Stories of Life

Life does not tell stories. People do.

Life provides no more than raw materials. Raw enough for us to look back and construct at least two versions of our own biography: one a prison, the other a palace.

This is the greatest kindness the Master of Life has given us: He has placed His own pen in our hands, so that we may enjoy the dignity of a palace constructed by our own design.

T. Freeman

Celui qui ne croit à rien

 Celui qui ne croit à rien est finalement plus ouvert et plus sensible à ce qui se passe autour de lui et en lui, aucun dogme ne pouvant motiver son action. Celui qui croit est beaucoup plus sensible à l'envahissement du dragon parce qu'il met tout ce qu'il fait et tout ce qui lui arrive en correspondance avec ce qu'il croit. Si sa croyance n'est pas fondée sur une expérience profonde, alors il suffit que les apparences correspondent à ce qu'il porte en lui pour qu'il ne se méfie pas et ne perçoive pas qui est à l'origine, qui se tient vraiment derrière ce qu'il perçoit.

O. Manitara

Three Stages of Enlightenment

There are three ways of life on the ladder of enlightenment:

One is life upon a wild beast. But the inner self is awake, and that innerness is joined by a great light from Above, so that eyes stay on the road, with mind, words and limbs working together to reach their destination. There are many levels to this rung, but all are within the reach of every person.

Then there is a person in whom burns a holy fire of desire for the Oneness of the Infinite Light. With this fire, he overwhelms the fire of earthly passion, until it is diminished to no more than a faint flicker. This again knows many levels, but all within the realm of the tzaddik—something not every person can reach in a single lifetime.

There is also an ultimate point: Where the fire of earthly passion becomes itself a Godly force. Then there will not be any more darkness, for we will have revealed how all darkness shines. This is the stage of a time to come, but it will sprout from the seeds of our struggle with darkness in the here and now.

T. Freeman

Leaving

The biblical slavery of Egypt represents bondage to your own self.

Every day, every moment, must be an exodus from the self.

If you’re not leaving Egypt, you’re already back there.

T. Freeman

La Beauté des Mathématiques

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brillant, n’est-ce pas ?

Et admirez cette symétrie :

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321

Longing for Spring

Cultivate the soul with hope; teach it to await the break of dawn with longing eyes.

Through its ordeals, the soul is softened to absorb the rains. Yet, nevertheless, Spring comes for those that long for it.

T.Freeman

Arrows of Life

In which direction does your life move?

To wherever you have placed its arrow.

If the arrow points forever backward, to blame the present on the past and to script the future accordingly, then what is to make life worth its pain, the story worth its struggle?

But if the arrow points forward to an unfolding destiny, then every pain becomes the cracking of a shell, every travail the shedding of a cocoon; as an olive releasing its oil to the press, a seedling breaking its path to reach the sun. What is the pain relative to the promise it holds?

For our destiny is sown deeply within the hard soil of this God-blessed earth.From its nourishment and from our struggle with it, through these alone can we burst forth and blossom.

T. Freeman

Reinterpretation

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

The words become scattered and we no longer understand their meaning. Only then are they things. Words in exile.

If so, their redemption lies in the story we tell with them. Reorganizing stuff into meaning, redefining what is real, and living a life accordingly.

T. Freeman

Keys

"Every day, you automatically and absent-mindedly put keys into

locks, without seeing that when you do you are symbolically

replicating the work of the spirit (the key) in matter (the

lock). So, resolve to study what a key and a lock are, and you

will have the keys to open locks you had never imagined. Yes,

your ears, mouth, nostrils and eyes are all locks, and the brain

itself is a lock. Once you understand that, you will be in

possession of keys that open the doors of nature as well as doors

within yourself.

And what are the mind, the heart and the will? Doors that give

access to regions where we think, feel and act, and the keys for

opening these doors are wisdom, love and truth. Wisdom opens the

mind, love opens the heart, and truth opens the will. When you

have a problem, try these keys. And if you don’t succeed with

the first, try the second. And if the second doesn’t work

either, try the third. If you know how to proceed, one of these

keys is bound to solve your problem.  "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Nameless

High upon her precipice, the soul is nameless, for she has no form—she will be whatever she must be.

Peering below, beneath the clouds, she perceives a faint shimmering of her light in the deep, wet earth. There she finds form, and she calls it a name, and she is called when that name is called, for she says, “This is me.”

But it is not her. It is only a faint glimmering of her light within the frame of a distant world.

