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'Men' (136)
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Daily meditations...t is often humans themselves who are to blame: through their actions, but also through their thoughts, feelings, and disorderly behaviour, they constantly upset the forces of nature that eventually intervene to restore order. Why can't they und...
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Daily meditationsSages and spiritual Masters are not all-powerful, and they know this, which is why they deal only with those they feel are able and, above all, willing to progress. It is pointless getting indignant and saying that a spiritual Master should have ...
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Daily meditationsVery few things are truly necessary in life. We have to wear clothing to protect our bodies, but however much we may like ribbons and lace, they cannot be considered essential. We need the shelter of a house that has walls, a roof and windows; ...
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Daily meditationsObserve yourself when you love someone: the mere presence of this feeling inside you makes you think and behave in a certain way, and not just towards the person you love. Because of this feeling, your relationships with everyone around you and even ...
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Daily meditationsYou sometimes close yourself off and lose your love and enthusiasm because you have been disappointed or upset. Well, this is not very clever, for it does nothing to change the events that are upsetting you, and with this attitude, you deprive ...
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Daily meditationsMedicinal herbs need water to release all their healing properties. You boil, soak or steep the herbs in water, which you then drink. You do not eat the plants themselves; it is enough to drink the water in which they have been soaked, for the water ...
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Daily meditationsTrue adepts of initiatic science do not rely on anything external; they know that God has deposited within them every possibility, every form of wealth, and every substance from every laboratory. And that is where they must look for them. Of course, ...
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Daily meditationsOur inner life is subject to the same alternations as nature – day and night, ebb and flow: our consciousness lights up and then it darkens, it fills up and then it empties. And since this is so, we must try to become aware of the time when each of ...
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Daily meditations...ament. The temperament you are born with stems from your past lives: in the past, by way of your thoughts, feelings and actions, you linked yourself with certain forces that now determine your subconscious, that is to say, your temperament. And...
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Daily meditationsThe power of woman is immense, for she possesses a special magnetism that emanates from her in the form of tiny, subtle particles. Woman's power is not so much on the physical plane as on the plane of etheric emanations. It is because of this ...
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Daily meditationsLife, what is life? What tells us that creatures are alive? The fact that they are able to interact with the world around them from which they draw the elements essential for their survival. Usually they do so unconsciously – very few people go out ...
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Daily meditationsIn general, we do not think about how vital it is to cultivate contentment. Human beings live in a perpetual state of criticism, dissatisfaction and revolt, without knowing that this dissatisfaction is actually the manifestation of a lack of love. ...
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Daily meditationsHistory has known so many revolutions! How many times have human beings experienced changes! And yet the situation has not really improved significantly. Why? Because in spite of these changes, human beings have not freed themselves from the vicious ...
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Daily meditationsThe four elements have been defined in relation to the four states of matter: solid, liquid, gaseous and igneous. The Ancients called everything that is solid, earth; everything liquid, water; everything gaseous, air; and everything igneous – that ...
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Daily meditationsOnly the Absolute, God Himself, can fulfil you, and it is only if you persevere in your quest for God that you can obtain all that you desire – and more besides. The great thing is to understand the nature of what you are doing and never to be ...
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Daily meditationsSomeone says, ‘Ah, if only I had a crust of bread I'd be happy. I would ask for nothing more!' So you give them some bread, but then they say, ‘How marvellous it would be if I had a drop of wine; life would be complete!' So you give them a bottle of ...
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Daily meditationsIn our Teaching, there is a reason for everything, however small and apparently insignificant. Take the example of the short pauses between each song or the silence we observe at meals. You do not yet sufficiently appreciate all these occasions that ...
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Daily meditations...te is represented by our actions; the liquid state by our feelings; the gaseous state by our thoughts; and the igneous, etheric state by the activity of our soul and spirit.
Each of these four states, which are related to the four elements, cor...
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Daily meditationsThe day you succeed in reproducing within yourself the image of God, the spirits of nature and the four elements will be your servants. If you ask them for something, they will be happy to grant it, because they can see this image in you and it is ...
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Daily meditationsA woman knows instinctively that it is to her advantage to be beautiful, so she takes care of her figure, her hair and her complexion and she puts on make-up, which of course produces immediate results. Men notice her and she has the satisfaction of ...
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Daily meditationsWhen you are distressed,* it is as though you had been injected with a toxic substance, and you must not just accept it and do nothing about it. Instead of waiting passively for the torment to disappear, you must work either to get rid of it or to ...
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Daily meditationsEven when you feel most deeply discouraged, you must remember that discouragement itself contains elements which, if you know how to grasp and use them properly, will help you to take heart again. For discouragement is a state that possesses ...
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Daily meditationsHuman beings can attain fulfilment only in a fraternal, collective life. Many people claim to be too busy to devote time to a collectivity, but for most of them, these occupations are in fact a form of psychological laziness; they prefer to live on ...
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Daily meditations...nt. So, our best solution is to work to acquire the inner beauty which, thanks to our luminous thoughts and generous feelings, will gradually be reflected by our physical body.*...
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Daily meditationsThe four elements, which correspond to the four states of matter, are contained in the food we eat every day. So, by eating, we can connect with the angels of the four elements – the angels of earth, water, air and fire – and we can ask them to help ...
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Daily meditations... that the situation is worse in others. True progress, true improvement first takes place in our thoughts, in our hearts and in our souls through our work with light. How can you expect changes to be effective if people's mindsets remain the sa...
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Daily meditationsIn order to keep the sacred inner fire alight within you, you must feed it pieces of your lower nature every day. Yes, for it is the lower nature, the personality, that is predestined to feed the fire of the spirit. Stop wondering what your lower ...
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Daily meditationsMany people among you are moved by an ideal of justice, honesty or goodness, but they do not know how to act, and continually clash with others, or end up discouraged. So, what should they do? Change their methods.However noble your ideal may be, do ...
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Daily meditationsThroughout history, human beings have experimented more or less successfully with different forms of government—monarchy, republic, oligarchy, synarchy, and so on—in an attempt to find the best one. The truth is that there is no ideal solution, for ...
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Daily meditationsIf you have too much on your minds and want to achieve several goals at once, you are pulled in every direction and drained of energy. Whereas, if you manage to concentrate on a single idea or wish, all your energies will converge towards this one ...
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Daily meditationsThe Ancients defined the four elements in relation to the four states of matter: solid, liquid, gaseous and igneous. All solids were termed earth; everything liquid, water; everything gaseous, air; and everything igneous (that is to say, heat and ...
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Daily meditations...s known a few moments of happiness in life that they can recall as a means to counteract painful thoughts and feelings. Why brood endlessly on disappointments and sorrows? Because of ignorance, always ignorance! Observe yourself, and you will s...
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Daily meditations...h practice, you can figure them out based on the elements you discover: who they are, what their thoughts, feelings and needs are—without being affected by them.
Some people have psychological insight that is a form of clairvoyance. But when we...
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Daily meditationsNever give in to a state of discouragement or pessimism, always try to remedy adverse conditions internally. Even if you are unable to change the situation, what you create by means of thought is like a little seed that is already beginning to ...
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Daily meditationsThe frustrations and torments of love always stem from the fact that men and women do not know how to consider each other. They need an initiatic teaching that will show them how to see the divine principle that animates every human being. In this ...
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Daily meditationsYou should work every day to develop and perfect a kind of inner standard or yardstick that will enable you to judge with certainty all the events, circumstances, objects and beings you meet with, and to sense whether, by getting involved with a ...
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