiness more secured, if his reason governs his body and his intuition governs his reason.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Fruits of living intuitively

#27275 – 14.22.1.269

BN – X – D

If he is sensitive enough and can touch the intuitive element within himself, either deliberately by sheer power of deeply introspective concentration or spontaneously by immediate acceptance of its suggestive messages, his decisions will be filled with utter conviction and followed with resolute determination.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Fruits of living intuitively

#27277 – 14.22.1.271

BN – ZZ – K

He may be sure of this, that whatever action the Overself's leading causes him to take will always be for his ultimate good even though it may be to his immediate and apparent detriment.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Fruits of living intuitively

#27278 – 14.22.1.272

BN – ZZ – D

The most satisfying proofs will come to him that the Overself is really guiding the course of his outer life and really inspiring the course of his inner life.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Fruits of living intuitively

#27281 – 14.22.1.275

BN – ZZ – D

There will be decisions that he does not think out logically, moves that he does not plan calculatingly. Yet the sequence of further events will prove the one to be right, the other wise. For they will have come intuitively.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Fruits of living intuitively

#27282 – 14.22.1.276

BN – ZZ – D

Jesus likened the Kingdom of Heaven to a grain of mustard seed, which was a simile among the Jews for anything exceedingly small. Why did he do so? Because, in its first onset, the Kingdom is not an experience but an intuition—and the latter begins as an exceedingly faint and tiny leading.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and the Glimpse

#27287 – 14.22.1.281

B_11 – Z – DK

Whereas we can reach the intellect only through thinking, we can reach the spirit only through intuition. The practice of meditation is simply the deepening, broadening, and strengthening of intuition. A mystical experience is simply a prolonged intuition.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and the Glimpse

#27288 – 14.22.1.282

BN – Z – DEK1*

It is important that the feeling of "inward drawing" which comes to him at times be at once followed up, whenever possible, by a withdrawal from external affairs for a few minutes and a concentration on what the feeling leads to. This practice is like a thread which, if followed up, will lead to a cord, that to a rope, and so on. Thus he will benefit by the grace which is being shed upon him, and not turn away unheedingly. But the mind, at the beginning, leaves this intuitional plane all too quickly, so extreme vigilance is called for to bring it back there.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and the Glimpse

#27290 – 14.22.1.284

BN – Z – DEK

What is more private, more intimate, than intuition? It is the only means they possess wherefrom to start to get mystical experience, glimpses, true enlightenment. Yet they insist on seeking among those who stand outside them, among the teachers, for that which must be searched after and felt inside themselves.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and the Glimpse

#27291 – 14.22.1.285

BN – Z – D

The teaching that is most worthwhile comes directly from your own inner being, not from another’s.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and the Glimpse

#27293 – 14.22.1.287

B_07 – ZZ – DK

That which guides him to the god within his own being, that slender thread of intuitive feeling and intelligence, may at first appear and disappear at intervals.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and the Glimpse

#27295 – 14.22.1.289

BN – Z – D

At first intuition is like a frail thread, almost impalpable, of which he is just faintly aware; but if he heeds it, rivets attention stubbornly to it, the visitations come more and more often. If he follows the thread to its source, the message becomes clearer, stronger, precise.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and the Glimpse

#27296 – 14.22.1.290

BSG_5 – P – D

If you can attentively trace this subtle feeling back to its own root, you will get a reward immeasurably greater than it seemed to promise.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and the Glimpse

#27297 – 14.22.1.291

BN – X – D

It is only by constant use that intuition can mature into mystical enlightenment.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and the Glimpse

#27298 – 14.22.1.292

BN – X – D

If one learns to cultivate these brief intuitive moments aright, there can develop out of them in time mystical moods of much longer duration and much deeper intensity. Still later, there could come to maturity the ripe fruit of all these moods—an ecstatic experience wherein grace descends with life-changing results.

Inspiration and the Overself > Intuition the Beginning > Intuition and the Glimpse

#27299 – 14.22.1.293

BN – X – D

Turning to the meaning of that word "inspiration," what more can one say than that it is "in-breathing"—the in-breathing of a spiritual quality that raises a work or a person above the common order of things? I do not mean a work is inspired when it is cheaply glamorous, or that a man is inspired when he is rhetorically aggressive, or that a mind is inspired when it indulges in clever intellectual jugglery. It is my standpoint that all inspired art is the expression at most or a product at least of spiritual experience, although the latter may not be well understood by its experiencer. The experience must come first. Art is movement and noise, whereas the spirit out of which it arises is hushed stillness and invulnerable silence.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Inspiration

#27300 – 14.22.2.1

BN – Z – K

When the goddess Athena, in Greek mythology, says that "some things you will think of for yourself, and others a god will put into your heart," this is her way of describing what we, more simply, would call inspiration.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Inspiration

#27301 – 14.22.2.2

BN – ZZ – D

There is a hidden light within man himself. Sometimes its glow appears in his most beautiful art productions, his loftiest religious revelations, his most irreproachable moral decisions.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Inspiration

#27308 – 14.22.2.9

BN – X – D

None of us can play with the pen for some years, or wield the painter's brush, or practise any of the arts, without in time letting our minds dwell on the processes of inspiration. The mysteries of man's being must then necessarily occupy us. And if we dare to be truly frank in our facing of the self, if we will put aside preconceived notions and ready-made theories in order to watch what really happens during those processes, we discover our feet upon the verge of a great discovery. For we shall discover—if we are both patient enough and yet persistent enough—that there is a Source within us which promises astonishing possibilities to the human race. That Source is loosely called the soul.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Inspiration

#27310 – 14.22.2.11

BN – X – DEK

It happens on a plane above men's heads; most of them don't know of it explicitly at the moment. Yet they are truly rendering service through being used as channels.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Inspiration

#27313 – 14.22.2.14

BN – Z – D

What is true of the world's work is true also of the arts. The secret of inspired action is also the secret of inspired art. The temporary inspirations of the artist can become permanent, if he or she will take the divine path. Intermittent inspiration develops ultimately into continuous contact with the sublime, when genius discovers the mysterious source which inspires it.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Inspiration

#27315 – 14.22.2.16

BN – Z – DEK

To the extent that we can keep and hold our awareness of this divine consciousness, we can also express something of its knowledge and power.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its expression and development

#27318 – 14.22.2.19

BN – Z – D

Once "tuned in," the longer you can stay with the Overself, the greater the depth penetrated; and this in turn means the more general benefit will be gained, the more creativity will be possible in ideas, in arts, and in intuitions.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its expression and development

#27319 – 14.22.2.20

BN – X – D

There are men who may be high in talent but low in character. Notice that I use the word talent. I can not believe that it is possible to possess true inspiration and yet deny it or fail to express it in one's conduct.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its expression and development

#27321 – 14.22.2.22

BN – ZZ – K1

To the extent that a man is conscious of the presence of the Overself, he becomes inspired. To the extent that he is also talented in any of the arts, his work also becomes inspired.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its expression and development

