Questions and Answers 1950-1951 Archives

Think before speaking

Try this little exercise: at the beginning of the day, say: “I won’t speak without thinking of what I say.”

If one succeeds in making the mind and vital silent, and in keeping the body well asleep, one can have

I have known people who were very scrupulous about not telling lies, but all of a sudden, when together in

If you want to cure yourself of a defect or a difficulty, there is but one method: to be perfectly

…when you concentrate and have an aspiration, you feel something coming down into you, you receive an answer; you feel

When you are playing and suddenly become aware that something is going wrong—you are making mistakes, are inattentive, sometimes opposing

I had a very sweet little cat, absolutely civilised, a marvellous cat. It was born in the house and it

Q: An aim gives a meaning, a purpose to life, and this purpose implies an effort; and it is in effort

…the psychic being can progress and form itself only in the physical life and upon earth. As soon as it leaves a

It is much more difficult to stand back from the difficulty, to look at it as something which does not