Love the Overself
The way to be admitted the Overself´s presence can be summed up in a single phrase: love it. Not by breathing in very hard nor by blowing out very slow, not by standing on the head…can admission be gained. Not even by long study of things divine nor by acute analysis of them. But let the love come first…
12.18.1.78, Excerpt2016-10-16
Love of the Overself is the swiftest horse that can bear us to the heavenly destination. For the more we love It, the less we love the ego and its ways.
12.18.1.932013-12-24
Love will have to enter his quest at some point–love for the Overself. For it is through this uniting force that his transformation will at the end be effected.
12.18.1.912016-06-22
… The Overself waits with deepest patience for him–man–to prefer it completely to everything and everyone else. It waits for the time when longings for the soul will leave the true aspirant no rest, when love for the divine will outlast and outweigh all other loves. When he feels that he needs it more than he needs anything else in this world, the Overself will unfailingly reveal its presence to him…
12.18.1.76, Excerpt2014-06-16
… Only if a man falls in love with his soul as deeply as he has ever done with a woman will he even stand a chance of finding it. Incessant yearning for the higher self, in a spirit of religious devotion, is one of the indispensable aspects of the fourfold integral quest (mystical meditation, metaphysical reflection, purification of character and unselfish service). The note of yearning for this realization must sound through all his prayer and worship, concentration and meditation…
3.2.9.67, Excerpt2016-10-18
The qualifications required from him are love of the highest, desire for truth, conformity of living to the divine laws, and balance in his own person.
2.1.2.602017-08-12
Unless he loves the Overself with deep feeling and real devotion, he is unlikely to put forth the efforts needed to find it and the disciplines needed to push aside the obstacles in the way to it.
12.18.1.922017-02-16
He will come to perceive that his real strength lies in remembering the higher self, in remembering the quest of it, and, above all, in remembering the two with intense love, devotion, and faith.
12.18.1.62011-09-13
It is a matter of transferring attention for this brief period from the ego and fixing it lovingly on the Overself. For while thought dwells in and on the ego alone, it is kept prisoner, held by the little self’s limitations, confined in the narrow circle of personal affairs, interests, problems. The way out is this transfer of attention. But the change needs a motive power, a push. This comes from love and faith combined–love, aspiration, longing for Overself, and faith in its living ever-presence within.
4.4.2.2872017-07-11
A man must find holiness in his own mind before he can find it in any place, be it church, ashram, monastery, or temple. He must love it so much that he constantly thinks about it, or thinks about it so much that he begins to love it, before he can find its real quality anywhere.
12.17.3.732014-06-30
Why do we come to God’s presence only with our messy problems and our dark troubles? Why only as beggars, or when unhappy, miserable, unhealthy? Can we not come to Him joyously, for His own sake, for love of Him alone?
12.18.1.952017-05-11
Loving attention to the Overself should not be limited to moments spent in meditation or prayer, but should form the background for all one’s other thoughts.
12.18.1.722012-10-06
To learn is to receive knowledge; but he who seeks to learn this Truth which is both behind and beyond all other truths must come with his mind, his heart, his body, and his will. With his mind because his thought must be pushed to its deepest measure. With his heart because his love is demanded more than he now knows. With his body because it is to be the temple of the holy spirit. And with his will because he may not stop this enterprise until he is through.
13.20.3.52016-11-21
What intellect cannot do because of its feebleness the aspirational feeling can do by its force.
12.18.1.572017-07-20
…The very fact that a man has consciously begun the quest is itself a manifestation of Grace, for he has begun to seek the Overself only because the Overself’s own working has begun to make it plain to him, through the sense of unbearable separation from it, that the right moment for this has arrived. The aspirant should therefore take heart and feel hope. He is not really walking alone. The very love which has awakened within him for the Overself is a reflection of the love which is being shown towards him…
3.2.9.67, Excerpt2011-02-14
Why should the Short Path be a better means of getting Grace than the Long one? There is not only the reason that it is not occupied with the ego but also that it continually keeps up remembrance of the Overself. It does this with a heart that gives, and is open to receive, love. It thinks of the Overself throughout the day. Thus, it not only comes closer to the source from which Grace is being perpetually radiated, but it also is repeatedly inviting Grace with each loving remembrance.
15.23.6.1492014-06-09
If there is any law connected with grace, it is that as we give love to the Overself so do we get grace from it…
12.18.5.209, Excerpt2013-07-29
Love is both sunshine for the seed and fruit from the tree. It is a part of the way to self-realization and also a result of reaching the goal itself.
12.18.1.812020-01-05
When the divine has become the sole object of his love and the constant subject of his meditation, the descent of a gracious illumination cannot be far off.
12.18.1.802018-12-18
… The door upon which you may have been knocking a long time in vain will open to your frequent loving remembrances.
15.23.6.160, Excerpt2017-10-01
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