...To say you don't know isn't always easy.

Mike McConnell, former Director of National Intelligence, described the principles of how to arrive at good intelligence 17 years ago while serving under Colin Powell.“I have a rule,” General Powell told him. “As an intelligence officer, your responsibility is to tell me what you know; tell me what you don’t know; then you’re allowed to tell me what you think. But always keep those three things separate. ”This was a profound concept to me. Most of us take what we think and turn it into what we know.When we give out information, it’s important to separate it into what we know, what we don’t know, and what we think. Sometimes it’s hard to say what we don’t know. Our egos don’t like us to be in the dark. It takes a very smart, very responsible person to distinguish between these three areas.We need to know our strengths, weaknesses, and what we think we can do. One reason for botched communication is we don’t separate between these three things. You’ve got to keep them separate from the beginning. Then you’ll be a more valuable leader, follower, and friend. No matter who is working with you, under you, or above you - as long as you have someone who needs to report to you and/or you to them - be sure to share what’s known, what’s unknown, and what’s perceived. It will help alleviate expectations and allow the flow of communication to be clearer.Ideas don’t make us experts. Awareness does. The work may seem difficult, but the point is simple. To say you don’t know isn’t always easy. But it can solve the big problems that happen when people make what they think into what they know.

Y. Berg

Why are people in ancient spiritual stories always going somewhere?

Why are people in ancient spiritual stories always going somewhere? The message for humanity is that when we go out of ourselves, our comfort, our nature, our selfish desires - we begin our true spiritual journey. We go out in order to get into our greatness.

Y. Berg

The Highest Happiness

True happiness is the highest form of self-sacrifice. There, in that state, there is no sense of self —not even awareness that you are happy. True happiness is somewhere beyond "knowing". Beyond self.

All the more so when you bring joy to others.

T. Freeman

"Do you have to change your vibration on a particular subject in order to let it in?"

"Do you have to change your vibration on a particular subject in order to let it in?" No, you don't. You could pet your pet and let it in. You could sit with your feet dangling in the bay, and let it in. If it is a subject that you often think of in an attitude of resistance, it is really worthwhile reaching for some thoughts that feel better. You could launch an intention and never think about it again, and the Universe would yield it to you. You don't have to clean up your vibration relative to anything, if you can just not think about it any more. That's why we teach meditation. It's easier to teach you to have no thought than to have pure positive thought. When you quiet your mind you stop thought; when you stop thought you stop resistance; when you stop resistance--then you are in a state of allowing.

--- Abraham

L'écriture est comme la parole

« L'écriture est comme la parole : un moyen puissant de transmettre une idée, une conviction, une beauté. Elle permet de toucher l'autre, d'entrer en son être pour y déposer un présent. L'écriture est magique. Elle déclenche des forces, agit sur les influences gouvernant les destinées. C'est pourquoi l'écriture doit être consciente et s'inscrire dans un ordre, une harmonie, une discipline transcendant le simple fait de contrôler son geste pour former des caractères. Il est utile de redonner à l'écriture sa noblesse et d'explorer sa dimension sacrée. Alors c'est l'homme lui-même qui connaîtra une nouvelle dignité dans sa vie. » 

Olivier Manitara

The tree is found in most spiritual traditions as a symbol for the universe

"The tree is found in most spiritual traditions as a symbol for

the universe. All creatures have a role to play on this tree,

anywhere from the roots to the fruits, including the trunk, the

branches, the leaves and the flowers. Everything that exists, all

activities, all realms find their place on the tree of life.

At different times of the year, the leaves, flowers and fruits

fall from the tree; they decompose and become humus, which is

gradually absorbed by the roots. It is the same with beings. When

human beings die, they return to the primeval earth, but soon

they reappear in some part of the tree. Nothing is lost, beings

are forever disappearing and reappearing on the cosmic tree of

life. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

If you intend to be of assistance

f you intend to be of assistance, your eye is not upon the trouble but upon the assistance, and that is quite different. When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion— but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from "The Law of Attraction, The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham" #366

Completion

At a certain point, each of us, through all our many journeys through life, will have found and redeemed all the Divine sparks in our share of the world. Then the darkness that holds such mastery, such cruelty, such irrational evil that it cannot be elevated—all this will simply vanish from its place, like a puff of steam in the midday air.

All that we salvaged and used for good, on the other hand, will shine with a tremendous light beyond even the light of the Godly realm. The world will have arrived.


T. Freeman

Desire summons Life Force

Desire summons Life Force. If we must continue to be alive, we must continue to have new desire. You are not willing to let yourself outrageously want because when you outrageously want something that you haven't found a way of getting, it is too uncomfortable, and the risk feels too great. We're wanting you to hear that there is no risk at all! Fantasize and watch what happens.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Chicago, IL on Saturday, April 24th, 1999 #368

Fear

Captivity begins by believing that you are small and the world is big.

Once you believe that, next you are likely to believe it will step on you, and you fear it.

And then you come to obey it, then to run after it. And then you are it’s slave, thirsting for water for the soul but not even able to remember where to look for it.

To fear the world is to deny the Oneness of its Creator.

T.Freeman

Excuses

One who really cares is not placated by the fact that he has a good excuse.

If the goal was not achieved, it was not achieved --regardless of the excuse.

T.Freeman

The Soul Grows Up

Ultimately, she finds there is something

even more momentous than herself.

There is her purpose.

To accomplish, to heal, to make better

—these, she discovers, take precedent over her very being.

And in that moment of discovery, she graduates

from being God's little child

to being God Himself.

T. Freeman

The spoken word gives human beings such power!

"The spoken word gives human beings such power! They need only

speak to obtain results comparable to those obtained by any other

material means: they can build or destroy, they can bring

together or divide, they can restore peace or start a war, they

can heal or bring about death. The power of the spoken word comes

from the fact that it is produced by the mouth, where both

principles - the masculine (the tongue) and the feminine (the two

lips) - work together to create a child (the spoken word). 

According to tradition, when the primitive androgyne was split

in two, in symbolic terms it could be said that the woman kept

the lips, the feminine principle, and the man the tongue, the

masculine principle. This is why, in order to find their original

power, they now endlessly seek each other so that they can be

united. Yes, this is the distant origin of the impulse that

causes men and women to seek each other out. In spite of the fact

that this search often takes the form of pleasure and

distraction, its deeper meaning is to return to the oneness of

the Word, the oneness of the creative principle, which is male

and female."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Parce que l’être humain se manifeste à travers un seul corps

"Parce que l’être humain se manifeste à travers un seul corps, son

corps physique, on a tendance à croire qu’il est habité par une

seule entité, et pourtant l’existence quotidienne ne cesse de

prouver le contraire. À tour de rôle viennent se manifester à

travers lui des entités totalement différentes, et c’est pourquoi

il peut apparaître successivement intelligent ou stupide,

bienveillant ou cruel, généreux ou avare, modeste ou

vaniteux, etc. Ce mélange d’éléments tellement disparates qui

constituent chaque être humain reste une énigme même pour les

philosophes et les psychologues. Et pourtant, cela s’explique

très simplement par le fait que dans cette existence, ou dans des

existences antérieures, c’est l’être humain lui-même qui a attiré

ces différentes entités.

Il ne faut donc pas vous étonner lorsque vous voyez quelqu’un

manifester des tendances ou avoir des réactions contradictoires.

Et en ce qui vous concerne, vous devez vous observer

attentivement pour bien discerner chaque fois quelle est l’entité

qui parle ou qui agit à travers vous. Ce n’est pas parce que vous

savez, à certains moments, vous conduire avec bonté ou sagesse

que vous êtes impeccable tout le reste du temps et que les autres

doivent toujours vous approuver."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

World peace

World peace, means one mindset big enough to make the decisions about what everybody else wants, and the rest of the world conforming. That is the ultimate definition of world peace. You say, "Oh, let's get along!" And what each of you mean is, "You do what I want." A peaceful world means, "Everybody wanting what I want. Going along with what I want." And the only problem with that is, there are more than one of you, and you have endless desires that are born within you. The ultimate experience is, everyone having their experience and launching their individual rockets of desire, and the Universe yielding to all of them simultaneously. And everybody not worrying about what anybody else created, and so, then allowing what they are wanting. What a world that is, when there are endless desirers, who are allowing the fulfillment of their own desires.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, March 10th, 2001 #369

Mission Impossible

We were not placed here to do the possible. Let the heavenly beings bring cause into effect, potential into actual. He did not breathe from His innermost depths into flesh and blood to achieve the facile and the ordinary.

We are here to achieve the impossible: To teach the world tricks it thinks it cannot do. To bring into its boundaries that which it cannot contain. To make the blind see, the deaf hear, darkness shine. To make everyday business into mystic union. To rip away the façade of the world and cause it to confess its conspiracy with the Divine.

T.Freeman

Hiding Destiny

How did He make a world?

First, He thought to Himself, "I desire light. I desire love. I desire acts of kindness and beauty." And He saw that this was good.

Then, He made Himself forget that entire vision, blocked it from His mind, so to speak, as though it never was. And He made a world. As though that was the whole point, a world for the sake of being a world.

Only much later did He whisper in someone's ear, "Do you know the real purpose for which I made this world?"

Now you know why reality is hard and love is soft,

apathy flows with ease while kindness must climb mountains,

why light is always the intruder upon the boundless empire of darkness.

Yet, in the end, light is the hidden destiny of all that is.

T. Freeman

"divine madness."

The world is absurd. Ugly absurd.

To repair ugly absurdity, you can't just be normal. You need an alternative absurdity. A beautiful absurdity.

We call it "divine madness."

T. Freeman

Duets

On the other side of ecstasy lies a painful emptiness. On the other side of bitterness lies joy. Where one goes the other must follow.

In the ecstasy of understanding lies the gnawing pain of a new frontier of ignorance.

In the agony of yearning lies the ecstasy of love.

In the ecstasy of prayer lies the agony of smallness and distance before the infinite light.

There is no sweet song that is not equally bitter, save that which is shallow and meaningless.

He formed His world from delight and so must share in its bitterness. Until the time when darkness will shine.

T. Freeman

A child learns to walk by falling down and standing up again

A child learns to walk by falling down and standing up again. Measured against a lifetime of walking, this period of continual stumbling is relatively short.Today, see your hardships and afflictions in this light, as God teaching you how to walk. The duration of your challenges, no matter how painful, is short compared to a lifetime of spiritual fulfillment.

Y. Berg

Over time

"Over time, every religion that exists has eventually been

reduced, even for believers, to a set of rituals and practices,

in which their inner being does not really participate. And as

these practices alone cannot suffice to awaken and develop the

spiritual centres we all have within us, they have ended by

numbing people and obstructing them. This is why so many people

can pray and meditate all they like without seeing or feeling

anything - no angels, no archangels, no nature spirits. And they

don't even sense the presence of hostile entities coming to harm

them; they receive no warning signs, as their radars are out of

action.

When a wolf prowls around a flock, the sheep feel its presence

and are visibly afraid; the shepherd notices and takes

precautions, knowing that the wolf is not far away. How is it

that the sheep sense the wolf, but humans do not sense the evil

entities approaching to harm them?"

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Tout savoir non appliqué est un faux savoir

Tout savoir non appliqué est un faux savoir qui encombre la vie et lutte contre l'évolution saine. Ainsi, éveille-toi dans le savoir vivant, rejette tout ce qui est mort et entre dans la vie éternellement rajeunie.

O. Manitara

Everyone holds a mix of opinions, beliefs, and expectations on a myriad of subjects

Everyone holds a mix of opinions, beliefs, and expectations on a myriad of subjects. When you give your attention to something, that Vibration becomes activated and comes to the forefront. And the more often you focus upon it, and cause it to come to the forefront, the more dominant it becomes.

You have the option of making a good-feeling aspect of another person dominant in your Vibration or of making a bad-feeling aspect dominant, and whatever aspect you regularly choose will become the Vibrational basis of your relationship. When your happiness becomes your highest priority, and so you deliberately keep active the best-feeling aspects of others, you will train your Vibrational frequency in such a way that they will not be able to rendezvous with you in any way that does not feel good when it happens.

The only way for anyone to be consistently happy is to understand that the feeling of happiness is simply about alignment with the Source within. When you are in your Vortex of Creation, you are lined up with all-that-you-have-become and with everything that you have asked for. There simply is no substitute for that alignment.

--- Abraham

Isometrics

The world is not obstructing you --it is challenging you.

It knows its deepest treasures can only be revealed by the deepest faculties of your soul, and it taps those powers by providing isometrics for the soul.

T.Freeman

The human soul is a minute part of the universal Soul

" The human soul is a minute part of the universal Soul, and it
feels so limited, so confined, in the physical body that its
greatest wish is to spread out in space and merge with it. And so
it is wrong to think, as people usually do, that the soul is
wholly contained within a human being. No, in reality, only a
very small part of the soul is found within; almost all of it
remains outside and leads an independent life in the cosmic
ocean.
It is important to be clear about the nature and activity of the
soul. So, you should know that the spiritual principle we call
the soul is not enclosed in the physical body. The soul extends
well beyond the physical body, and while it continues to give
life to the body it also travels to visit the furthest reaches of
space and the entities that live there. Our soul is much more
than we imagine it to be: this part of the universal Soul in us
never ceases to reach out into space, immensity, infinity."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

A Social Network on the Spiritual Level

Question: It seems to me that people prefer to communicate by e-mails and

SMS instead of speaking to each other. Why is it so?

