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Having observed some negative effects of the influence of families on their children, some thinkers have claimed to remedy this by calling the family's presence into question: in their opinion, it was no longer the family's role to ensure the child's ...
Result: 'Purity' (10)
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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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Daily meditationsPurity does not consist in guarding against all contact, as if shut up in a jar. No, this kind of purity, which thinks only in terms of self-protection, is useless, even harmful. True purity is divine love, because divine love is life; it is the ...
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Daily meditationsToo many people launch into the practice of esotericism and occultism without having sought to purify their inner world, their thoughts and their feelings. And so they merely flounder in the lower layers of the astral plane and will never know the ...
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Daily meditationsPurity is essential if we are to grow and blossom. It is a prerequisite for our health, our energy, our beauty, our intelligence, our joy and our love. Why? Because impurities create obstacles to the circulation of energy, whether it be physical or ...
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