"We are told that under the reign of the ottoman sultan Mehmet II ..."

"We are told that under the reign of the ottoman sultan Mehmet II,

known as 'the Conqueror', there was a famous warrior who had won

twenty-two victories against enemy armies. It was at a time when

fighting was done with swords, and so, one day, the sultan asked

for this all-victorious sword to be brought to him, as he thought

it must possess exceptional qualities. So the sword was brought

to him. He took it, turned it one way, turned it the other way...

But it was a completely ordinary sword, and the sultan,

disappointed, returned it, saying he had no use for such an

ordinary weapon. When the hero who had emerged victorious from so

many battles learned of the sultan's reaction, he exclaimed, 'But

he saw only the sword, he didn't see my arm. It is my arm that

won the victories'. 

I, too, give you a sword, which is to say, effective spiritual

methods, that is, effective provided you apply them. Even a tiny

knife can work wonders if we practise handling it every day, and

a single match can set a whole city ablaze. With some seemingly

unimpressive method, one can also do an immense work: it is all

in the arm, that is, in the will."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

There Is World

here are three things to always remember:

The One Above, yourself below, and the world in between.

Abandon any one of those and you will stumble and fall.

Even those who grasp for God alone, they do not build, but desolate.

To reach God, you must deal with the reality of your world and redeem it.

T. Freeman

The Parable

The world is a parable, two stories at once,

layered one beneath the other.

On the outside, it is the story of a monster called reality,

with its intimidating army of fiends and beasts, lunacy and futility.

From the inside, it is a story of Him alone with you,

and all these challenges nothing less than _expressions of His love, drawing you yet closer.

The world is a parable,

and you choose the channel in which you wish to live.

T. Freeman

Reframing

There are no things. There are only words. The Divine Words of Creation.

The words become fragmented, their letters scattered.

Only then are they called things; for scattered, they have no meaning.

Words in exile.

If so, their redemption lies in the story we tell with them. How we reorganize fragments into meaning, things into words, redefining what is real and what is not, and living life accordingly.

Life is in the interpretation of the words God gives us.

T. Freeman

When that which is God

When that which is God -- or that which is that which man wants to call "God" -- is being understood by man, man has to translate it into the format he understands. But this Energy -- this Source that man is giving the label of "God", cannot be quantified in anything that man understands. And as man attempts to do it, the distortions are enormous.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, August 4th, 2001 #378

Being Truth

What is your job in this world? It is to become truth.

How do you become truth? By not lying to yourself.

It is not that you must do whatever you do with sincerity.

Sincerity itself is the work you must do.

It is what you must become.

T. Freeman

Cause & Effect

Everything in the universe works in a chain of cause and effect. At the beginning of every such chain lies a decision, a free choice for which there is no cause, nothing that forced it to be that way. Whatever comes out of that chain will come back to the one who initiated it.

At the beginning of each chain and at its end, there lies purpose.

T.Freeman

If you don't meet resistance with resistance, it dissipates dramatically.

If you don't meet resistance with resistance, it dissipates dramatically. It just softens. Try it! Next time somebody says to you, "I'm right, and you're wrong," say, "Pfftt, you're right. You are right. You're right." And mean it. In other words, don't mock them. Don't be sarcastic. "You're right." And then watch how, all of a sudden, their legs almost go right out from under them. They don't have the energy to blast you, because you just took the fuel away from the fire.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Boston, MA on Saturday, May 17th, 2003 #380

In All Ways

People imagine a place of Godliness as a place for seriousness, a solemn place, a place that fills you with trepidation.

The fact is, where there is God, there is joy.

That is why our every moment is a moment to celebrate and fill with joy. Because at every moment we are fulfilling our mission of bringing Godliness into this world.

Not just the obviously joyful matters, such as meditation, study, prayer and good deeds, but also regular, mundane activities and the ways we earn an income and go about life -all are ways by which we know Him and bring Him into our world.

T.Freeman

When people say 'I'

"When people say 'I', do they always know who they really mean?
When they say, 'I am... ill or well, unhappy or happy; I want...
money, a car, a wife; I have... this wish, that interest, the
other opinion', they think they are talking of themselves, but
that is where they are wrong.
As humans have never studied themselves deeply enough to know
their true nature, they identify at all times with the 'I' that
is represented by their physical body, their instincts, their
desires, feelings and thoughts. But if they were to try, now, to
find themselves through study and meditation, they would actually
discover that, beyond all appearances, their true self is one
with God himself. For, in reality, there is not a multitude of
separate beings but one Being working through all beings, giving
them life and manifesting within them, even though they are not
aware of it. Once they are able to sense this reality, humans
will draw close to the divine Source from which they all
originate."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Serious Darkness

Don’t take the world and its darkness so seriously --it is not as real as it feigns to be.

It is only a creation and it is being re-created out of absolutely nothing at every moment. The only thing real about it is its purpose of being --that you should purify it.

T.Freeman

Friendly Hardships

Hardships in life are the material world’s way of beckoning to you, “Purify me! Elevate me!”

They come to you knowing you can overcome them, and thereby they will fulfill their purpose of being.

T.Freeman

Sensitivity vs Sentimentality

"We say that someone who is easily wounded or offended is
sensitive. No, true sensitivity means being completely open to
the beauty and light of the divine world and closed to all the
ugliness and absurdity of the human world. So, what is generally
called sensitivity, that is, our ability to feel upset by
indifference, scorn, criticism and humiliation, is in fact only
susceptibility, sentimentality. So, what is left for these poor
unhappy souls, for whom heaven, angels, friends or beauty do not
exist, but only unfair, malicious, ill-intentioned people?
You must not confuse sensitivity with sentimentality.
Sentimentality is the unhealthy expression of a poor, mean,
narrow, neurotic ego. Sensitivity, on the other hand, is a higher
degree of evolution, which brings humans into contact with the
heavenly regions and enables them to resonate with all the beauty
of the universe."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

La véritable certitude est un don du coeur.

La véritable certitude est un don du coeur. Celui qui n'a pas touché son coeur n'est sûr de rien. Il croit qu'il a des certitudes sur un grand nombre de questions, alors qu'un rien suffit à le faire douter. Celui qui base sa vie sur l'impersonnel, celui-là connaît le diamant de la certitude.
O.Manitara

The Human Ego

When I look at others,

My ego evokes envy and hate

and desire to control.

I don’t wish others well,

or at least, not better than me.

I want them to succeed a little,

a relative success,

but I want everyone to see that I am more successful.

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Our nature, through which we sense the world and ourselves alive and

operating in it, is a program that depicts a certain reality for us.

It is called “Ego”—the will to receive and to enjoy by myself and for myself,

even when it is at the expense of others.

This software locks us from within, immerses us within it, draws all of our

attention, and actually compels us to focus solely on ourselves.

We operate according to this program and cannot even contemplate the

existence of another reality.

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We must not destroy anything within us.

Even the most negative attributes should remain.

We do not create anything new,

but only correct how we use

what already exists within us.

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Michael Laitman PHD

This Marathon Has Run Its Course

We may think we have everything, but everything no longer satisfies us.

We are still playing the game and chasing transient goals, which we envision

as pleasures such as money, honors, and power. After all, what else is there to

do in this life?

We look at each other and thoughtlessly follow the current trend. We say to

ourselves, “If I behave like everyone else, I’ll feel good.” Then, we choose a

certain vague, agreeable goal and chase it, hoping to escape the emptiness.

We must be constantly preoccupied or the eternal questions will haunt us:

“What am I living for? What’s happening with my life?”

But sooner or later, the point in our hearts will awaken and we will not be

able to focus on mundane issues.

Suddenly, we will understand that this chase was prearranged in order to

distract our minds from what is most important.

As long as we closed our eyes to avoid truly seeing, we could run along with

the crowd.

But we have exhausted our strength. While everyone else is still racing, we

have dropped out. It is simply not appealing anymore; in fact, we find it

pointless.

Our will has deepened so much, it no longer allows us to settle for mundane

goals. This is when we begin the quest for a higher goal.

Michael Laitman PHD

Le pouvoir royal a pour insigne le sceptre et le globe.

"Le pouvoir royal a pour insigne le sceptre et le globe. Chaque
fois qu’un personnage est représenté avec un sceptre dans la main
droite et un globe dans la main gauche, on sait qu’il s’agit d’un
personnage royal. Mais que connaît-on de la signification
profonde de ces deux objets ? Et les monarques eux-mêmes la
connaissent-ils vraiment ?
On considère généralement que le sceptre est le symbole de
l’autorité et le globe celui du territoire sur lequel s’exerce
cette autorité. En réalité, cela va encore plus loin. Le sceptre
et le globe représentent l’activité des deux principes masculin
et féminin. Le principe masculin est toujours symbolisé par une
ligne droite (un sceptre, un caducée, une lance, une épée, un
pilier, un arbre), et par la main droite. Et le principe féminin
est symbolisé par une ligne courbe (tout objet creux ou arrondi,
une sphère, un vase, une coupe ou encore un abîme, une grotte),
et par la main gauche. Tenir le sceptre et le globe signifie que
l’on comprend les deux principes et qu’on sait travailler avec
eux."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

It is quite pointless arguing about whether or not God exists!

