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'Spirit' (362)
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Daily meditationsYou will have noticed in day-to-day life that it is easier to obtain something than to keep hold of it. Any number of people who are capable of using all their intelligence, willpower and patience to achieve success and obtain what they want will ...
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Daily meditationsThe spiritual life is like a soil you must bury yourself in if you are to grow. Until then you will be like grain left in a granary. In the granary, of course, it is undisturbed; it is not subject to rain or wind or hail, but it will soon rot or be ...
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Daily meditationsYou can see from the way the word ‘master' is used in everyday life that it can have several meanings. There is the master who passes on knowledge to his pupils, the master who exercises power over servants or slaves, the master who excels in a ...
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Daily meditationsHaving been a child and treated as a child for a certain period in your life, one day you are told you have come of age. This is not only true of life in society but also of the spiritual life, the difference being that for the spiritual life we do ...
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Daily meditationsAdvertisements offer you objects and products of all kinds that will supposedly bring you health, beauty, comfort, well-being – even happiness! Everything is there to entice people and, above all, to delude them. Because even if one day they did own ...
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Daily meditationsOne day, after some reading or an encounter with someone, you may decide to change your life and embrace the spiritual life. Nevertheless, it will not be easy to put aside your material preoccupations: money, social position, honours, power… It is ...
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Daily meditationsMany people turn aside from the spiritual world, refusing to even hear about it; they are afraid of it, as it seems so vague and uncertain. But it is very simply because the tools they possess to access it are not as sophisticated as their hands, ...
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Daily meditationsFrom the earth to the sun and beyond, all of space is inhabited. The four elements – earth, water, air and fire – are inhabited by all kinds of creatures, mentioned in all the world's traditions. Of course, they may not be exactly as each religion ...
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Daily meditationsConsider someone who decides to bring order and discipline to their life. They think they need a Master and say to themselves, ‘I want to meet a great Master, the greatest Master. Only then will I agree to embrace spiritual life.' And they go off to ...
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Daily meditationsA spiritual teaching can only help those who have already done a whole inner work of preparation. With others, it's like explaining to a cat that it should stop eating mice. It listens, it goes ‘Miaow!', meaning, ‘All right, I promise; I ...
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Daily meditationsTo draw the Divinity to yourself, it is not enough to give yourself up to some vague mystical impulse. When you abandon yourself, you become passive, and then you cannot be certain it is the Divinity you are receiving rather than dark spirits, which ...
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Daily meditations...Certain thoughts, feelings and desires live within you – particular people or things attract you, while others repel you. Do you think it is always you acting freely or expressing yourself? No, even if it is hard for you to admit, in reality th...
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Daily meditationsNow that you have set foot on the divine path, you must keep walking it tirelessly. The obstacles ahead disperse, one by one, when you keep going, for you will have set the powerful laws of life in motion.The spiritual life is like climbing a high ...
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Daily meditationsIt is almost pointless embarking on the spiritual life so long as you have not understood just how tough the lower nature is and how demanding the work is you have to undertake, in terms of vigilance, steadfastness, humility and selflessness. Far ...
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Daily meditationsEach time human beings come to incarnate on earth, it is only for a very short time. They must learn and work there for a few years, and then they leave. So you can only have a correct and complete view of life if you learn to include what we call ...
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Daily meditationsSpirit and matter… This is an endless question, since spirit and matter appear in many different forms: as masculine and feminine, positive and negative, emissive and receptive, heaven and earth. Nothing is more important than these two principles – ...
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Daily meditationsWhen the decision to follow a certain path is etched deeply into your being, it becomes like an instinct that prevents you from straying and shows you how to avoid or overcome obstacles. If you too often forget the good resolutions you made, it is ...
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Daily meditationsYou attend a talk given by a great scientist: he makes use of diagrams, charts and mathematical formulas so that you can follow his reasoning step by step. Unfortunately, diagrams, charts and mathematical formulas will not prevent this learned man, ...
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Daily meditationsWhen Jesus was led before Pilate to be judged, Pilate asked him, ‘Are you the King of the Jews?' and Jesus simply replied, ‘You say so'. But he added, ‘My kingdom is not from this world.' For Jesus had no worldly ambition. For him true royalty was ...
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Daily meditationsDisciples wishing to have the same qualities as their Master strive to identify with him. In this way they set up a truly magical connection between the Master and themselves, and thanks to this connection they begin little by little to resemble ...
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Daily meditationsWhat is the difference between those with a spiritual philosophy and materialists? I'll take a very simple image and say that spiritual people carry their house with them wherever they go, whereas materialists cannot move theirs. Yes, spiritual ...
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Daily meditationsThose who do not seek to entertain a spiritual ideal within themselves are incapable of summoning and directing their energies rightly, and their whole life will be spent in disarray. You only have to take a look at most people's lives; they are in ...
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Daily meditationsThose who deny the existence of entities higher than the human realm limit themselves and become dark inside. Even if they are not aware of these entities, they are still a reality. How can they think they are going to make progress, to improve, ...
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Daily meditationsMany jobs are difficult and require very long years of preparation. But the most difficult 'job' is that of leading humans along the path of divine light and divine glory. To prepare for that takes several incarnations; one should even have been ...
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Daily meditationsOver time, every religion that exists has eventually been reduced, even for believers, to a set of rituals and practices, in which their inner being does not really participate. And as these practices alone cannot suffice to awaken and develop the ...
