But One Big Family
… All are ultimately one big family. This is what reflection on experience teaches. When one reflects on Truth, he shall eventually learn that, as the Overself, all are one entity–like the arms and legs of a single body. The upshot of this is that he has to consider the welfare of others equally with his own…
6.9.3.395, Excerpt2017-07-04
We live in apocalyptic times, as history is already revealing. The call today is a penitential one, a solemn recall from earthliness to holiness, from frivolousness, grossness, and madness to remembrance of life’s higher purpose. Those who feel in their own hearts some sort of a response, however feeble, should cling to this precious intuition and let it guide them until they are saved.
7.11.3.4872020-01-31
… Humanity, having so deeply and so widely lost sight of the higher purpose of its life on earth, has had to undergo calamity and distress in consequence. To recall blind men and women to this purpose is a noble task and a compassionate duty for those who tread the path of philosophy.
9.13.1.274, Excerpt2015-01-31
The world’s need is silently crying out for inspired and selfless people who will awaken the world’s attention to spiritual values…
9.13.4.335, Excerpt2015-12-28
Whoever has benefited by these ideas is under an obligation to make them available to whoever else may be ready to receive them…
8.12.4.28, Excerpt2011-04-29
The duty to which we are called is not to propagate ideas but to offer them, not to convert reluctant minds but to satisfy hungry ones… There are individuals today to whom these teachings are unknown but who possess in the deeper levels of their mind latent tendencies and beliefs, acquired in former lives, which will leap into forceful activity as soon as the teaching is presented to them.
13.20.2.162011-04-28
… Reverie is not enough. Dream and do. Let the buds of high thought burst into the flowers of heroic action. In the present chaotic and critical state of the world, it is better for those with spiritual ideals to throw their weight into positive service of humanity. We must do something to objectify these ideals.
10.15.1.351, Excerpt2012-11-10
He who attains even a little power to help others cannot measure where that help will stop. If it gives a lift to one man whom he knows, that man may in his turn give a lift to another person, and so on indefinitely in ever-widening ripples.
3.2.8.1552011-11-02
Each person who brings more truth and goodness, more consciousness and balance into his own small circle, brings it into the whole world at the same time. A single individual may be helpless in the face of global events, but the echoes of the echoes of his inspired words and deeds, presence and thoughts, may be heard far from him in place and time.
13.20.1.2002012-10-01
Today, the mission of philosophy is a planetary one, for truth is needed everywhere, and for the first time can be transmitted everywhere…
7.11.3.364, Excerpt2011-05-18
The best charity in the end is to show a man the higher life that is possible for him.
5.6.1.3922010-12-24
If anyone wants to see a better world he must make his contribution toward it. And this demands inexorably that he begin with himself and make his character and conduct better.
7.11.3.4902018-03-28
… He who wishes to stimulate others to start on the spiritual Quest, to help those who have already started to find the right direction in which to travel, and to make available to the public generally the leading truths of spiritual knowledge, feels that this is the most worthwhile activity. The effective and enduring preparation for this is first to spiritualize oneself and therefore it is up to him to carry on even more ardently with his efforts than he has done hitherto.
3.2.8.64, Excerpt2018-03-09
Whoever wishes to attract people to philosophy must start by supporting its preachings with the attractiveness of his own personal example in day-to-day living. He must continue by practising love to all and depending on the power of truth. He must end by praying for others in secret and offering himself to the Divine as a pure instrument of service.
13.20.4.2602019-06-28
The continued study of this philosophy will inevitably lead the student to accept its practical consequences and thus make the universal welfare of mankind his dominant ethical motive.
5.6.1.4042015-07-21
All the great prophets have made special mention of the fact that the task of spiritually enlightening others is the most important and most beneficial activity in which any man can engage…
3.2.8.64, Excerpt2017-06-13
… The ultimate goal is to discover that there is but one reality, of which all are but a part, that the separateness of the personal ego is but superficial, and that Truth is evidenced by the consciousness of unity. The first fruit of such discovery is necessarily the dedication of life to the service of all creatures, to incessant service for universal welfare…
2.1.5.92, Excerpt2013-11-04
To dedicate life to spiritually uplifting and guiding others, to the extent one is capable of, is to make certain of receiving the same help from those beyond oneself.
3.2.8.1192011-12-23
Although it is true that the help we give others always returns to us in some way, somewhere, somewhen, nevertheless he is not motivated in this matter by the desire of reward or return. He will engage in the service of humanity because compassion will arise in his heart, because of the good it will do.
3.2.8.1242015-02-06
When the Higher Power leads a man to a position produced by his constant aspiration to serve coupled with his personal qualifications for it, the strength and wisdom he may need to fulfil it will also be granted.
13.20.4.2612015-05-23
If he finds that the Overself is using him at any particular time as the personal instrument for its guidance, blessing, or healing, he must take care to be detached and keep ego out of the relationship.
3.2.8.1412018-12-09
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