Daily Meditation: Monday, February 21, 2005
Renunciation - to die in order to live
For human beings, the words ‘life’ and ‘death’ immediately evoke the notion of physical life and death, whereas physical life and death are in fact only very limited aspects of these two processes. Although people may know what life and death are on the physical plane, they are not at all clear as to their meaning on the psychological and spiritual planes: they do not know when they are dead and when they are alive. On the psychological and spiritual planes, it is by renouncing the lower manifestations of life that we become more and more alive. If we do not do this, what we call life is, in reality, death. Whether we do good or evil, we can always say we are alive. But we can also say that we never stop dying: if we do not die to stupidity, we will die to wisdom, and if we do not die to hate, we will die to love. Call it what you like, life and death walk together. Throughout our lives, our only choices are between life and death, between one form of life and one form of death. And what some call death, others call life.
Omraam Mikhael AivanhovBuy
- ‘Do not throw …
- ‘Do not worry …
- Achievement
- Aïn Soph Aur (f…
- Alternation
- Angelic entitie…
- Atmosphere
- Aura, the
- Body, the
- Cells
- Chain of beings…
- Combustion
- Conditions, goo…
- Consciousness, …
- Cosmic collecti…
- Creators
- Cross, the
- Diamond
- Discernment and…
- Disciples
- Drunkenness
- Earth, the
- Earthly life
- Eternity
- Eye, spiritual
- Failings
- Fear
- Food
- Friends
- Future
- Greatness
- Health
- Higher self, th…
- Horse
- Human being
- Indulgence and …
- Initiates
- Initiatic schoo…
- Inner states
- Inner vision
- Instinct and in…
- Interests, pers…
- Isis unveiled
- Karma and dharm…
- Kundalini
- Law of correspo…
- Laws, divine
- Laziness
- Macrocosm (the …
- Men
- Mind
- Minute at a tim…
- Moderation
- Nakedness
- Nature
- Objects from th…
- Ordeal, an
- Organization
- Philosopher’s s…
- Pieces of paper
- Plans
- Possessions, ma…
- Prayer, evening
- Presence, inner
- Present, the
- Promises
- Psychic centres
- Psychic food
- Radiations, ema…
- Reflection
- Right path
- Rituals
- Sacrifice
- Sadness and ups…
- Sensual love
- Serve the Lord,…
- Serving God
- Simplicity
- Snail
- Spirits, famili…
- Spiritual eleme…
- Spiritual life
- Sublimation of …
- Summit
- Sympathizing
- Thought
- Thoughts, feeli…
- Time
- Today
- Tolerating othe…
- Understanding
- Vigilance
- Weaknesses and …
- Will, the
- Worker in the f…
- Worth, our
- Yesod to Kether
- ‘Give to Caesar…
- ‘The Father and…
- ‘You shall love…