You can give a corpse all the medicine you want, but it will not rise up again because it has lost its life. Yes, even the most potent drugs will be of no use if life has gone. It is life that matters. This is why we must take care of life: we must ...
Life is never the same: it ebbs and flows, ever changing, moving people and things about. Today you have managed to solve a problem—great. But then the next day another development arises, which cannot be tackled using the same methods and approach; ...
It is difficult to do something we dislike. In order to be drawn to something and work with it, we have to love it. When you are hungry, you love food; you do not need to be told to go and look for something to eat in the cupboard or in the ...
...ng of life finally becomes clear to you. But after these moments of intense life, you allow your thoughts and conversations to drift back to ordinary things, and within minutes you lose all that you had gained.
So, in future, pay attention and ...
Our life on earth is an illusion, a dream, so what is the use of losing eternal life for the sake of an illusion that will soon vanish without a trace? Of course, we have to work in order to eat and clothe ourselves, put a roof over our heads, and ...
Prayer, meditation and ecstasy are all forms of nourishment. Through them, we savour that heavenly sustenance, ambrosia, the food of immortality. It is an immaterial food, but it also has an equivalent on the physical plane, which alchemists call ...
What happens within us is a mirror image of what goes on in society: you can witness the same struggles, the same revolutions, and the same reversals of fortune. Many kings have been dethroned because they were unfit for their high position. They ...
You have no desire to live a spiritual life? Fine, understood. But you can still make the effort to understand intellectually that there are advantages to living this way. And once you have understood the benefits, you will find it easier to commit ...
You do not realize that you are wasting your life chasing after acquisitions that are worth far less than life itself! If you thought first about this life within you, protecting it and maintaining it in perfect purity, you would have more and more ...
In all religions, the supreme God is seen as the unique source of life. It is he who gives life, and he who withdraws it. He is the master of life, because he is life. But, what do we know about life? We can do no more than enumerate its many ...
Life and death are so closely connected that there is always something in life that must die in order for something else to live. Like it or not, it is impossible to escape this dilemma. We can already observe this in the realm of health. How many ...
...can momentarily improve your health or appearance. But health and beauty depend far more on your thoughts, feelings and on everything making up your inner life....
Both within and without, human beings are constantly involved in the battle between the principle of life and the principle of death. These two opposing powers are constantly confronting each other and it is always the weakness of one that makes the ...
You meet a person who you think is wonderful, you feel attracted to them, and you would like to become closer to them. Well, you must be prudent. Instead of trying at all cost to get as close as possible to them on the physical plane, learn to ...
Get into the habit of observing and listening to the life of nature: to stones, plants, animals, but also to the four elements – earth, water, air, fire – and the different forms in which they appear: rocks, sand, rain, snow, wind, clouds, sun, ...
... rid themselves of these impurities, they must learn to master themselves, to control their thoughts and desires, and only then can they attune themselves to divine vibrations and waves and taste eternal life....
...iverse, infinity... Rare are those who have reached beyond all these limitations, whose desires, thoughts, and interests converge on the collective, universal aspect of life. It is in this direction that we must strive....
It is natural that everyone is attached to their family, their region, their country and that they work to support them. But that does not prevent them expanding their field of consciousness and thinking much further, much higher. In their heart, in ...
Master Peter Deunov gave the following rule: ‘Use kindness as the basis of your life, justice as balance, wisdom as limit, love as delight, and truth as light.' If we think deeply about this rule, we will find it extremely instructive. Kindness is ...
Sooner or later there comes a time when human beings take stock of their lives. And then, if they are honest they are often obliged to recognize that they have wasted their energy, their health and their beauty on somewhat worthless activities. Of ...
You believe that God does not protect you, that he has allowed evil and the wicked to triumph over you. You go about settling your accounts with him, and in your consciousness you begin to distance yourself from him. But you must understand that to ...
Flowers, trees, oceans, even stones… everything in nature breathes. You might say, ‘But I can't imagine the breathing process existing outside of the lungs!' Why not? Life doesn't necessarily need the same organs to ensure the same functions. Look ...
Many men and women have put an end to their life, even if, as we say, ‘they had everything they needed to be happy': youth, beauty, intelligence, wealth, family and friends who loved them... They had everything except the most important thing: their ...
It is only because of the exchanges we make with the world around us that we are able to live. These exchanges are made possible thanks to the powers and entities with which the Creator has populated the universe, which are the many different ...
In the Book of Genesis it is said that God ‘breathed into Adam's nostrils the breath of life' and that ‘man became a living being'. Thus man's life began as a breath given by God. And it is true that for each human being life begins with an ...
