Daily Meditation: Saturday, November 20, 2010

Evil - watch that it doesn’t get mixed up with the good you intend doing

11/20/2010

Most people are neither bad nor ill-intentioned; many even sincerely wish to be useful to others. But good feelings and good intentions are not enough when it comes to really doing good. Those who want to help others must begin by ridding themselves of all the elements that conflict with the good they wish to achieve. In fact, good and evil are so intimately entangled in each person that dark forces are often able to take advantage of their good will. And while people are convinced they are being useful, all sorts of elements contrary to the good get mixed up in what they do, and those who should have benefited from their actions end up as mere victims of them. This is why, every hour of every day, you must try to work patiently at reducing those inner states that can serve as magnets for negative forces. At the same time, you must also work at intensifying those states that attract heavenly currents to you. Once you have learned to stop opening the door to dark forces, you will be truly capable of helping others.