The Overself always Present
We live all the time in unfailing, if unconscious, union with the Overself.
14.22.3.342011-04-08
There is some life-power from which we derive our capacities and our intelligence. It is hidden and intangible. No one has seen it but everyone who thinks deeply enough can sense that it is there, always present and always supporting us. It is the Overself.
14.22.3.1752010-10-11
The Overself is not something imagined or supposed. Its presence is definitely felt.
14.22.3.4082020-02-01
… The Overself is present in each individual self as the witness and as the unchanging consciousness which gives consciousness to the individual.
14.22.3.338, Excerpt2015-01-23
Nothing could be nearer to a man than the Overself for it is the source of his life, mind, and feeling. Nothing could be farther from him, nevertheless, for it eludes all his familiar instruments of experience and awareness.
14.22.3.1842016-02-11
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.
13.21.5.1892017-10-20
The truth is that the Overself’s power has worked upon him in advance of his own endeavours. The urge to seek a close and conscious relationship with it, the decision to enter upon the quest–these very thoughts stemmed from its hidden and active influence.
12.18.5.3242014-09-03
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.
14.22.3.12010-11-04
A man never leaves Consciousness. The world comes into it as perception, that is, as idea. Whether anything, object or state, comes into it or not, Consciousness remains as his unchanging home. Whether asleep or awake, wrapped in himself or out in the world, his essential being remains what it is. His thoughts and sense-impressions, feelings and passions are produced by it or projected from it: they exist in dependence on it and die in it.
13.19.3.1832013-01-03
… Whatever happens, the Overself is still there and will bring you through and out of your troubles. Whatever happens to your material affairs happens to your body, not the real YOU. The hardest part is when you have others dependent on you. Even then you must learn how to commend them to the kindly care of the Overself, and not try to carry all the burden on your own shoulders. If it can take care of you, it can take care of them, too.
6.9.3.577, Excerpt2012-09-07
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.
14.22.3.1042013-04-06
How is it that I am–and know that I am–substantially the same man today as yesterday, that I remember the happenings of a year ago? The answer must be that there is a continuous self, or being, or mind, in me, distinct from its thoughts or experiences.
6.8.1.972013-08-19
… The divine self is always there within him, it is never absent from him, not even for a second. It is the unfailing witness of all his efforts and aspirations. When he has tried hard enough and long enough it will suddenly shed all its Grace upon him.
2.1.5.89, Excerpt2012-07-30
Even during the longest dark night of the soul, the Overself is not a whit less close to him than it was when it revealed its presence amid ecstasy and joy.
15.23.3.62014-01-26
The Overself is always present but man’s attention seldom is.
14.22.3.162012-02-07
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.
14.22.3.62015-08-16
To the man of insight there is something strange, ironic, and yet pathetic in the spectacle of those who turn the consciousness and the understanding derived from Overself against the acknowledgment of Its existence.
14.22.3.4222012-01-24
If we are to think correctly, we cannot stop with thinking of the Overself as being only within us. After this idea has become firmly established for its metaphysical and devotional value, we must complete the concept by thinking of the Overself as being also without us. If in the first concept it occupies a point in space, in the second one it is beyond all considerations of place.
14.22.3.3912016-01-26
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.
14.22.3.1422016-11-28
Enfolded by that inner strength, one ceases to fear, to be anxious, or to dread the future.
14.22.3.1582012-02-01
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