#27324 – 14.22.2.25

BN – ZZZ – DK1

If he feels this presence, and can do his work without deserting it, then his is a sacred function, no matter whether it be an artist's or an artisan's.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its expression and development

#27325 – 14.22.2.26

BN – ZZ – K1

Even while working in an office or factory or field, a man is not prevented from continuing his search for the inner mind. The notion that this quest requires aloofness from the commonplace utilitarian world is one which philosophy does not accept. Distraction and action are not so mutually inclusive as we may think. The student may train himself to maintain calm and serene poise even in the midst of strenuous activity, just as he also avails himself of the latest discoveries of scientific technique and yet keeps his mind capable of browsing through the oldest books of the Asiatic sages. He can discipline himself to returning from meditation to the turmoil, go anywhere, do anything, if truth is carried in the mind and poise in the heart. He may learn to live in reality at all times. The sense of its presence will need no constant renewal, no frequent slipping into trance, no intermittent escape from the world, if he follows the philosophic threefold path.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its expression and development

#27326 – 14.22.2.27

BN – Z – K1

It is not enough to obey and follow the prompting which draws him inward through formal meditation. It is equally needful to sustain spiritual activity through all the many hours of external business, to learn the art of not being of the world although in it, to achieve the wonderful state of inspired action.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its expression and development

#27327 – 14.22.2.28

BN – ZZ – D

If his inspiration is of the highest kind, it will be a fruitful one. It will manifest in external achievement by the personal ego and in altruistic service, enlightenment, and uplift of the world community in which he lives.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its expression and development

#27330 – 14.22.2.31

BN – X – D

Those critics who assert that we have lost our mystical values because we teach that mystical contemplation is not an end in itself but rather a means to action, have not understood our teaching. The kind of action we refer to is not the ordinary one. It is something higher than that, wiser than that, nobler than that. It is everyday human life divinized and made expressive of a sublime FACT. We have indeed often used the phrase "inspired action" to distinguish it from the blind and egotistic kind. He who practises it does not thereby desert the contemplative path. This inner life is kept deep full and rich, but it is not kept refrigerated and isolated. He reflects it deliberately into the outer life to satisfy a twofold purpose. First, to be on the earth, so far as he can, what he is in heaven. Second, to work actively for the liberation of others. This cannot be achieved by inertia and indifference—which are virtues to the mystic but defects to the philosopher.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its expression and development

#27331 – 14.22.2.32

BN – ZZ – K1

He finds within himself not merely a passive repose but also a veritable fountain of wisdom and strength, inspiration and bliss.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its expression and development

#27333 – 14.22.2.34

BN – X – D

When spirituality shines through a man, it makes him great, even though he be bereft of talent in any other direction.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its expression and development

#27334 – 14.22.2.35

BN – X – D

The priest and the guru, the artist and the writer have to carry a small flock or a million minds with them by means of their work. The talent if they possess it is theirs, but the inspiration comes from a higher level.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its expression and development

#27338 – 14.22.2.39

BN – X – D

A good deal of achievement goes on in the silent solitude of our own hearts, unnoticed and unknown to other men; one day it blossoms into irresistible action, and then the world wonders why.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its expression and development

#27342 – 14.22.2.43

BN – Z – D

We fulfil life when we find ourselves in the divine presence unendingly, aware of it and expressing it.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its expression and development

#27344 – 14.22.2.45

BN – Z – D

Finding the Overself is one thing, and the first thing, but letting it take over is another thing.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27345 – 14.22.2.46

BN – Z – D

It is one secret of the inspired individual that he lets himself be led: he does not try to do with his ego what can be better done for him by the intuition. But this will be possible only if he pauses and waits for the inner leading to come to him.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27347 – 14.22.2.48

BN – ZZ – D

Give the ego back to the Overself and then the Overself will use it as it should be used—in harmony with the cosmic laws of being. This means that the welfare of all others in contact with the ego will be considered as well as the ego's own.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27348 – 14.22.2.49

BN – Z – D

His behaviour is spontaneous, but not through mere impulse nor through unused intellect. It is the spontaneity, the forthrightness of an inspired man who knows where he is going and what he is doing, who is directly guided in his relations with other men by a higher will than his own ego's.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27350 – 14.22.2.51

BA11 – ZZZ – DK

When the Overself’s will is the motivating power in his life, all strain and all effort to act rightly cease.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27351 – 14.22.2.52

BN – Z – D

When the ego is displaced and the Overself is using him, there will be no need and no freedom to choose between two alternatives in regard to actions. Only a single course will present itself, directly and unwaveringly, as the right one.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27352 – 14.22.2.53

BA11 – ZZZ – DK1

His activity as a merely selfish person comes to an end; his activity as a divinely inspired one begins. It is a transformation from "works of the flesh" to "fruits of the spirit" in the Bible's phrase.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27353 – 14.22.2.54

BN – X – K1

To gain such an inspiration in all its untarnished purity, his egoism must be totally lost and absorbed in the experience.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27354 – 14.22.2.55

BN – Z – K1

He has to penetrate to the inner workings of the mind, to discover where the spark of contact with the Overself is glowing, and with that find that a finer being, a nobler outlook, and a collaboration with the World-Idea can be created.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27355 – 14.22.2.56

BN – Z – K

Inspired action becomes possible when, to speak in spatial metaphors, every deed receives its necessary and temporary attention within the foreground of the mind whilst the Overself holds the permanent attention of the man within the background of his mind.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27356 – 14.22.2.57

BSG_4 – ZZZ – DK1

As the consciousness of the Overself seeps into him, the power of the Overself expresses through him.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27357 – 14.22.2.58

BN – ZZ – DK

He has access to infinite wisdom and infinite support in every situation and under every given circumstance. But he has it only so far as he submits the ego to the higher self.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27359 – 14.22.2.60

BN – Z – D

The wise man lets the Overself's presence flow through his life, never blocks it by his ego nor turns it aside by his passions.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27362 – 14.22.2.63

BA11 – ZZZ – DK

The ego can no longer foresee what will happen to the outer course of its personal life when the Overself takes the lead, nor can it dictate what that course should be.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27363 – 14.22.2.64

BN – ZZ – D

With all his humility before the Overself, he will bear himself among his fellow human beings with serene self-assurance and speak with firm conviction of that which he knows.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27364 – 14.22.2.65

BN – ZZ – D

Only when we act in and from the Overself can we really be said to act aright, for only then shall our deeds be wise and virtuous, most beneficial in the ultimate sense both to our own self and to others.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27366 – 14.22.2.67

BN – Z – D

What the ego thinks and feels and does is to reflect the Overself's dominion. The ego itself is now to be subsidiary. Every thought or feeling or act is to be a dedicated one, every place where it finds itself a consecrated one.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27367 – 14.22.2.68

BN – X – D

The Overself is not merely a transient intellectual abstraction but rather an eternal presence. For those who have awakened to the consciousness of this presence, there is always available its mysterious power and sublime inspiration.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27368 – 14.22.2.69

