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'Spirit' (362)
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Daily meditations...terials they can also do on their own psychic matter. All their instincts, desires, feelings and thoughts represent a substance which they have to work on intensely in order to purify and develop it. From one point of view you could say this is...
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Daily meditationsSpiritual people will always have one advantage over materialists – do you want to know what? It's very simple, and all you need is an image to understand it: spiritual people take their house and all the riches it contains with them wherever they ...
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Daily meditationsEach person has to be able to find a balance between living in the world, relating to it and working in it, on the one hand, and giving priority to what is most important – the soul and spirit. Making this adjustment is obviously difficult, and each ...
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Daily meditationsEach of the sun's rays brings something living to the object or being on which it falls. Even stones need this life they receive from the sun. For although stones are inanimate they have life. This life is more perceptible of course in plants, which ...
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Daily meditationsPay attention to those around you or those you happen to meet. Learn to see them in a sacred way, for beyond appearances and the form of their body or their face lie a soul and spirit, which are the daughter and son of God. If you make the effort to ...
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Daily meditationsThose who have truly understood spiritual life are never tired of hearing the same truths, because they hear them differently each time. The truths of spiritual science are never understood once and for all. You have to come back to them again and ...
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Daily meditationsThe human body is not the human being; it is only the house, the instrument, the means of transport, a horse, a car… The true human being is to be found in the all-knowing, all-powerful spirit, which knows no limits. And so we can only become truly ...
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Daily meditations...eaven, may at last enter these souls to help them and work with them', and they inspire your thoughts, your feelings, your actions and your words....
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Daily meditationsMany people are surprised that a great Master's authority and radiance does not produce miraculous effects on all those who come to him. But what do they expect? A Master cannot improve those who refuse to improve, for deep down they are free. You ...
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Daily meditationsAll religions stem from the same source. Their differences reflect the fact that they appeared at different eras in cultures with different mentalities. And so you should think long and hard before deciding to change religion; people do not adapt ...
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Daily meditationsIt is recounted in the Acts of the Apostles that a certain Simon, called ‘the magician', amazed to see the apostles Peter and John bring the Holy Spirit down into people by placing their hands on them, offered them money in exchange for this power. ...
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Daily meditationsHuman beings come to earth to work on matter – their own physical matter, but also, and particularly, their psychic matter. Those who aspire to living the spiritual life must never lose sight of this idea. Whenever they meet some obstacle or ordeal, ...
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Daily meditationsThe divine Spirit dwells in every human being as their higher self, but in order to feel its presence they have to place themselves in its service. By doing so, not only do they clear a path for it to their awareness, but they allow it to come down ...
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Daily meditationsWhen we set out on life's journeys, we need to carry provisions – bread, for example. The bread stands for the truths of a spiritual teaching. And its nature is such that it can be a provision, not only for our present lifetime but also for future ...
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Daily meditations...things outside of us, but also on the matter within us. All our instincts, all our impulses, our thoughts, feelings and desires represent a substance on which we have work to do. In a sense, it is a work of creation similar to artistic creation...
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Daily meditationsThe life of a spiritual Master is strewn with obstacles, conflicts and dangers of all kinds. He should know in advance that he will have to pay very dearly for his wish to bring light to humans, for not only will they not always listen to him, they ...
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Daily meditationsPeople usually seek to have friends who are pleasant and who pander to their tastes and instincts. But those who tell them how to make progress, how to surpass themselves – oh my goodness, they are to be avoided! And yet, there is no greater friend ...
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Daily meditationsMost people try to spend time with others who belong to the same social milieu, with the same level of education, the same tastes, and so on. This is not the way to foster an awareness of the brotherhood that should unite all beings. And not much is ...
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Daily meditationsThe spiritual life does not require the amassing of a large amount of knowledge. The main thing in the spiritual life is practice. It is not good to read and study without ever trying to achieve anything or give concrete expression to it. Obviously, ...
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Daily meditationsThose who are imbued with sacred feelings possess seeds, which heavenly entities nurture so that they will grow and bear fruit. If as a result of particular circumstances those people allow such feelings to die in them, they break all communication ...
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Daily meditationsSometimes you think, ‘But what is the point of my praying and meditating and trying hard to live in light and purity? It doesn't do anything for anyone; it isn't even noticeable.' Well, you are wrong! As long as you have made efforts to live in ...
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Daily meditationsNaturally, we would all like to live surrounded by people who respect, appreciate and love us. Well, this is not possible. And it is no use complaining that the world is a bad place, that heaven is cruel and that there is no justice. If we were to ...
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Daily meditationsSpiritual work must always be done in secret. All you can share with others are the results of your work. As for the work itself – what it consists of, the experiences you have, the states of consciousness you experience – it is better to keep quiet ...
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Daily meditationsMatter is inert and formless, and spirit, by coming down and entering it, gives it life and shapes it. This is a process that can be seen everywhere in nature in many different ways. Spirit comes down to animate matter – this is involution – and ...
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Daily meditations... unfortunately also be spirits from hell. Whenever someone stoops to selfish, hostile, malicious thoughts, feelings and actions, they are preparing the conditions to receive those spirits. And then, what trouble they have ridding themselves of ...
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Daily meditationsWhat we call spirit and soul are two inner realities corresponding to the two great creative principles – masculine and feminine – known as cosmic Spirit and universal Soul. So, like them, we too are creators. Yes, we too have the power to create, ...
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Daily meditationsSpiritual exercises of themselves are nothing. They only become truly effective and beneficial when performed in the light of a Teaching that provides knowledge of the invisible world, of the different beings inhabiting it, the laws governing it and ...
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Daily meditations...r failings, their weaknesses and their pain. He does not always make direct comments, but in his thoughts he whispers to each one of them, ‘Study, practise, be more patient, more generous… Don't lose heart…'
All true disciples perceive the pres...
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Daily meditationsMany people are not afraid of supping with all the devils in hell, yet when it comes to the spirit, to light and higher states of consciousness, they are so afraid they run the other way. Deep down they feel they still need to give free rein to ...
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Daily meditationsSpiritual work is unlike any other work; it is something that reaches the deepest, most intimate part in each person. We should do it without saying what we are doing. All those who start telling others how they do their practices, how they meditate,...
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Daily meditationsYou will not change over a few months or even a few years just because you nurture the ideal of a spiritual life. And the fact that you made this or that good resolution does not mean that things will happen just as you decided. Unfortunately, it is ...
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Guide, spiritual - it is dangerous to believe oneself capable of taking on this function prematurely
Daily meditationsWhy is it that so many men and women think it is easy to become spiritual guides? There they are, taking it upon themselves to teach others before they themselves have seen the light. If they could study and analyse themselves a little, something ...
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Daily meditationsWhen a spiritual truth is revealed to you, do not immediately impart it to others in order to persuade them that they too must adopt it. Begin by experimenting at length with it; do exercises with it, until it becomes embodied in you and you are at ...
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Daily meditationsSpirituality does not restrict itself to so-called spiritual exercises – meditation or prayer, for example. Actually, any day-to-day activity can be made spiritual if we know how to introduce a divine element. And conversely, if prayer, meditation ...
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Daily meditations...hose particles, if you can preserve them and even develop them, you will sense in time that your thoughts, as well as your feelings and even your health, are improving. All you should seek from a Master are the right conditions for living the d...
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Daily meditationsPause from time to time during the day, and analyse yourself to see which is taking precedence in you – spirit or matter. We cannot avoid the hold matter has over us: we all have a physical body that needs to eat, drink, take exercise, relax and ...
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Daily meditationsSome people complain that spiritual practice does not have much to offer. But how would they be if they had never made any effort to discipline their inner life? At least, the few rules they try to apply and the exercises they do set them on the ...
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Daily meditationsWe need to know which methods and tools to use for each area of life. You will say, ‘But we all know that!' No, many spiritual people behave like a hungry person concentrating hard to attract the food to their table, when all they have to do is get ...
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Daily meditationsYou already know many things, but you do not know that you know. This knowledge comes from a very long time ago, when you still dwelt in the bosom of the Eternal, in light, love and beauty. There you learned everything about your divine origin, your ...
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Daily meditations...t is, the work the spirit within us has done on our instincts, our desires, our feelings and our thoughts....
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Daily meditationsEven if you ate well yesterday, that will not sustain you today, and so you have to eat again. Today, you have to do what you did yesterday all over again, because what you did yesterday was for then, and today you have to do what is for today. This ...
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Daily meditationsThe two principles of spirit and matter appear to be in conflict, but in reality they work together to serve life. And while the principle of matter develops, day in, day out, expanding its territory in humans, the spirit, which does not remain ...
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Daily meditationsThe day we succeed in becoming one with our higher soul, we will experience the same phenomenon as what we call ‘love at first sight', that moment when two beings meet and their souls fuse as in a flash of lightning.But it is not enough to want to ...
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Daily meditationsWhen you go out in the morning to the sunrise, remember that you are on your way to meet a being that is alive, just as all of nature around you is alive – birds, animals, trees and flowers. For life is the entire universe, including the infinite ...
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Daily meditationsAt any moment we can receive warnings, news or clarification from the invisible world. So, pay attention, stay tuned in, so that you form a sort of photoelectric cell warning you when an entity, a current, is coming by. And straightaway try to know ...
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Daily meditationsGiven the nature of the work he does with his disciples, a spiritual Master needs to know who he can rely on. And he can only rely on people who have a deep need to free themselves, to overcome their weaknesses. As for the rest, he is under no ...
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Daily meditationsTry to bring your life into greater harmony with your spiritual ideal by devoting more time to prayer and meditation. But be patient: if after a week or ten days, you do not notice any great changes in yourself, do not complain that you have been ...
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Daily meditationsEven if they recognize how important it is to have an ideal, most people are afraid of having to sacrifice something for it. It is fear that prevents them from renouncing certain things. But fear is born of ignorance. So many people imagine a ...
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Daily meditations...s not effort that tires you; no, it is the tendency to open your mind and heart to dark, heavy thoughts and feelings. How can you not be tired when you are a burden to yourself?...
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Daily meditationsNo one will deny that all the human beings inhabiting the earth are alive. Even if they are only leading a life that is vegetative and instinctive, they are alive. And most also have an emotional, feeling life or even an intellectual life. But ...
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