You can work for hours on end with love and not feel the least bit tired. But work for only a few minutes in a state of discontent, anger or revolt, and everything starts to seize up inside you, and you will feel exhausted. It is important to ...
You still have no real grasp of the importance of work by means of thought. Let me give you some examples. When you extract copper or iron from ore, for instance, you need tons and tons of that ore in order to produce a small amount of metal. All ...
We hear people everywhere complain that the world is in a bad way. And there they go complaining, all they do is complain and they expect others to set to work and improve conditions. Why do they not begin it themselves? No, they wait, and others do ...
Most people readily admit that in order to succeed in the material world, you must be committed and work without cutting corners. But in the spiritual realm they imagine they can obtain results easily and quickly. What a mistake! In the spiritual ...
Jesus said, ‘My Father is still working, and I also am working.' But who, even among the initiates, can pronounce such words? Who even knows what this work is? Most human beings can only say, ‘I do odd jobs…I struggle…I rack my brains…I make some ...
Those who do not rebel against their difficulties and hardships, but accept to understand and learn from them liberate the powers in their soul and spirit. After a time they realize that something magnificent has occurred within them as a result. ...
...nd matter. We start taking a distance from ourselves, and gradually we not only realize that the thoughts and feelings with which we are able to do this work are merely instruments at our service, but we also become aware that our true self exi...
The conversion of movement into heat and light and the conversion of light back into heat are laws that are particularly well-known and applied in physics. Only lazy spiritual people are ignorant of them. They are happy to meditate, study and ...
Why do alchemists describe the transformation of matter in the Great Work as a sequence of colours? Because they have observed this sequence with vegetation. Think of fruit trees for example: apart from some nuances – for nature is rich in variety – ...
Doing nothing has never been the best way to rest. The best way is to change activity. And spiritual work is actually by its nature very different from all your usual activities. It is not like going to a building site, a factory or an office every ...
...ople must understand that what is most important is to start working on themselves so that their thoughts, their feelings and their actions are truly consistent with the causes they claim so serve....
... am your servant, I want to do your will. Do with me as you wish.' And the next day check your thoughts, feelings and actions to see whether what you are doing really is the will of God and not the will of your lower nature. For it is not enoug...
You are alone in your bedroom, and surrounded by the four walls you are physically separate, set apart from the entire world. But by using thought you can go beyond the confines of this room and expand into an ever bigger space: first your home, ...
...zed is not your concern. The moment you decide to participate in this work and direct all your thoughts and energies to that end, you enter a new order of things. You therefore also do useful work on yourself, and that is what is most important...
Each one of us must be committed, ready to work. Cosmic Intelligence does not agree to anyone remaining unoccupied. They must make themselves useful by becoming part of a whole, part of a system, where they find their place. Why? Because those who ...
When Jesus said, ‘My Father is still working, and I also am working', what did he want us to understand by this? Quite simply that we too must set to work. But instead of that, humans leave Jesus to work with his Father, while they themselves are ...
Each day, plough, sow and water your inner soil, and do not ask others to notice the work you do.If you do your work with awareness, one day everyone will have to recognize and appreciate it, for the laws are true.Imagine a gardener has just planted ...
...nditions, so that when the time for meditation comes you are able to do some real work with your thoughts.
Suppose you have had an argument with someone. The next day when you want to meditate you will be endlessly mulling over your grievances ...
Each gesture you infuse with a divine idea is noted in the archives of your higher consciousness, from which beneficial energies will then pour forth. Each time you engage in a task, however insignificant, with the conviction that you are ...
...Would you like a definition of spiritual work? It is very simple. It consists in mobilizing your thoughts, your desires and even all the tendencies of your lower nature for the fulfilment of a higher ideal. And the sun can help you to carry out...
Spiritual practice requires certain methods of work. So, as you learn more about them, make a habit of noting the ideas, advice and exercises that seem important to you. Then choose those you particularly need at the present time. Later, in ...
Learn not to rely on anything or anyone: not on your family, not on your friends, not even on the Lord – no, not even on the Lord! – only on your work. Why? Because thanks to your work you will then be able to rely on the whole universe. When ...
Working without expecting anything back – that is what you must be able to achieve. For nothing hinders you more than expecting to be recognized or appreciated for the work you do. You wait and wait… and waiting paralyses you. If you are always on ...
...rely the ones who do the most work. The tiredness simply comes from the fact that they chew over thoughts and feelings that wear them out. They are undeniably tired – there's no question of it being an imaginary illness. No, it's very real, so ...
Human beings come to earth to work on matter – their own physical matter, but also, and particularly, their psychic matter. Those who aspire to living the spiritual life must never lose sight of this idea. Whenever they meet some obstacle or ordeal, ...