BN – Z – D

At some mysterious moment a higher power takes possession of him, dictates his thoughts, words, and acts. Sometimes he is amazed by them, by their difference from what he would normally have thought, spoken, or done.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27370 – 14.22.2.71

BN – ZZ – D

The unfoldment of intuitive action, intuitive thinking, and intuitive feeling means that the Overself and the personality are then in accord and working together. The little circle of the ego then lies within the larger circle of the Overself, in harmony and in co-operation. It does not matter then whether a man lives as a monk or as a householder, whether he is engaged in the world's activity, or whether he is in retirement. Of course, such a condition is not attained without a full and deep transformation of the man. It is necessary to point out that the mere removal of thoughts by itself is not enough and could only give an illusory illumination and the kind of peace which one feels after a dreamless sleep—passive, but not positive.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27371E – 14.22.2.72

BN – X – DEK

He must look forward hopefully to the day when he can actually feel the higher self present within all his activity. It will reign in his inner world and thus be the real doer of his actions, not the ego in the outer world.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27372 – 14.22.2.73

BN – Z – D

There are times when the Overself accepts no resistance, when it acts with such compelling force that the man is unable to disobey. But such happenings are special ones.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27374 – 14.22.2.75

BN – ZZ – D

Some self other than his familiar one will rise up within him, some force—ennobling, masterful, and divine—will control him.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27375 – 14.22.2.76

BN – Z – D

When a man's consciousness, outlook, and character are so exalted as this is, altruistic duty becomes not a burden to be carried irksomely but a part of his path of self-fulfilment from which he would not wish to be spared.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27376 – 14.22.2.77

BN – ZZ – D

There is a strange feeling that not he but somebody else is living and talking in the same body. It is somebody nobler and wiser than his own ego.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > As act of Overself

#27377 – 14.22.2.78

BN – Z – D

Whoever finds his Overself and draws from it the will and desire to serve others, will radiate joy, confidence, and peace to them.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its power and limitations

#27382 – 14.22.2.83

BA11 – ZZ – DK

From that high source of inspiration may come great actions, immense inner strength, superb artistic creativity, and a beautiful, delicate inner equilibrium.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its power and limitations

#27383 – 14.22.2.84

B_09 – ZZ – DK

Regardless of the fears and dreads, the hesitancies and timidities of the lower ego, he must carry out whatever his newly found commander bids him do. But this will not be so hard and unpleasant a task as it might seem to others. For he will now feel at least the same satisfaction in yielding to the higher self's bidding that he formerly felt in yielding to the lower one's desires. And with the bidding will come the needed strength, courage, and wisdom to obey it. The world's opposition and danger may be recognized but will not deter him. It is not by his own will that he engages himself in such work, but by a will that supports and guides him better than ever he could support or guide himself. This he clearly comprehends and gladly accepts.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its power and limitations

#27388 – 14.22.2.89

BN – ZZZ – DEK

It is a mistake to believe that to find the Overself is to find eternal monotony and boredom. On the contrary, it holds out the promise of life more abundant—of joy, happiness, and satisfaction physically as well as spiritually.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its power and limitations

#27389 – 14.22.2.90

BN – X – D

He will be an inspired man in his labours of spiritual service or artistic expression. He will be aware that a power greater than his own is working through him and affecting others. And he will know that this power comes from the secret God within himself.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its power and limitations

#27391 – 14.22.2.92

BN – ZZ – D

So immense is the security which the Overself enfolds him with that he will not hesitate to take chances which prudence, caution, discretion, or fear would never take. But he will do so only if the Overself guides him to.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its power and limitations

#27392 – 14.22.2.93

BN – ZZZ – D

The wonder and joy of finding himself to be a channel of blessing, teaching, healing peace, and uplift to others will increase as the results themselves increase.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its power and limitations

#27394 – 14.22.2.95

BN – ZZ – D

The inspiration may be made manifest in a production, so that others may have the chance to feel its reflection; but there can be no guarantee that they will do so.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its power and limitations

#27395 – 14.22.2.96

BN – ZZZ – K

The forces of heredity and the dominion of environment would appear to be the overwhelming impulsions of a man's actions. But let the Soul arise in its masterful urgency, and they vanish!

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its power and limitations

#27398 – 14.22.2.99

BN – X – D

The truth is that the source of man's inspiration is always there, but his awareness of it is intermittent.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its power and limitations

#27402 – 14.22.2.103

BN – Z – D

Work done under the Overself's inspiration can never be tedious but will always be satisfying.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its power and limitations

#27407 – 14.22.2.108

BN – ZZ – D

To do something really worthwhile, to become creative and constructive in an inspired way, aware of the Overself, is to become godlike. We then fulfil the purpose of human existence on Earth.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its power and limitations

#27408 – 14.22.2.109

B_01 – ZZZ – DK

Whoever keeps this divine flame burning brightly within his heart, radiates the spirit of his purpose to all whom he contacts.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its power and limitations

#27409 – 14.22.2.110

BN – ZZ – D

The Overself is not merely a pleasant feeling—although it arouses such a feeling—but a veritable force. When it possesses a man, he is literally and actually gripped by a dynamic energy. A creative power henceforth pervades his atmosphere, enters his deeds, permeates his mind and charges his words, and runs through his history.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Its power and limitations

#27412 – 14.22.2.113

BN – ZZ – D

Brahms explained his method of finding inspiration as beginning with a pondering on lofty universal spiritual truths which led him into a deeper dreamlike semi-trance condition. After this prelude he felt inspired with the ideas for his work.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > Examples, anecdotes

#27414 – 14.22.2.115

BN – X – D

The feeling of some presence inside his heart will become so powerful at intervals, so real and so intense, that he will quite naturally enter into conversation with it. He will implore it, pray to it, express love for it, and worship it. And he will find that it will answer him in words, the sentences forming themselves spontaneously within his mind as speech without sound. It will give him pertinent didactic instruction—often at unexpected moments—and formulate higher points of view.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27421 – 14.22.2.122

BN – ZZ – DK

Interior Word. When he succeeds in penetrating the still depths of his being, another mind will appear to superimpose itself on his own, directing, teaching, and inspiring him. It will speak to him out of the silence within himself yet it will not be his own voice. Its tone will be friendly, and when he becomes familiar with it he will know it to be none other than the voice of the Holy Spirit, the word of the Higher Self.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27422 – 14.22.2.123

BN – Z – D

As the interior word delivers its message to him day by day, as he advances in understanding through receiving it and in character by obeying it, he will have the best evidence that this quest which he first tried as an experiment is becoming a priceless experience.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27423 – 14.22.2.124

BN – Z – D

It is the soul speaking truth to the intellect out of its larger range of life. Its voice is best and easiest heard when the consciousness is turned inward away from the sense-existence and brought as near to stillness as we can make it.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27424 – 14.22.2.125

BN – Z – D

A voice comes to his hearing but not with the ordinary kind of audibility. It is within him for it is only a mental voice yet it speaks with a strange authority. It says to him, "I am the Way, the Truth, the Life."

