Daily Meditation: Monday, September 19, 2005

Life - not to be considered as a means, but as a goal

09/19/2005

People exhaust themselves in seeking power, success, prestige and money. They consider life as a means of obtaining everything they desire, when, on the contrary, they should think of it as a goal and use all their faculties to reinforce it, enlighten it and purify it. When one maintains the life within himself, his intellect understands, his heart loves and rejoices, and his will creates and grows stronger. Otherwise, his intellect grows dim, his heart grows cold and his will wavers. Without life, even science is no longer possible, nor art, nor philosophy. The science of life is the key to all realizations. If you enhance the life within you, if you clear out the spring so that the water runs more freely, you can fill reservoirs and send this life all the way to the intellect which will brighten, to the heart which will open to the vastness of the universe, and to the will which will become creative and inexhaustible.