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'Sacrifice' (18)

Daily meditationsEvery sacrifice we make for a sublime idea is transformed into gold, into light. That is the secret: the idea for which you work. If you work only for yourself, the effort you put into satisfying your own desires, needs, instincts, passions and ...
Daily meditationsWhy are human beings afraid of sacrifice? Why do they reject the idea of sacrifice? Even the word resonates uncomfortably in their ears. Under the pretext that, most often, is to others we must make sacrifices, they think it is others who will gain ...
Daily meditationsHow many monks, ascetics or even simple believers have willingly inflicted all sorts of torments on themselves… ‘to please God', they say! As if God took pleasure in seeing a human creature wounded and bleeding. All but a few religions encouraged ...
Daily meditationsThe spiritual world is just like a great big store where you receive what you ask for, providing you can give a particular currency in exchange. And the most reliable currency you can offer the heavenly spirits is impersonal work and sacrifice. ...
Daily meditationsThe symbol for the Christ is a lamb bearing a cross. It means that at the beginning of creation the Christ offered himself up in sacrifice so that the world might exist. This sacrifice was necessary to produce a force able to connect all the ...
Daily meditationsChristians are taught that by sacrificing his life on the cross Jesus saved them, and some of them derive immense pride, immense assurance from this. Their friends and even their parents may not think much of them, but the son of God in person gave ...
Daily meditationsIf you say the word ‘sacrifice' you will see the faces of those around you immediately cloud over, because for most people the word is associated with the idea of hardship and suffering. For spiritual people, the reverse is true; it is associated ...
Daily meditationsThe spiritual world is just like a great big store where you receive what you ask for, providing you can give a particular currency in exchange. And the most reliable currency you can offer the heavenly spirits is impersonal work, sacrifice. ...
Daily meditationsSo many people reject religion and morality because they preach renunciation, sacrifice, and people have no desire to renounce anything or make any sacrifices! But why? Because they have not yet fully understood what it means to do these things or ...
Daily meditationsHeaven does not resist those who have understood the value of disinterested love. It rewards them day and night. And even if they are wronged, heaven contrives for them to experience even this wrong as a reward. You are shocked; you say you cannot ...
Daily meditations... make a fire. Imagine that within you there is dead wood, old, useless branches, in other words, thoughts, feelings and desires which paralyze you and work against your evolution. You can sacrifice them to produce heat and light. Why consider s...
Daily meditationsWhy are human beings afraid of sacrifice? Why do they reject the idea of sacrifice? Because they have the impression they will lose something. Since most often it is for others that we must make sacrifices, they imagine that the others will gain ...
Daily meditationsThere are many uses for fire. Fire is present in all chemical operations; it melts metal, it cooks food to make it edible, it provides heat and light, and it purifies. On the spiritual plane, sacrifice serves the same purpose as fire.Each time you ...
Daily meditationsOne way or another, every problem we have to solve in life and each of our decisions and experiences brings up the question of what we must sacrifice in order to live a rich and beautiful life. But most humans, not having understood what sacrifice ...
Daily meditationsReligions that have not encouraged a sense of martyrdom among their followers are rare. Followers should now be encouraged to cease acts such as manhandling and mutilating their body and endangering their life in sacrifice to the Divine.True ...
Daily meditationsIn ancient times, it was the tradition for some priests and priestesses to have only one function, which was to maintain a fire in the temples that must never go out. Fire, flame and light in sanctuaries evoke the presence of the Divine in the ...
Daily meditationsMost human beings cling to their limited concept of life, which is why their face bears the marks of the disarray and turmoil in which they are embroiled. Their lives are nothing but pettiness, discord, arguments and vexations inspired by their ...
Daily meditationsThe animal sacrifices mentioned in the Bible and the sacred books of all religions can be explained by knowledge the Ancients had concerning the liberation of energies and their use in magical rites. When the Old Testament says that the odour of ...