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'Spirit' (362)
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Daily meditations...egion of fire, of the spirit, which will melt the matter of your desires, your feelings and your thoughts. Then, by means of meditation and prayer, you can endow this matter with new expressions which are more beautiful and more spiritual. If y...
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Daily meditationsDoing nothing has never been the best way to relax. The best way to relax is to change activity. And spiritual work is by nature very different from everything you are used to doing. It is not like going off every day to a construction site, a ...
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Daily meditationsSpiritual work is first and foremost a work with the light.It is written in Genesis that at the beginning of the world, God created the light. But this was not the physical light we know, which only appeared on the fourth day with the creation of ...
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Daily meditationsWhen we decide to follow a spiritual teaching, we must seek nothing other than methods for improving ourselves. Those who imagine that through a spiritual teaching they will learn the secrets of the elixir of eternal youth or the universal panacea, ...
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Daily meditationsWhy do you limit yourself to the contacts you make on the physical plane with human beings? There are other beings to encounter in the universe and with whom you can establish relationships. Every day you have the possibility not only to link ...
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Daily meditationsClaiming they don't want to influence their children, some parents decide not to give them any religious education. They say: ‘We want to leave them free; it is they who will choose later on.' Well, this reasoning is completely misguided. Obviously ...
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Daily meditationsA master makes every effort to be available to his disciples, but the moment always comes when they must return home to look after their families and resume their work. Some complain: ‘I don't understand: when I'm with the Master, everything is easy,...
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Daily meditationsSomeone says: ‘Before I commit myself to the spiritual life, I want irrefutable proof of the existence of God and the invisible entities, of the immortality of the spirit and of life after death.' Oh dear! This person will have to wait a very long ...
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Daily meditationsMost people seek to nourish themselves on everything but what is essential. They spend their lives in pursuits which provide nothing for their soul or spirit. You will tell me, of course, that the soul and spirit cannot really participate in the ...
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Daily meditationsWhat do disciples usually look for in a Master? Someone who is all-knowing and all-powerful, who makes their life easy and solves all their problems. Well, they will have to think again; this is not what a Master is there for. A Master is there to ...
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Daily meditationsThe best of things may become harmful if we do not know how to use them, and this is particularly true in the spiritual realm. Someone comes to me and complains: ‘I practise the Teaching, I follow the instructions, but I feel nervous and ...
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Daily meditationsFor most of those who at some point decide to walk the spiritual path, it remains a vague aspiration with no solid foundation. They venture into it without any preparation, imagining that all their inner difficulties will be overcome, that the ...
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Daily meditationsBecause they are exasperated without realizing it, at times people around you reproach you for certain shortcomings. In general, however, people do not dare tell you the truth about yourself. Why? Because they are afraid of losing your services or ...
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Daily meditationsIt is useless to try to change people if they themselves do not feel the need. If they have not understood the importance of a philosophy and a spiritual discipline, we must not insist. Their attitude merely demonstrates that they are still very ...
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Daily meditationsFaith can help to bring about a cure, but it does not work miracles, at least not in the way we imagine. Jesus was able to heal the sick because his level of spiritual elevation enabled him to project himself all the way to the causal plane, the ...
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Daily meditationsWhat do we really know about a human being? We can describe his physical body, we can touch him, but the entity which formed this body and which inhabits it can neither be described nor touched. Matter gives us a certain idea of reality, but it is ...
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Daily meditationsEven if you are absolutely convinced of the soundness of your spiritual commitment, there are times when you feel tired and begin to doubt. You wonder whether your efforts to walk in the path of goodness and to surpass yourself are worthwhile, and ...
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Daily meditationsAs with all other activities, spiritual work produces results only if we apply ourselves with patience and perseverance. Someone complains to me: ‘You speak to us endlessly of the divine world, of luminous beings we can contact by means of thought. ...
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Daily meditationsLike every living creature, human beings must satisfy certain needs, and it is in doing so that they in fact define themselves, because needs are linked to life. Yes, to live means to satisfy one's needs: the need to breathe, to take nourishment, to ...
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Daily meditationsPeople speak of ‘revealed religions' as if at a certain moment in history God himself spoke in order to make himself known and deliver his commandments. And what he said at this time must be considered definitive; nothing can ever be added or ...
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Daily meditationsSpiritualists must rid themselves of the illusion that their convictions and experiences are valid for everyone. If you decide to practise a religion, to follow a spiritual teaching, you must not go and talk about it everywhere in an attempt to ...
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Daily meditationsWhy should we learn to live in a spiritual community? It is so difficult! But the person who sincerely accepts this discipline brings about highly beneficial changes in his consciousness. He understands that he cannot act out of selfishness and ...
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Daily meditationsAnimosity and hatred arise between human beings because face to face with one another they are never conscious that they are in the presence of a spirit, a spark that is seeking to manifest itself and that, in order to help this spirit before them, ...
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Daily meditationsEven among spiritualists, how many have discovered the inner attitude that enables them to surmount their difficulties? They will give you erudite commentary on the law of karma, with references to all the books of India and to complicated Sanskrit ...
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Daily meditationsIt is said in the Book of Genesis: ‘In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.' Why does it ...
