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Having observed some negative effects of the influence of families on their children, some thinkers have claimed to remedy this by calling the family's presence into question: in their opinion, it was no longer the family's role to ensure the child's ...
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Daily meditationsAlchemy is the science of the transformation of matter. In the crucible, the alchemist places the prima materia, the base matter, which, initially, dies and rots down; this operation corresponds to the colour black. Next, the matter is dissolved and ...
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Daily meditationsWhen people meet artists – painters, poets, musicians – whose works they admire, they are often surprised to discover that the person and their behaviour are completely devoid of the beauty found in their creations: they emanate neither light, nor ...
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Daily meditationsNever give away your heart; it belongs to you and no-one has the right to do what they want with it. If you give your heart to someone, you no longer have it. The other person has two hearts, but what will they do with two hearts? They will end up ...
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Daily meditationsEach of us possesses a soul, and this soul has needs. If so many human beings are unconscious of these needs, it is because they have stifled them by leading a life without ideals. But these needs are there, and sometimes they manifest in people but ...
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Daily meditationsWe must know how to alternately use the faculties of the intellect and the heart, in other words, to balance the cold current, which circulates in the region of wisdom, with the warm current of love. Truth lies within this balance. If love is not ...
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Daily meditationsThe earth, our planet, is alive; it breathes, it eats, it is sensitive and it reacts to the activities of humans who inhabit it. But they are not aware of it, and are only focused on exploiting it for their interest. They turn it upside down, ...
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Daily meditationsIf so many people cling desperately to this life, it’s because they don’t know that their life does not end with what we call death. In fact, they will commit any crime to survive. This is how they contract karmic debts they will have to pay in a ...
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Daily meditationsGardeners have various types of seed, and when they sow them, they can say with utmost certainty that lettuces will grow here, radishes there, and so on. And this proves to be the case, because it is a matter of knowledge based on study and ...
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Daily meditationsAll humans have a vague feeling that somewhere there is a place meant for them, and until they find it they feel anxious, dissatisfied and unhappy. You may say, ‘A place? What kind of place?’ When a seed is planted, it germinates, grows and bears ...
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Daily meditationsIf humans are not already alive and well nourished, where will their practice of philosophy, science and art take them? In universities and academies, students are certainly given a great deal of knowledge, but they are not nourished. And that’s why ...
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