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27426 – 14.22.2.127

BN – Z – D

The Overself issues its commands and exacts its demands in the utter silence and privacy of a man's heart. Yet they are more powerful and more imperious in the end than any which issue from the noisy bustling world.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27428 – 14.22.2.129

BN – X – D

He 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.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27429 – 14.22.2.130

BN – Z – D

The phenomenon of the Interior Word does not ordinarily appear before one is able to carry the mind to a certain depth or intensity of concentration, and to hold it there continuously for not less than about a half hour.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27432 – 14.22.2.133

BN – X – D

If the Interior Word bids him move in any direction which seems encompassed by difficulties or blocked by obstacles so that he can see no way before him, let him not doubt or fear. A way will be made by the power of the Overself. He need only obey, relax, and trust the guidance.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27438 – 14.22.2.139

BN – Z – D

The Interior Word is not heard with the reasoning mind, even though its statements may be very reasonable. It is not connected with the intellect at all, as are all our ordinary words. It is received in the heart, felt intensively and deeply.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27441 – 14.22.2.142

BN – ZZ – D

Saint Teresa defined the Interior Word thus: "The words were clearly formed and not to be mistaken though not heard by the body’s ear"

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27450 – 14.22.2.151

BSG_5 – P – D

A mystical phenomenon which may develop out of this communion with his "holy ghost" is that of inspired writings. Helpful teachings that will be addressed to humanity in general or to the few seekers in particular may come through his pen. Or guidance in his personal life and instruction in his spiritual life may be addressed to the writer himself through occasional notes. In most cases the words will be impressed spontaneously upon his mind as though telepathically received from the dictation of his unseen but much-felt other self. In some cases, however, his hand and pen may move across the paper by automatic compulsion at a high speed, his mind being forced to move as quickly. He will then distinctly feel that he is merely an instrument which is being used to produce this inspirational script.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27451 – 14.22.2.152

BN – ZZZ – K

The words spoken by this unseen but much-felt presence are not heard by the physical ears yet they are strongly impressed upon the mind. They do not come from the spirits of deceased persons but from the holy spirit of one's own diviner self, from a deep mystical source, not a shallow "astral" one.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27453 – 14.22.2.154

BN – Z – D

What it amounts to is that the Interior Word becomes in effect the Inner Teacher and meditation itself the gateway to an inner school where instruction is regularly obtained.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27456 – 14.22.2.157

BN – Z – D

To bring others a message which elevates them and a truth which inspires them, the Interior Word will speak through him as him. This is a wonderful phenomenon when it happens.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27462 – 14.22.2.163

BN – ZZ – D

Let him humbly acknowledge that he does not have the wisdom and purity to know what is right for him to have and what is right to do. Let him turn in silent waiting to the Interior Word, and listen for it to tell him these answers.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27467 – 14.22.2.168

BN – Z – DK

When he has travelled to this stage of his journey; when he can close the door of his chamber, lie down, and listen to the Interior Voice; when the silence within becomes audible with clearly formulated instructions, then only is he ready to speak to others or write for others, and teach them. Until then he is a deaf mute, unable to hear and untrained to speak the sacred language. Now the Pentecostal power has descended on him and he is able not only to see the truth through the surrounding darkness but also to give it to those among his people who can take it.

Inspiration and the Overself > Inspiration > The Interior Word

#27468 – 14.22.2.169

BN – ZZ – D

The spiritual self, the Overself, has never been lost. What has happened is that its being has not been recognized, covered over as it is with a multitude of thoughts, desires, and egocentricities.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27469 – 14.22.3.1

BN – ZZ – DK*

The day will inexorably come when this pen shall move no more and I wish therefore to leave on record, for the benefit of those who shall come after, a sacred and solemn testimony that I know—as surely as I know that I am not this pen which scribes these lines—that a being, benign, wise, protective, and divine, whom men call the Soul, whom I call the Overself, truly exists in the hearts of all; therefore all may discover it… For the presence of man’s own innermost divinity is the guarantee that he must inescapably seek and find it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27470E – 14.22.3.2

B_02 – ZZZ – DEMK

Whoever has been led into the cave of timeless life will poise his pen in a futile attempt to find words which will accurately measure this sublime experience. He rises renewed from the exquisite embrace of such a contemplation. He learns in those shining hours. That which he has been seeking so ardently has been within himself all the time. For there at the core of his being, hidden away underneath all the weakness, passion, pettiness, fear, and ignorance, dwells light, love, peace, and truth. The windows of his heart open on eternity, only he has kept them closed! He is as near the sacred spirit of God as he ever shall be, but he must open his eyes to see it. Man's divine estate is there deep within himself. But he must claim it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27471 – 14.22.3.3

BN – Z – DEK

That which he has been seeking so ardently has been within himself all the time. For there at the core of his being, hidden away underneath all the weakness, passion, pettiness, fear, and ignorance, dwells light, love, peace, and truth. The windows of his heart open on eternity, only he has kept them closed! He is as near the sacred spirit of God as he ever shall be, but he must open his eyes to see it. Man's divine estate is there deep within himself. But he must claim it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27471E – 14.22.3.3

BA12 – ZZ – DEK

Repeated introspection, reflective study, and mystical meditation are needed to weaken erroneous habits and generate the inner strength.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27472E – 14.22.3.4

BSG_4 – P – DE

The other part of the answer is that the Overself is always here as man's innermost truest self. It is beginningless and endless in time. Its consciousness does not have to be developed as something new. The ever-presence of Overself means that anyone may attain it here and now. There is no inner necessity to travel anywhere or to anyone in space or to wait years in time for this to happen. Anyone, for instance, who attends carefully and earnestly to the present exposition may perhaps suddenly and easily get the first stage of insight, the lightning-flash which affords a glimpse of reality, at any moment. By that glimpse he will have been uplifted to a new dimension of being. The difficulty will consist in retaining the new perception. For ancient habits of erroneous thinking will quickly reassert themselves and overwhelm him enough to push it into the background. This is why repeated introspection, reflective study, and mystical meditation are needed to weaken those habits and generate the inner strength which can firmly hold the higher outlook against these aggressive intruders from his own past.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27472E – 14.22.3.4

BN – ZEL1/1 – DEK

Although It is at the very heart of human beings, the Overself is very far from their present level of consciousness. Nothing could be closer yet this is the supreme paradox of our existence and the strangest enigma confronting our thought.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27474 – 14.22.3.6

BN – Z – D

The Overself is not a goal to be attained but a realization of what already is. It is the inalienable possession of all conscious beings and not of a mere few. No effort is needed to get hold of the Overself, but every effort is needed to get rid of the many impediments to its recognition. We cannot take hold of it; it takes hold of us. Therefore, the last stage of this quest is an effortless one. We are led, as children by the hand, into the resplendent presence. Our weary strivings come to an abrupt end. Our lips are made shut and wordless.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27477 – 14.22.3.9

B_01 – ZZZ – DM*

No situation in human life lasts totally unchanged forever, just as no condition on the very planet which harbours that life lasts forever. It is folly to demand changelessness. And yet we do. Why? Because beneath this conscious desire for fresh experiences there is the unconscious longing for That which is the permanent core of selfhood. The stilled, one-pointed, and reverent mind may know it, the self may dissolve in it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27478 – 14.22.3.10

BN – ZZ – DEK

We carry the divine presence with us everywhere we travel. We do not 'directly' profit by it simply because we are not directly conscious of it. The effort to arouse such awareness is a worthwhile one, bringing rich reward in its train.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27479 – 14.22.3.11

BN – Z – D

The soul is always with us but our sense of its presence is not.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27480 – 14.22.3.12

BN – Z – D

There is a spiritual element in every man. It is his essence.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27481 – 14.22.3.13

BN – X – D

Although we are divided in awareness from the higher power, we are not divided in fact from it. The divine being is immanent in each one of us. This is why there is always some good in the worst of us.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27482 – 14.22.3.14

BN – Z – DM1

Goethe: "You give me space to belong to myself yet without separating me from your own life."