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Daily meditationsFew people have an understanding or even an intimation of the role a spiritual master can play in guiding their destiny. They do not want to know all that a moral and philosophical teaching could do to rectify, improve and harmonize their lives, ...
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Daily meditationsWhy belong to a brotherhood, to a spiritual collectivity? There are many reasons, one of them being that a spiritual community gives its members the best conditions in which to transform themselves and to advance. Even if those who remain alone wish ...
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Daily meditationsMatter tends towards the spirit; it wants to rise to meet it, in order to become purer and more subtle. And, conversely, the spirit descends towards matter in order to incarnate and manifest through it. In this way, the beloved departs to meet her ...
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Daily meditationsYou should not ask that a spiritual master be all-knowing and all-powerful. You have the right to ask only one thing of him: that he serve as a link to heaven for you, that he show you the path towards God, that he guide you on the path of light. ...
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Daily meditationsWe do not become saints or prophets in just one lifetime; it requires many incarnationson the earth and ceaseless work. This is what life on earth is about: faults, mistakes, failings. How could a spiritual master help and educate human beings today ...
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Daily meditationsAs soon as you leave a town or city, you are surrounded by nature. Whether you go into the woods, up mountains, to lakes or to the seaside, if you wish to demonstrate that you are children of God who aspire to a more subtle and luminous life, you ...
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Daily meditationsThose who decide to follow a spiritual teaching, sensing that it is their path, have to change many things in their thinking and way of life. It is not always easy for them, and especially since they are not alone: they have family, friends, ...
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Daily meditationsOf course, it is difficult to live the spiritual life. Given the nature of the goal to be attained, it is impossible to reach it without effort, and all the more so because the routes leading to it are not well travelled. These paths are unused and ...
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Daily meditationsOf necessity, every human being who incarnates on earth has mistakes to correct and debts to pay, and this is what we call karma. So many initiates, saints and prophets have suffered in order to rectify the mistakes they have made in previous ...
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Daily meditationsBecause God wants to know Himself through matter, He has created suns, planets, stones, plants, animals and human beings. And because man was created in the image of God, he too wants to know himself through matter. His spirit is immersed in the ...
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Daily meditationsSome people take on the role of spiritual guide without realising that they lack the necessary faculties and qualities of wisdom, love, purity, disinterestedness and patience. They do not know how dangerous it is to shoulder this overwhelming task ...
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Daily meditationsWe must have confidence in those beings who have advanced further along the path of evolution than we have, in the initiates and the great masters, for we need their instruction and guidance. We must not be afraid that they will abuse their ...
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Daily meditations... time with his master or who immerses himself at home for a few hours in a study of his master's thoughts, feels himself transported into a world of light, purity and love. But then, unavoidably, he returns to everyday life where he is obliged ...
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Daily meditationsWhen the alchemists speak of working with the sun and the moon, they are not referring of course to the two planets that we can see in the sky, but to the two symbols of the masculine and feminine principles which are active throughout creation and ...
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Daily meditationsA spiritual master is a being who possesses great psychic powers, but these powers do not allow him to act at all times, in every location, under any condition, and with just anyone.A verse of the Gospels says that, when passing through Nazareth, ...
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Daily meditationsThe most gifted people in the world are successful only because they have practised several hours a day, every day, often since childhood, in order to develop their talents. Work and work alone brings results, and this is even truer for the ...
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Daily meditationsWe are in the habit of separating the physical plane from the spiritual plane, but the truth is that there is no separation, no division between the two. There is a continuous progression from the physical plane to the etheric plane and beyond this, ...
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Daily meditationsThose who decide to undertake a spiritual work must understand that this work involves an extremely subtle matter which eludes all our usual means of investigation. But the results that can be obtained on the spiritual plane are as real as those ...
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Daily meditationsThe person who truly wishes to progress on the divine path tries to remain on the sidelines, in obscurity, for as long as possible. Neither does he push himself to the fore, nor is he in a hurry to be singled out by others who claim to have ...
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Daily meditationsTo show an interest in and an understanding of the various forms of spirituality is perfectly acceptable. What is dangerous, however, is to dissipate oneself, to fail to choose one method of inner work in which to engage oneself. The question is not ...
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Daily meditationsThe marriage of spirit and matter, of heaven and earth, is celebrated every day throughout the universe. So, be sure you are invited to take part in the festivities given by the heavenly Father (the spirit) and the divine Mother (matter), who are ...
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Daily meditationsThere is nothing to be greatly admired in the many brilliant, wealthy and powerful people who place no importance on the life of the soul and spirit. Because they do not seek spiritual nourishment, which alone could fulfil them, they are like ...
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Daily meditationsEvery human being who has achieved a certain psychological maturity and is capable of looking after his material needs can and in fact must gradually free himself from the tutelage of his parents in order to lead an autonomous life. But to gain ...
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Daily meditationsMore and more people systematically reject the idea of a spiritual master on the grounds that charlatans and sharks can pass themselves off as gurus. But what odd reasoning! Do these people stop listening to music because some musicians compose ...
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Daily meditations...lso in the spiritual realm. Human beings who strive daily to purify themselves, to ennoble their thoughts and feelings, to live in harmony by linking themselves to the luminous entities of the invisible world, create the favourable conditions f...
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