The divine Spirit dwells in every human being as their higher self, but in order to feel its presence they have to place themselves in its service. By doing so, not only do they clear a path for it to their awareness, but they allow it to come down ...
Sometimes you think, ‘But what is the point of my praying and meditating and trying hard to live in light and purity? It doesn't do anything for anyone; it isn't even noticeable.' Well, you are wrong! As long as you have made efforts to live in ...
Spiritual work must always be done in secret. All you can share with others are the results of your work. As for the work itself – what it consists of, the experiences you have, the states of consciousness you experience – it is better to keep quiet ...
Spiritual work is unlike any other work; it is something that reaches the deepest, most intimate part in each person. We should do it without saying what we are doing. All those who start telling others how they do their practices, how they meditate,...
Even if you ate well yesterday, that will not sustain you today, and so you have to eat again. Today, you have to do what you did yesterday all over again, because what you did yesterday was for then, and today you have to do what is for today. This ...
...in a long while in silence and in stillness, and then begin to elevate yourself through your thoughts. Imagine you are gradually leaving your body through the opening at the top of your skull. Keep imagining yourself rising through your causal,...
Try to bring your life into greater harmony with your spiritual ideal by devoting more time to prayer and meditation. But be patient: if after a week or ten days, you do not notice any great changes in yourself, do not complain that you have been ...
You must rely on nothing and no one – not on your family, or on your friends, or on your Master, not even on the Lord, yes, not even on the Lord – but only on your work. Why? Because it is solely due to your work that you will later be able to rely ...
...and say, ‘My God, I want to do your will. Do with me as you wish.' And the next day check your thoughts, feelings and actions to see whether what you are doing really is the will of God and not the will of your lower nature. For it is not enoug...
To be effective on earth, heaven needs workers, wholehearted and, above all, selfless workers who ask themselves every moment of their lives how they can achieve the wish expressed by Jesus for the kingdom of God to come on earth. So we, as these ...
We represent something great and beautiful only inasmuch as we do something for the collectivity, for the whole of humanity. Only then do we assume our true worth, for we begin to collaborate with God himself.Those who work for the good of the ...
All human beings are made of the same divine quintessence. The only difference between them is that some have learned to work on this quintessence and to develop it, while others leave it dormant. We refer to this quintessence as the image of God.If ...
...hin us and around us is a subtle but inchoate matter, a matter which has not yet taken form. Our thoughts have power over this matter, and we are therefore meant to take it up like a kind of modelling clay and, by working on it, to become creat...
Doing nothing has never been the best way to relax. The best way to relax is to change activity. And spiritual work is by nature very different from everything you are used to doing. It is not like going off every day to a construction site, a ...
Spiritual work is first and foremost a work with the light.It is written in Genesis that at the beginning of the world, God created the light. But this was not the physical light we know, which only appeared on the fourth day with the creation of ...
As with all other activities, spiritual work produces results only if we apply ourselves with patience and perseverance. Someone complains to me: ‘You speak to us endlessly of the divine world, of luminous beings we can contact by means of thought. ...
Jesus said, ‘My Father is still working, and I also am working.' [PV8]But who, even among the initiates, can pronounce such words? Who even knows what this work is? Most human beings can only say, ‘I do odd jobs…I struggle…I rack my brains…I make ...
...ust understand that what is most important is to carry out a work on themselves to improve their thoughts, their feelings and their actions....
Those who want to work for the benefit of humanity must not expect to be welcomed wherever they go with understanding and gratitude; they must realise they will awaken hostile forces as well. Knowing this, they take precautions and continue their ...
Those who decide to undertake a spiritual work must understand that this work involves an extremely subtle matter which eludes all our usual means of investigation. But the results that can be obtained on the spiritual plane are as real as those ...
Those who accept their difficulties and trials liberate the powers in their soul and spirit, and after a time they realise that something magnificent has occurred within them as a result. You must understand that this is the true work of alchemy: to ...
Most people readily admit that in order to succeed in the material world, you must be committed and work without cutting corners. But in the spiritual realm they imagine they can obtain results easily and quickly. What a mistake! First, you must set ...
In order to console Christians, the Church tells them: ‘You are poor, weak and sick, but have hope and faith, for God's love is infinite, and one day you will be on his right side in Paradise.' So God's circle must be made up of poor, pitiful devils ...
The more you link yourself to the divine Source, the more you attract entities who come to help and support you. In this way you become strong and radiant; you become master of yourself and possess the powerful key to self-realisation. Therefore, be ...
...Let the spring of love flow within you. Through your thoughts, your feelings, your wishes, your words, let it gush forth over all the creatures and objects around you and beyond, on the trees, the mountains, the oceans. Even if you are by yours...