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27483 – 14.22.3.15

BN – X – D

The Overself is always present but man's attention seldom is.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27484 – 14.22.3.16

BN – Z – DK

Because the soul is present deep down in each human heart, none is so depraved that he will not one day find the inward experience of it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27485 – 14.22.3.17

BN – X – D

There is a zone of utter calm within man. It is not only there but always there. Those who suffer, fret, or are confused may doubt or deny this—understandably and pardonably.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27486 – 14.22.3.18

BN – Z – DK

It is always possible for a man to gain enlightenment anytime anywhere even though it may not be probable, for he has within himself the Light itself as an ever-present Reality. What does happen and what is probable is that some moment during the course of a lifetime a glimpse may happen, and the glimpse itself is nothing less than a testimony to that ever-presence, a witness telling him that it is true and real.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27487 – 14.22.3.19

BN – X – D

Just then, as thoughts themselves stop coming into his mind, he stops living in time and begins living in the eternal. He knows and feels his timelessness. And since all his sufferings belong to the world of passing time, of personal ego, he leaves them far behind as though they had never been. He finds himself in the heaven of a serene, infinite bliss. He learns that he could always have entered it; only his insistence on holding to the little egoistic values, his lack of thought-control, and his disobedience to the age-old advice of the Great Teachers prevented him from doing so.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27488 – 14.22.3.20

BN – Z – D

These rare moments of spontaneous spiritual exaltation, which cast all other moments in the shade and which are remembered ever after, could not have been born if that divine element into which they exalted us did not already exist within us. Its very presence in our hearts makes always possible and sometimes actual the precious feeling of a non-material sublimely happy order of being.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27489 – 14.22.3.21

BN – Z – D

It is not really a goal to be reached, nor a state to be attained, nor something new to be added to what he now has or is. But if he insists on thinking that it is any of these things, there is no other course open than to take the appropriate action, make the necessary effort, for such achievement. His labours are really self-imposed, a consequence of incorrect thought about himself.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27490 – 14.22.3.22

BN – X – DEK

Just as there is a sun hidden behind the sun, the divinity which animates it, so in the human being there is a Mind within the mind—and that is his Overself; It is forever with us simply because it is what we really are.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27491M – 14.22.3.23

BSG_4 – ZZ – DXK

Is this benign state a past from which we have lapsed or a future to which we are coming? The true answer is that it is neither. This state has always been existent within us, is so now, and always will be. It is forever with us simply because it is what we really are.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27491 – 14.22.3.23

B_01 – ZZZ – DK*

Is this benign state a past from which we have lapsed or a future to which we are coming? The true answer is that it is neither. This state has always been existent within us, is so now, and always will be. It is forever with us simply because it is what we really are.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27491 – 14.22.3.23

BA11 – ZZZ – DK*

If the real Self must have been present and been witness to our peaceful enjoyment of deep slumber—otherwise we would not have known that we had had such enjoyment—so, must it likewise have been present and been witness to our rambling imaginations in dream-filled sleep and to our physical activities in waking. This leads to a tremendous but inescapable conclusion. We are as near to, or as much in, the real Self, the Overself, at every moment of every day as we ever shall be. All we need is awareness of it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27493 – 14.22.3.25

BSG_5 – P – D

A man's refusal to allow spiritually intuitive feelings to awaken in him cannot obliterate the presence of the source of those feelings. He bears that presence ever within him and one day must reconcile himself willingly, knowingly, even yearningly, with it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27494 – 14.22.3.26

BN – Z – D

The Overself is always within call, for its hiding place is no farther than a man's heart. But if the call does not go forth, or goes forth without faith, or is not sustained with patience, the response will not come.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27495 – 14.22.3.27

BN – Z – D

God is ever present with us but we are ever turning away from him. No one is forsaken except those who look only to, and into, the ego, and even then only for a time.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27496 – 14.22.3.28

BN – Z – DEK

By his ignoring of the Overself's presence, man commits his greatest sin and shows his worst stupidity.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27498 – 14.22.3.30

BN – X – D

If God did not exist then we humans would not exist. A divine ray, atom, soul, call it what you wish, is present in each of us. Some are aware of this, others must one day come to this knowledge.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27499 – 14.22.3.31

BA11 – ZZ – DK

The Overself is always present in man's heart. If he does not receive awareness of this fact in his mind, that is because he makes no proper and sustained effort to do so.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27500 – 14.22.3.32

BN – X – D

You may be an insignificant creature in the vastness of the cosmos, but the divine life—of which that cosmos is but a channel—is in you, too. Have enough faith in your divine heritage, take it into your common everyday life and thought, and in some way, to some people, you will become very significant and important.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27501 – 14.22.3.33

BN – ZZ – DEK

We live all the time in unfailing, if unconscious, union with the Overself.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27502 – 14.22.3.34

BN – X – D

Perhaps the most wonderful thing which the illuminate discovers is that his independence from the infinite life power never really existed and was only illusory, that his separation from the Overself was only an idea of the imagination and not a fact of being. Even the desire to unite with the Overself was only a dream, and consequently all lesser desires of the ego were merely dreams within a dream.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27503 – 14.22.3.35

BN – Z – DEK

I began to enter consciously into the real "I" and to comprehend by realization that it was always there, that nothing new had been found, and that this was eternal life.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27504 – 14.22.3.36

BN – Z – D

The truth is this second self—or rather the feeling of its presence—has been shut up so long, that we have come to look upon it as non-existent and to regard the rumours of its actual experience as hallucinations. This is why religion, mysticism, and philosophy have so hard a battle to fight in these times, a battle against man's inevitable incredulity.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27505 – 14.22.3.37

BN – Z – D

For centuries theologians have argued about the meaning of Jesus' declaration that the kingdom of heaven was at hand. Most of them have given it a historical interpretation. Only those who could approach the mind of Jesus have given it a mystical interpretation. For only they can see that he meant that the kingdom of the Overself is really as close to us as is our own hand. All such argument is useless when it starts from different planes of knowledge and the arguers never really meet each other.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27506 – 14.22.3.38

