<table width="612px" rules="none" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan="2">\n<p class="omatitre">An ideal of universal brotherhood</p>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style="background-color: #ffffcc;" width="60%">\n<p class="intro"><span style="font-style: italic;">« Try to become aware of the ties that link you, not only to the members of your family, but to all your fellow humans in the world. What is the nature of these ties? Whenever you progress, the wealth and attention you receive will reflect on them. Because of your progress, they advance too. Whenever you manage to make your life purer, richer and brighter, subtly and imperceptibly, you take them with you towards the top. »</span> During his travels abroad, this issue was ever-present and those who travelled with him could confirm that his trips had very little to do with tourism. He himself confided one day: <span style="font-style: italic;">« In all parts of the world that I visit, the sight of the crowd in the street always inspires the same thought: these men and women each have their own existence and history, their own problems to solve, their suffering, their loves… They come and go as individuals left to their own devices, but in reality there is one Being who supports them all, who lives in them. And I try to give to each of them, at least in thought, something good from my heart and of my soul. »</span></p>\n</td>\n<td style="vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" rowspan="2" width="40%">\n<p><a href="https://www.prosveta.fr/resources/sites/@site_id/images/images_oma/oma_bio_10_big.jpg" class="html5lightbox" title="An embodied ideal of universal brotherhood"><img src="https://www.prosveta.fr/resources/sites/@site_id/images/images_oma/oma_bio_10.jpg" alt="Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov" width="225" height="270"></a></p>\n<div class="omatexte"><span class="temoignage">« </span>For the work that I envisage, I want people who are rich in their heart and soul. We can no longer just talk about peace, love and brotherhood. We must give them life by learning to meet and share exchanges in places where society's values don't count much. Come and support my work, lend your strength and stand up as examples of the fraternal spirit. If you claim to love your country, what do you do to ensure that everyone may live a fraternal life there? You can't yet realise how contagious your example could become. »</div>\n</td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td height="50"> </td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<table style="width: 612px; height: 200px;" rules="none" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style="vertical-align: top; text-align: center;" width="20%"><a href="https://www.prosveta.fr/resources/sites/@site_id/images/images_oma/oma_bio_11_big.jpg" class="html5lightbox" title="Sunrise meditation"><img src="https://www.prosveta.fr/resources/sites/@site_id/images/images_oma/oma_bio_11.jpg" alt="Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov" width="150" height="208"><br></a></td>\n<td style="vertical-align: middle;">\n<div class="temoignage">« The sight of an initiate doesn't necessarily put us into a state of sanctity.<br> There is within us this dual nature that is capable of the worst and the best.<br> We can, at least, say what we have seen.<br>I saw a compassionate and clement person, who forgave us the worst and raised us up to the best.<br> His generosity filled the air around him, like the glow from a hearth. He gave us a taste of community and the hope that the future belongs to God. »</div>\n<br>\n<div class="omaref" style="text-align: right; font-size: x-small;"><span class="temoignage">Pierre C. Renard</span></div>\n</td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>\n<table style="width: 612px; height: 28px; border: 0px none;" rules="none">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style="vertical-align: top;"> </td>\n</tr>\n<tr>\n<td style="text-align: right;"><a href="[oma4:url]" title="[oma4:title]">••• previous</a></td>\n</tr>\n</tbody>\n</table>