How disappointing for an artist who has been idolised by the crowds to be forgotten and replaced by others! But however much it eats away at them, and they feel it is unfair, that is how it is – the public is pitiless and looks for novelty. And ...
The difficulties and obstacles placed on our path are meant to strengthen us, not to destroy us. But it is up to us to win the support of this life force by learning to work with it. Why is it that something arduous and painful to some is neither ...
Life has often been compared to flowing water. But what a difference there is between water that gushes forth from a spring on a mountain peak and water which arrives at the mouth of a river, having absorbed all sorts of impurities and even toxic ...
Everything that exists is alive – to different degrees, of course – and life is characterized by the continuous emission of new radiations. Even the metal in your necklace, ring or watch vibrates differently from one day to the next. If you were ...
Do not imagine that heaven is so impressed at your becoming members of a Church or some spiritual movement that it is going to make your life easier and spare you any hardship. No, you will come up against all of life's difficulties, just like any ...
How much land has turned to desert due to lack of water! But, also, how many deserts have become fertile land once they had a water supply! Water is life flowing. Those who wish to become a fertile land should always allow the water of life to flow ...
Now that you have set foot on the divine path, you must continue walking it tirelessly. For those who do not stop on the path, the obstacles ahead disperse one by one, for they will have set the powerful laws of life in motion. The spiritual life is ...
If you knew how to observe yourself, you would notice your emotional life is largely composed of subtle exchanges and that it is these exchanges that nourish you. When you leave home in the morning you meet men and women for whom you feel friendship,...
It is almost useless to commit to a spiritual path unless you have understood just how tough a human's lower nature is, how hard it is to tame and just how much work is required, needing vigilance, humility and perseverance. Far too many people ...
There are many ways to help you renew the life force within you! In the morning, as you watch the sun rise, concentrate on it and say, ‘As the sun rises over the world, let the spiritual sun of love, wisdom and truth rise in my heart, in my soul and ...
... consists in being able to keep your life pure and radiant. Know that the very quality of your thoughts and feelings affects your energy reserves and the very essence of your being. And so the best way to preserve and enrich your life is to pla...
Would you like to become more alive? Would you like the life vibrating in you and emanating from you to be more intense? Of the thousands of pieces of advice I can give you, you must remember at least this one: be aware of all the life around you, ...
For human beings, the words ‘life' and ‘death' spontaneously evoke the life and death of the physical body, when these notions are really only very limited aspects of the two states. While everyone knows what life and death are on the physical level,...
Even the most talented beings in the world cannot achieve anything without practising several hours every day, and often from childhood, to develop their talents. Work is the only thing that can achieve results. And this is even truer in the ...
The intellect is a faculty that allows us to know the physical world and something of the psychic world, but no more. By itself it cannot show us the truth of life.Take the very simple example of a rose. We know a rose not just by perceiving its ...
...at when you are unable to move, thinking is not much help. You are wrong: by working with your thoughts and imagination you clear a path and plough a furrow, creating favourable conditions for a possible return to activity....
...cing, vast life. We can also say that they are nourished by each other's lives.
When you harbour thoughts and feelings that are selfish, unfair and wicked, it is as if you are taking in food from the lower regions of life. By accepting them int...
Even if they have reached adulthood, most people are still like children: to hold their attention, you have to keep offering them new things. And this failing can be seen in spiritual people too. Even if the teaching they receive provides them with ...
Why do men and women who felt strongly attracted to each other at first so often end up unable to bear each other anymore? Because they have been unable to sustain their inner life, to make it beautiful and poetic. For, unconsciously, it is life ...
In several passages in the Bible, mention is made of a book called the ‘book of life'. This book of life, which is obviously symbolic, has names written in it. You may be wondering how you can know whether your name is written in this book. It's ...
Now that you have committed to the path of light, you must keep walking without wondering when you will reach the end. One by one, all obstacles give way before those who do not stop en route, for they have set the powerful laws of life in ...
Even when humans stopped believing in gods who held feasts where they were served nectar and ambrosia, this did not stop their preoccupation with the search for an elixir, a drink of immortality, a search which continues to this day. In reality this ...
Do you want to know where you will go when you leave the earth? It is simple: you will be naturally drawn to those regions that have been the focus of your desires all your life. If you use your energies to ask for intelligence, love and beauty and ...
You are beginning to have difficulties as a couple… Instead of immediately thinking of separating, look at how you can sort things out. A marriage is like a problem which destiny has given you to solve. If you have met a particular woman or man in ...
Today's culture offers us endless objects and activities to entice and tempt us. And not only are people not warned of the dangers involved, but everything possible is done to persuade them that the satisfaction they will derive from these things ...