B_11 – Z – DEK

Everywhere we see people in bondage to their egos. Everywhere, too, the sage sees the Overself waiting, always present, for them to turn from themselves to It.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27507 – 14.22.3.39

BN – ZZ – DK*

The overlooked part is his consciousness; the forgotten self is his knowing power. These exist uninterruptedly, even in apparently subconscious forms like deep sleep and swoon. Yet he denies this share of his in the Real Being, identifies with the body instead of making it merely an object of awareness.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27508 – 14.22.3.40

BN – X – D

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.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27509 – 14.22.3.41

BA11 – ZZZ – DK

When the divinity in his own self is found at last, he will afterwards find its light reflected upon every other man and woman he encounters.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27511 – 14.22.3.43

BN – ZZ – D

Every man is sacred did he but know it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27512 – 14.22.3.44

BN – X – D

The godlike abides in each of us but only the master knows and feels its glory.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27514 – 14.22.3.46

BN – X – D

The mind keeps on moving about until sleep overcomes it . . . and because it never stopped to collect itself, it still does not know the higher and better part of itself—the Overself.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27515 – 14.22.3.47

BN – X – D

The soul is present and active in every man. This is why it is quite possible for every man to have a direct glimpse of the truth about his own inward non-materiality.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27517 – 14.22.3.49

BN – X – D

Nothing can ever exist outside God. Therefore, no man is bereft of the divine presence within himself. All men have the possibility of discovering this fact. And with it they will discover their real selfhood, their true individuality.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27518 – 14.22.3.50

BN – Z – D

This is the truth that must be proclaimed to our generation, that the Soul is with us here and now—not in some remote world or distant time, not when the body expires—and that it is our joy and strength to find it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27519 – 14.22.3.51

BN – X – D

Not even a solitary Crusoe passes through life alone. Everyone passes through it in fellowship with his higher self. That such fellowship is, in most cases, an unconscious one, is not enough to nullify it. That men may deny in faith or conduct even the very existence of their soul is likewise not enough to nullify it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27521 – 14.22.3.53

BN – Z – D

This, the real I, is always accessible to him in meditation and always is the half-known background of his conscious self at other times.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27522 – 14.22.3.54

BN – Z – D

So long as the Overself is sought elsewhere than where It is, as apart from the seeker himself, so long will the quest for it end in failure.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27523 – 14.22.3.55

B_05 – ZZ – DK

The divine being is present in all people, from the crudest to the most cultured. The Overself is forever with us simply because it is what we really are. We are seeking it, knowingly or unwittingly, and are preordained to do so.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27524EM – 14.22.3.56

B_01 – ZZZ – DXK

The absence of the ego is the presence of the Overself. But this is only a surface impression in the person's thought, for the Overself is 'always' present.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27526 – 14.22.3.58

BN – Z – D

We may have the intuitive assurance that this higher power 'does' exist even when we have no personal experience of it and no direct knowledge of its nature.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27527 – 14.22.3.59

BN – Z – D

Amid all the perplexities and oscillations of life, the witnessing and understanding Overself waits with infinite patience. No one is ever left out. This is the only God we can hope to know, the true Teacher for all. Those who yearn to unite with it should plead persistently for its Grace.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27528 – 14.22.3.60

BN – Z – D

The Overself's power to alter circumstances, create opportunities, and uphold persons is available to anyone who fulfils the requisite conditions. These include some amount of mental preparation and moral purification, some clear perception of the fact that the Overself is present here and now, an instant and constant remembrance of this fact, and finally a willingness to trust completely to its providential help, supply, and support no matter how undesirable or intolerable a situation seems to be.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27529 – 14.22.3.61

ME_01 – Z – DK

There are resources within man's grasp that could redeem his character and transform his life, yet they lie untouched and undeveloped.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27531 – 14.22.3.63

BN – X – D

The silent secret part of the self is forever there, forever asking a little surrender of attention. But few give it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27532 – 14.22.3.64

BN – X – D

All the time it is silently asking: "Will you not turn toward Me, accept Me, for I am your other self?"

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27533 – 14.22.3.65

BN – X – D

In one sense, we have never left the divine Source, never lost our divine identity.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27534 – 14.22.3.66

BT1008 – P – D

The Presence is inseparable from human existence, even though so many human beings may find the statement incredible, imaginative, or merely tied to a religious faith. If it would only announce itself more loudly! But mankind has to accept its ways on its own terms. Those who wish may learn what they are.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27535 – 14.22.3.67

BN – Z – D

There is something godlike in every person. By finding it in ourselves, we rise above the common human life as that in turn rises above the animal.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27536 – 14.22.3.68

BN – X – D

And you will perceive that the Overself is always there, albeit you will have repeatedly to raise your eyes from earth and your mind from ego to come into realization of this truth.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27537 – 14.22.3.69

BN – X – D

Because we draw our very life from the spiritual principle within us, we can only ignore the truth that this principle exists but can never lose its reality.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27538 – 14.22.3.70

BN – X – D

Retreat into his mystical home is ever open to him, withdrawal into the blissful privacy of the Overself is his blessed right.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27539 – 14.22.3.71

BN – Z – DK

God is both outside and inside us, is everywhere around and deep within. It is there but waits to be recovered by the individual consciousness.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27540 – 14.22.3.72

BA11 – ZZ – DMK

Where can he find this peace or practise this presence except in himself? This done, he can go about his daily business anywhere and everywhere.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27541 – 14.22.3.73

BN – X – D

Jesus spoke in simple crisp sentences about this great fact that heaven—the state of real happiness—is within man even here and now.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27542 – 14.22.3.74

B_11 – ZZ – DMK

Deep within man there is Something which waits for his discovery, something which reveals itself when he has penetrated far enough or when grace grants it or karma favours it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27543 – 14.22.3.75

BN – ZZ – DK

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.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27544 – 14.22.3.76

BN – Z – D

The truth is that never for a moment are we really separate from our inner self.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27545 – 14.22.3.77

BN – X – D

The same Overself is behind us all, contains us all.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27549 – 14.22.3.81

BN – X – D

This is the divine element whose continuing presence in man confers a guarantee of eventual salvation.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27550 – 14.22.3.82

BN – X – D

In all of us there is this resplendent being dwelling in the deepest concealment, linking us with the Supreme Being.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27551 – 14.22.3.83

BN – Z – DK

In its own perfect silence and with its own perfect patience, the Overself awaits us.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27552 – 14.22.3.84

BN – Z – D

The Overself can become very real to him when feeling its ever-presence in all his experience, when awake to its now-ness.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27555 – 14.22.3.87

BN – Z – D

The revelation of truth may come directly from within himself because of the presence of the divine spark within himself.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27556 – 14.22.3.88

BN – Z – D

The doorway to truth stands wide open throughout the day.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27558 – 14.22.3.90

BN – Z – D

It is a presence which can be felt directly in daily active life, although not so vividly as when removed from the world and concentrated upon in solitary meditation.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > In each, in all, always

