It is good to pause periodically to take stock of one's life. Why? Because, too often, the lives people lead, day in, day out, become heavy and dark, because they amass more and more concerns and activities of all kinds that offer nothing from a ...
You must realize that your life on earth is one long sleep full of dreams. One day, when you wake up, you will say, 'My God, how could I have believed all that was true?' But now, while you are here, you have to work, to learn what matter is, even ...
For a seed to produce a tree, there are four necessary conditions: it must be placed in soil, watered, allowed to have air and provided with warmth and light from the sun. So, the four elements are present here: earth, water, air and fire. As the ...
Many embark on the spiritual life without assessing any of the difficulties involved and wanting to undertake great things straightaway. And that is bound to end in accidents or disappointments. If you try to jump over a great, wide precipice ...
You will only know how rich and full your life can be if you think of harmonizing it with the divine life. Gradually, all heaven's knowledge and virtues will come to settle within you. Life - nothing is more important, because it holds the potential ...
'I am waiting until I've settled all my material affairs, and then I shall be able to devote myself to spiritual life.' That's something I have often heard. And then, what do I reply? That it's impossible. Why? Because material affairs are like a ...
Initiates need to take in nourishment, just like other human beings. And taking in nourishment means not just eating and drinking, but loving, too.But what initiates seek to do is to find nourishment in the divine life, that is, in what is most ...
Some people's habitual reactions and behaviour would lead you to believe they experienced life as a hostile deity looking for ways to destroy them. Life is indeed the greatest power that exists, but it has no wish to destroy human beings. The ...
Many people find the idea of the spiritual life frightening, as they are under the impression that they will be throwing themselves into the void. Obviously, throwing oneself into the void is frightening and dangerous, but only for those whose wings ...
As individuals, each one of us is independent and autonomous - that is understood. But each one of us is also connected to the human collectivity and, beyond that even, to all the realms of nature and to the cosmic collectivity. We are therefore ...
One of the books of the Zohar, the Siphra di-Zeniutha, begins with these words: 'We have learned that the Secret Book is the book concerned with the balancing of the scales.' But balance does not mean there is no movement. When God became polarized ...
Many people imagine that, because they have decided to follow a spiritual teaching, all their problems will quickly be solved, and they will soon be able to live a quiet, serene life. Well, no, it isn't that easy. To solve our problems, we have to ...
Life can be defined as the result of the exchanges we make with the whole of nature. Life is made up only of exchanges. The most obvious expressions of this are eating and breathing - if these exchanges are prevented from taking place, weakness, ...
Don't imagine that heaven will be so thrilled to see you become a member of a Church or another spiritual movement that it will come to make life easy for you and spare you trials. No, whether you are spiritual or materialistic, you will come up ...
Never complain because you think you are dogged by fate. And don't imagine either that with an easy, smooth life you would be any happier. No, with an easy, smooth life, you would only stagnate. If you want to make progress and be of use, you need ...
Do those who say they aspire to live in heaven know what heaven is really like? They certainly do not. This is why they should prepare for it; otherwise when they arrive up there, they will say, 'But there are no cigarettes here, there's no pub, no ...
...st carry out in order to be worthy of receiving initiation.
When they turn their selfish, petty thoughts and feelings into generous and disinterested ones, they are preparing the philosopher's stone, which transmutes base metals into gold.
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People love money because instinctively they feel it represents everything life has to offer. But they have confused things: they mistake gold, which comes from the sun and is the symbol of life, for life itself. Just as life provides everything, ...
It is true that medical science is making great progress, but this is no excuse for people to live imprudently. If they fail to educate themselves in the science of life, medicine will remain powerless in spite of all its progress. While it is ...
People exhaust themselves in seeking power, success, prestige and money. They consider life as a means of obtaining everything they desire, when, on the contrary, they should think of it as a goal and use all their faculties to reinforce it, ...
We have received life and we are alive. We make use of life, we draw from it in order to satisfy our desires, our needs and our whims. We believe that in doing so we will develop and blossom, when in reality we become weaker. God, who has given us ...
Someone 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 ...
People speak of sacrificing themselves as if it were a matter of giving up or losing something. When we make a sacrifice, we do not sacrifice ‘ourselves', but rather something useless, harmful or inferior, in order to obtain something great, ...
Would you like to become more alive? Would you like your life to become more intense in its vibrations, its emanations? Among the thousands of pieces of advice I can give you, remember at least one. Be conscious of all the life that exists around ...
...n also be said that they feed on the life of one another.
When egotistical, unjust and malicious thoughts and feelings inhabit you, they are like a food which you take from the inferior regions of life. By accepting them, not only do you reinfo...
Life is everywhere. All nature is alive, all creatures are alive, yet how few men and women know what life is! When they find themselves in difficulty, they exclaim: ‘What can you expect? That's life!' They understand life to be something external ...
By devoting themselves to all kinds of activities, people hope to find meaning in their lives. But they will only discover the meaning of life when they decide to participate in the realization of the Kingdom of God and his Justice. From then on, ...
It is important to treat the life you have received from God with great care and respect, because one day you will have to render him an accounting of it. God needs none of our possessions; we have acquired them along with the life he has given us, ...
For so many men and women, life is interesting only when it is lived in extremes. They want to experience intense sensations, even if it means killing themselves in the process. Do they ever wonder whether God intended them to live life this way, or ...
There is a Being on whom we depend completely, which is why we must constantly maintain our connection with him and dare to confront all inner and outer desires attempting to block the way. Those who are not conscious of the link which unites them ...
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 ...
Heaven has led you to this teaching, so at least try to draw from it some things that are good for your evolution. Otherwise it is a waste of time, and you will spend your life searching and complaining that you never find meaning in what you do.All ...
Human beings waste their energy every day with so many useless, petty and coarse concerns and activities. They do not see that they are in the process of losing an irreplaceable treasure. They imagine that life is eternal and inexhaustible, that ...
You meet a person who you think is wonderful, you feel attracted to him; you love him and you want to know him better. Well, you must be prudent. Instead of trying at all cost to get as close as possible to him on the physical plane, learn to listen ...
Jesus said: ‘I came that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly.' Human beings seek power, wealth, knowledge and love, when in fact they ought to seek life. ‘But why seek life?' you ask. ‘We already have it, we are alive! ...
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 ...
Of 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 ...
It is said in the Gospels: ‘And this is life eternal, that they may know You, the only true God.' And how is it that we can ‘know God'? By fusing with Him. But fusion can take place only between objects or beings of the same nature, the same ...
Human beings do not know how to appreciate life, this quintessence of Himself that God has given them. Someone will say, ‘What do you mean? I consider life to be the most precious gift. In the darkness last night on a street corner, someone threw ...
The 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 ...
Human beings have still not resolved the problems of the collective life. Outwardly they may have formed nations and organised societies whose members support each other, and where everyone serves the whole and benefits from it. Inwardly, however, ...
In the Book of Genesis, when Moses speaks of the Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden, he is obviously referring to a symbol. This Tree of Life represents our universe, and the fruits of this tree are the qualities and virtues of the constellations of ...
Is it necessary to make a distinction between sacred and profane objects? There are several rooms in your house or apartment, and in these rooms there are all sorts of objects. You have put them there because they are useful to you, and because you ...
Why make a distinction between sacred and profane objects? There are several rooms in your house or apartment, and in these rooms there are all sorts of objects. If you have put them there it is because they are useful to you, or because you like to ...
What we call life is in fact an alternation of life and death. Yes, when we wake up in the morning, we are born on the physical plane, but we die on the astral plane. When we go to sleep at night, we die on the physical plane, but are born on the ...
However developed it may be, we must not depend too much on the intellect, with the idea that it will guide us, give us the key to the great mysteries of the universe, or reveal to us the reason for our presence on earth. We must acknowledge, in ...
Before departing this earth, some people realize, albeit too late, how fragile a foundation they built their lives on: they fed off of illusions and let themselves be taken in by appearances. And as, even in that moment, they are unable to think ...
Sometimes, you go climbing in the mountains. You must have noticed that it is the rough edges of the rocks that enable you to climb. How could you do so if the rocks were smooth? So, why is it that you fail to apply what you know about rock-climbing ...
The way you see life is always a reflection of how you are yourself. If you say life is beautiful, it is because you lead an inner life of beauty, and if you think it is boring and absurd, it means you are seeing something of yourself in the ...
‘I want to live my life my way.' This is how so many men and women declare their need for independence. They want to live their life, yes, but what kind of life is that? An animal life or a divine life? The truth is that generally, those who claim ...