Daily Meditation: Friday, March 19, 2010
Religious practices - on what conditions they make us receptive to messages from heaven
Prayers, fasting, ablutions and so on, in fact all the practices recommended by religions throughout the world, serve to prepare people to receive the currents and messages from heaven correctly. Actually, the main thing is not the practices themselves but the willingness to undertake an inner work of self-examination and purification so as to improve one's thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Those who are not determined to carry out this work would do better to leave spirituality alone; otherwise they will become a danger to themselves and others. As long as we have not rid ourselves of certain prejudices and bias, there is nothing more dangerous than religious practices: they give those who do them the illusion that they are messengers, instruments of heaven. Thus we have seen people become torturers of their family or even of their people. Only those who have worked to become selfless and loving toward others are able to hear and pass on messages from heaven.
Omraam Mikhael AivanhovBuy
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