The egoless State
He finds that having attained this liberation of his will from the ego’s domination, his freedom has travelled so far that it loses itself and ceases to be free. For it vanishes into the rule of his higher self, which takes possession of him with a completeness and a fullness that utterly hoop him around. Henceforth, its truth is his truth, its goodness is his goodness, and its guidance his obedience.
12.18.4.1842011-05-08
”Blessed are the poor in spirit,” said Jesus. What did he mean? To be poor in the mystical sense is to be deprived of the possession of the ego, that is, to become ego-free.
6.8.4.1962016-10-21
Just as a man who has escaped from the inside of a burning house and finds himself in the cool outdoors understands that he has attained safety, so the man who has escaped from greed, lust, anger, illusion, selfishness, and ignorance into exalted peace and immediate insight, understands that he has attained heaven.
15.24.4.1502011-11-19
The man who is established in the Overself cannot be deflected from the calm which it gives into passions, angers, hatreds, and similar base things. Calmness has become his natural attitude.
15.24.2.1132013-04-07
In this high state his own mind is consciously connected with the divine Mind…
16.25.2.119, Excerpt2019-11-15
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.
14.22.2.113 2011-06-01
His relationship to the Overself is one of direct awareness of its presence–not as a separate being but as his own essence.
16.25.2.3012015-09-05
… For the ego and the Overself fuse and unite, yet the union does not destroy the ego’s capacity to express itself or to be active in the world…
6.8.1.207, Excerpt2017-10-11
… It may be plainly affirmed that man’s individuality survives even in the divinest state accessible to him…
16.26.4.257, Excerpt2016-10-02
The discovery of his true being is not outwardly dramatic, and for a long time no one may know of it, except himself. The world may not honour him for it: he may die as obscure as he lived. But the purpose of his life has been fulfilled; and God’s will has been done.
16.25.2.782012-12-10
Once this stage is attained, neither the knowledge of reality nor the feeling of serenity will ever leave him again. He has found them not for a few hours but forever.
16.25.2.1652017-10-19
A mystic experience is simply something which comes and goes, whereas philosophic insight, once established in a man, cannot possibly leave him. He understands the Truth and cannot lose this understanding any more than an adult can lose his adulthood and become an infant.
13.20.4.1982015-07-22
When a man has established himself in the Universal self, in the awareness of its oneness, the series of earthly reincarnations of his personal self comes to an end. For himself, they would serve no further purpose.
6.9.2.1722010-12-29
To enter into Heaven is to enter into the fulfilment of our earthly life’s unearthly purpose. And that is, simply, to become aware of the Overself. This holy awareness brings such joy with it that we then know why the true saints and the real ascetics were able to disdain all other joys. The contrast is too disproportionate. Nothing that the world offers to tempt us can be put on the same level.
14.22.4.792011-07-24
The ceaseless longing for personal happiness which exists in every human being is a right one, but is generally mistaken in the direction along which satisfaction is sought. For all outward objects and beings can yield only a transient and imperfect delight that can never be equivalent to the uninterrupted happiness of life in the Overself.
2.1.1.1682011-12-08
… Those who have developed insight perceive the essential stuff of everything even while they perceive its forms; hence they see all as One. It is as if a dreamer were to know that he was dreaming and thus understand that all the dream scenes and figures were nothing but one and the same stuff–his mind–while not losing his dream experience.
13.21.3.24, Excerpt2014-06-07
Freed at last from this ever-whirling wheel of birth and death to which he was tied by his own desire-nature, what happens to him can only be an opening up to a new better and indescribable state, and it is so. He, as he was, vanishes, not into complete annihilation and certainly not into the heaven of a perpetuated ego, but into a higher kind of life shrouded in mystery.
16.25.2.1942015-06-17
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