on lying

If you feel drawn to someone, but you are annoyed because you think that they are telling you some lies, try to look beyond the lies and try to focus upon the feeling. People offer all kinds of words for all kinds of different reasons. Most lies are offered to try to keep things in alignment. We're not encouraging it, but the motive behind lying is usually a pretty honorable motive. In other words, when a child lies to their parents, it's usually because they want to be free to do what they want to do, and they don't want their parents to be upset about it. It's about wanting an alignment. Physical ears have a hard time hearing this. You keep talking about "We need to be honest." And we say, we don't meet any of you who are honest. Even those who claim to be the most virtuous, are not honest, but your vibration always is. We would trust the feeling more than the words.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Houston, TX on Saturday, January 13th, 2001 #579

"Dada Jesus"

When you decide to embrace the spiritual life, the change you bring about will be only an inner one.

"When you decide to embrace the spiritual life, the change you bring about will be only an inner one. On the outside, your life will continue as before: you are in a particular family, social and professional setting, and the problems you face will remain the same. You are also in a physical body, which is more or less healthy, and you are not suddenly going to be in glowing health.

Let's just take health as an example. There are physical

weaknesses that can soon be remedied with a healthier lifestyle supported by a better way of thinking. But there are also illnesses that are incurable, because they have their origin in the distant past and are, therefore, deeply embedded in your organism. The new life you have decided to lead will only give you better ways of coping with your weakened physical state and sow in you the seeds for future improvement; it will not heal you. You must be clear about all this."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

A good reminder that we’re all connected.

©JudyKaufmann

As spirits, human beings have not yet really taken possession of their physical body

"As spirits, human beings have not yet really taken possession of their physical body. They drag it around, they are weighed down by it, crushed by it, sometimes even stifled by it, but it cannot be said they have settled into it, for it is not a dwelling that is worthy of them. So, in the meantime, the spirit (or rather, what is considered the spirit) walks around with the body, like a right pair, stumbling around, arm in arm... You'll say, 'What a sight!' Well, yes, human beings are indeed quite a sight all the while they are unaware of what their spirit and their body represent and of the work they both have to do together. 

But since you know what this work is, do your best to free the divine principle within you, so that it can rise as high as possible and, on its way back down, purify and illuminate its dwelling-place. Your physical body, along with your astral and mental bodies, is the dwelling through which your spirit must one day be able to manifest."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Pour les humains, la difficulté est que bien souvent chacun vit dans son monde

Pour les humains, la difficulté est que bien souvent chacun vit dans son monde, avec son point de vue, sa conviction, son opinion, sa vérité. Chacun pense posséder l'attitude et la réponse justes pour tout le monde et pour tous les mondes. En fait, chaque point de vue devient vrai dans le monde dans lequel il est appliqué. Les hommes s'isolent ainsi les uns des autres et ne se comprennent plus. Chacun a raison et part de son côté, gardant avec lui la ferme conviction qu'il est dans le vrai et le juste. Chacun vit dans des régions différentes avec une vision et une compréhension spécifiques, mais ce n'est pas forcément la vision de l'intelligence supérieure. 

O. Manitara

God In Exile

They have banished God into exile.

They have decreed He is too holy,
too transcendent to belong in our world.
They have determined He does not belong within the ordinary, in the daily run of things.
And so they have driven Him out of His garden, to the realm of prayer and meditation, to the sanctuaries and the secluded places of hermits. They have sentenced the Creator to exile and His creation they have locked in a dark, cold prison.
And He pleads, "Let me come back to my garden, to the place in which I found delight when it all began."

T. Freeman

Seeing Within

Man sees a tree and the tree says, “I am here, I was here, and I am nothing more but a thing that is here.”

Man ponders and answers, “No! I give you a name! You are 'tree'! You have beauty and you have a soul. You point upwards and you say, 'There is something higher, there is the One who gives me life and gives me my very being.'”

And so Man goes on, until he has brought the whole of creation down on its knees.

Man alone can accomplish what the angels cannot. Man alone can discover the spiritual within the material.

