Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Romans 12:2

Nous sommes sur la terre, et la terre n’est pas le jardin des délices

"Nous sommes sur la terre, et la terre n’est pas le jardin des

délices, ainsi que l’on nomme le Paradis, nous y sommes traités

durement. Nous devons commencer le travail, sinon nous

continuerons à nous poser des questions sans réponse. Dans l’état

actuel de l’humanité, personne ne peut éviter les épreuves, elles

font partie de l’évolution. Elles sont différentes suivant les

êtres, leur âge, leurs conditions de vie, leur degré d’évolution,

mais personne ne peut y échapper.

L’enfant et l’adulte, l’étudiant et le professeur, le pauvre et

le riche, le simple citoyen et le dirigeant, ont tous des

épreuves à passer, car chacun a certaines vérités à comprendre.

Ceux qui savent comment traverser les périodes difficiles où

vraiment rien ne marche, où ils sont harcelés, épuisés, gagnent

infiniment plus que s’ils allaient de succès en succès. Mais pour

cela, ils doivent s’efforcer de voir le côté positif de leur

situation."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Whirling Dervish (author unknown)

Challenge

There are sparks of light hidden in this world. Some you can find and liberate: When you "Know God in all your ways" -- finding Him in whatever you do, those sparks jump out at you and their light is released.

But then there are sparks of such intensity that they had to be buried in the deepest bowels of the material realm and locked away in thick darkness. These are sparks that no ordinary search could uncover: Your intellect has no power even to approach them. Your deeds could never dig that deep. Your eyes would be blinded by their brilliance and by the profundity of the darkness surrounding them.

The only tools you have to liberate those sparks are the ones that supersede your intellect and your senses. These are the inner powers that are revealed when your inner resolve is brought to the test.

This is the reason our generation is so challenged again and again: We are redeeming the final sparks of light.

T. Freeman

Human beings can be compared to a book they themselves are writing

"Human beings can be compared to a book they themselves are

writing - and often it's just scribblings and gibberish! You can

find every insanity, every aberration in it. And when two of

these books meet and feel attracted to one another, there they

are, busy day and night reading one another, but what do they

learn from their reading?

Certainly, humans know many things, but they have still not

learned how they should write their own book. They only know how

to create outside themselves: how to sculpt, model, draw or

write, but always outside themselves; their inner being remains

fallow ground. It is time they became aware that they must

concern themselves with writing their own book. Then, whenever

they meet, they will marvel at being able to see sublime writing

and drawing in one another - the qualities, virtues and gifts

they have each worked to develop in themselves."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

The Choice

Isn't this the whole meaning of life in this world: To choose between bondage to the material world and believing that your life comes from those many forces,--

Or to choose true life and to believe that all your needs and all your concerns come only from the one Source of All Life.

T. Freeman

Une loupe peut concentrer les rayons du soleil pour enflammer des brindilles.

Une loupe peut concentrer les rayons du soleil pour enflammer des brindilles. Quels secrets inouïs pour la vie intérieure de l'homme ! Oui, il y a en l'homme un pouvoir qui passe inaperçu : la pensée. Une fois concentrée, elle peut tout enflammer, tout transformer. La pensée est une manifestation de la Lumière dans l'homme. S'il sait concentrer cette lumière, il peut obtenir tout ce qu'il veut.

O. Manitara