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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 ...
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Daily meditationsWe 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 ...
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Daily meditationsMost 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 ...
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Daily meditationsJesus 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 ...
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Daily meditationsThose 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. ...
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Daily meditationsSpiritual work involves giving our spirit power over the matter within us, and as soon as we decide to undertake such work, we have to distinguish between the two poles in our being that are spirit and matter. We start taking a distance from ...
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Daily meditationsThe 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 ...
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Daily meditationsWhy 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 – ...
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Daily meditationsDoing 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 ...
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Daily meditationsReligions are accused of having massacred countless human beings in the name of the love of God. And unfortunately it is true. But it is also true that atheists just as ruthlessly murdered their kin. And the citizens of nations ruled by political ...
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Daily meditationsAt night, as you go to sleep, deliver yourself into the Lord’s hands, and say, ‘My God, I 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 ...
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