T. Freeman

The Glimmer Yearns

Below, this glimmer of a soul craves to return to her primal essence above. She yearns with an obsession beyond reason, as metal is drawn to a mighty magnet, as a flame yearns its own extinction—for she knows full well she will be nameless there once again.

Trapped within the fetters of time and space, body and persona, her yearning swells to its bursting point, generating a fierce power. The power sparks and flames. Her thirst intensifies; it cannot be quenched.

Such is the divine plan. Now you must harness the power. With it, you can transform an entire world.

T. Freeman

Chaque jour, le corps enregistre des informations en fonction des expériences qu'il fait

Chaque jour, le corps enregistre des informations en fonction des expériences qu'il fait et il les transmet aux différents corps subtils qui, eux-mêmes, les retransmettent à des mondes supérieurs. Tout est écrit. Quand l'homme quitte son corps, ce sont les écritures et le mode de fonctionnement de toute une vie qui se libèrent et entrent en action. Le corps ne peut pas faire autrement que d'être ce qu'on lui a demandé d'être. Il est comme un bateau avec son capitaine. C'est pourquoi il est important d'apprendre à respecter ce que l'on a, d'en prendre soin et de comprendre que si l'homme a une vie quotidienne, un corps, une volonté, des sentiments, des pensées, une capacité créatrice, c'est qu'il y a une raison. Être en harmonie avec cette raison est la perfection du chemin. Être en dysharmonie amène la maladie et la guerre, la souffrance, la mort.

O. Manitara

The Journey Home

Afterlife is a very rational, natural consequence of the order of things.

After all, nothing is ever lost—even the body only transforms into earth. But nothing is lost.

The person you are is also never lost. It only returns to its source.

If your soul became attached to the material world during its stay here, then it must painfully rip itself away to make the journey back.

But if it was only a traveler, connected to its source all along, then its ride home is heavenly.

T. Freeman

Inner Space

"In each human being there is something – call it a space –

that nothing and no one, except God himself, will ever succeed in

filling. You can fill this space, known as the heart, with all

the beings and all the objects you like, but there will still be

space, and you will feel a lack, an emptiness. Only God, who is

limitless, infinite, can fill this void.

When you have allowed God into your heart, every being and every

thing will bring you joy because of the presence of God within

you. So begin by opening your heart to the One who created you,

and then there will be room for all other creatures. They will be

welcome, and you will never again feel alone or abandoned."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

The need to create

"The need to create is certainly one of the most powerful

instincts in all human beings. Why? Because human beings are

called to be like their heavenly Father. And if they do not wish

to give birth to children, they can give birth to works of art.

Art is one of the signs that the wish to become a creator is not

limited to creating children, to reproducing merely for the

preservation of the species: it expresses itself as a need to

reach further, to always find new, more beautiful and more

accomplished forms.

The creative power in human beings dwells higher than the level

of their ordinary consciousness. It is found in a part of their

soul that acts at that moment as an antenna, with the ability to

explore and contemplate realities far beyond them and to capture

elements of these realities. Only when human beings are capable

of going beyond themselves, of surpassing themselves, can they

claim to be creating."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Heaven

We don’t say a person “will be going to heaven.”

We say this person is “a child of the world to come.”

Heaven is not just somewhere you go.

It is something you carry with you.

T. Freeman

Quand tu vas mourir, tu vas être dans le monde de la mort

Quand tu vas mourir, tu vas être dans le monde de la mort, et ton corps physique, lui, va aller au recyclage, il va « nourrir les pissenlits par la racine. Dans ce monde du sommeil et de la mort, tu vas continuer à vivre avec les égrégores, les dieux des hommes : les Catholiques avec l'égrégore du Catholicisme, les matérialistes avec l'égrégore du matérialisme, les humanistes avec l'égrégore de l'humanisme... Tu vas être digéré et aller vers le recyclage, puis de nouveau revenir. Et que va-t-il rester de toi ? Rien, c'est ce qu'a dit Bouddha. Il ne te restera rien à moins que tu ne te sois fait un corps. Alors tu pourras passer la porte des Mystères et entrer dans le corps de Pharaon, le corps du Bouddha, le corps du Christ. Gabriel nous rappelle: « Faites un corps pour que la Lumière vienne au milieu de vous et elle viendra. Elle viendra pour accomplir la volonté du Père et de la Mère et non pas celle du monde de la mort. 

O. Manitara

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