What is the Short Path?

“Your truest innermost Self, the Overself, is always here. It is beginningless and endless in time. Its awareness does not have to be developed as something new. But your consciousness of it begins in time and has to be developed as a new attainment. The ever-presence of Overself means that anyone may attain it here and now. There is no inner necessity to travel anywhere or to anyone in space or to wait years in time for this to happen.

Anyone, for instance, who attends carefully and earnestly to this present exposition may perhaps suddenly and easily get the first stage of insight at any moment, the lightning-flash which affords a glimpse of reality, and the blessings of spiritual joy, truth, and strength. By that glimpse you will have been uplifted to a new dimension of being. The difficulty will consist in retaining the new perception. For ancient habits of erroneous thinking will quickly reassert themselves and overwhelm you enough to push it into the background.

This is why repeated introspection, reflective study, and mystical meditation are needed to weaken those habits and generate the inner strength which can firmly hold the higher outlook against these aggressive intruders from your own past.”