"Why do people tend to point up the faults of others?

"Why do people tend to point up the faults of others? Why torment
men and women who are struggling in the midst of so many
difficulties? The strangest thing is that in criticizing others,
people think they are proving their own insightfulness, wisdom
and even love. You will object that those who spare the rod spoil
the child, as the saying goes, and that chastising begins with
criticism. No, in many cases, love does not involve criticizing,
and nor does wisdom. To love others is to understand their
difficulties and act sensitively to alleviate their suffering,
while criticism tends rather to graze, scratch and wound. It is
no longer love but carnage. True love is not stained with blood;
it is great and luminous. Through it you connect to God, and God
advises you on the best ways to deal with others.
What is good criticism? It is like the work of a good gardener,
who knows how to cut the trees, prune them, straighten them and
rid them of caterpillars and harmful insects. A good gardener
preserves what is good, and soon magnificent flowers and fruit
appear."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Tant que tu ne sais pas ...

Tant que tu ne sais pas parler avec la fleur, l'arbre, l'oiseau, la pierre, l'océan tu ne connais pas l'autre, tu es encore limité. Tant que tu te compares au monde des hommes pour savoir qui tu es et quelle valeur tu as, tu es encore bien pauvre. Les grands sages, les grands fils de la Lumière qui ont parlé dans le monde des hommes l'ont fait pour glorifier la sagesse du Père qui est incomparable. Ils ont voulu ouvrir les portes vers un monde supérieur afin de délivrer les mondes inférieurs de la noirceur engendrée par la bêtise de l'homme. En sachant lire le grand livre de la sagesse, l'homme entre dans le monde vrai.

O.Manitara

In Trouble Together

(Once, I came home to find my children climbing into the attic through a hole in the ceiling --an act I had sternly forbidden due to the dangers involved. But I watched before I opened my mouth. It took four of them: Two to lift one up and another to hold the chair those two were standing on. It was then that I understood something I had heard my teacher say many times:)

When a father sees his children working together with love, he is prepared to forgive them for anything. Better harmonious troublemaking than acrimonious obedience.

T.Freeman

human being is a part of a whole

“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us universe, a part limited 

in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as 

something separated from the rest ... a kind of optical delusion of his 

consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to 

our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our 

task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of 

compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its 

beauty.” 

Einstein

There is, of course, the misplaced argument that humanity has advanced dramatically in the areas of technology

There is, of course, the misplaced argument that humanity has advanced 

dramatically in the areas of technology, medicine, the physical sciences, 

etc. Such an approach merely avoids the prime issues, to wit: In what 

manner have any of these advances actually improved how human 

beings relate to each other? With these advances, why do we still 

experience war, famine, terrorism, natural disasters, increased drug 

abuse, and the seemingly inexplicable levels of brutality that humans 

manage to suffer upon each other? Why do these events occur? Is there a 

purpose behind any of it? There is, of course, the misplaced argument that humanity has advanced 

dramatically in the areas of technology, medicine, the physical sciences, 

etc. Such an approach merely avoids the prime issues, to wit: In what 

manner have any of these advances actually improved how human 

beings relate to each other? With these advances, why do we still 

experience war, famine, terrorism, natural disasters, increased drug 

abuse, and the seemingly inexplicable levels of brutality that humans 

manage to suffer upon each other? Why do these events occur? Is there a 

purpose behind any of it? 

"The Creator and  The Creation"

(Compiled by Rob Taylor)

Who Owns Truth

A sharp mind will find a truth for itself.

A humble spirit will find a truth higher than itself.

Truth is not the property of intellectuals, but of those who know how to escape their own selves.

T. Freeman

When will people understand that they are not separate individuals

"When will people understand that they are not separate

individuals but form a part of the great body of God, of which

they each represent one cell? So, when they behave badly towards

their neighbours, thinking that they are strangers, foreign to

them, and can be mistreated with impunity, they are mistaken. The

truth is that there is a connection between all living creatures,

as there is between all the cells of the physical body. When we

harm others, we are harming ourselves too, even if we feel

nothing at the time. In the same way, when we are good to them,

we are also being good to ourselves.

I expect you have had this experience – if someone you love

suffers or someone hits them, it is as if you yourself had

received the blows, and if something happens to make them happy,

you rejoice as though it had happened to you. Why? Because

instinctively, intuitively, you entered into an awareness of

oneness. And this very awareness is the basis of all true

morality.   "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Si aujourd'hui un évènement te touche

Si aujourd'hui un évènement te touche, c'est souvent qu'il y a une résonance, que toi-même - dans cette vie ou dans une autre - as provoqué cette situation. Il est difficile de connaître la raison cachée derrière les évènements mais il faut savoir que rien n'arrive jamais par hasard.


O. Manitara

Do your best to live today well

"Do your best to live today well, for tomorrow does not yet exist,
and by worrying about it, it is as if you are throwing yourself
into empty space, and you are likely to lose yourself. It is
today you must work on, for today does not die; it just gets
longer, until it becomes tomorrow.
Jesus said, ‘Do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will
bring worries of its own.’ This tells us we have to meditate on
the idea of duration, of continuity. A chainmaker has to check
each link for strength, for if a single link is weak and breaks
it makes no difference that the others are holding fast – the
whole chain is broken. So we must live each day according to the
divine laws and make this day into a strong link so that the
chain does not break. Today is a new link that must be added to
the others, and it is this link we must concentrate on."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Derrière chaque évènement ...

Derrière chaque évènement que l'homme est amené à vivre il y a toujours une ouverture, une porte qui permet de résoudre, de montrer la sagesse, de guérir, d'acquérir quelque chose, de transformer, de libérer. Bien sûr, l'homme ne comprend pas forcément, surtout lorsque c'est une épreuve. Parfois il faut du temps.

O. Manitara

All or No One

No man can claim to have reached the ultimate truth

as long as there is another who has not.

No one is redeemed

until we are all redeemed.

Ultimate truth is an unlimited light

-and if it is unlimited,

how could it shine in one person's realm

and not in another's?

T. Freeman

Le monde divin aime la pureté

Le monde divin aime la pureté et n'accepte jamais ce qui est faux. Il demande à l'homme d'être réellement ce qu'il est dans sa vie de tous les jours et d'élever cette vie dans la Lumière. Le monde divin aime la fidélité, la constance et la stabilité. Lorsqu'un homme te parle avec le sourire et que le lendemain il t'ignore, c'est le signe d'un bouleversement à l'intérieur de lui, d'un combat entre les mondes.

O. Manitara

Fragments

We are all fragments of greater souls, and those souls fragments of even more lofty ones, and so on with those-until we all link back to the one primordial soul: the soul of Adam.

None of us is complete. No one can stand on his or her own. What one is lacking the other fulfills; where one excels, another is wanting.

Only together can we find oneness in our own selves. Only together can we be a fit vessel for the One Above to be revealed.

T. Freeman

Two Ones

In two ways, we are one: In our essence, and in our character.

In our essence, we are all one soul, with one source.

In our character, we are all complimentary of each other, none of us complete, each one contributing what the other lacks, each one adding his touch of perfection to his fellow. Like a massive jigsaw puzzle, we fit together to make a single perfect whole.

None of us is perfect without all the rest of us. 

And all the rest of us are incomplete when a single individual is missing.

T. Freeman

Dès qu'un homme commence un processus de création, tout un univers se met en marche pour le réaliser

Dès qu'un homme commence un processus de création, tout un univers se met en marche pour le réaliser, lui donner un corps. Méditez cette sagesse. Vous pourrez comprendre beaucoup de lois animant votre monde et votre destinée. Si les évène-ments échappent à votre contrôle, c'est à cause de vous. Car vous avez été bénis de la Lumière et la terre a été placée sous votre responsabilité. Vous avez été consacrés outils de la Lumière. Ce que vous faites de ce trésor, cela vous regarde, car vous inscrivez dans le Livre du Père tous vos actes. Cela devient vivant et agissant jusqu'à vous conduire vers la liberté... ou l'esclavage. Si l'homme connaît l'esclavage, c'est parce que lui même a plongé les mondes qu'il avait sous sa garde dans l'esclavage. Alors, devenez des créateurs de beauté, d'harmonie.

O.Manitara

Channel It

All we are in life is a vessel meant to channel whatever comes through us.  We don’t really own or posses anything because we’re here now, and then we’re not, having moved onto the next.  

Y. Berg

An Intervention Into The Upper Realm

We have finally matured to the human level and have become free. That is why our perception of reality will transform from a purely material one to an increasingly more spiritual one.

All of our machinery, workstations, and factories will become less material and more “transparent.” Even today half of the people are already working at a computer keyboard. But what could they possibly be producing there?

It’s clear what can be produced by working in the field, at a conveyor-belt, or by mining oil and coal. But what can you create by striking the computer keys? Soon the whole world will sit by computer screens. So will we be able to change the world through them?

In reality, this is how we create new matter, one that’s more spiritual. We will no longer need cars or planes because everything will shift to this virtual form. In reality it doesn’t matter one bit in what form we imagine everything. The most important thing is our effort, the Reflected Light we produce.

The Creator continuously moves upward, farther and farther away to give us the opportunity to expand our intervention into the upper realm with our Reflected Light. This is the kind of movement upwards we have begun from today onwards.

In reality, the entire difference is only man’s perception, his sensation of himself. In the past he was forced to work by the egoistic desire to enjoy, but now his effort lies in preferring the Reflected Light and bestowal over reception. This is called the human level.

In any case, one way or another, every person will work. The only question is: Will he do it unwillingly or by his own desire? All of human history until today was also spiritual work, albeit unconscious. That is how the Creator or nature had obligated us to work.

But now He no longer desires our slave labor. He wants us to become the same as He by ascending above our nature and playing with it ourselves the way He once played with us. You have to look at yourself from above and do the same thing to yourself that the Creator used to do. That is how you become equal to Him.

M. Laitman

About The Situation In Egypt And More

From the political point of view, it is expedient for a government to consist of all of the forces that operate in society. This is the most balanced state there can be.

For example, since the Hezbollah exists, then it too has to be represented. It is impossible to do anything about it, so in that case it’s best for it to have a seat in Parliament. All of the various movements and parties, no matter how unusual, have to be represented in the government. The government has to include all of the views that are present in the nation. Otherwise it sways far away from the truth.

Only this kind of government creates the opportunity to take effective measures. Instead of fighting the faceless underground movement of Al-Qaeda, you will know who you have in front of you, and if necessary you will be able to take forceful measures and sanctions.

Today, if a nation breaks off contact completely, it will suffocate in two weeks. And everyone understands this perfectly.

On the other hand, it is impossible to have any dealings with a dictatorial regime. There is just one “big wheel” here, while everyone else “sits in the dungeon” in quasi-legal opposition. As a result, you cannot get to other movements, which are often very powerful. Instead of establishing relations with the country as a whole, you are speaking to one person.

That is why a wide government in power is better than having underground movements. As strange as it might seem, this frees you up. It also lets the people see the real situation instead of harboring wishful dreams of opposition.

It’s not an accident that to this day no one has found a better form of government than democracy, which gives everyone access to power, doing so with correlations that approximately correspond to the people’s views. This is undoubtedly closer to the spiritual form than anything else.

Therefore, despite the big mess that is happening, the current processes should be viewed positively. They are causing the truth to be discerned, and that is already progress and development. 

M. Laitman

Question: What role does asceticism play in human development?

Question: What role does asceticism play in human development?

Answer: Kabbalah has a very negative opinion of various restrictions. It does not demand anything from a person with regard to his earthly life. In principle, you can do anything you want.

It’s a different matter when you become engrossed in all sorts of fetishes in this earthly life by introducing some kind of special customs, habits, and exercises to it. Live normally. If you like doing yoga, then do it. If you like running in the morning, then run. If there’s a certain diet that is healthier for you and another that’s less healthy, then eat accordingly. None of this matters. The most important thing is not to turn anything into a cult.

