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One wonders where humans’ fascination with gold comes from. Perhaps they vaguely sense it originates from sunlight which is so vital to their life. The truth is, there is a relationship between gold and light on every plane, for light is spiritual gold. ...
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Daily meditationsThanks to scientific and technological progress, humanity has gained significant power over matter, and we can therefore say that the past century has surpassed all others before it. However, the material world now fascinates our contemporaries and ...
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Daily meditationsMost people don’t have a clear idea of what purity really is, and they tend to limit it mainly to the area of sexuality. For them sexual abstinence is purity.In reality, something is pure when it has not been soiled and corrupted by selfish thoughts ...
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Daily meditationsWhen we say that a man or a woman is a saint, we generally think of their qualities such as goodness, patience, self-sacrifice, and forgiveness of offenses. These are the qualities of a heart that harbours no selfish or aggressive feelings – a pure ...
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Daily meditationsPurity does not consist in guarding against all contact, as if shut up in a jar. No, the kind of purity which thinks only in terms of self-protection is useless and even harmful. True purity is divine love, because divine love is life, is the water ...
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Daily meditationsWhy do many people stop listening as soon as they hear purity mentioned? They justify themselves by arguing that purity means narrow-mindedness, limitation, fanaticism and even exclusion, that in the name of purity there have been persecutions, ...
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Daily meditationsFor many people, purity is a marvellous state for which they feel nostalgic, because they associate it with childhood, with the lost innocence they will never find again. And since it is permanently lost, they tell themselves it is not worth ...
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Daily meditationsIf you tell someone they ought to work on purity, you can be certain you will be misunderstood: they will immediately think you want them to deprive themselves, especially sexually. In fact, often they confuse not only purity and chastity but even ...
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Daily meditationsThe genital organs not only allow humans to ensure the perpetuation of the species, they also enable them to take part in the divine life. But Christianity has never really wished to or known how to speak correctly on this subject. Firstly, it ...
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Daily meditationsWhat is purity? Contrary to what many people think, it is not particularly concerned with sexual matters; sexuality is just one limited aspect of it. There are other higher, more essential forms of purity. True purity is found first in thoughts, ...
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Daily meditationsSpeak of purity, and not many people will listen. Some consider it an old-fashioned virtue they don’t have to concern themselves with, for they identify it with chastity and, these days, well… chastity! For others, it is a marvellous state they feel ...
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