Today the ego has evolved to such a degree that we prefer a more virtual

relationship with others.

It is not that we do or do not want others. But we feel better, more

comfortable, more complete when we connect with others through text

messages or a computer screen, or something else.

Why? Because in this way we don’t touch others’ bodies, their external forms.

To understand why it happens, we must know the root of this phenomenon.

The desire to receive in us has evolved and wishes to transcend the animal

level of our bodies. The animal level has nothing further to give us; it does not

provide us contact with others. However, we do seek deeper contact with

others, so for the time being we turn to virtual relationships.

In the next phase, virtual relationships will not satisfy us and we will want an

even deeper connection. Amidst the virtual connection, we will sense a need

to be internally, spiritually connected with others.

The more removed we become on the physical level, the more we sense the

need for connection. This explains the revolution of the internet and why

everyone is so drawn to it.

Where does this attraction come from, which sometimes turns into an actual

obsession? It comes from our wish to satisfy our need for connection with

others. Although social networks and forums today are usually filled with

drivel, and surely there is no true fulfillment in this connection, there is

nevertheless a kind of connection here and it addicts us.

M. Laitman

Contrasts

Question: Why were we created with ego in the first place, if we will

eventually have to correct it?

We come to know the world by comparing opposites—hot vs. cold, black vs.

white. We recognize one in relation to the other. If everything were white, we

wouldn’t detect anything. Likewise, if everything were black, we wouldn’t

detect anything, either.

Contrast is always necessary, the disparity between colors, sensations, and

places. We sense the differences between things, but not each thing separately.

The Creator is love and bestowal. However, we will not be able to sense what

bestowal is if we are not opposite to it. This is why we need the ego—“help

made against him.” Being opposite from the Creator helps us know and sense

the Creator.

The Creator—the desire to love and give

The creature—the desire to receive

Because we are currently opposite from the Creator

we are hiding Him from ourselves

Correction—as we acquire the quality of love and bestowal

we equalize with the Creator and begin to sense Him

The Button

Currently, we are seeing the picture of this world as if we are all watching the

same TV channel.

We have become so accustomed to it that we can’t even imagine that there is

another channel.

One day, it gets a little boring. The point in the heart has awakened in us, and

a desire to change the channel rises from within. Previously, we didn’t even

imagine this was possible.

Gradually, we begin to realize that we can change the channel, but only if we

truly want to. Our desire is the button that can change the channel.

As soon as we are ready, the other channel will turn on automatically. It isn’t

that the first channel will disappear, but that the second one will be added; we

will view the first channel, and be aware of the second in the background.

Thus, the two worlds will merge within us into a single, all-inclusive

harmony.

M.Laitman

Here and Now

You cannot take a train ride to the spiritual world;

you cannot fly there, either, because it is within us.

We need only evoke the spiritual sensation within us,

sharpen our senses,

and open wide our perception

to what is happening right here.

Then we will find ourselves in a never-ending, wonderful adventure

that will leave us agape with awe.

And from then on, it will never stop growing.

M. Laitman

Entrance

What is the purpose?

The One Above desires to dwell in things below. The transcendent within the mundane.

Meaning that a breath of Godly life descends below and dresses itself in a body and human personality. And this body and personality come to negate and conceal the light of this Godly soul…

And nevertheless, the soul purifies and elevates the body, the person and even her share of the world.

And what is the reason behind this purpose?

There is none.

It is from before reason.

And so it is unbounded and all-consuming.

For it is a desire of the Essence.

T. Freeman

Plan B

At the outset of Creation, He removed all light. And that is the source of all that ever goes wrong.

Why did He remove the light? Why did He choose that things could go wrong?

Sometimes we say He wanted darkness as a background, a place to shine a new light and make a world of light. The darkness, we say, is there for the sake of light. Pain exists for the sake of healing.

But this could not be the entire answer.

Why? Because darkness for the purpose of light is not complete darkness. This darkness was absolute, a void, an emptiness, the diametric opposite of the Infinite Light that preceded it. And so, too, we find evil in the world that has no explanation, no answer, no light to shine.

The entire answer must be that in Light alone, God cannot be found. For He is beyond dark and light, presence and absence, being and not being.

And so, just as darkness is there for the sake of light, so is light there for the sake of darkness—to reveal its true purpose, to allow knowledge of a wholly transcendent God to enter His world.

T. Freeman