Examples of using Overself in English and their translations into German
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That mind is the Overself.
The Overself is your true source of power.
The quest is a deliberate attempt toshorten the passage from life in the underself to life in the Overself.
The Overself is always present in man's heart.
What we find as the attributes of the ego are areflected image, limited and changing, of what we find in the Overself.
They ultimately depend on the Overself both for their own existence and their own nature.
Overself is the inner or true self of man, reflecting the divine being and attributes.
Everywhere, too, the sage sees the Overself waiting, always present, for them to turn from themselves to It.
When he is willing to let go of the self-centered ego and the grace can manifest,there may be this union with his higher nature, with the Overself.
Then from above, from the Overself, grace descends and he begins to experience the joy of feeling the divine presence.
What can be done by understanding the truth, i.e., by just knowing our own Self andhaving a first-hand experience of the Self and Overself?
There are times when the Overself accepts no resistance, when it acts with such compelling force that the man is unable to disobey.
The short path is not an exercise but an inner standpoint to invoke, a state of consciousness where one comes closer orfinds peace in the Overself.
Give the ego back to the Overself and then the Overself will use it as it should be used--in harmony with the cosmic laws of being.
Just as an actor identifies with the role he plays on the stage,you act think and live during the daily life”as if” you were the Overself.
They are experiences of the working of Grace, gifts from the Overself, echoes from former lives on earth, or belated responses to his knocking on the door.
What begins as a gentle surrender to intuition for a few minutes,one day resolves into a complete surrender of the ego to the Overself for all time.
It is true that men have found their way to the Overself in almost every kind of environment, but there was more help and less conflict when they were alone with primeval Nature.
In the latter case, if he has sufficiently thinned away the obstructions to it,grace may descend and lift his ego up to unite with his Overself.
Whereas every human personality is different in its characteristics from every other one,no human Overself is different in its characteristics from any other one.
All its experiences are to be used to shape our character and increase our knowledge and, above all, to bring us nearerthe discovery of, and identification with, our Overself.
Because it is impossible for the questing ego to become the Overself, the quester must recognize that he is the Overself and stop thinking in egoistic terms of progress along a path, or attainment of a goal.
It is only when the frontier of the third stage is reached that all this work ceases and that there is an abandonment of the use of the will, a total surrender of it,and effortless passive yielding to the Overself is alone needed.
In the time you give to such work youcould be occupying yourself with thought of the non-ego, the Overself, and dwelling in this thought until the sunshine behind it bursts through and you bask in the glory.
That the Overself is not the product of an inflated imagination but has a real existence, is a truth which any man who has the required patience and submits to the indispensable training may verify himself.
Even if we come across a Master who is a practical adept andhe explains to us all the things concerning our own Self and the Overself, still, until we have that experience on our own and for ourselves, we cannot be satisfied.
Once the Overself has been experienced as a felt, living presence in the heart, it loosens the grip of egoistic desires--together with their emotional changes of mood--on one's consciousness and lifts it to a higher level, where he will soon become aware of a wonderful inner satisfaction which remains calm and unruffled despite outward circumstances to the contrary….
Unless the soul is analyzed and withdrawn from the body and comes to its seat at the back of the eyes and gets some self-awareness or self-knowledge,she cannot know the Overself or have God-knowledge.
When we realize that the intellect can put forth as many arguments against this theme as for it, we realize that there is in the end only one perfect proof of the Overself's existence. The Overself must prove itself.
As man is a social being, social institutions of various religions were made for the uplift of soul, so that it may pass its earthly sojourn amicably and prove to helping to all humanity,as well as to aid one to know himself and know the Overself- God. God cannot known by intellect, the outgoing faculties.