"It is quite pointless arguing about whether or not God exists! It

is quite simple, actually. For the non-believer, it is true, God

does not exist, for it depends on us whether things exist or not.

When you are asleep, even if all the treasures of the world are

heaped around you, since you are not aware of them it is as if

they didn't exist. That is the way almost all humans are, deep in

sleep, the sleep of unawareness. Only the initiates, because they

are truly awakened beings, see the splendours all around them and

delight in them. Everyone else has the same riches around them

and within them, but they are unaware of it. 

So it all depends on one's state of consciousness. When you are

awake, certain things become a reality, but when you fall asleep

they are erased. It is the same with God: if you are asleep, you

do not feel him, and you say he does not exist. But if you wake

up, you will feel that God is there, alive within you and around

you."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Inspiration Aside

Yesterday, you were inspired.
Today, that is all gone.
And so, you are depressed.

But this is the way the system works: Everything begins with inspiration.
Then the inspiration steps aside
—to make room for you to do something with it.

For fire to become deeds.

T. Freeman

Prayers, fasting, ablutions and so on

"Prayers, fasting, ablutions and so on, in fact all the practices
recommended by religions throughout the world, serve to prepare
people to receive the currents and messages from heaven
correctly. Actually, the main thing is not the practices
themselves but the willingness to undertake an inner work of
self-examination and purification so as to improve one's
thoughts, feelings and behaviour.
Those who are not determined to carry out this work would do
better to leave spirituality alone; otherwise they will become a
danger to themselves and others. As long as we have not rid
ourselves of certain prejudices and bias, there is nothing more
dangerous than religious practices: they give those who do them
the illusion that they are messengers, instruments of heaven.
Thus we have seen people become torturers of their family or even
of their people. Only those who have worked to become selfless
and loving toward others are able to hear and pass on messages
from heaven."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Time changes not, but all things change in time.

Time changes not,
but all things change in time.
For time is the force
that holds events separate,
each in its own proper place.
Time is not in motion,
but ye move through time 
as your consciousness
moves from one event to another.
Aye, by time yet exist, all in all,
an eternal ONE existence.
Know ye that even though in the time ye are separate,
yet still are ONE, in all times existent.

The Key of Time
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth

Reprise

This goal, when will we reach it?

It was once far, but now it is near.

When will we hold it in our hands?

When we will open our eyes to see it is already here.

T.Freeman

The quality of patience involves tolerance.

"The quality of patience involves tolerance. Yes, but there are

many ways of tolerating. You may be exasperated by certain

actions or words, and even if you remain motionless and silent

you may be boiling inside with feelings of anger and rebellion.

This happens, especially when you have to be subjected to the

authority of someone senior to you: even if they take advantage

of the situation, you don't move, you say nothing, knowing that

if you retorted you would only make matters worse. But then, you

chew over your grievances for hours, you fret and it hurts. Well,

that is not what patience is.

Patience, true patience, is accompanied by a sense of strength

and peace, so it implies considerable previous inner work. You

have to have acquired a great deal of wisdom before you can

eventually be patient."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

No Strings

When we have agendas our judgment is distorted and our vision becomes selective. We see what we want to see and conveniently ignore the rest. 

Giving up our agenda always requires some discomfort. But God has a bigger and better plan for us than we could ever imagine for our self. All that is requested is that we trust.


Y.Berg

Cosmic Intelligence

"Cosmic Intelligence has given human beings the gift of a mind, a
heart and a will. To satisfy their mind, they need to think; to
satisfy their heart, they need to experience feelings; to satisfy
their will, they need to act. And it is in action that they know
the greatest joy. Fulfilment is found not in understanding or
feeling but in action and achievement.
When we are in action, we feel in tune, at one with the
primordial force. For an action implies concentrating all one's
energies, including all the cells of one's being, before making
the gesture that accomplishes it. This is why any act of
kindness, wisdom, disinterestedness or love performed with full
awareness brings fulfilment."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Il n'y a qu'une loi divine de la vie : l'amour infini

Il n'y a qu'une loi divine de la vie : l'amour infini que les humains ne connaissent pas. Tout ce qu'un homme désire et qui peut nuire à un autre être est une violation de la loi d'amour. Tout ce que l'homme pense, ressent, veut, fait, en dehors de l'amour universel se transforme en souffrance.


O. Manitara