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'God' (171)
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Daily meditationsUndeniably, many people have a good heart and sincerely want to help others. But while they are asking themselves how they can be of help, they are often also seeking to accommodate their own highly selfish interests. We see this even with states. ...
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Daily meditationsIn all the centuries that Christians have repeated after Jesus, ‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven', how many men and women have prayed for the coming of the kingdom of God!...
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Daily meditationsJesus said, ‘Strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness.' Why does the kingdom of God come first? Because it represents a state of perfection, of fulfilment. Everything is contained in it – health, wealth, beauty, order, freedom, ...
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Daily meditationsMake the decision today to frequent the divine school. Get out your textbooks and exercise books, and start studying. You will say, ‘But there are those other people there bothering me!' Well, just try to put up with them, and just let them be. You ...
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Daily meditationsTo do God's will is not only to obey a higher authority but also to perform an act of magic. Yes, placing yourself in the service of the Lord immediately absorbs your whole being, sets it apart, closes it to other influences. All the contradictory ...
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Daily meditationsThe existence of God cannot be proven through reasoning – the arguments used are so weak! And it is an insult to the Lord to even imagine that reasoning, however subtle, will prove his existence. How can you prove to the blind that there really is ...
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Daily meditationsWealth, power, knowledge, beauty… All these advantages seem so desirable to you, but do not go seeking them, for they are not enough to satisfy the human soul, and having them leaves it hungry.So as not to expend your time and energy unnecessarily, ...
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Daily meditationsIt is written in the book of Genesis that God created human beings in his own image. But how can we say precisely where the human in them ends and the divine begins? It is impossible! Human nature and divine nature are so closely connected and so ...
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Daily meditationsEverything around us speaks to us of the presence of God. But for many people that is not enough – they want him to come and appear to them in person! And even then, that might not be enough. Look: what is more present, more visible, more dazzling ...
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Daily meditationsMany people would be surprised if they were told that whatever they aspire to – love, wealth, glory – deep down they are searching for God. Yes, because in reality nothing and no one can give them true joy, a true state of wonder, apart from God. In ...
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Daily meditations...in a long while in silence and in stillness, and then begin to elevate yourself through your thoughts. Imagine you are gradually leaving your body through the opening at the top of your skull. Keep imagining yourself rising through your causal,...
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Daily meditationsEach lifetime is like a circle human beings describe around a centre. Depending on their degree of evolution, they themselves may be the centre, or it may be their family, or society or the Lord. The worst possible situation is when their life ...
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Daily meditationsHow can we define human beings? The lower and higher natures are so inextricably bound in them, it is impossible to say where the one finishes and the other begins. The Divinity dwells in all beings, even the least evolved; the difference lies in ...
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Daily meditationsGod's wisdom, love and beauty are limitless. The higher we rise on the ladder of evolution, the more we are able to intuit subtle realities. And yet, even if we moved one step closer to God every day, we would never succeed entirely in fathoming his ...
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Daily meditationsSince light is the very matter of creation, through meditation and concentration we are able to extract a few particles from all that exists around us to assimilate into our own substance. Of course, we find this light mainly in the sun, but also in ...
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Daily meditationsEveryone, during the course of their life, tries to fulfil their desires and ambitions. For the sake of wealth, beauty, knowledge, power, glory, and so on, they will expend their energy, their time and their health. But once the goal has been ...
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Daily meditationsSo many believers ask themselves really naïve questions about the will of God! They imagine he has specific intentions for them: where they should live, what profession they should pursue… Does he want them to marry and have children, or to remain ...
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Daily meditationsIt is said in the Zohar that when God had created the world he addressed all his creatures in turn. When the Law stood before him, he spoke to it thus: ‘Whenever humans transgress your orders, you will be implacable, but as soon as they repent and ...
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Daily meditations‘And this is eternal life, that they may know you, the only true God', said Jesus. But we cannot know God all the while we remain outside of him. To understand the immensity, the infinity of God, we must melt into him, lose ourselves in him, merge ...
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Daily meditationsServing God does not mean neglecting our fellow human beings; on the contrary, true disciples strive to serve God in others. It is God they love in human beings. Even if they reap only ingratitude, they trust that God will not abandon them. They ...
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Daily meditationsDo you aspire to encountering what is infinitely great and feeling a connection with it? Then begin by touching what is infinitely small. This means that to reach God you must begin by focusing on the cells of your body. If you think of your cells ...
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Daily meditationsHaving wasted the greater part of their faculties and energies on pleasures and distractions, some men and women then decide to set up home and start a family. They have nothing left to bring to a family, but never mind, they marry and have children ...
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Daily meditationsPatience is the greatest expression of love. In Bulgarian, patience is tarpénié, and the word delgotarpénié refers to divine patience. God is called delgotarpelniv, which can be translated by the English word ‘long-suffering' (deleg means ‘long'). ...
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Daily meditationsSo many philosophers, theologians and mystics have tried to answer the question: what is God? None has truly succeeded, because God cannot be explained with words. We will come to know what God is once we are able to merge with him. Then, indeed, we ...
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Daily meditationsOf all visible realities, light is the one that best expresses the spiritual world. It allows us to see but cannot itself be perceived. This is why God is often likened to light. God is said to be light, but what light? We do not actually know light;...
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Daily meditationsHow can we know God, since what is limited cannot know what is limitless? Not through our five senses, certainly. We will know God when we enter his immensity, when we merge with him, when we become part of him. As long as a drop of water is ...
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Daily meditations'The time is fulfilled. The kingdom of God is near,' said Jesus. Many people will point out that two thousand years have gone by since he said these words, and the kingdom of God is still a long way off - the earth is still such a place of ...
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Daily meditationsHuman beings were created to develop perfectly in the three worlds - the physical, the spiritual and the divine; they were created to live in love, wisdom and truth. If they find this so difficult to achieve, it is because they have not understood ...
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Daily meditationsThe seraphim, cherubim and thrones belong to the triad of Kether, Chokmah and Binah. They are, therefore, in direct contact with God himself. The seraphim are the spirits of his love, the cherubim the spirits of his wisdom and the thrones the ...
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Daily meditationsMost of the knowledge human beings have at their disposal confers on them mastery over matter and ensures their success. This is all very well, but, because of the way this knowledge is presented to them, it increasingly distances them from the ...
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Daily meditationsWhen humans have trials to undergo, when they suffer, that is when they question themselves most about God - does he exist, what is his will, but, especially, will he come to their aid? And many complain that they receive neither answers nor help. ...
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Daily meditationsIt is quite pointless arguing about whether or not God exists! It is quite simple, actually. For the non-believer, it is true, God does not exist, for it depends on us whether things exist or not. When you are asleep, even if all the treasures of ...
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Daily meditationsWe are told in Genesis that humans were created in the image of God. This means they are inhabited by a higher soul, which touches heaven and is an emanation of God himself. And so their existence only takes on meaning when they come into contact ...
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Daily meditationsWhy should we form a brotherhood? So that all together, collectively, we can call for the Kingdom of God. Each of you can do this on your own, of course, but the effects you produce by yourself are not as powerful unless you understand other laws. ...
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Daily meditationsThe higher desires which manifest in man are the expression of the Divinity. It is through these higher aspirations as well as our work for the benefit of others that we witness the presence of God. As our consciousness gradually expands, ...
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Daily meditationsCertain thinkers have tried to define God by describing him as a circle whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. Since this centre is everywhere, it is important to understand first and foremost that it is within you, and that ...
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Daily meditationsRemind yourself each day that you can glorify God by means of a word, a look, a gesture – by everything you do – and that in this way you enter into contact with the Source of life.What is essential is the degree of consciousness you bring to this ...
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Daily meditationsIt is when you are worried and sad that you suddenly think of the Lord and wonder why he doesn't come to help you. You want him to realize there is a poor wretch here who is suffering, and to appear personally to console you and extricate you from ...
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Daily meditationsFaith is inscribed deep within us. It is God himself who has inscribed it there by means of his presence, out of his wish that we remain eternally connected to him. In order for this faith to manifest itself, we must simply liberate it. When an ...
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Daily meditationsThink of life, how it bursts forth, how it flows, how it quenches the thirst of the universe and all its creatures, how it moves through you. By means of this sensation, this way of understanding life, you will truly enter into relationship with God,...
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Daily meditationsWhy are human beings weak? Why are they unhappy? Because they look for everything, including God, outside themselves. But God is within us and we cannot separate from him. At the very most we can place dark screens and opaque layers between him and ...
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Daily meditationsHow could God, this Being who surpasses all understanding, be described to primitive peoples who had no concept of an inner life? It was necessary to use a language they could understand, to give God human characteristics while emphasizing, of ...
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Daily meditationsIf Cosmic Intelligence has determined that human beings are to pass from childhood to adulthood and then to old age, there is a reason. Adults must free themselves from the weaknesses of childhood, but once they have managed to do this, they must ...
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Daily meditationsI know that for many of you, the Kingdom of Heaven, universal brotherhood, these subjects I endlessly present to you as an ideal, represent a mere utopia, an ideal impossible to realize in present circumstances. No, it is not impossible. It is ...
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Daily meditationsIn the book of the prophet Jeremiah, God says: ‘I will put my law within them, and I will write it upon their hearts… And no longer shall each man teach his neighbour and each his brother… For they shall all know me.' If God wrote his law in the ...
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Daily meditationsOnly your ability to transform yourself can give you proof of God's presence within you, and thus proof of his existence. You will say this question was never presented to you in this way, and what is more, that the pastors' and priests' ...
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Daily meditations...s life, he is present everywhere. It is up to us, by means of our consciousness, by means of our thoughts and feelings, to commune with this divine life....
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Daily meditationsSo many people see themselves as discerning, intelligent and reasonable when they say: ‘I believe only what I can see. If God exists, all he only has to show himself!' But how can they present this as an argument? To claim we cannot believe in God ...
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Daily meditations... God who has given us life. It is he who has given us the ability to express ourselves by way of thoughts, feelings, words and actions. And each time we feel drawn toward the light, each time we are inspired by selflessness, goodness and love, ...
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Daily meditationsGod created us in his image, and our task during our earthly existence is to seek this image within ourselves and to manifest it. Some have achieved this goal. And since some have achieved it, to claim that others are incapable of doing so is ...
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