The Science of Religion (Self-Realization Fellowship)

very slow process for the spiritual Self to thus realize itself.

The man of Self-realization knows that God is the Doer; all power to perform actions flows into us from Him.

The superiority of this method over others lies in the fact that it works with the exact thing that binds us down to our narrow individuality — the life force.

The fourth religious method, explained in the last chapter, bases itself on intuition.

in one sense every man in the world is religious, inasmuch as everyone is trying to get rid of want and pain, and to gain Bliss.

first, loving attention to the subject to be learned; second, desire to learn and an earnest spirit of inquiry; third, steadfastness until the desired end is attained.

desire, or the increase of conditions of excitation of the mind, is the source of pain or misery, and also of the mistake of seeking to fulfill wants by first creating and increasing them,

The success of the play lies in the perfect acting out of each part. Each actor plays his role of sorrow or pleasure realistically, and to all outward appearances seems to be affected by it; but inwardly he remains untouched by it or by the passions he portrays — love, hate, desire, malice, pride, humility.

We cannot have full or direct knowledge of God through the limited powers of the intellect.

we are not made for rules, rules are made for us — they change as we change. We are to hold to the essence of a rule, not dogmatically to its form.