Will and Desire
Q. How is it that “Behind will, stands desire” ? It seems as though it should be reversed. A. We do not act until there is desire or intention to do so; Will is the force of consciousness in action.…
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The Power of Manas
Try to imagine a “Spirit,” a celestial Being, whether we call it by one name or another, divine in its essential nature, yet not pure enough to be one with the All, and having, in order to achieve this, to so purify…
Waiting
Serene, I fold my hands and wait,Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea;I rave no more ‘gainst time or fate,For, lo! my own shall come to me. I stay my haste, I make delays,For what avails this eager pace?I…
The Soul Not an Organ
All goes to show that the soul in man is not an organ, but animates and exercises all the organs; is not a function, like the power of memory, of calculation, of comparison, but uses these as hands and feet;…
Soul of the Whole
We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal ONE. And this deep…
The Voices Within
“From the remotest antiquity mankind as a whole have always been convinced of the existence of a personal spiritual entity within the personal physical man. This inner entity was more or less divine, according to its proximity to the crown. The closer the union the more serene man’s destiny,…
The Marrow of Life
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that…
Heaven to Earth
In that mysterious journeying from time to eternity, where the soul moves on to ever higher planes of its own being, there must be many transformations of the psyche. Something I think goes with it from this world to that…
The Art of Laughter
Meet the challenge of life with the art of laughter…. Take a tip from Will Rogers who observed people with laughter in his eyes and love in his heart and declared: “I never met a man I didn’t like.” Learn…
Buddhi Whispering to Manas
There is a spiritual consciousness, the Manasic mind illumined by the light of Buddhi, that which subjectively perceives abstractions; and the sentient consciousness (the lower Manasic light), inseparable from our physical brain and senses. This latter consciousness is held in subjection by…
Atmospheres of the Unknown
“My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not…
Reticence and Connection
One who knows does not tell. One who tells does not know. Seal the openings. Shut the doors. Soften the edges. Undo all knots. Temper the glare. Merge with the dust. This is the Mysterious Levelling. It cannot come closer,…