Daily Meditation: Monday, December 18, 2017

Experiences - which you must favour

12/18/2017

Most people acknowledge that they need to live in harmony, peace and light. But when they are told what they need to do to achieve it, they become more reticent: they feel they must first taste all the pleasures, and experience everything life has to offer in order ‘to know life’. How can they imagine that having wasted their physical and psychic energies on such experiences, they will be in a state to do the inner work to taste the harmony, peace and light they seek. The only thing they will be capable of will be to read a few books, from which they will then quote, ‘Moses said ... Buddha said ... Jesus said ...’without being able to put any of this into practice. Well, I recommend that you first live the teaching of the great masters and that when it comes to impassioned adventures, you confine yourself to reading. The universal literature is there to teach you what human passions are. All you have to do is read, no need to have many costly experiences to find out about them. There is one life that should be lived and another that should serve simply for reading and as... a source of quotations.