Stop Groping

You can blunder around in the dark, carefully avoiding every pit. You can grope through the murky haze for the exit, stumbling and falling in the mud, then struggling back to your feet to try again.

Or you can turn on the light. There is a switch to the inner light buried without a doubt inside your heart. Even if it is ever so small, that is not important. Even a tiny flame can push away the darkness of an enormous cavern.

T. Freeman

Returning Light

In creating the whole of existence, God made forces that reveal Him and forces that oppose Him --He made light and He made darkness. One who does good brings in more light. One who fails, feeds the darkness.

But the one who fails and then returns transcends that entire scheme. He reaches out directly to the Essential Creator. Beyond darkness and light.

And so, his darkness becomes light.

T. Freeman

The Oppressive Neighbor

No one is a greater tyrant than your friendly neighbor. Or fellow workers at the office. Or friends at the gym. The mere anticipation of their scrutiny arrests all growth before it can even germinate. "Why have you changed your way of life? Was everything you did until now wrong? Why do you feel a need to be different?" The most tyrannical regime could never be as oppressive.

The secret is, they may never even make a comment. They probably don't even care. So where do all those intimidating questions come from?

They come from your own little tyrant inside.

T. Freeman

When we see the state of the world today

"When we see the state of the world today, of course we tell

ourselves the worst may yet happen: atomic war, epidemics,

natural catastrophes and so on, capable of bringing about the

disappearance of humankind. And so, voices are heard announcing

that the afflictions described in the book of Revelation are set

to rain down on earth. It is true that Revelations predicts the

end of the world; it is written. But actually events are never

predetermined. They can take quite a different course, depending

on the behaviour of humanity. Nothing is predetermined; there is

no irrevocable destiny, either for the individual or for the

world as a whole.

God is not a tyrant decreeing cataclysms that no one can do

anything about. He created humans with free will; they determine

their own future. If they live without awareness and lead a

dissolute life, they unleash chaotic currents, and then, of

course, the laws of nature, which are the laws of justice, bring

them to catastrophic ends; it can only be so. But if they decide

to be wiser, if they radiate a harmonious energy and no longer

disturb the balance of nature, many misfortunes can be avoided."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov