Strive to imbue your love with purity and light, for this is the only way to be sure that those you love flourish and fulfil themselves. True love bestows every blessing: joy, peace, beauty, and health. Above all, it gives meaning to life.* If you ...
Love without expecting to be loved – you will be free and you will be able to do a great deal with this freedom. Unfortunately, human beings do not value freedom, they do not seek it; on the contrary, they want to chain themselves down. It is as if ...
The act of lovemaking is in itself neither good nor bad, it is simply what you make it. If you have not done any work to purify, ennoble and enlighten yourself, you will pass on diseases, vices and harmful influences to your partner through this ...
We must learn to be constantly connected to the Source, to slake our thirst with the water of love that fills the universe and in which we are immersed. We are often like a man standing up to his neck in water who cries out, ‘I'm thirsty! Give me ...
What force is it that teaches you how to look at someone you love with great tenderness, how to caress them, be good to them and give them presents? And what force is it that tells you how to look daggers or hit someone you are angry with? Whether ...
If you really want your love for someone to last, do not be in too much of a rush to get close to them physically, for once the initial passion has abated, you will soon tire of them and begin to see their failings. In order to protect your ...
For as long as the human race has existed, it has been faced with the same questions, so our Teaching does not present you with new topics. What is new is the point of view. Take the universal question of love for instance: it is the favourite ...
Suppose two people decide to marry or form a partnership: are they concerned about whether their affinity extends to the realm of ideas?* No, they are drawn to each other and that is enough, they look no further.Well, a mutual attraction and liking ...
... knowing that your words will have an effect.
Always try to improve the situation around you by thoughts and words that add something positive. Begin by trying to create harmony and light in yourself (for you cannot give others something you d...
...What misleads human beings is the fact that the consequences of their thoughts and actions are not immediate. When they give in to their chaotic feelings, or do something reprehensible, they see no disastrous results and they feel just the same...
... content to focus it on a few earthly creatures, and of course, it is not wrong to direct your thoughts, feelings and gaze towards human beings, but this is very limited, and you cannot even be sure that they will benefit from it. Whereas if yo...
Love organizes and harmonizes everything within you and around you. This is a truth that most people do not consider; and that is why they are always discontented, agitated and bitter, and do not succeed at anything they undertake.Love... who cares ...
The love of many human beings is like a smoky stove that coats their inner being with soot. When the stove is alight, the windows are all closed, and the lack of air saps their vitality and makes them sluggish. But when the sun, spiritual love, ...
Many people love someone who, little by little, turns out to be dishonest, unjust and cruel, and then they are faced with a dilemma: must they make the effort to go on loving them or not? Of course, when you love someone, that love always has some ...
In order to meet the needs of their family, some fathers are forced to leave and work abroad to earn money. Although it may appear as if they are abandoning their family, they do this to help them, and it requires great courage for them to make such ...
When you feel hatred for someone, what is this force that teaches you to pulverise them with a look or even to strike them? And if you love someone tenderly, what is this force that moves you to smile at them, to speak sweetly to them, to hold them ...
Jesus said, ‘Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another.' What was the nature of Jesus' love? What did he see in a human being? The response is found in the Sermon on the Mount when he addressed his disciples and the crowd that had ...
Nothing is more poetic than the beginning of a love affair. A man and a woman meet, they smile at each other, exchange a few words or notice each other from afar and suddenly they feel inspired and become poetical within. But as soon as this love ...
So much horror has been perpetrated by people claiming to act out of their love of God. Today, as a result, those who speak of this love increasingly attract only suspicion. Now people think they must look to their fellow human beings, and abandon ...
Even if those who preach Christianity strive to remember the precept given by Jesus, ‘Love your enemies', in reality there are very few people capable of applying it. The majority do not even know how to love their friends, so how can they love ...
It is in thinking about others and working for them that we become wealthy. At first of course, the exact opposite is true. In the beginning, those who are full of love, kindness, and self-sacrifice are considered a little foolish and are used and ...
Perhaps you have never travelled in a hot-air balloon, but you know that what enables it to rise in the sky is the heat produced by the combustion of a gas, which inflates the canvas and makes the balloon lighter than air. The same is true in the ...
At one time or another you have met a man or a woman who has inspired in you a deep feeling of affection. Did you notice the transformations that this feeling alone produced within you? Suddenly you began to think and behave differently, not only ...
People often use the pretext of love to justify their behaviour to those they love. Once they say they ‘love' someone, that is it; it never occurs to them to examine the nature of this love and their way of showing it. From the moment the feeling of ...
Most men and women are so careless when they enter a relationship or marriage! They imagine that everything will be easy, light and pleasant, since their partner is there, of course, merely to satisfy their desires and for them to live happy ...
In order to know love, to feel love, to live love and to give love, we must work toward the harmonious development of our intellect, our heart and our will. True love is not just a state of feeling, true love is a state of consciousness, the highest ...
You can have plans, you can make wishes, but life is such that you can never be sure of anything, not of events and even less of human beings. And it is pointless to bemoan the fact: it is so. You may say that you need to count on the love you ...
Can we, or even should we continue to love a being who, at a given moment, adopts dishonest and unworthy attitudes and behaviour? Many men and women have had to ask themselves this question. Of course, our love for others always produces certain ...
Love between human beings can often be compared to an old wood stove whose smoke is constantly blackening their inner being. In winter when this stove is in use, they keep the windows closed, there's no air, they then doze off and lose their ...
Men and women who fall in love want their love to never end. This is possible, but only if they understand certain rules and apply them. If you genuinely wish your love for another to last, do not be in a hurry to become physically involved for, ...
To be loved: this is the concept most human beings have of happiness. Of course, they agree to love a little, but they believe that the main thing is to be loved. This is easy to prove: why do they suffer so when they learn that the person they love ...
Human beings too often identify love with pleasure, and this is why their love becomes poison in the end. To save their love they need to become aware of the work they can do with it and devote it to God by saying, ‘Lord, I devote these energies I ...
You are looking for love, and you believe it will come to you from outside, in the form of a being who will be exactly the way you expect them to be: pleasant, good-looking, generous, patient... perfect! Although you yourself are grumpy, selfish and ...
Hope, faith and love are three virtues that correspond respectively to form, contents, and meaning. Hope is linked to the form, faith, to the contents, and love to the meaning. The form preserves the contents. The contents bring force, but force has ...
Why tell someone you love them? It is enough to love them. Love can be felt, can be seen – it is even the hardest thing to hide; it expresses itself through your gaze, your movements, your attitude. You do not have to declare it. Human beings expect ...
Love is an energy. And so, whenever you feel attracted towards someone, ask yourself in what direction you are projecting this energy and what kind of construction and realization, or turmoil and destruction it will bring about. Is it not volcanic ...
Jesus said, ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself'. And what does loving one's neighbour mean? Above all, it means to respect the life given to human beings by God. Christians must meditate on this commandment, because after two thousand years ...
When we wish to start a family, we have to make an effort to go outside ourselves, to open ourselves to another person, a husband or a wife, and later to children. But the mistake humans have made is in not understanding that they ought to have ...
There are people who love you, and that makes you happy. You feel this love as a spring constantly flowing for you, where you can always slake your thirst. This is true, but be watchful; be cautious. When you come to this spring, do not rush to ...
Do not spend time wanting to know whether the person you love loves you too. Why should you not? Because love circulates from one person to another: we receive it, and we must give it. What you give to someone you love is given in turn to someone ...
Even though men and women place love above all else and hope to find ‘true love' that will last forever, why do they find it so difficult keeping it alive for a few years or even, sometimes, just a few months? It is because as soon as they feel ...
Most people have such a limited understanding of love that the moment they fall in love they forget the whole world – nothing else exists for them. They are not yet used to experiencing love in a greater way. They impoverish it, mutilate it. It is ...
The Master Peter Deunov used to say, ‘If you nurture within yourself the idea of love in its most sublime form, you receive help from thousands upon thousands of loving souls, for love implies the collective work of a multitude of souls joined ...
...mless way to make someone love you: only think good things about them, and send them only pure thoughts of light. This is also magic, but white magic, the only kind that is allowed....
The reason it is necessary to make all the laws that govern the relationships between human beings, is because they are not yet inhabited by love. When they know what true love is, when they live this love, in this love, they will no longer need ...
A man and woman meet and feel the need to come closer to one another: for a while they are both attentive and seek to please each other. But the day they begin to live together, they no longer feel so obliged to make an effort. You will say that ...
Light spirits in the invisible world are constantly making exchanges of love: they meet in space, greet each other, exchange pure rays of light and continue their journey. Not having a physical body does not prevent exchanges and love. You too, you ...
Love the Creator, the One who is the origin of all life, and you will feel him manifesting in every creature. It is he, the One, whom you will love in others, and only he can fulfil the longings of your heart and soul. So many men and women, famous ...
You never know what causes certain people to achieve or to excel. Sometimes they have neither the courage nor the power to do something for themselves, but the desire to help someone else, to rescue them, triggers unexpected energy. There was once a ...
The subject of chastity and continence is generally badly addressed by religion. Why? Because in reality, the act of lovemaking is in itself neither good nor bad: it is simply what men and women are able to make of it. If they have not worked on ...