T. Freeman

There will be someone who comes from a background of poverty who is influenced to strong wanting.

There will be someone who comes from a background of poverty who is influenced to strong wanting. And the rockets of desire will shoot, and then they will find a way to find vibrational harmony with their desire. They will get into this flow in which material things flow into their life at outrageous abundance. And they will feel brief moments of success as it comes, until they are eventually buried by the cumbersomeness of it, and then the next rocket of desire that is born is: "I'm wanting a simpler life."

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Portland, OR on Sunday, July 11th, 1999 #454

Where Is My Soul?

In the material world, everyone has a body with its fulfillments.We are separated from each other by biological bodies, and psychologically, each of us perceives themselves as an individual personality.

In spirituality, everything is constantly changing by going from one state to another; the Light and the vessel are always different. We “clothe” in a certain state and name ourselves in accordance with it as actors who change cosumes for new roles. It is as if we are in a science fiction movie where we play a variety of characters.

There is no such notion as a “private, permanent soul” that exists autonomously, climbs the ladder, and preserves its individuality. It’s hard for us to understand how our “self” disappears. For example, it is said in the article “600,000 Souls” that each person who corrects his soul will uncover Malchut to the world and will be named King David.

Micheal Laitman PHD

http://www.laitman.com/

Love And Hatred Of “600,000 Souls”

600,000 souls are parts of a single soul created by the Creator.This single created being got divided into parts which we call “600,000″ souls. However, this number does not indicate quantity, but rather the quality of the connection between them. 

When the Creator gives rise to the desire to receive pleasure, everything is a single whole; the Creator, the vessel, and the Light are like one. But in this state, both the desire and the Light sense neither separation nor connection; they don’t feel whether the creature exists or not. There is a complete absence of any sensation because any sensation in the creature can be detected only through the opposition between the creature itself and what it feels.

For that, it is necessary to distinguish between the Light and the vessel and to feel their complete oppositeness and connection. However, when the vessel and Light connect, their difference doesn’t vanish since love emerges above hatred.

Both qualities have to emerge. The distance between hatred and love, darkness and light (hatred is revealed as darkness and love as light) gives the creature the sensation of its existence and understanding of where it exists and with whom it is connected. This is the reason why the World of Infinity is not enough to outline the creature and make it independent.

Only after the creature goes through the entire process of its development, meaning that it starts at the first stage, descends to the second, and then rises back to the third, does it begin to understand what the first state was about. The created being becomes independent and similar to the Creator. That’s why it is called Adam.

In the beginning (Stage 1), the creature was just a drop of semen. Then, it realizes that the breaking has occurred and corrects it. By doing so, the creature attains perfection. It is not considered a drop of semen any more, but rather, it has the power of 600,000 souls and represents one big autonomous soul.

“Six hundred thousand” stands for six Sefirot of Zeir Anpin multiplied by ten Sefirot in each of them and then by ten thousand, the power of the ascent of Zeir Anpin to Arich Anpin which governs all corrections. 60 x 10,000 = 600,000. Hence, the common soul (the general, final, corrected state) is called 600,000 souls.

Michael Laitman PHD

http://www.laitman.com/

Reason To Celebrate

If you did things right, celebrate that you have a God who appreciates your good work.

And if you fell on your face, celebrate that you have a God who does not abandon you when you fall.

Perhaps you might even allow Him to pick you up.

T. Freeman

Sometimes the best prayer is the one you've spoken in your own language, the way you would say it to someone you love. 

Y.Berg

Spiritual versus Material

Spiritual versus Material are not the choices. Everything about this physical manifestational experience is spiritual. It is all the end product of spirit. You have nothing to prove. Be the spiritual you and create like a physical fiend.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Virginia Beach, VA on Saturday, April 12th, 1997 #577

What knowledge, what understanding of life can we acquire if weare not free, inwardly free?

"What knowledge, what understanding of life can we acquire if we

are not free, inwardly free? It is the absence of inner freedom

that prevents humans from discovering the essential truths they

need in order to orient themselves in life.

So many men and women consider freedom to be the most precious

possession, and they will fight to achieve it! Yes, but what they seek is not the freedom that can give them the living knowledge

able to sustain them and save them. On the contrary, they are

engaged in activities that enslave them and blind them. It is as

if they were walking through a magnificent landscape or garden

but were so weighed down with worries and grief they were unable

to see any of it. All the wonders of heaven and earth are there,

all around them and within them, but to see them and understand

them they would have to be free, inwardly free."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Don't be content merely to dream about the future

"Don't be content merely to dream about the future; do your best to build it here and now on solid foundations. It is 'now' that counts. The future is an extension of the present, and the present is nothing other than a consequence, a result of the past. Everything is connected: past, present and future are not

separate. The future will be built on the foundations you lay today. If these foundations are faulty, there is clearly no point in expecting an exceptional future, but if they are good there is no need to be anxious. The roots determine how the trunk, branches and fruit will be.

The past is gone, but it gave birth to the present, and the present provides the roots for the future. So, you are building

your future here and now by seeking to improve the present."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

étapes

De même que l'homme doit traverser des étapes pour la formation de son corps terrestre, il doit aussi en franchir pour la formation de son corps céleste.
O. Manitara

You place your foot on the first step of an escalator: instantly, it starts moving and takes you to a higher or lower floor.

"You place your foot on the first step of an escalator: instantly,
it starts moving and takes you to a higher or lower floor. What
has happened? By stepping on it, you have simply cut off a beam
of light, and interrupting this beam has set off a device
enabling the enormous stairs, which weigh tons, to start moving.
A similar process takes place in the inner life of human beings.
Each one of their thoughts and feelings cuts off a ray somewhere,
and machinery is set in motion. Often, instead of taking them to
the upper floors of consciousness, the escalator takes them
underground, where they are deprived of air, light, warmth and
space. You think you are free to have just any thought or
feeling, but be aware that each one acts as a trigger, the effect
of which is to project you either up or down. So, do be careful! "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Evolution of Human Desires (sketch by me!)

How Humanity's Desire to Enjoy Has Changed Throughout History

How Humanity's Desire to Enjoy Has Changed Throughout History

The evolution of the desire for pleasure caused humanity to sense a constant need to develop, to invent, and to discover new things. A greater desire means greater needs, which yield keener intellectual and perception abilities. The growth of the will to receive generated humanity's evolution in the following ways:

First, the will to enjoy manifested in physical desires, such as the desire for sustenance, reproduction, and family. These desires have existed since the dawn of humanity. But because man is a social being, additional desires evolved within us, called "human desires" or "social desires" such as the desire for wealth, honor, sovereignty, and fame. These desires changed the face of humanity, introducing social classes, hierarchical systems, and changes in the socioeconomic structures. 

Subsequently, there came the desire to enjoy knowledge. This desire manifested in the evolution of science, education systems, and culture. Its traces first appeared during the Renaissance and continued through the Industrial and Scientific Revolutions, and into the present day. 

The growth of the Enlightenment Movement and the secularism of society were further manifestations of the desire for knowledge. This desire required that man understand all about his surrounding reality. Therefore, he sought more and more information, and wanted to research and control everything. 

If we observe human evolution in culture, education, science, and technology in light of the understanding that desires lead all these processes, we will conclude that evolving desires also created all our ideas, inventions, and innovations. All of them are merely "technical" tools, "servants" that have evolved to fulfill the needs that these desires created. 

This process of desire-evolution happens not only in the whole of humanity throughout history; it happens in the private lives of each of us as well. These desires surface in us one-by-one in a variety of combinations, and direct the course of our lives. 

In fact, the internal engine that propels us forward and induces the processes that unfold in human society is actually our desire to enjoy. The evolution of our desires is ceaseless, and designs both our present and our future.

Michael Laitman PHD

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/440926/evolution_of_the_human_desire_for_pleasure.html?singlepage=true&cat=4