At its origin, at the beginning of all things, there is light. And this light is the Christ, the solar Spirit. The spirit of the Christ first manifests in the sephirah Chokmah, the highest glory, the Word, without which, as Saint John says in his ...
...Sometimes you complain, ‘I've been watching the sunrise for twenty years and I don't feel any change, no divine seeds are growing within me.' But twenty years is not very long. Some of the seeds buried deep within you need centuries or even mil...
How many times have you heard people say, ‘I am so tired!' Yet very few people really know what tiredness is. Tiredness is something that attaches itself to you, the same way some clingy people won't let go of you, always demanding to be loved and ...
...ht, heat and life throughout space. But there are still some of you who remain insensible to the sunrise, as if there were a screen between you and the sun. And that is so: the life you led the day before, or in the preceding days, has created ...
...If you want to get the most out of the sunrise, you must prepare for it the evening before. Eat lightly, do not go to bed too late, and do not engage in discussions that will inevitably pursue you the next morning.
When you have learned to watc...
...doors to them.
You will not evolve simply by being in the presence of a master. We can go to the sunrise and contemplate springs, yet remain the same. Why? Because we are closed. In order to open up, we need faith and love. Faith and love are t...
...You are present at the sunrise in the morning in order to receive fruits of hope. Yes, in giving you its light, heat and life, the sun is giving you the food and drink of hope. What a pity you have so often abandoned hope and chosen despair. If...
...k – because they have learned to absorb subtler elements.
You can learn to do this exercise at sunrise: absorb the sun's rays through your skin and store them in your solar plexus. This way, months and years later, you will feel little mouths o...
...You are at the sunrise: as you await the first ray, you are watchful and attentive, and when the first ray appears, you imagine that you are absorbing it, that you are swallowing it. In this way, you start to drink the sun. Instead of just look...
...Every morning at sunrise we collect a few more specks of gold. Yes, we are prospecting for gold because we too want to become rich. But instead of sifting sand from a riverbed, we turn to the sun and try to capture its light and condense it int...
...Why do we go to watch the sunrise in the morning? Because this an exercise that helps us to find our own centre. The sun is the centre of a system that it sustains, organizes and vivifies. If the movement of the planets around the sun is consid...
...o distribute through space. The day you understand this truth and prepare yourself to attend the sunrise as if it were an event surpassing all others, you will then drink the sun, you will nourish yourself with the sun and you will become immor...
...When you climb to the Rock of Prayer in the morning, to watch the sunrise, do you ever think to send it your love and your good thoughts? You should love this Rock! You should even touch and caress it; then its vibrations will change towards yo...
...; it is found only in the most subtle and pure regions. If some initiates recommend going to the sunrise, it is because this is the most favourable time of day to drink this ambrosia, which the sun distributes everywhere and whose particles are...
...aching? How many of you understand what we are doing here? You pray, you meditate, you watch the sunrise, you sing in choir and you eat together, but do you know why? It is because all this is part of the programme I have prepared for you. Beca...
...Every morning prepare yourself for the sunrise. When you set off on your way to greet the dawn, keep in your head and your heart the thought that you are not only going to be present at this amazing event in the universe, but that you are also ...
...w ones that come from the sun. This is an extremely useful exercise you can do in the morning at sunrise: with all your heart and soul, strive to capture some of these divine particles and take them within you. In this way, you will gradually r...
...f God.
When you do the breathing exercises, when you pray, meditate, sing, or when you watch the sunrise, you are essentially absorbing this quintessence, which is spread throughout the universe in prodigious quantities. If you have not gathere...
...Get into the habit of getting up early to watch the sunrise, for it is in the morning, as it rises that the sun appears in all its splendour, in all its significance. You will learn to come into contact with it, with its spirit, to absorb its r...
...urselves properly, we need this fourth, essential element. That is why we must go to watch the sunrise so as to absorb the fire and light disseminated there profusely each morning....
...nd them converge toward the Source of life.
Think about this in the morning when you attend the sunrise. Look at the sun, realizing that it never stops illuminating, warming and vivifying all creatures. It is the best symbol of the harmonizati...
...at there are other ways of bringing children into the world, on other planes. When you go to the sunrise in the morning, instill within you the importance of what you go to do there, and for what purpose. The sun is like a father who deposits s...
In the morning we go to contemplate the sun rising. In doing so, we eat it and drink it, and its living light and warmth spread to all the cells in our body enlightening them, strengthening them, purifying them and vivifying them. Every day, you are ...
... never stop reminding you of the benefits the sun can bring us as it rises. In contemplating the sunrise, we seek to receive the living fluid which circulates in the universe, so that it may purify, strengthen and enlighten us....
...In the morning, when you go to contemplate the sunrise, do not be content to look at it as just a beautiful sight. Through thought, endeavour to make the sun penetrate within. You say that you are trying to perfect yourself, and that it is very...
...tribute them through space as expressions of divine light, heat and life. The day you attend the sunrise with the awareness that you can feed on its light, its heat and its life, you will become immortal, because you will have learned how to re...
...Why do we watch the sunrise? Why do we concentrate on it? In order to learn to mobilize all our thoughts, all our desires, and all our energies, and to direct them toward the realization of the highest ideal.
A person who works to unify the ma...
...As soon as the first ray appears, concentrate on absorbing it. So instead of simply watching the sunrise, you are drinking it, you are eating it, and you imagine that this living light spreads through all the cells of your organs, purifying the...
...There are so many things to discover when watching the sunrise, so many exercises that enable us to immerse ourselves in this life, this light and this warmth! As the day dawns, a great event is being prepared in the sky. Clouds, sombre or brig...
...As you leave your house in the morning to watch the sunrise, be thinking already that you are going to meet a living being, as alive as all of nature around you – the birds, insects, trees and flowers. For the whole universe is alive, populated...
...In the morning, when you are watching the sunrise, think of the rays shining on you as living creatures that can help you solve the day's problems. But only today's problems, not tomorrow's. Tomorrow you will have to go and consult them afresh,...
...Before you meditate or pray or watch the sunrise, say to yourself, ‘I am in purity, in the light, with my beloved Lord and my beloved divine Mother. This moment when I can communicate with them must be all that matters.' Leave your baggage and ...
Learn to rally your thoughts, your desires and even all the tendencies of your lower nature to fulfil a sublime ideal. The sun can help you achieve this task of unification and harmonization. As you watch it rise in the morning, imagine that your ...
... found only in the most subtle and purest regions of space and only at specific moments, such as sunrise. Dawn is the best time of the day, because the true beverage of immortality is light, and you can capture it in the morning at sunrise and ...
...The sunrise – that splendid event that takes place each morning – is worth going to see, even if it's hard for you to get up early in the morning, even if you're half asleep. You may say you won't gain anything from it if you're half asleep. Bu...
...u joy, and far more so than if you owned it. What joy we experience at the beauty of nature, the sunrise, or the starry sky! And yet these do not belong to us. The most important therefore is not possession, but the ability to rejoice....
...At the Bonfin, in order to be present at the sunrise, we climb each morning up to a great rock. But do you think of sending love and good thoughts to this rock? You can even touch it, stroke it; its vibrations will change towards you as you do ...
...When you want to attend the morning sunrise, think about preparing yourself for it the day before. And as you are setting off, hold firmly in your head and heart the conviction that not only will you meet the dawn, but you will also be taking p...
...What a privilege it is to be able to contemplate the sunrise! This is why, each year, as spring returns, you should prepare for these unique moments. No presence in the world can bring order and harmony into you like the sun, nor give you the s...
...ve the feeling you are being given light, warmth and strength. It is like being present at the sunrise....
... mind is never where it should be.
In the morning, when you are getting ready to go to watch the sunrise, tell yourself, ‘I want to contact purity, beauty, love, light; nothing else must matter.' Leave your burdens behind; be light and free whe...
The only way to attract angelic beings and keep them with us is to create a very pure atmosphere around us. One of the best times for doing this is while the sun is rising. As the sun climbs above the horizon, it changes colour. First it is red, ...
...athing exercises on an empty stomach or four or five hours after eating. But the best time is at sunrise, because through the breathing you can take in that precious quintessence from the air which the Indian yogis call prana. Prana is the basi...
...air? We have to learn to nourish ourselves with fire and light too, which is what we do at the sunrise. In the Zend Avesta it says that when Zoroaster asked the god Ahura Mazda what the first human beings fed on, the god replied, ‘They ate fire...
...hy, if you love nature, it too will seem to be always new. In the morning, you go to witness the sunrise: on the face of it, it is always the same ball of fire there in front of you, but if you love it, each morning you will have the sensation ...
...ve for God, for nature, everything appears endlessly new. In the morning you go to watch the sunrise; on the face of it, it is always the same ball of fire there in front of you. But if you love it, you will have the feeling every morning that ...
...In the morning when you go to watch the sunrise, allow yourself to be filled with the purity of the atmosphere and with the glow that gradually appears on the horizon announcing the coming of a new day. Life on earth, it is true, is but a succe...
...In the morning you are there at the sunrise: a luminous sphere slowly emerges from the darkness, and its brilliance eventually fills the whole of space. Dive into the light, as if you were diving into a sea of vibrating, throbbing life… You wil...
...Sometimes someone will come and complain to me, ‘You advise us to go to the sunrise. You tell us that the divine seeds the Creator has placed in us are made to grow by the spiritual sun, through the activity of the physical sun. But for the twe...
... and light within. These are precisely the conditions you have in the morning when you go to the sunrise. So, on your way, think of all the invisible beings surrounding you. It is thanks to them that nature is alive and offers us all it possess...