#27560 – 14.22.3.92

BN – Z – D

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.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27563 – 14.22.3.95

BN – Z – DK

Once you are clearly aware of the presence of the Overself, you will find that it will spontaneously provide you with a rule of conduct and a standard of ethics at all times and under all circumstances. Consequently you will never be at a loss to know what to do in difficult moral situations, nor how to behave in challenging ones. And with this knowledge will also come the power to implement it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27565 – 14.22.3.97

BN – ZZ – D

When this contact with the Overself is established, its power will work for you: you will no longer go through the struggles of life alone.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27566 – 14.22.3.98

BN – ZZ – D

From this seeming Nothingness deep within he draws a peace of mind, an emotional freedom, a sense of God’s living presence that the world's harshness cannot dislodge.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27568 – 14.22.3.100

BA11 – ZZ – DK

The appearance of the sacred presence automatically extinguishes the lower desires. The holding on to that presence wherever he goes and whatever he does as if it were his real identity, will help to establish that release as a lasting fact.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27569 – 14.22.3.101

BN – Z – D

As he becomes more sensitive to the Overself's presence, he knows that he has only to turn to it to receive divine strength and nourishment.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27570 – 14.22.3.102

BN – Z – D

When all other sources of help have been tried, there is no other source left to man than the divine Overself, by whatever name he calls it or under whatever symbol he pictures it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27571 – 14.22.3.103

BN – ZZ – D

Once the Overself is felt in the heart as a living presence, it raises the consciousness out of the grip of the egoistic-desire parts of our being, frees it from the ups and downs of mood and emotion which they involve. It provides a sense of inner satisfaction that is complete in itself and irrespective of outside circumstances.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27572 – 14.22.3.104

BN – ZZ – D

The extraordinary thing is not that he will feel the divine self is with him but that it has always been with him.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27573 – 14.22.3.105

BN – Z – DK*

“How quiet it is!” exclaimed Lao Tzu, in describing the Overself. “Yet it can transform all things.”

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27574 – 14.22.3.106

BN – X – D

The stillness has magical powers. It soothes, restores, heals, instructs, guides, and replaces chaos and tumult by orderliness and harmony.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27575 – 14.22.3.107

B_01 – ZZ – DMK

There is much confusion of understanding about what happens to the ego when it attains the ultimate goal. Some believe that a cosmic consciousness develops, with an all-knowing intelligence and an "all-overish" feeling. They regard it as unity with the whole universe. Others assert that there is a complete loss of the ego, an utter destruction of the personal self. No—these are confused notions of what actually occurs. The Overself is not a collective entity as though it were composed of a number of particles. One's embrace of other human beings through it is not in union with them but only in sympathy, not in psychic identification with them but in psychic harmony. He has enlarged the area of his vision and sees himself as a part of mankind. But this does not mean that he has become conscious of all mankind as though they were himself. The true unity is with one's own higher indestructible self. It is still with a higher individuality, not a cosmic one, and it is still with one's own self, not with the rest of mankind.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27576E – 14.22.3.108

BN – ZEL1/4 – DEK3

There is much confusion of understanding about what happens to the ego when it attains the ultimate goal. Some believe that a cosmic consciousness develops, with an all-knowing intelligence and an "all-overish" feeling. They regard it as unity with the whole universe. Others assert that there is a complete loss of the ego, an utter destruction of the personal self. No—these are confused notions of what actually occurs. The Overself is not a collective entity as though it were composed of a number of particles. One's embrace of other human beings through it is not in union with them but only in sympathy, not in psychic identification with them but in psychic harmony. Unity with them is neither mystically nor practically possible. What we discover is discovered by a deepening of consciousness, not by a widening of it. Hence it is not so much a wider as a deeper self that he has first to find.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27576E – 14.22.3.108

BN – ZEL2/4 – DEK3

Hence it is not so much a wider as a deeper self that he has first to find. With the rectification of this error, we may find the correct answer to the question: "What is the practical meaning of the injunction laid by all the great spiritual teachers upon their followers, to give up the ego, to renounce the self?" It does not ask for a foolish sentimentality, in the sense that we are to be as putty in the hands of all other men. It does not ask for an utter impossibility, in the sense that we are never to attend to our own affairs at all. It does not ask for a useless absurdity, in the sense that we are to become oblivious of our very existence. On the contrary, it asks for what is wise, practicable, and worthwhile—that we give up our lower personality to our higher individuality.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27576E – 14.22.3.108

BN – ZEL3/4 – DEK3

Thus it is not that the aspirant is asked to abandon all thought of his particular self (as if he could) or to lose consciousness of it, but that he is asked to perceive its imperfection, its unsatisfactoriness, its faultiness, its baseness and its sinfulness and, in consequence of this perception, to give it up in favour of his higher self, with its perfection, blessedness, goodness, nobility, and wisdom. For in the lower ego he will never know peace whereas in the diviner one he will always know it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27576E – 14.22.3.108

BN – ZEL4/4 – DEK

He is not asked to abandon all thought of his particular self (as if he could) or to lose consciousness of it, but that he is asked to perceive its imperfection, its unsatisfactoriness, its faultiness, its baseness and its sinfulness and, in consequence of this perception, to give it up in favour of his higher self, with its perfection, blessedness, goodness, nobility, and wisdom. For in the lower ego he will never know peace whereas in the diviner one he will always know it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27576E – 14.22.3.108

B_08 – ZZ – DEK

Through his higher self, a man can attain the highest good.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27578 – 14.22.3.110

BN – X – D

The concept of the Overself is foundational. It provides meaning for life. 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."

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27579EM – 14.22.3.111

B_01 – ZZZ – DXK

That man is verily ignorant who does not know that what the Overself can give him is immeasurably greater than what he can gain from any other source. For on the one side there is infinite power, on the other only limited capacity.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27580 – 14.22.3.112

BN – X – D

In that benign atmosphere, negative thoughts cannot exist.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27582 – 14.22.3.114

BN – ZZ – D

He who has discovered how to live with his higher self has discovered a serenity which defies circumstance and environment, a goodness which is too deep for the world's understanding, a wisdom which transcends thought.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27583 – 14.22.3.115

BN – ZZ – D

Even in the midst of worldly distresses, he will feel the Overself's support to such an extent and in such a way that they will seem to be someone else's, with himself as a merely continuous spectator of them.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27584 – 14.22.3.116

BN – Z – D

To find the Overself is to eliminate fear, establish harmony, and inspire living.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27586 – 14.22.3.118

BN – Z – D

It is quite possible to open doors of inner being without the aid of a teacher. One's own higher self will give him all the guidance he needs, provided he has sufficient faith in its existence and its assistance.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27588 – 14.22.3.120

BN – Z – D

Alone and depending on his little, personal ego, a man can do the merest fraction of what he can do when he becomes an instrument of the Infinite Power.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27589 – 14.22.3.121

BN – ZZ – D

When the star of a man's Overself rises into ascendancy, he will no more feel lonely even if he be often alone. A sense of the universe's friendliness will surround him, enfold him.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27590 – 14.22.3.122

BN – Z – D

He always turns for his first defense against the perils and troubles of this world to brief meditation upon the all-wise, all-powerful Overself, and only after that for his secondary defenses to the ego's human resources.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27591 – 14.22.3.123

BN – Z – D

From the outside, by means of events, persons, or books; from the inside, by means of intuitions, thoughts, feelings, and urges—this is how the way is shown him by the Overself.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27592 – 14.22.3.124

BN – ZZ – D

Out of this deep mysterious centre within himself, he will draw the strength to endure distresses with fortitude, the wisdom to manage situations without after-regrets, the insight to keep the great and little values of everyday living in proper perspective.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27593 – 14.22.3.125

B_01 – ZZZ – DMK

If the consciousness of God in him makes him very strong, the consciousness of his dependence on it keeps him very humble.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27595 – 14.22.3.127

BN – X – D

Because he has access to this inward source, he may live the loneliest of lives but it will not be loveless. The joy and warmth of its ever-presence will abide with him.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27597 – 14.22.3.129

BN – Z – D

In very truth the Overself becomes his beloved companion, bringing an intense satisfaction and profound love which no external friendship could ever bring.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27598 – 14.22.3.130

BN – ZZ – D

The ever-presence of the Overself is to him life's greatest fact. There is nothing to compare with it; he takes his stand upon it. He rejoices in it. When the outside world does him injustice or slanders him or hurts him or defrauds him, he turns inward, deeper and deeper inward, until he stands in the presence of the Overself. Then he finds absolute serenity, absolute love. Every lesser thing must dissolve away in its divine atmosphere, and when he returns to mundane thought he feels no resentment against the wrong-doers; if anything, he feels pity for them. He has lost nothing, for good name and property are but the accidents of existence, whereas the presence of the Overself is a basic essential, and he has not lost that reality. So long as It loves him and so long as he loves It there can be no real loss.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27599 – 14.22.3.131

BN – ZZ – DEK

We do not live self-sufficient and self-sustained lives but depend wholly on the Overself in every way and at every moment.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27600 – 14.22.3.132

BN – X – D

Under great strain and amid grave dangers, the aspirant will find courage and endurance in the talismanic power of remembering the Higher Self. It is always there.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27601 – 14.22.3.133

BN – Z – D

It is from this source that he will draw both strength to rise above his own temptations and love to rise above other men’s hatred.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27602 – 14.22.3.134

BN – Z – D

All nerve tensions are lost in this holy quietude. An exquisite mood of well-being takes their place.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27605 – 14.22.3.137

BN – X – D

He who perpetually feels the presence of the divine soul within himself, thereby obtains an effortless control of himself.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27606 – 14.22.3.138

BA11 – ZZZ – DK

The doubts and fears, the hesitations and suspicions, the jealousies and bitternesses, the enmities and hatreds of common life can never enter here.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27607 – 14.22.3.139

BN – ZZ – D

Jallaluddin Rumi gave a beautiful and fitting name to the Higher Self in many of his poems. He called it "the Friend."

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27608 – 14.22.3.140

BN – Z – DK*

There is a sense of perfect safety, a sense which particularly and strongly reveals itself at times of danger, crisis, or distress.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27609 – 14.22.3.141

BN – ZZ – D

It is a fact more real than we usually grant that the continuous presence of the Overself makes men's satisfaction with wholly material living both impermanent and impossible.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27610 – 14.22.3.142

BN – Z – D

The extent of the peace and strength, the confidence and beneficence which lie stretched out beneath the little ego's troubled life is like unto the oceans: no other simile will suit.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27611 – 14.22.3.143

BN – Z – DM

Mysterious pools of wisdom and goodness are underneath the personality, if only we could find our way to them or else bring gushes from them to the surface.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27612 – 14.22.3.144

BN – ZZ – DM*

It is the presence of the Overself in us that creates the germ of our aspirations for a higher life. It is the warm sunshine and cold rain of experience that nurtures the germ. It is the influence of spiritual individuals that brings the growth through its varying stages.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27614 – 14.22.3.146

BN – ZZ – D

All your finest emotions, deepest wisdom, creative faculties, and Truth-discriminating intuitions come into being because of the Overself’s central if hidden presence.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27615 – 14.22.3.147

BSG_4 – P – D

Many will dispute this possibility, but it is certainly possible for your higher self to guide and instruct you directly—through and within yourself. It is not an existence far apart from yourself.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27616 – 14.22.3.148

BN – Z – D

If in your divinest being you are the Overself and if the rest of you is both path and goal, the way and the truth, what do you need a guru for, why step outside yourself? But people do not care for such questions. They look for teachers locally or in India and thus look always outside themselves, outside the Overself.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27617 – 14.22.3.149

B_07 – ZZ – K

The joy that emanates from the Overself has a healing quality. It dissipates anxieties and eradicates neuroses.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27620 – 14.22.3.152

BN – Z – D

Do not think so much of looking for outside help. Your Higher Self is with you. If you could have enough faith in its presence, you could look inwards. With persistence and patience, it would guide you.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27622 – 14.22.3.154

BN – Z – D

Where the ego fails or falters, the Overself proves equal to every occasion.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27625 – 14.22.3.157

BN – Z – D

Enfolded by that inner strength, one ceases to fear, to be anxious, or to dread the future.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27626 – 14.22.3.158

BN – Z – D

For him the most worthy achievement is to live in this state of being and to love it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27627 – 14.22.3.159

BN – X – K

It is always there, always present in him although not always easily reachable. It is the secret centre of his being. This conscious contact with it gives a feeling of marvellous security, of mountain-like strength.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27628 – 14.22.3.160

BN – ZZ – DK

The Overself is there and in its presence he becomes indifferent to the praise of friends or the venom of enemies.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27633 – 14.22.3.165

BN – ZZ – D

He will gain with time the sense of a Presence which walks with him and dwells in him. It is a guide with practical value, too, for it warns him what not to do if he would live ethically and avoid additional suffering. Even if he does not advance so far as perfect realization, he will advance.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27635 – 14.22.3.167

BN – ZZ – DK

In this healing presence the past is washed away and old sins with it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27637 – 14.22.3.169

BN – X – D

It is the part of his being which, being worth most to him, deserves most from him.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27638 – 14.22.3.170

BN – Z – K

Quite a number get a mysterious support and consolation from simply knowing at second hand that the Overself is there, even though they themselves cannot make any contact with it.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27639 – 14.22.3.171

BN – X – D

It is real, it is present and active in our very midst, its power and its guidance can be felt and recognized.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27640 – 14.22.3.172

BN – ZZZ – DK

Everything that exists in time must also exist in change. The Overself does not exist in time and is not subject to change. It is real, it is present and active in our very midst, its power and its guidance can be felt and recognized. The Overself is not something imagined or supposed. Its presence is definitely felt.

Inspiration and the Overself > The Overself's Presence > Value, effects of its presence

#27640M – 14.22.3.172

BA11 – ZZZ – DXK