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When we see the state of the world today, we tell ourselves the worst may yet happen: nuclear war, epidemics, famines, natural disasters, and so on, capable of bringing an end to humankind. But events are never absolutely certain, for they can take quite ...
Result: 'Renunciation' (6)
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Daily meditationsWhat can you add to a receptacle that is already full? Nothing. In order to pour something else into it, it must first be emptied. The same applies to human beings: if they do not empty themselves of their weaknesses and bad habits, how can divine ...
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Daily meditations‘Renunciation’ and ‘sacrifice’ are certainly among the words people like least, for they understand them as being synonymous with deprivation, and they tell themselves that if they do without they will die. And it is true that they will die: if they ...
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Daily meditationsRenunciation must never be a privation but a transposition, a translation to a higher plane. You continue the same activity but with purer, more luminous materials. You give up, for example, tasting a pleasure on the physical plane to taste it on ...
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Daily meditationsFor human beings, the words ‘life’ and ‘death’ immediately evoke the notion of physical life and death, whereas physical life and death are in fact only very limited aspects of these two processes. Although people may know what life and death are on ...
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Daily meditationsTo the rich young man who came to ask what rites he should observe in order to have eternal life, Jesus replied: ‘Go, sell what you own, and give the money to the poor, then come, follow me.' And the young man went away grieving, for what Jesus ...
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Daily meditationsIt is true that when everyone around you is demanding sexual freedom and justifying these demands with seemingly valid arguments, you are not particularly happy to hear about self-mastery. I understand that you do not like being deprived of ...
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