Kabbalah treats every person absolutely normally. It doesn’t care about how a person lives, what habits he has, and what his customs, religious convictions, and inclinations are. Who he is in the earthly life doesn’t matter one bit.

We are once again returning to the essence: Egoism rises in us in order for us to compensate for it above ourselves. That is why it doesn’t matter one bit what I am like. Limiting yourself in food or applying any kind of methods—none of this will help. Nothing will help.

On the contrary, a person who does some kind of physical exercises or keeps some kind of strict boundaries thinks that he has already advanced forward, has achieved some kind of level, that he is righteous and so on.

This can only confuse people. Therefore, live normally, calmly, eat well, and think about your health and profession. Take part in all the things that your surrounding society does.

And together with this, study Kabbalah. This balance or normal state is the most preferable one. Fate has placed you in this environment so go with its flow. Then you will see that in reality, everything around you is in the ideal state, besides yourself.

A minus is compensated by the right plus.

M. Laitman

‘My kingdom is not from this world.’

"When Jesus was led before Pilate to be judged, Pilate asked him,
‘Are you the King of the Jews?’ and Jesus simply replied, ‘You
say so’. But he added, ‘My kingdom is not from this world.’ For
Jesus had no worldly ambition. For him true royalty was the
royalty of heaven; he did not confuse human glory with divine
glory, nor did he confuse temporal possessions with spiritual
possessions. This comes up again in the episode where the
Pharisees question him about the payment of taxes to Caesar; he
merely replies, ‘Give to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and
to God the things that are God’s.’
You (...) must try not to confuse heaven and earth. And, above all, never
think that spiritual commitment should bring you material
advantages.  "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Le discernement

Le discernement apporte une attitude de respect et d'ouverture. Celui qui est privé de cette vertu est sans cesse dans l'analyse ou se tient en permanence sur ses gardes, dans la méfiance. Paradoxalement, il se coupe alors lui-même de tous les mondes qui l'entourent. Celui qui possède le discernement est capable de percevoir les êtres et les choses tels qu'ils sont. Rien n'est dangereux, car tout est vu et détecté. Celui qui n'a pas de discernement est sans cesse alimenté par le monde qui l'entoure, sans même le savoir.

O.Manitara

You light a candle, Its flame will give out light as long as it is fed by the burning wax

"You light a candle… Its flame will give out light as long as it

is fed by the burning wax. This combustion is in a way a

sacrifice. There can be no light without sacrifice. A fire needs

to be fed, and the candlewax is that food. This you know. But

what you don’t know is that human beings are rather like candles,

for they possess all the materials needed to feed the flame

within, namely, those of their lower nature – selfishness,

aggression, sensuality, and so on. They must sacrifice them to

keep the flame burning.

Humans are prevented from making this sacrifice by their fear of

disappearing. Of course, something of us will disappear, but that

is what has to happen for something purer and more luminous to

appear – just as when the candle’s physical substance disappears

so that the light can continue to shine. You will say that after

a while there is nothing left of the candle, and this is true.

Human beings, however, can burn indefinitely. Once lit, they

remain alight, for the fuel in them is inexhaustible."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Si tu mets une graine dans la terre, elle n'est plus la même.

Si tu mets une graine dans la terre, elle n'est plus la même. La terre accueille la graine et l'univers entier le sait et commence à s'activer autour d'elle. Si une graine pousse c'est qu'un univers est tout autour d'elle pour en prendre soin et lui montrer le chemin. La graine est elle-même un univers planté dans un univers, mais bien souvent l'homme qui la sème ne le voit pas. Il ne comprend pas qu'il est lui-même une graine, un univers dans un univers et qu'il est en perpétuelle mutation et transformation. Tout ce qui émane de l'homme comme pensées, sentiments, désirs, actes, paroles, gestes est comme des semences plantées dans un éther omniprésent autour de lui.

O.Manitara

Apprenez à parler d'une façon juste, belle, consciente.

