Adulthood

Three things you must know to be an adult:

Don’t fool yourself.
Don’t fool others.
Don’t let others fool you.

—and do it all without trying to impress anybody.

T. Freeman

True Ideas

A thought that helps no one, not only is it not true, in the final result it never was. For all that is, physical or spiritual or Divine, was only created to be part of the repair of this world of action. And once that repair is done, all that will be true are those things that made it happen.

In every thought, look for the power to change the world.

T. Freeman

This

What is a blade of grass?

A blade of grass is infinite light expressing itself as a blade of grass.

What is an atom?

An atom is infinite light expressing itself as an atom.

What is a universe?

A universe is infinite light expressing itself as a universe.

In each, the Infinite Light says, “I am here and I am not here. I am this and I am not this. Through this thing, know its Maker, that which cannot be known.”

T. Freeman

The Promise Inside

No matter how much you distrust your own sincerity or question your motives, there is no trace of doubt that at your core lives a Godly soul, pure and sincere.

You provide the actions and the deed—just do what is good.

She needs no more than a pinhole through which to break out and fill those deeds with divine power.

T. Freeman

Force and Counter-Force

For every power for good in your soul, a counter-force crouches within to oppose it.

There is only one place that stands beyond assault, as it also stands beyond reason or need. It is the simple power to choose good and not bad, and it is the place where the soul meets God and there they are one.

In that place, where that resolute decision is made, the counterforce dissolves and dissipates. Indeed, it was created from that place, with the purpose of returning you to there.

And you have returned.

T. Freeman

Vacation

When people want to free themselves from their humdrum workaday life, they go on vacation. They rent a cabin with half the rooms they have at home and sacrifice many of the conveniences they generally rely upon. They rough it. And then they feel free.

As it turns out, everybody agrees: When you let go of those material things you have become attached to, then you can start to be free.

T.Freeman

Perpetual Struggle

Some think life is all about doing good and keeping away from evil. To them, struggle has no purpose of its own -- to have struggled is to have failed. Success, they imagine, is a sweet candy with no trace of bitterness.

They are wrong, very wrong. Struggle is an opportunity to reach the ultimate, when darkness itself becomes light. In the midst of struggle, an inner light is awakened. Light profound enough to overwhelm the darkness, encasing it and winning it over.

But if darkness never fights back, how will it ever be conquered?

T. Freeman

So many people complain about the bad conditions they are forced to live in

"So many people complain about the bad conditions they are forced

to live in! They feel they are victims of fate, of society, of

their boss, even of their family… No, they must understand that

first and foremost they are their own victims: they are the ones

who consciously or unconsciously created their present conditions

in life by having particular thoughts and feelings in their past

lives and taking the actions they took. If they alter their

behaviour and their state of mind, conditions will change in

their next life, and even in this one.

Yes, depending on your attitude, conditions can change now. So

long as you think your external, material situations are the

deciding factors and you improve nothing within yourself, you

will continue to attract the same deplorable conditions. But if

you give priority to the spirit, to light and strength, your

conditions will eventually be modelled on these divine

principles. Since what is below is like what is above, in time

what is above will also be realized below."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Virtue and vice, strength and weakness, beauty and ugliness

"Virtue and vice, strength and weakness, beauty and ugliness are

different aspects of the good and evil we see expressed all

around us. But instead of learning how to behave in relation to

these two poles of the one whole, humans constantly ask

themselves why God allows evil to exist. They must no longer ask

this kind of question but understand instead that good and evil

are intimately connected, because as complementary poles they

have matters they must deal with together.

Our life on earth is wholly conditioned by the alternation of

day and night, and this alternation, which governs the life of

all of nature, also governs our physical and psychic life. We

would not know what light is if darkness did not exist, nor what

wisdom, justice, beauty and joy are if we were not forced to come

up against stupidity, injustice, ugliness and sadness.

Understanding is born of comparison and confrontation. If

opposites did not exist, we would live in an undifferentiated

state. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Childish Joy

The natural state of man, the way God created us, is to be happy.

Look at children and you will see.

T. Freeman

It can happen that you suddenly feel flooded with light

"Quite unexpectedly, it can happen that you suddenly feel flooded

with light, that all of a sudden you are being projected upward,

all the way to your higher self. You are dazzled by this beauty

and immensity, and it feels as though from this moment on nothing

could bring you down from these heights. Unfortunately, this

doesn’t last. You have to pick up the threads of your everyday

life, with its same worries, its same temptations, its same

weaknesses. You feel cut off from your higher self, like a

fragment cast aside, rejected. Some time later, you again feel

enlightened, illumined, but once again it doesn’t last long, and

you begin to feel discouraged.

No, you must not allow yourself to be discouraged by the

fluctuations in your consciousness. If you persevere in your

spiritual work, one day, after all the highs and lows, the light

that comes to visit you will no longer leave you. You will have

crossed to the other shore, and you will be saved forever."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

le goût, au niveau subtil, n'est pas dans la bouche, il est réellement dans le coeur

Contrairement à ce que l'on pourrait penser, le goût, au niveau subtil, n'est pas dans la bouche, il est réellement dans le coeur : tu goûtes les choses dans ton coeur. Le coeur, c'est là où le mal est inexistant, là où le mal ne peut pas entrer. Jamais le coeur ne peut être mauvais, ce n'est pas sa nature, un coeur peut être blessé mais jamais mauvais. On peut dire de quelqu'un qu'il a « bon coeur » mais pas qu'il a « mauvais coeur », cela n'existe pas ; on devrait plutôt dire qu'il est un « sans-coeur », c'est à-dire qu'il n'a plus de coeur, plus d'âme.

O. Manitara

Les paroles ont un goût.

Les paroles ont un goût. Tu dois goûter ta parole car celle-ci sort du coeur à travers la bouche, dans la salive, et ensuite elle est donnée comme un fruit qui a bon goût ou qui n'a pas bon goût. Tu dois voir que dans ta parole il y a une saveur. La parole qui a bon goût est la parole qui vient du coeur pur, qui est avec l'âme ; si ton coeur est avec ton âme, ta parole aura une âme. 

O. Manitara

All of Him

That force that holds electrons in their orbit and planets in theirs, explodes incessantly within the stars above and is the darkness that fills the empty space—-that force is a single whole and it is God.

It is not all of God. It is an expression of God. All of it could disappear in a single instant, and for Him nothing would have changed.

Where is it that you can find all of God? Wherever He wishes to be found.

Right now, He hides within some scattered branches placed upon an autumn hut.

T. Freeman

‘The Father and I are one’

"When Jesus said, ‘The Father and I are one’, he was summarizing

the greatest mystery of religion. And one day we too must be able

to say the same words.

Some will say, ‘Yes, but we’re not Jesus. He was the son of God,

whereas we are sinners.’ The Church has tried to make Jesus the

equivalent of God himself, the second person of the trinity, the

Christ, a cosmic principle, thus creating an infinite distance

between him and human beings. But is this the truth? Jesus

himself never said such a thing; he never claimed to be

essentially different from other people. He said he was the son

of God, but he did not claim this divine lineage for himself

alone but emphasized the divine nature of all humans. Otherwise,

what would be the meaning of the phrases ‘Our Father in heaven,’

‘Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect’ and also ‘The one

who believes in me will also do the works that I do and, in fact,

will do greater works than these’?"

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

The number 2

"From the point of view of Initiatic Science, the number 2

represents the 1 polarized as positive and negative, masculine

and feminine, active and passive. As soon as there is

manifestation, there is partition, division. In 1 there can be no

creation, because no exchanges are possible. In order to manifest

and make itself known, 1 has to divide. Unity is the privilege of

God himself, his exclusive domain. In order for God, the 1, to

create, he had to become 2.

In order to create, therefore, God projected himself beyond

himself by polarizing, and the universe was born from the

existence of these two poles. The positive pole exerts an

attraction on the negative pole, and vice versa. This is the

mechanism of action and reaction, which activates and sustains

the movement of life. The cessation of this movement would bring

stagnation and death, a return to the state of original

non-differentiation. The first lines from the book of Genesis

reveal that creation proceeded through successive separations. On

the first day of creation, God separated the light from the dark.

On the second day, he separated the waters above from the waters

below. On the third day, he separated the waters from dry land.

The 1 is an entity closed in on itself. To leave this state, this

entity must become 2. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Explosive Joy

Joy is an overflowing, an explosion. Something enters a person's life for which he could never be prepared and his previously tidy self erupts in song, dance and joy.

Approach the Divine with a calculated mind and there is no window for joy. Embrace the infinite beyond mind and let joy surprise you.

T. Freeman

Le goût

Le goût est ce qui cherche quelque chose d'autre, sans arrêt. C'est pour cette raison que tu manges : toujours pour goûter. En réalité, tu vas vers la perfection du sens du goût, qui est la soif d'un monde supérieur : vouloir goûter et expérimenter une conscience supérieure. La perfection du sens du goût est la soif du savoir qui éclaire et du feu qui agit, la soif à la fois de voir et de faire apparaître. Tu veux voir un monde supérieur, non pas avec tes yeux, mais en le goûtant, et tu veux le réaliser.

O.Manitara

Dance with the Other

As a mother and the baby she holds in her arms, as a father and child, as two in courtship or in marriage, so we are with Him. One chases, the other runs away. One runs away, the other chases. One initiates, the other responds. The other initiates, the one responds. It is a dance, a game, a duet that plays as surely as the pulse of life.

Until one falls away and becomes estranged. Then the other looks and says, "This is not an other. We are one and the same." And so, they return to each other's arms once again.

It is a great mystery, but in estrangement, there is found the deepest bond.

T. Freeman

Time Machine

If you could travel back in time, what could you change? The world, its past and its present all belong to the Creator. All is as He wills it to be.

Perhaps you could replay some crucial scenes and distance yourself from the mess that occurred. Perhaps you could jump in and grab credit for some of the good.

But for that, you don’t need a time machine. All you need is to stand right where you are and say, “I messed up. I lost my chance. I learned my lesson and now I will do things differently.”

You will change yourself. You will change your past. You will say, “I am no longer the person who lived in that past.”

In fact, you do have a time machine.

T.Freeman