Journey to Self-Realization: Collected Talks and Essays on Realizing God in Daily Life – Volume 3

Destructive doubt is paralyzing. It inhibits constructive thought and the power of will. It blocks receptivity to the beneficent workings of higher forces and laws in the universe, and to the ever-ready-to-help grace of God. It produces an inner disquietude and sense of hopelessness. It resists progress and rejects ideas on the whims of ignorance,

Thought is the matrix of all creation; thought created everything. If you hold on to that truth with indomitable will, you can materialize any thought.

Soul wealth lasts forever in the bank of eternity, and you can draw happiness from it any time.

Since God has given us hunger, and since we have a physical body to look after, we must have money and we should earn it honestly and scientifically, by serving the right needs of our fellow beings. Business life need not be a material life. Business ambition can be spiritualized.

People should spiritualize their business ambitions by starting out with the idea of serving the proper needs of their fellow beings. Not only should man make money by serving, and thereby get something for himself in return, but should also work for the sake of acquiring money to use in creating institutions that will serve public needs.

Our Western brothers have devoted their time predominantly to developing the material and intellectual sides of life. But they are often too busy even to enjoy the fruits of their labor, or to know the taste of peace, relaxation, and the bliss of meditation. They become enslaved by less

receive direct replies from Him. Start from within, not from without. That is how anyone can get the experience of many years within a short time. You have not to read all the books in the library. You have not to learn everything from schools or teachers. Poetry, music, all knowledge, come without limitation from the inner source, from the soul. I

Business activities and money are meant for the comfort and betterment of man; he should not allow blind greed for them to rob him of his happiness and the achievement of higher goals.

all your nightmares of life will change into a beautiful dream of God.