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'Physical body' (21)
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Daily meditations... matter lends itself more easily to refinement. It only requires a bit of effort from us for our thoughts and feelings to become purer, more beautiful and richer. So this is where you must start, and the physical body will follow; it will follo...
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Daily meditationsYou only have to walk down the street to see that our present civilization is founded primarily on the needs of the physical body. Of course, we have to take care of our body, but if we are content to satisfy it while forgetting the existence of the ...
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Daily meditationsObserve yourself and notice that you always tend to identify with your physical body: you act as though its needs, its satisfactions and dissatisfactions were your needs, satisfactions and dissatisfactions. Your physical body is nothing more than ...
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Daily meditationsSchematically it can be said that the human being consists of a material principle, the physical body, and a subtle principle, the spirit. But as the history of religion reveals, people have rarely understood what place they should accord to each. ...
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Daily meditationsHuman beings have a body: they live with it, they look after it, they feed it, wash it, clothe it, and even make it up! But do they ever bother to decipher what this body wants to convey to them with its limbs and organs? Some, perhaps, but so few! ...
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Daily meditationsOur spirit is an immortal spark issued from the bosom of the Eternal. All the powers and all the knowledge of the Creator are contained in it, and if it cannot manifest these powers and knowledge, it is because it is restricted by the opaque matter ...
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Daily meditationsIllness is a sign that disorder rules in the kingdom of the physical body. As humans are not good monarchs, it is they themselves who, through their ignorance, have allowed this disorder to establish itself. Now, a light must dawn in their brain, a ...
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Daily meditationsLet us consider this remarkable structure that is the human body. It can be compared to a building, the framework being the skeletal system, which in nature corresponds to the mineral realm and which, similarly, acts as material support. The muscles ...
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Daily meditations...ymbolically speaking, but widely distributes his flowers and his fruit, in other words his thoughts, his feelings, his words, his light, and his strength. And you too should learn what is alright to give and what you should keep....
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Daily meditationsHuman beings are composed of matter, the physical body, and of a subtle principle, the spirit. But above all, human beings are spirits. If they have been given bodies, it is so that through them, the spirit can manifest and work on the physical ...
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Daily meditations...t, the flesh, our body, is neutral: it is just the intermediary through which we can realize our thoughts, feelings and desires. Not only does it not oblige us to make mistakes or go to extremes, but thanks to it we can undertake magnificent wo...
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Daily meditationsIn order to put the soul and the spirit first, certain religious leaders thought it would be good – especially during the Middle Ages – to encourage Christians to neglect their physical body, to loathe it, or even to mistreat it, of the view that ...
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Daily meditationsBy simply glancing at the structure of a human body and the way it functions, we discover with what ingenuity and wisdom Cosmic Intelligence created it so that we may make it the spokesperson of our spirit. Our spirit and our body are not separate ...
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Daily meditationsStop identifying with your physical body. Your physical body is not you – it is nothing more than your vehicle. The reason why so many human beings lose their bearings and fall apart is that they continually identify with what they are not. The body,...
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Daily meditationsYou see a man standing there quietly; he is still, with a relaxed expression on his face. Suddenly, he receives a jolt from deep down inside – a thought or a feeling of fear, love or anger – and then everything changes, his features, the look in his ...
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Daily meditationsThe human spirit is a child of God, an immortal, divine spark. It contains all God's powers, all his knowledge. Why then is the spirit so limited in its manifestations? Because of the physical body, which is still too crude, too grossly material. ...
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Daily meditationsThe image of a knight on horseback is full of meaning: the knight represents the spirit of man while the horse represents his physical body. Each one of us is then both horse and rider. And just as an equestrian must care for their horse, each of us ...
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Daily meditations...it is not enough to watch what you eat and how you eat it; you must also be careful about your thoughts, feelings and desires. By working to purify them and fill them with light, you will gradually acquire the elasticity and suppleness that wil...
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Daily meditationsNever identify with your physical body, otherwise the idea of death will inevitably overcome you. The body is vulnerable, it weakens, gets sick and dies, and if you identify with it, if you look for nothing beyond it, you will always remain weak, ...
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Daily meditations...ge in your material conditions that will improve your spirits again, but rather a change in your thoughts and feelings.
Of course, if you are suffering physically, you need physical remedies. If you have a wound or a broken leg, even the very b...
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Daily meditationsEverything in today's culture primarily revolves around the needs of the physical body. But to be so concerned with satisfying the physical body is dangerous, for the body is vulnerable, perishable, and founding a culture on something that is ...
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