Apprenez à parler d'une façon juste, belle, consciente. Vos paroles doivent faire apparaître ce qui est noble et pur et maîtriser tout ce qui est faux et mortel. Percevez-vous vous-mêmes dans vos intonations, vos intentions, vos gestes, vos regards, attitudes, votre maintien, la qualité de votre énergie vis-à-vis des êtres qui vous entourent, vivent avec vous et baignent dans votre être et vos influences. Ainsi vous pourrez vous faire une idée de la façon dont le monde divin vous perçoit.

O. Manitara

Constant Bonding

Matter and energy are two opposites. To energize a piece of matter requires a constant flow.

Existence and nothingness are two opposites. To keep the world in existence demands a constant renewal.

Heaven and earth are two opposites. To infuse the earthly with spirituality requires a constant effort.

Woman and man are two opposites. And so the marriage ceremony never ends.

T. Freeman

To be happy, it is not enough to have a family, friends, a job and leisure.

"To be happy, it is not enough to have a family, friends, a job

and leisure. The proof is the number of people there are you

might consider privileged but who are not happy! Why? Because

they do not know how to respond to their soul’s needs. The soul

needs to live in immense, infinite, limitless space. And yet,

humans continually constrict their soul, fetter it and stifle it;

they want it to make do with trifles – a little material success,

a little pleasure, a little gossip… Then, the soul suffers and

complains to them: ‘I want to be free, and you, with your

ordinary, petty occupations and worries, keep me in fetters. I am

a daughter of God, space is my element, I need to expand into the

vastness of heaven.’

So, for at least a few minutes, experience allowing your soul to

soar up and expand in space. Allow it to escape, to the point

where it merges with the whole universe. And then you will know

the meaning of happiness."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

The Other's World

In your world, all that exists is the Infinite and you.

In the world of your neighbor, all that exists is the Infinite and him. And his world is just as true as yours.

In the world of a cow, there's just the Infinite and it. So with an insect, so with a plant, so even with a rock.

Every seat of consciousness constitutes a world. And each world is true.

Knowing this is also part of your world:

The knowledge that in the other person's world you are only an accessory, an interface by which he connects.

And now you know how to enter his world.

T. Freeman

La vie est une pièce de théâtre

La vie est une pièce de théâtre, notre personnalité est un rôle auquel il ne faut pas s'identifier. Que penseriez-vous d'un acteur qui se prendrait pour son personnage ? C'est un peu le cas de l'homme qui ne parvient plus à se distancier de son personnage et finit par ne plus savoir qui il est.


O. Manitara

The Child

The ultimate prayer is the prayer of the small child.

You pray to some lofty concept of The Infinite Light or The Essence of Being...

But the child doesn't have any concept. Just G-d.

When you open your eyes in the morning, you are a newborn child.

Then and there you meet G-d face to face.

As you awaken and your brain becomes engaged,

keep the child with you.

T. Freeman

What we do for God we also do for ourselves

"We must love and seek God, not for ourselves but for him, like
sons or daughters who find all their joy in taking part in their
father and mother’s activities.
When Jesus taught us to pray using the words ‘Our Father in
heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be
done on earth as it is in heaven’, he gave us precisely the
programme we have to achieve. We must sanctify the name of God
within, draw heaven down into ourselves and do his will, as the
angels in heaven do. What we do for God we also do for ourselves,
since we are in him and he is in us."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

So long as they are young and in good health, people never think about the principle of disintegration

"So long as they are young and in good health, people never think
about the principle of disintegration at work inside them, which
will eventually prevail. They tend to think the world belongs to
them and the future will never stop smiling on them. How
disappointed they are when they feel everything beginning to
elude them on the physical plane! In the merciless struggle
taking place between the principles of life and of death, there
are those who want to hold onto life by any means possible, with
the result that they may act in the most senseless ways, throwing
all the resources into the battle that they should be using for
their spiritual work, and then they lose everything.
We did not come down to earth to remain young and healthy
forever but as a training, an apprenticeship. The wise person
knows the bends in the road and strives to make use of
everything. In the spiritual world, upward progress is
continuous. Down here, whatever we do, we will gradually see our
forehead and cheeks become wrinkled, our hair grow white, our
teeth fall out, and so on. But you must understand that the outer
appearance is of no importance when radiant spiritual life shines
through the white hair and the wrinkles."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov