Jewels of Wisdom

Close your eyes and let the mind expand.Let no fear of death or darkness arrest its course.Allow the mind to… Read More »The Circle of Eternity

Much sorrow of man comes from his efforts, in imperfect understanding of his own nature, to crowd his universal life… Read More »The Infinite and the Finite

There are six forces—hearing, pondering, mindfulness, awareness, effort and intimacy.  These forces affect the nine stages of thought that lead… Read More »One-Pointedness

His form is everywhere: all pervading in His Shiva-Shakti: Chidambaram is everywhere, everywhere His dance: As Shiva is all and… Read More »The Sacred Dance

When coldness wraps this suffering clay, Ah! whither strays the immortal mind? It cannot die, it cannot stay, But leaves… Read More »The Immortal Mind

Each aspirant has to perform daily actions in the natural course of his life, using his own free will and… Read More »Dana-Tapas-Yajna

“This perishable body, O son of Kunti, is known as Kshetra; those who are acquainted with the true nature of… Read More »Kshetra and Kshetrajna

Meditation on tone, as expressed in this Sanskrit word OM, will lead us to a knowledge of the secret Doctrine.… Read More »The Divine Resonance

Welling in a body like the air-ships of the gods, he tastes boundless joys freely presented to him.  The knower… Read More »The Silent Sage

Seeks they spirit to be gifted With a deathless life? Let it seek to be uplifted O’er earth’s storm and… Read More »Beyond Strife

Meditation is done in silence.  By it we renounce our narrow individuality, and expatiate into that which is infinite.  Only… Read More »Depth in Silence

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended, To mourn a… Read More »Mourning in Vain

Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration… Read More »Marriage of True Minds

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances… Read More »Comforts of Life

Can you coax your mind from its wandering and keep to the original oneness? Can you let your body become… Read More »The Supreme Virtue

All life is LIVED: now this comes home to me. But who, then , lives it? Things that patiently Stand… Read More »Fragrances

This spiritual Love acts not nor can exist Without Imagination, which, in truth, Is but another name for absolute power… Read More »Imagination

Let your mind be quiet, realising the beauty of the world, and the immense, the boundless treasures that it holds… Read More »The Lake of Beauty

The Self seems to move, but is ever still. He seems far away, but is ever near. He is within… Read More »Unity in Multiplicity

The Eastern occult philosophy is the great block of solid truth from which the quaint, exoteric mysticism of the outer… Read More »The Eastern Occult Philosophy

O Lord, my Self Thou art, My mind I liken to Thy divine consort, my vital airs to Thy followers,… Read More »Manaspuja

Never Will I Seek Nor Receive Private, Individual Salvation; Never Will I Enter into Final Peace Alone; But Forever and… Read More »The Pledge of Kwan-Yin

The mind is one, and the best minds, who love truth for its own sake, think much less of property… Read More »Jove Behind Each of Us

Let man consider who he is and what he should and must become… Man needs more than common intelligence to… Read More »Right Proportion

And as to our own soul we are to hold that it stands, in part, always in the presence of… Read More »Measure of Grace

A song of the rolling earth, and the words according. Were you thinking that those were the words, those upright… Read More »The Workshop of Souls

Hermes brings our intellectual endowments to light, fills everything with divine reason, moves our souls towards Nous, awakens as it… Read More »Divine Reason

The key to every man is his thought. Sturdy and defying though he look, he has a helm which he… Read More »The Self-Evolving Circle

So the lover of Earth obtains his reward, and little by little the veil is lifted of an inexhaustible beauty… Read More »Spiritual Communion

The action of the Centripetal Force is strong and it keeps up together the particles of Ice. It requires the… Read More »Etherealization

You ask about the “moment of choice.” It is made up of all moments. It is not in space or… Read More »Moments of Choice

Siva-Rudra is the Destroyer, as Vishnu is the preserver; and both are the regenerators of spiritual as well as of… Read More »Shiva the Destroyer, Vishnu the Preserver

What a handful of dust is man to think such thoughts! Or is he, perchance, a prince in misfortune, whose… Read More »The Banner of Becoming

A noiseless patient spider, I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark’d how to explore the vacant… Read More »The Gossamer Thread

It is my humility that gives God his divinity and the proof of it is this, God’s peculiar property is… Read More »Humility

I do not despise you, priests;My faith is the greatest of faiths, and the least of faiths,Enclosing worship ancient and… Read More »After Five Thousand Years

The Sage asked the Spirit of Wisdom thus: “Which is that good work which is greater and better than all… Read More »Gratitude and Goodwill

O Satyakama, AUM is the Supreme Brahman and the conditioned Brahman. By meditating upon It the wise man may attain… Read More »Meditation Upon AUM

Unable to bear the suffering of sentient beings without doing something about it, you generate strong compassion and love, wishing… Read More »The Altruistic Mind

Love is divine.  But love is expressed differently and in different degrees according to the evolution of the individual soul.… Read More »Divine Love

Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the mountains, and thou too art wont… Read More »Regenerate Thyself

We have need of patience with ourselves and with others; with those below, and those above us, and with our… Read More »Patience

The seed of God is in us.  If the seed had a good, wise and industrious cultivator, it would thrive… Read More »The Seed of God

What is the will? Can “exact science” tell? What is the nature of that intelligent, intangible, and powerful something which reigns… Read More »Attraction and Repulsion

Man is all the time outside of himself: it is in projecting and losing himself beyond himself that he makes… Read More »Self-Transcendence

An organism is a continuous dynamism, a pattern of activity, basically electrochemical, but capable also of large, concerted forms of… Read More »Dynamic Interaction

God be in my head, And in my understanding; God be in my eyes, And in my looking; God be… Read More »Divine Omnipresence

I entered into unknowing Yet when I saw myself there Without knowing where I was I understood great things; I… Read More »Peace and Holiness