Would you like to cure yourself of certain weaknesses and be able to control certain instinctual tendencies? You will only succeed if you nurture within you the love for a high ideal. And what is a high ideal? It is a longing for beauty, spiritual ...
You have a spiritual ideal, but you see and feel that you are not able to live up to it – it is too difficult. Of course it's difficult, but that is no reason to give up. If your search is sincere, whatever difficulties you have and however often ...
...that we have received forces. It is the same with the high ideal: if we support it with our best thoughts, feelings and wishes, it changes our instinctive impulses, and the energies produced by this change in turn support our psychological and ...
Each one of us has an ideal, whether it's fairness, goodness, love or beauty. But then it is a matter of knowing how to nourish it and remain true to it. If you betray it, you lose the trust of the spirits of the invisible world. For you should know ...
...we do feel we have received strength. It is the same with the high ideal: if we feed it with our thoughts, feelings, desires and instincts, it transforms them, and the energy produced by this transformation sustains our psychic life, our spirit...
You have an ideal, but there are people close to you that you do not like and who you think are preventing you from realizing it, and you are tempted to go back to business as usual. Well, that is a very bad reaction. If you have an ideal, do not ...
So long as humans do not understand that they must have a high ideal, a divine idea, to bring light and purity to their inner atmosphere, whatever they do they will always be dissatisfied. You see it everywhere – even on holiday, even in the best of ...
Even 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 ...
Those 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 ...
It is not enough to be motivated by an ideal of fairness, honesty and kindness and to want this ideal to be realized in the world. If you do not know how to behave, you continually clash with others and end up discouraged. So, what should you do? ...
Would you like to correct certain weaknesses in yourself and master some of your instinctive tendencies? You will succeed in doing so only if you develop the love of a high ideal. What is a high ideal? It is an aspiration to beauty, to that ...
It is because human beings advance in their lives with different goals and objectives that they endlessly offend one another and come to blows. The only remedy for all these antagonisms is to possess the same ideal and to advance together towards a ...
Why is it important to hold beauty, light, purity, power, and love as your high ideal? Because this ideal has magical effects: an entire network of energies is woven between you and this ideal. A high ideal activates forces hidden deep within our ...
In the Gospels, Jesus said, ‘If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain: ""Move from here to there"" and it will move.' Or, ‘Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.' But how can a human being, who is so weak, ...
A human being is a bottomless pit that can never truly be satisfied by material possessions, social success, pleasure, or even great intellectual achievement. It should therefore come as no surprise that so many extremely intelligent and gifted ...
...lways remain alert, active, and enthusiastic.
Human beings have infinite possibilities in their thoughts and desires; they have no limits in the world of the soul and the spirit. If they feel limited, it is because they have limited themselves...
You can live in society, in fact, you must live in society, but you must hold fast to light and wisdom so that you always remain equal to any situation. For if you give in, if you go spiritually bankrupt, not only will you lose your strength, your ...
The highest ideal is to model oneself on the sun: its life, warmth and light. If your model is a scholar, a writer, a philosopher, or even a hero or a saint, you will no doubt be influenced by their qualities and virtues, but there will always be ...
The majority of spiritual people believe that having chosen the most sublime ideal, they will be able to achieve it without encountering any obstacles. No, that is impossible. In order to reach the goal, we must always travel paths strewn with ...
In the Gospels Jesus said, ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment.' I have already explained to you that strength corresponds to the ...
When you concentrate on the highest ideal, God Himself, who is beauty, light, purity and absolute power, a magical phenomenon occurs: an entire network of energies is woven between the forces of your being and this ideal.This ideal activates hidden ...
It is up to each of you to decide to work for the collectivity rather than just for yourself. It is in your own interest to do so, for you are a part of that collectivity, and when the collectivity makes progress and things get better, you also ...
The only way to master your instinctive impulses is to have a love for a high ideal. And what is a high ideal?* It is a longing for beauty, the spiritual beauty that is purity, light and harmony. When you contemplate this beauty, you naturally and ...
Most human beings consider that their ideal life would be to have a family, a job, a car and a house with all the modern amenities. This mediocre life is enough for them, and they are satisfied. From time to time, of course, they read a few books, ...
As long as you do not have a truly spiritual ideal, the forces and energies you carry within you will not be mobilized in the same direction, and the whole of your life will be in disarray.Look at the life most people lead: what a mess, what chaos! ...