As long as we remain on low ground, dust and fog can prevent us from seeing clearly, but if we rise high above the plains, everything becomes clear. These physical phenomena have their counterparts on the spiritual plane.Dust symbolizes the schemes ...
...nergies of this food through our tongues. Meditation is also a kind of mastication, a chewing of thoughts, by means of which we can absorb and be nourished by the quintessence of the spiritual world, to use it as food for our spiritual bodies.
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When first setting out in the spiritual life, most people encounter a first obstacle: they are unable to meditate because they do not know how to concentrate. Why? First, because they have not learned how to choose subjects for meditation; they ...
So many men and women take shelter in the future because they cannot bear the present! But they gain nothing from doing so, for some day or other they will just have to face facts: since the future they imagined has no solid basis, what they will ...
...Meditation is a difficult exercise, as it requires great control over our thoughts. But thought is rebellious; it tends to go free and wander, and if you try to stop it abruptly your brain will seize up. As the brain is such a sensitive instrum...
...orb the subtlest energies through our tongue. Meditation is also a kind of chewing, a chewing of thoughts, whereby we absorb quintessences from the spiritual world and turn them into food.
So, meditate on wisdom, on light, the light that protec...
...eful and recharged (for a passive attitude allows your brain to store energy), you can turn your thoughts to your chosen subject. ...
... is so difficult to concentrate on a spiritual subject! I am constantly invaded by all kind of thoughts and feelings that take me elsewhere.' And there have even been dramatic cases of this. In meditation you come face to face with yourself, an...
So many men and women escape into the future because they cannot bear their present! But they gain nothing from doing so, for some day or other they will just have to face facts: since the future they imagined has no solid basis, what they will ...
...start meditating without having acquired a certain inner discipline, that is, control over their thoughts, feelings and desires, begin by wandering in the lower regions of the astral plane, and on their way they stir up all kinds of dark layers...
...ected towards a precise point. By adopting this method, you will gradually become master of your thoughts and obtain results....
As soon as they embark on the spiritual life, most people are confronted with the problem of meditation: they do not know how to concentrate. Why? Because they have not learned how to choose subjects for meditation; they throw themselves into it ...
...scious feeling is without effect. The psychic world is like an immense ocean into which pool the thoughts and feelings of all human beings. These thoughts and feelings are living entities, which, depending on their nature, create either benefic...
Concentration and meditation are exercises that allow us to gather and store up spiritual energy, which we can use for our work. However, for this exercise to be truly fruitful, you must be able to remain completely still, so as not to make the ...
The best way to link yourself with God during meditation is to work with light, for light is the expression of divine splendour. You must concentrate on light and work with it, steep yourself in it and delight in it. It is by way of light that we ...
...You wish to meditate but you do not know how to control your thoughts. Let us suppose that you want to stop a galloping horse. If you stand in front of it, you will be trampled on, so you must run alongside it holding the bridle or the mane, an...
It takes three or four hours to completely digest a meal, but hunger is appeased much more quickly; within a quarter of an hour after a meal, you already feel restored and ready to go back to work. This shows that the most subtle part of our food is ...
Silence is the highest region of our soul, and the moment we reach this region, we enter into cosmic light. Light is the quintessence of the universe. It passes through and permeates everything we see around us, and even that which we do not see. ...
Some doctrines from India teach us that the world is an illusion, ‘maya'. No. The world is a reality – not the reality, but a reality. And matter is also a reality. What is truly an illusion, the most detrimental illusion humans have, is this belief ...
The work we do together through prayer and meditation has a beneficial effect on thousands of people throughout the world. It prepares their minds and hearts to desire and accept a new and luminous philosophy, a new, fraternal way of life. In this ...
If you feel that your meditations and prayers are all for nothing, or next to nothing, it is because you are aiming for the heights without first getting rid of your old, thick, rough clothes – symbolically speaking. What can you expect your soul to ...
When it is time to pray and meditate your mind is often elsewhere. And when you need to attend to your work, you often say to yourself, ‘Oh, I should meditate. I should spend some time in prayer', and there again you are distracted, so you do your ...
Having heard that meditation should be practised by all those who have chosen to embrace the spiritual life, you are doing your best to meditate. At first it was difficult, but this is normal, since meditation is difficult and requires a great deal ...