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Daily meditationsMany embark on the spiritual life without assessing any of the difficulties involved and wanting to undertake great things straightaway. And that is bound to end in accidents or disappointments. If you try to jump over a great, wide precipice ...
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Daily meditationsThe origin of all imbalance is the lack of balance that exists between spirit and matter. It is this lack of balance that brings in its wake all the other kinds of anomaly we see in existence. Spirit and matter are two poles, two principles which ...
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Daily meditationsIt has to be said, people who have a spiritual philosophy don't have much weight in society. Why is this? It is because they are not working together. Either they ignore one another, or they view one another with hostility; they don't think they ...
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Daily meditations...e. A master instructs you, he enlightens you, and he even tries to influence you by means of his thoughts and feelings. But if, through lack of concern, thoughtlessness or even ill will, you destroy all the good work he has done with you and op...
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Daily meditationsYou are wondering how you can feed the sacred fire within: each day, throw pieces of your lower nature onto it. Yes, for it is the lower nature, the personality, which is destined to feed the fire of the spirit. So stop complaining that you are not ...
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Daily meditations'I am waiting until I've settled all my material affairs, and then I shall be able to devote myself to spiritual life.' That's something I have often heard. And then, what do I reply? That it's impossible. Why? Because material affairs are like a ...
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Daily meditationsJesus said to Nicodemus, the doctor of law who had come to question him, 'No one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and spirit'. Water is a symbol for purity, and the spirit is a fire. The spirit (fire) needs water (purity), ...
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Daily meditationsAn initiate is someone who has succeeded in freeing their spirit by dint of working on their own matter. And once freed, their spirit can move through the whole world, bringing light and comfort to creatures. So many people on earth are unhappy, ...
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Daily meditationsDo not be so indifferent and negligent towards those around you. Learn to regard them with a feeling of sacredness, and, behind their appearance, behind the shape of their body or face, you will discover their soul and their spirit, which are the ...
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Daily meditations...upils once lessons are over. They go home and get caught up again in their own activities, their thoughts, feelings and problems. They have taught their class, and that is that. A spiritual master, on the other hand, is constantly concerned wit...
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Daily meditationsMany people find the idea of the spiritual life frightening, as they are under the impression that they will be throwing themselves into the void. Obviously, throwing oneself into the void is frightening and dangerous, but only for those whose wings ...
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Daily meditationsYou wish to learn to play a musical instrument - say, the violin - and you think you can manage without a teacher. So you buy a violin and exercise manuals, and you start playing. For a while, you work one or two hours a day, but very quickly you ...
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Daily meditationsThe sun is called 'the light of the universe', for it lights up the world, and it is thanks to its light that we can see. When the sun is not shining on us, we need other sources of light: electric light-bulbs, candles, torches, lighthouses, and so ...
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Daily meditationsIn order to live on the physical plane, human beings must receive all they need from the outside; they couldn't live without the elements provided by water, air, the sun and the earth. They are creatures, and all creatures, in fact all of creation, ...
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Daily meditationsEven when you live in the presence of a great master, it is difficult to understand him or even feel the nature of his presence, the life that is his, because the vibrations of spiritual life elude usual human perception: humans are out of their ...
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Daily meditationsOur sense organs - our skin, eyes, ears, nose, and so on - connect us with the physical world. Those who neglect to make use of them are extremely limited in what they are able to do. What is true for the physical plane is also true for the ...
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Daily meditationsDon't imagine that heaven will be so thrilled to see you become a member of a Church or another spiritual movement that it will come to make life easy for you and spare you trials. No, whether you are spiritual or materialistic, you will come up ...
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Daily meditationsAny amount of accidents and misfortunes befall humans, because they do not see the risks they run when they make certain decisions or launch into certain ventures! They calmly go ahead without any insight or foresight, throwing themselves straight ...
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Daily meditationsJustice is not a virtue humans practise spontaneously, which is why when Moses emphasized this virtue he greatly served their progress. Later, Jesus came to teach them love and forgiveness. But should it stop there? No, there is still a further ...
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Daily meditationsThe task of a spiritual Master is to provide human beings with the best conditions in which to manifest the qualities buried within them, however deeply. There may be surprises for him…and good surprises, why only bad ones? But a Master is neither ...
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Daily meditationsTo Nicodemus, the Israelite doctor who came one night to question him, Jesus responded: ‘Very truly, I tell you, no one can enter the kingdom of God without being born of water and Spirit.' This verse corresponds to a verse in the beginning of ...
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Daily meditationsSpirituality is founded on the laws governing man's psychic life. Scientists must recognize this domain and understand that since the spiritual life rests on laws, there exists a science of the spiritual life. I invite them, therefore, to broaden ...
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Daily meditationsThe true mission of a spiritualist is to work to bring heaven to earth, into the material realm. This means he must first bring heaven into his physical body, so that it radiates through him. In their meditations and prayers, all those who truly ...
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Daily meditationsThe wood we use to make a fire is said to be dead: branches that are lifeless, black, twisted and devoid of all beauty. But once they are on fire, how bright and splendid they are! These branches which otherwise would have remained abandoned and ...
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Daily meditationsWhen you follow a spiritual teaching, it is assumed, of course, that you are going to instruct yourself by reading and by attending lectures or conferences, in order to have a clear idea of the path on which you are engaged. But readings, courses ...
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