âThis one distinguishes an ancient text,
ââa recent author, or a testimony.
âThis font signals a higher entity,
âandthis one a recently deceased person.
« He who differs from me, far from harming me, enriches me. »[ Saint-Exupéry ]
â« The purpose of our life during our passage on Earth, then after our death, in the various worlds of the beyond, is an increasingly complete realization of our being. »
« Every soul must become aware of itself little by little. âIn evolution, the mineral becomes plant, the plant becomes animal and the animal will become human. This is the great chain of life. »
â« The important thing for you is to evolve in order to modify your vibrational state.
âThe Earth is a domain that allows the soul to modify its vibrations through more or less difficult life experiences. »
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« We are an animal that can only become aware of itself in its dealings with others. »(Harutunian)
ââ« Before our incarnation here on Earth, we do not all come from the same dimensions
Excerpt from the page: "Why life" :
â« If different minds conceive such different truths, it is because evolution is not the same in everyone. »
â« The Spirit, like man, also has its childhood.
At their origin, the Spirits have only an instinctive existence and are barely aware of themselves and their actions. »
â« If you don't feel ready to forgive someone's actions, at least forgive the person. (Tell yourself that his still animal conscience is not awake, but that his soul is nonetheless a reflection of God). »
, and these are more or less luminous depending on our level of spiritual evolution. It is he who determines the hue of our soul. Contrary to popular belief, it has nothing to do with being smart, nice, or handsome. Being kind on the surface has never stopped anyone from having a dark soul. Some beings come from a dimension where the souls are black, that is to say animated by heavy feelings, and who, once on Earth, live at the expense of others. You can try to help them, if they want to and you have the strength to do so, otherwise it is better to avoid them and go your way so as not to leave your feathers behind. âIf on Earth, we are all mixed, it is for, in interaction with each other, trying to move forward and illuminate our shadowy parts. We need each other to evolve
â« The purpose of our life during our passage on Earth, then after our death, in the various worlds of the beyond, is an increasingly complete realization of our being. »
« Every soul must become aware of itself little by little. âIn evolution, the mineral becomes plant, the plant becomes animal and the animal will become human. This is the great chain of life. »
â« The important thing for you is to evolve in order to modify your vibrational state.
âThe Earth is a domain that allows the soul to modify its vibrations through more or less difficult life experiences. »
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, and we must find in the difficulty and in the negativity of the other, the light that will help us to move forward. »
â« In a relationship you have no obligations, you only have opportunities. âBut when it hurts you, don't turn away from it! Stick to figuring out what she wants to teach you. »
â« What is difficult for you to understand on earth is the importance of loving the other even with their faults and also with their differences. »
â« Differences are riches, subjects for reflection, opportunities to grow, not grounds for conflict! »
âContributions by Anne Givaudan on the theme of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering, HEALTH or DEATH
â« One often sees lesser Spirits incarnated among advanced men. It is with a view to their advancement that God has placed them in this enlightened environment, and sometimes also, to serve as an ordeal of this same environment. »
â« It is by meeting the other that one is enriched. This is how, in depth, one can see his heart transformed, his judgment converted and a new art of living and thinking created. »
âContributions by Sister Emmanuelle on the theme of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« People ignore the basic purpose of personal relationships. When you lose sight of the fact that you are sacred souls on a sacred journey, the purpose, the reason for being of personal relationships escapes you. »
â« It is God who gradually gives the most important cards in the game of existence: encounters. »
â« Personal relationships are sacred because they provide the greatest (indeed, the only) opportunity to create the experience of your highest idea of ââSelf
Excerpt from the page: "Taking-back-control" :
â« In you there are two characters, one terrestrial, stuck to matter, mired in its heaviness, and the other celestial, letting itself be carried by the light. The moment you conceive your two poles, you become greedy for unity and begin your quest for purity. But that's also where the trouble begins! In the innocence of unconsciousness you found a certain tranquility, operating in the same patterns for generations, fit to taste the pleasures of the flesh.
âHowever, as soon as your consciousness opens to greater lucidity, your thirst for clarity comes up against the shadows.
âIn the grip of an existential despair, your mind then plays monumental tricks on you. You become the prey of grief, terrible doubts, loneliness and your impatience.
âWe are with you more than ever in these wanderings. Because then we recognize in you the flame, the inner fire. âThen begins an interior dialogue between your soul, which has already recognized us, and us who are your servants, your companions on the way. At your side, ready to support you in the difficult passages, smiling at your stammerings as a child of light. âIn your heart of hearts, ego of earth and soul of light manifest themselves to each other and show themselves in turn. There is no point in adjusting them with a master's hand, there is no point in wishing for their fruitful friendship. Their role is not to oust each other. Thus you grow, by making in you the union of your part of incarnated man and your part of brilliance of light. It is there, in the balanced axis between these two aspects of yourself, that you touch that you touch the new dimension that allows you to Over-Live(among earthly torments) . Then your personality of light irrigates your being incarnated in matter for a happy birth: that of the new Man in you, an incarnated reflection of the Father Creator. »
â« You must not meet man on his surface but on the seventh floor of his soul and his heart and his spirit. Otherwise, looking for yourself in your most vulgar movements, you end up shedding blood unnecessarily. »
â« What counts above all are the links that are established between individuals. When we sense in front of each soul the spiritual impulse that animates it, the relationship with others will be quite different. Every soul must be a sacred enigma to us. »
â« Most people enter a relationship with what they can get out of it, rather than what they can bring into it. »
â« You must consciously recognize and love God in each person. The person is only an envelope, the mask through which God manifests himself. »
â« He has the absolute certainty of only being able to approach God through love for men. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
ââA word closes you. You said "I". It's finish.
ââA curtain has been drawn between you and the eternal Truth.
ââThen you can no longer recognize it because you are in darkness.
ââThe curtain is called "I". If you open it, you will be HIM
Excerpt from the page: "Taking-back-control" :
â« In you there are two characters, one terrestrial, stuck to matter, mired in its heaviness, and the other celestial, letting itself be carried by the light. The moment you conceive your two poles, you become greedy for unity and begin your quest for purity. But that's also where the trouble begins! In the innocence of unconsciousness you found a certain tranquility, operating in the same patterns for generations, fit to taste the pleasures of the flesh.
âHowever, as soon as your consciousness opens to greater lucidity, your thirst for clarity comes up against the shadows.
âIn the grip of an existential despair, your mind then plays monumental tricks on you. You become the prey of grief, terrible doubts, loneliness and your impatience.
âWe are with you more than ever in these wanderings. Because then we recognize in you the flame, the inner fire. âThen begins an interior dialogue between your soul, which has already recognized us, and us who are your servants, your companions on the way. At your side, ready to support you in the difficult passages, smiling at your stammerings as a child of light. âIn your heart of hearts, ego of earth and soul of light manifest themselves to each other and show themselves in turn. There is no point in adjusting them with a master's hand, there is no point in wishing for their fruitful friendship. Their role is not to oust each other. Thus you grow, by making in you the union of your part of incarnated man and your part of brilliance of light. It is there, in the balanced axis between these two aspects of yourself, that you touch that you touch the new dimension that allows you to Over-Live(among earthly torments) . Then your personality of light irrigates your being incarnated in matter for a happy birth: that of the new Man in you, an incarnated reflection of the Father Creator. »
â« We always think 'I am me', that is to say a man, a woman, clothed in a social status, claiming from others a certain type of consideration, etc. That's what I call the ground level details, the twists and turns, and that's where all the conflict starts. Of course, these details are important, but we absolutely must not limit ourselves to this level. »
âContributions by Jeanne GuesnĂ© on the theme of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« You are both small and grand. You are both weak and fragile, and of a strength that you do not suspect. »
â« The human being is the link between the spiritual and material worlds. He can live under the laws of both worlds at the same time. His thoughts, words and deeds can radiate universal love. However, his body belongs to the material world. »
â« Man is more than he appears to be, he is capable of offering more than he appears to possess. To dissect it is to diminish it. To judge it is to detach oneself from it. We lose more than we could gain. âI would like to make you a man who fears God and loves those who fear Him. »
âââ What weighs on our actions âââ " Me, I "
â« You man, you only exist through the tree that through the others you compose. »
â« Man's greatest enemy is his senseless love for himself. It is this love that separates him from others. »
â« Since I have known God, I have changed a lot. Before, I was just a small piece of woman of nothing at all; now I am a unique creature among thousands and thousands. »
â« How would the drop of water know itself as a river? »
"I don't like him..."â« Between two lives, a soul perceives what it has been, how it has behaved on Earth. If its attitude has had serious consequences on those around it, it does not find peace because it does not forgive itself(and its evolution towards the Light is blocked) .
âThen the soul asks to incarnate and find this same attitude or such a failing in someone close to it (father, mother, neighbor, colleague, child...). so that she reminds him of what she deplores in herself; in order to definitively no longer reproduce this(these) behavior(s). And finally, to forgive itself.
âWhen choosing a life path, the soul will therefore ask its Guide to put on its adult path, and as many times as necessary, people weighed down with these same problems, until such a repetitive pattern calls out to it, and invites it to understand that this or these people are just like it,
before.
âRemember that your past memory is open and that you still vibrating with the person you used to be. So, the resonance is unbearable when you find yourself face to face with a person burdened with the same flaw(s) that you reject today.
âBecoming aware of this allows you to understand the person, no longer hate them, and even be grateful for showing you what you came to correct, to deeply amend (see also below). "My enemy, my friend"). âBy accepting the idea of the mirror, anger and resentment will dissipate, and situations will become less dramatic when viewed with hindsight. âYou're not victims, you're actors. Remember the three phrases to never utter: I'm a victim, I'm unlucky, it's not my fault.
âIt's up to you to get out of the situations you've asked for. »
Contributions by Christine AndrĂ© on the theme of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering ou DEATHâ« In relationships, the other person's ego is a cage whose bars(hard, forbidding) fades away when you can see the person through it. »
â« You must not meet man on his surface but on the seventh floor of his soul and his heart and his spirit. Otherwise, looking for yourself in your most vulgar movements, you end up shedding blood unnecessarily. »
â« It is because I identify my neighbor with the image of a harmful being (a rat, a piece of garbage, a piece of waste) that one day I could come to exterminate him. »
â« You were loved in your childhood. But maybe you have been unloved. By giving you a false idea of others, by presenting them as rivals. »
â« Our imagination amplifies and perverts reality, inflames our feelings. Depending on whether we are seized with desire or hatred for someone, we see him in an extremely attractive or repulsive light.
âMind control allows us to see things as they really are, and not through our fantasies. »
â« We never look with an intellect free of its preconceptions, so we only see what we unconsciously project. »
âContributions by Jeanne GuesnĂ© on the theme of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« See in everyone something other than what they show you. There is more, much more! »
â« The human mind cannot see three facades of a building at the same time, which nevertheless has four. The danger comes when the mind begins to take the part for the whole. »
â« Commit all your efforts to finding positive aspects in the other. »
â« As soon as you accept others as they are, you open your heart and your life improves. »
Contributions by Christine André on the theme of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering ou DEATH⫠Recognize in each person what is divine, earthly, and evil. Do not love the person, but in them, love the divine, tolerate the earthly, and avoid the bad man.
âLove God in every being. »
â« Nothing is easier than to make hasty judgments about others and their actions, and we are all guilty of this failing. »
â« You will be forced to judge yourselves according to your own laws, we pity those who ignore tolerance and compassion. »
â« "Be the judge only of yourself," said Jesus. And for your neighbour, be very careful; better, consider yourself incompetent. âBe charitable for those who are not, it's the only way to show them where they are sinning, without offending them. »
â« (...) The real world was more like a dream. After three days I became normal again, my perception was clearer and yet very different from what I had always felt in my life. I no longer saw anything bad in anyone like before when I was really judgmental. »
returning from a NDEÂ ]
« Being loving towards someone who seems unsympathetic to us (we are all potentially unsympathetic to someone else) is not forcing oneself to have positive feelings, it is already to try to judge it as little as possible, have a minimum of compassion for the internal suffering that leads him to be unpleasant towards us, and avoid attacking him in return. »
âContributions by Olivier Chambon on the theme of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« People are basically alike. We are finite little beings who could help each other if we dared to get involved, if we were compassionate, and finally if we stopped judging and tried to understand WHY people behave the way they do during crises. This requires a good understanding not only of human behavior in general, but also of the cultural and religious background of the individual. »
â« You criticize too often, you judge too harshly and sometimes unfairly, and that's a bad habit. »
â« In all religions it is recommended to 'put yourself in the place of the other' in order to discover new angles for analyzing a situation. »
â« Tested masters know all they need from the habit of seeing the bright side in all things, and reserving judgment. â[...] What must gradually become one of the characteristics of the pupil on the path of initiation is his prudence in forming and formulating his judgments. »
â« He who judges the other will have to answer for it. Racist and critical chatter, avoid them, they will be judged by the weighing of the soul. What matters the gaze of the other, it is yours in that of the other that is important because it reflects the divine breath. »
Contributions by Rosine Terral-Meyer â« (...) It's a big task that takes many lives, because you tend to make a quick judgment, to say something is 'bad' or 'wrong', or 'not enough', rather than to bless what you do not choose. »
â« To have a critical, suspicious, hostile attitude towards those around us, to react without benevolence, is to sow the seed of countless annoyances and worries that will one day or another come our way. »
Contributions by Karl Schmidt on the theme of:The WAY, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« Be indulgent for the failings of your fellows instead of despising ignorance and vice, instruct them; be gentle and kind to all that is less than you. »
â« Great Spirit, help me never to criticize my neighbor until I have walked at least a mile in his moccasins. »
â« The attitudes that I had criticized in others - and found unacceptable - were almost all those that I had adopted or feared to follow. I was rejecting this image that people were reflecting of my own weaknesses, and my potential failings.
â(...) When we find it difficult to love someone, it is often because they remind us of something within us that we loathe. »
â« I realize that everything I thought I didn't love was only what I hadn't yet recognized in myself! Now that I know myself perfectly, I love everything and everyone with the same love because I am one with them. »
â« These errors and faults, note well: you could not notice them in others if they were not always present in you. »
âContributions by Joseph Benner on the theme of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« Rigorous introspection will gradually free us from any vestige of anger, bad will, resentment, injustice, in short, from all that we pursue in others. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« You have to learn to repress any feeling of displeasure. »
« invisible footprint »
« gives off like thick smoke »â[Doreen Virtue, "Communicating with Angels"]
Excerpt from the page: "Low-astral" :
ââ« Some spirits remain attached to matter. Their low vibrations keep them close to the realm of the living. They havenât âcrossed over.â Some are malevolent spirits, others are wandering spirits, and still others are ghosts. Wandering spirits âare in transition between our material world and the afterlife. They usually remain among us only briefly, yet this state can last for centuries. Indeed, a wandering spirit retains free will( as well as his personality and inclinations ) , and it is up to it alone to make the crossing »
yetser hara
â« The spirit universe near you is literally saturated with the emanations of negative thoughts . So block in you the least embryo of bad thought. »
Their purpose
Who is this "I" speaking?
Our vision of the other
 
stranger in town(Adamo)
I walk in the city and I feel like a stranger
There's no peace of mind when your heart is in your shoes
⌠See more... âŒShe doesn't smile the city and especially not to strangers
I walk and I exile myself in the city, uprooted
Far too free to be able to serve it
But far too chained, to run away
And I seek, but what am I look for ?
Someone who would help me well, who would stretch out a hand, a pole
And I'm dragging, bad seed, tons of disappointed hope
From porters having received a lot of hate
I walk in the city at a time when the neon lights are on light
up I melt into the night between hammer and anvil
And now my fear disguises itself as arrogance
I feel that on edge my pain is becoming violence
Far too proud to be able to lower my eyes
I defy gazes, as if in play
And I'm looking, yes I'm looking for them
Those who in the back of their eyes have flashes of fire
Yes I'm looking for them, and I'm dragging, bad seed, my desire to exist
Even if it means wanting to break everything, bad seed Bad seed
I walk in the city ââand the city believes itself to be in danger
In indelible ink on my skin one can read: Stranger!
And I seek, but what am I seeking?
Someone who would help me, who would stretch out a hand, a pole
And I drag, bad seed, my desire to exist
Even if it means wanting to break everything, bad seed
And I'm looking, but what am I looking for?
âČ Fold âČ
â« If we allow the angel within us to speak to everyone, our existence will become a series of celestial encounters... â(...) The world already lives so much in darkness... Let's open our hearts to strangers... Let's look for the angel in everyone, we will always be in divine company. »
Contributions by Karen Goldman on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships or LIFE, Suffering
Whites are often black,
And not always white are the blacks,
But all are brothers in God. I remember, it was Sunday,
I was black, she was white,
And we met. ⌠See more... âŒI suffered from my negritude,
She also from her loneliness,
And we consoled ourselves. We had to love each other more,
More welded by seeing faces,
Which were only suppressed hatreds.
Disparaging reflections,
For me the negro, and his lover,
How humiliated we were! "How vicious and vicious this bitch is,
To mate with this race,
Poor uprooted types." My God that true and noble feelings
Are misunderstood, ignoble world,
How much we had to pay. So many tears and suffering,
For my very short stay in France,
On the benches of the faculty. Tired of reproaches and sarcasm,
We came up with the whimsical idea,
In my country, to return. The reception at my place? Not better,
It was she who was colored,
She was rejected by all. We held on...two years,
Assuming that in time,
tranquility would return. It was counting without the madness,
Which is born suddenly in countries,
Because the coup d'etat has struck. And when the days of rioting came,
This black people, like a pack,
Slaughtered us both.
The crime ? It was misalliance,
Breaking the law, what insolence!
For this we were condemned. Anomaly, shame of the village
I still see the face,
And the martyrdom of my beloved. That poor pathetic gaze,
Crushed with big cudgels,
And the vociferous cries. I was black, she was white,
We met on a Sunday,
But I'm talking to you in the past tense. We were covered with earth,
For it is to God...of all...The Father,
That our souls have gone. There, among fields and flowers,
In beauty and happiness,
His angels comforted us. In heaven, no difference
Race, skin, Africa, France,
It is for all of us, equality. Is it necessary to die for people to understand,
Men nourished by so much hatred,
That the only noble act is to love? Why notice on earth,
What fratricidal struggles and misery,
For lives so often cut short? Our souls are at peace in this place,
By the mercy of God,
United in eternity. I was black, she was white,
We met on a Sunday,
And our ordeals are over.
âČ Fold âČ
â« That tendency of men to form homogeneous groups which fear and avoid strangers, a tendency which provokes hatred and prejudice. » â«We must strive to reach out to those whose vibrations are different from ours. »
â"Abdou Karim moved into a small wood near Paris in the summer of 2024 because he could no longer pay his rent. Abdou is an undocumented Senegalese migrant who works a series of odd jobs. His tent is carefully furnished, buthe confides. "Hygiene isn't easy,"
Abdou sweeps the floor in front of his shelter.
he says, smiling. "I'm a neat freak," "Sometimes I go around the area with a garbage bag and pick up the trash."
A blonde woman, wrapped in a down jacket, comes out of the tent. They then leave togetherFor the past few days, Abdou has been sharing his camp with Guilaine. "To fill up on water." This 55-year-old woman with drawn features has been homeless since her husband died two years ago.
She met Abdou Karim in a charity canteen. Homeless, she was broken, her feet bleeding from walking. By day, she wandered from subway benches to bus shelters. By night, she roamed the streets. "The lease on our apartment was in her name, and I couldn't afford the rent. To find a place to live again, you have to have a registered job... and earn three times the rent! pay a deposit... Above all, when you're on the street, finding a job isn't easy!" She pauses, smiles at Abdou sitting next to her, and continues: "Never stopping. I was afraid to stay still. (...) Itâs tiring to be constantly on the defensive." Abdou Karim smiles in turn: "I don't know what state I would be in today if he hadn't opened his door to me. Thanks to him, I finally feel safe." And then, "I didn't hesitate for a single second. I would have even given him my tent if I hadn't had enough space to accommodate him here. The street is harder for a woman." " » "Having company boosts your morale!
 « There are still fewer foreigners than racists in France. »
Coluche's contributions on:The WAY, Relationships or LIFE, Suffering
Their purpose
Who is this "I" speaking?
Our vision of the other
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The siren song
â« The purpose of our life during our passage on Earth, then after our death, in the various worlds of the beyond, is an increasingly complete realization of our being. »
« Every soul must become aware of itself little by little. âIn evolution, the mineral becomes plant, the plant becomes animal and the animal will become human. This is the great chain of life. »
â« The important thing for you is to evolve in order to modify your vibrational state.
âThe Earth is a domain that allows the soul to modify its vibrations through more or less difficult life experiences. »
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â« We make so much noise about material success! As long as we give as much consideration to those who have succeeded financially, socially, by presenting them everywhere in the newspapers, on the radio, on television, we will maintain in the others, less privileged, the feeling of being inferior, of not be interesting. »
« The cell is a perfect place to get to know yourself and to study constantly and in detail the functioning of your mind and emotions. As individuals we tend to judge our success by external criteria, such as social position, influence, popularity, wealth or level of education. These are of course important concepts for measuring success â and we understand that many try to get the best of themselves on these points. But other internal criteria are perhaps more important in judging the accomplishment of a man or woman. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity, absence of vanity, the ability to serve others â qualities within the reach of all souls â are the true foundations of our spiritual life.
âBut this success is not accessible without real introspection and knowledge of one's strengths and weaknesses. Detention at least has the merit of offering a good opportunity to work on one's own conduct, correct the bad and develop the good that we all carry within us. The regular meditation practice, say a quarter of an hour every day before going to bed, can be very useful. It is possible that at first you will have difficulty identifying the negative elements in your life, but you will be rewarded if you make the regular effort. Remember that a saint is a sinner who seeks to improve himself. »
â« At all times, vigilance. âIf we meet success and favorable situations, it is urgent to be attentive to stay awake . »
â« Get in the habit of never again considering an earthly success as a gain. »
â« All power, from the smallest to the greatest, tends to slide from Good to Evil. »
â« When the goal of life is power, the ambitious subjugate their conscience to their appetite. The will to power call blind forces. They exist. For men who put these forces on their side, everything is success, everything seems to smile. But for these forces, the only thing that counts is the interest, the immediate pleasure; they leave as quickly as they came. »
â« Much of what we call 'depression' is actually dissatisfaction, the result of setting the bar way too high. I know people whose source of perpetual unhappiness was their weight, their baldness, their inability to find the ideal partner, when they were far from being one! »
ââ Failures, injustices, betrayals...
â« Success in life is above all a question of point of view. Take a look at this little grocer whom the old people he delivers to every week await like the messiah, for he enlightens their loneliness. »
âContributions by Allison Dubois on the theme of:The WAY, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« As individuals, we tend to judge our success by external criteria, such as social position, influence, popularity, wealth, or level of education. These are, of course, important concepts in measuring successâand it is understandable that many strive to achieve the best in these areas. But other internal criteria are perhaps more important in judging a manâs or womanâs accomplishment. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity, absence of vanity, the ability to serve others âqualities within the reach of all soulsâ are the true foundations of our spiritual life. »
â« What matters to your soul is only who you are while you do, no matter what. âGive up on results, but never, never on passion. Passion is the way. »
â« The greatness of a being resides in the quality that he brings to fulfilling himself in the place where he finds himself. »
ââIT'S NOT THE WORK
THAT HAS TO CHANGE YOU,
ââBUT YOU WHO HAVE TO CHANGE THE WORK.
â« Perfection should not shrink from pain. Whoever is called to be a street sweeper must sweep as Michelangelo painted or as Beethoven composed or as Shakespeare wrote. He must sweep the streets so perfectly that the hosts of heaven and earth will stop to say:Â
"Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well." »
âContributions of Martin Luther King on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« Try to bring perfection to where you are and then enjoy the bliss of letting go of everything. »
â« The love of a job well done attracts light like a magnet. You always have to do the best. Even if you don't succeed, your desire to do well nourishes your soul with high vibrations. »
â« All work is futile except where there is love;
âAnd what does it mean to work with love?
âIt is infusing into all the things you make the essence of your spirit. »
â« A trade, whatever it is, cannot be assimilated to an inferior task if it is well done. There is no high or low profession, there are only values.
âThe greatness of a being resides in the quality he puts into fulfilling himself in the place where he finds himself. »
- I feel more and more how much I am not pure.
ââHow to help others in this state?
ââEVERYTHING IS PURE WHICH IS IN ITS PLACE.
â« It is not the function that honors the man, it is the man who honors the function. »
â« A Rabbi begins by refusing to be a Rabbi; but once he has become so, he will be so even in his sleep. »
âââ The effect of thought on events
Their purpose
Who is this "I" speaking?
Our vision of the other
Â
The leader, the equalityââ« A leader is good for nothing if, surrounded by all sorts of advice, he acts contrary to what his conscience dictates. He will soon drift like a ship without a rudder if he does not have his little inner voice to hold on and guide him. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« Constraint, once absolute, becomes invisible. âIf you divide your power and distribute it among all, you withdraw the dissolution of this power. If everyone chooses the location of the temple and brings their stone where they want, then you find a stony plain instead of a temple. âThe tree is hierarchy, but where do you see that one part dominates the other? âOf course, the hierarchy that bullies you and prevents you from becoming is unjust. However you will go, to fight against this injustice, from destruction of architecture to destruction of architecture until the slack pond where the glaciers will be confused. âYou want them to be similar to each other, but I would say they are equal in serving the empire in the same way and not in resembling each other so much. »
â« The greatest injustice is to treat unequal things equally. »
â« Brotherhood has no worse enemy here on Earth than equality. »
â« Be true, authentic, no longer be afraid of the judgment of others. Accept yourself as you are and you will be fully accepted. âRegardless of the judgment of others, the beings are so diverse and so contradictory. No matter how they feel about us. No matter the fame, the social recognition. âIf our attitude is right, none of this matters. Do your best, no failure can disturb your inner serenity. »
â« You doubt yourself, the slightest criticism puts you to flight; and when you look up, the truth hides behind a gathering of clouds.
âThe true way to approach human difficulties is to approach them with a soul at peace; destructive forces recoil before serenity.
âIf you are shrouded in troubled or restless vibrations, you are attracting disturbing currents. Calm calls for calm. So know how to master in yourself the childish nervousness caused by earthly anxieties.
âA shaking hand stirs ripples in still water.
âBe calm, this is the best way to ward off evil. The forces emanating from troubled minds, if they do not come up against walls of peace, do their work of destruction. And the stubbornness to think about the sticking points maintains them. It is a question of offering a plane surface to the harmful discharges which try to scramble the psychic harmony. The wave breaks against the rock. »
â« To realize himself, man must first remain faithful to his innermost, truest self
Excerpt from the page: "Taking-back-control" :
â« In you there are two characters, one terrestrial, stuck to matter, mired in its heaviness, and the other celestial, letting itself be carried by the light. The moment you conceive your two poles, you become greedy for unity and begin your quest for purity. But that's also where the trouble begins! In the innocence of unconsciousness you found a certain tranquility, operating in the same patterns for generations, fit to taste the pleasures of the flesh.
âHowever, as soon as your consciousness opens to greater lucidity, your thirst for clarity comes up against the shadows.
âIn the grip of an existential despair, your mind then plays monumental tricks on you. You become the prey of grief, terrible doubts, loneliness and your impatience.
âWe are with you more than ever in these wanderings. Because then we recognize in you the flame, the inner fire. âThen begins an interior dialogue between your soul, which has already recognized us, and us who are your servants, your companions on the way. At your side, ready to support you in the difficult passages, smiling at your stammerings as a child of light. âIn your heart of hearts, ego of earth and soul of light manifest themselves to each other and show themselves in turn. There is no point in adjusting them with a master's hand, there is no point in wishing for their fruitful friendship. Their role is not to oust each other. Thus you grow, by making in you the union of your part of incarnated man and your part of brilliance of light. It is there, in the balanced axis between these two aspects of yourself, that you touch that you touch the new dimension that allows you to Over-Live(among earthly torments) . Then your personality of light irrigates your being incarnated in matter for a happy birth: that of the new Man in you, an incarnated reflection of the Father Creator. »
â« There is an abyss between the honest man before men, and the honest man before God. »
â« Respect the opinion of others, but only listen to yourself. »
â« The humiliations of this world cannot reduce your inner values. But neither praise nor glory can improve them either. »
â« If you are congratulated, the first thing to do is to check whether these words about you are correct.
âKnowing your limits is essential. Nothing justifies pride, but having self-confidence is different. »
ââCriticism -
ââit is not a sign of what you are incapable of,
ââbut an image of what you are capable of.
â« Any criticism accepted is a powerful stimulus to mature. I became almost greedy for it. »
 «The way to please in society is to let everyone talk about themselves. »
âContributions by Arthur Schopenhauer on the theme of:LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
«The wise question themselves, the fool questions others. »( Chinese proverb )
ââ« You can only be yourself by being no one else. You have to give up "their" approval, whatever they are, and rely on yourself to judge success or failure according to your own values. Nothing is simpler and nothing is more difficult. »
â« Don't be afraid of being judged, criticized, disliked perhaps. Fear only your own judgement, your conscience. »
â« Any man who acts finds detractors along the way. Man cannot build himself otherwise. The religious will be the prey of temptations, and until the final stage, the sage will experience doubt and anguish. »
â« All my life I've been used to people being wrong about me. I have made it a rule never to intervene to correct this kind of error, unless required by the cause I am defending. âSo let those who feel like it, denounce the impostor they believe they see in me. I must admit that I am delighted at the idea of ââbeing blackballed from my pedestal in this way. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« The tyrant will find in me a resistance of the soul which will escape his embrace. This resistance will first blind him and then force him to bow. And bowing down will not humiliate the aggressor, but elevate him. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« The warrior who falls on a small tyrant is very lucky. Nothing can quench a warrior's soul better than the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only such conditions can make warriors acquire the moderation and serenity necessary to bear the weight of the unknowable.
âThe strategy of using a petty bully is effective and clever. Such a strategy not only succeeds in making a clean sweep of pride; it also prepares warriors for the decisive realization that blamelessness is the only thing that matters on the path to knowledge. »
â« No one can climb on a man's back unless he bends his spine. »
âââ Cf. below "My enemy, my friend"
â« Any relationship, anything that makes you feel duality, is an opportunity to grow. »
â« He who puts up with the creatures that cause him difficulties goes ahead, and sometimes even drags others with him. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« This body is only a fraction of what we really are. Reconnecting to this other part of us gives tremendous self-confidence. Life here on earth takes on a whole new dimension and resembles a theater that must be played correctly, sincerely, as well as possible. What matters is not to be at the top of the bill or on the front of the stage, it is to evolve
â« The purpose of our life during our passage on Earth, then after our death, in the various worlds of the beyond, is an increasingly complete realization of our being. »
« Every soul must become aware of itself little by little. âIn evolution, the mineral becomes plant, the plant becomes animal and the animal will become human. This is the great chain of life. »
â« The important thing for you is to evolve in order to modify your vibrational state.
âThe Earth is a domain that allows the soul to modify its vibrations through more or less difficult life experiences. »
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and move forward in the midst of others. âOne of the difficulties of our passage here on Earth is that we are all mixed up. Before we incarnated, we were in a dimension corresponding to our spiritual frequency and to those whose company we sought. However, we must all live together on the same planet, rub shoulders even with those who harm us, make our way through frequencies of all kinds. »
â« Many of today's illnesses are not only caused by air, water and food pollution, but also by mental pollution.
âThe human being would manage to neutralize all the external poisons, it is internally that one is the most vulnerable. »
â« People project vibrations, there is a kind of marriage of fluids in the invisible. Also seek the company of those who together can rejoice in wholesome things. Beware of bad atmospheres. »
â« Better is grass for food where love reigns, than a fat ox where hate reigns. »
â« Some thoughts are poisonous. The bitterness of others are so many clouds in your sky. »
â« Unknowingly, you could take on someone else's apprehensions, like a sponge soaking up water. A generous nature attracts people willing to pour out their troubles on her. They feel relieved of a burden after talking about their worries. On the other hand, it exhausts you, so you must purify your energy field: avoid places where people drink alcohol and other drugs . These environments attract deceased people attached to the earth. Avoid places with ego-infused mentalities, as well as groups with questionable morals. »
â« Beware of those who think they know everything. Flee their presence. »
â« We cannot satisfy the needs of immature and unreasonable beings. Staying with them is often a waste of time. It is important to understand that they act dominated by their emotions and their passions; so we should feel compassion for them. »
â« Make yourself a shield of light. Whenever you talk to an ego-infused person, always demand the truth; don't allow yourself to see this person's fears as real. Listen with kindness, as if she were describing a movie that scared her terribly. Have compassion in the face of his emotions, while knowing that the origin of his fear is unreal. âIf you feel exhausted or irritable, you may be imbued with darkness. You have probably identified with someone's fears and worries, and thus imbibed their dark energies by becoming one with them through your empathy. A simple appeal to God in a quiet place will settle this effect of the absence of love. »
â« He promised: If you call Me, I will hear ("Knock and it will be opened to you"). This is protection. »
« To start a quarrel is to open a dike. »( Proverbs XVII, 14 )
Oppositions, disagreementsââ« I'm a little tired of looking at you. All your combinations of rabid spiders outplaying each other are boring. »
â« As long as each man, each woman, each child has not deeply integrated the desire for harmony, the causes of confrontation will remain. So goes man, regenerating himself in his own suffering and seeking to overcome its causes. »
â« This terrified fox who bites your fingers when you feed him, are you going to blame him for being locked up in his terror and his hatred? Do you consider as an affront such a gesture or such a word when you just have to forget the words and the vain meaning they convey to find God through them? »
â« What gives rise to conflict is rarely the idea itself, but the different terminology used. »
â« Any man who acts finds detractors along the way, allies ready to betray him, unfaithful friends. It doesn't matter; that your soul is pure, your intentions sincere, you will find the Force. »
â« Each soul attracts the circumstances that allow it to come face to face with itself. Therefore, our relationships with people usually present a number of difficulties. Instead of considering these as external to ourselves, realize that we are responsible for what happens to us. We create our own reality through our choices and actions. »
â- Relationships are not easy.
â- There is only one way:GIVE . And not receive.
ââIt's only fromHIM you can receive.
ââAs long as you feel a lack,
ââthat's what you want to receive.
ââEverything is given to you, if you do not leave the path.
â« I have only one wish: make sure that I don't use my reason against the truth. »
â« Non-violence is the law of our species, as violence is the law of animals. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« You can only kill hatred with love, destroy injustice with justice, selfishness with altruism, violence with gentleness. »
â« In fighting against the external enemy, the internal enemy is neglected. âA conflict, settled according to the principles of non-violence, leaves no rancor between the enemies and makes them friends. »
â« In case of conflict, dialogue, dialogue, dialogue, solutions will come to you. â(...) In case of problem do not be passive, look for a solution. »
â« Do not seek to be understood, seek to understand. »
â« Silence is a sketchy meditation: when you avoid answering, you have time to go into yourself. Silence can be the rock against which the waves break in vainâŠremember the silence of Jesus before those who claimed to judge him.
âInstall silence as a basis of love. Replace the riposte or the thoughtless word with a prayer.
âOf course, there are times when you have no right to be silent, but keep silent when the evil words of human wickedness implicate you personally, when anger comes to you, when it comes to defend your self-esteem or your pride. âLearn to make silence a breastplate against evil, a weapon for good. »
â« In every interaction with another person, call uponLOVE who is within her. This is your job. Tenderness for a brother will flood you like a resonance into which no darkness can penetrate. For no darkness can reside within joy. It is enough for the beam of light radiating from your heart into his to warn your brother of his dormant holiness. âDo not resort to words, but to a smile. Do not seek action, but rather a thought. At this minute, you are now able to cure your brother of anything that scares him! You have all the skill to erase all the bad feelings that monopolize the hearts of others! Use this power! Don't be afraid to fill yourself with love
Excerpt from the page: "Love" :
â« Love, this divine light, this original vibration, is an incessant flow, celestial nourishment. Love, the lack of which is the source of all evil, is the all-powerful energy which bathes the world. She passes through you according to what you are able to let pass, to collect, to offer.
âYou imagine yourself incapable of loving your enemies or your personal asperities. But it is not through your will that you can love with that love. She is in the abandonment of yourself, because this Love does not come from you. She is not born from your heart. She is offered to you without discrimination. You just need to open yourself to it and share it without hoarding it for yourself. Then you will love without the will to love. Then you will no longer say:"I don't like So-and-so; he is my enemy." Then you will be full of tenderness for weaknesses, shortcomings. âEach form of love is a fragment of this immense incandescence in which the world is bathed, in which you yourselves are bathed. »
â« The most powerful cement that can unite men is love. At the highest spiritual level it triggers Communion, this natural fusion which opens the door to the Whole. »
for someone else. Open your heart wide and envelop each being with a loving gaze, just like the angels who watch over each of you. Because our work and yours are one. »
â« It is better to be the one who suffered than the one who struck. »
â« Better to suffer the insult than to commit it. »
â« The way of love can cause continual suffering and require me to cultivate infinite patience. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« The angels remind us that every negative feeling we have towards another has a backfire effect. The anger we send out acts like a ray pointed at a mirror that instantly comes back to hit us. »
ââIf you lift your heart very high,
ââdarkness can do nothing against you. ââDo not correct the bad,
ââbut increase the good,
ââit will absorb the bad around it.
ââThere is good in everyone. ââCompliment!
ââPraise in everyone what is praiseworthy.
ââTrue praise builds.
ââYou will see miracles.
ââBut never embellish or lie,
ââeven with good intentions. ââDo not fight against disease,
ââbut strengthen the healthy,
ââit is not the same thing.
â« Waiting for the other to take the first step is to think that you are superior to that person. »
How to get outâ« It is essential to understand perversity as a form of madness, revolt as ignorance, despair as an infirmity. »
â« Those around you can't help but behave the way they do
Excerpt from the page: "Why life" :
â« If different minds conceive such different truths, it is because evolution is not the same in everyone. »
â« The Spirit, like man, also has its childhood.
At their origin, the Spirits have only an instinctive existence and are barely aware of themselves and their actions. »
â« If you don't feel ready to forgive someone's actions, at least forgive the person. (Tell yourself that his still animal conscience is not awake, but that his soul is nonetheless a reflection of God). »
. You prefer to judge them, but by judging them, you will only get the worst out of them. Your challenge is to accept people as they are. »
â« Behind hardness hides a suffering heart, which prefers to imprison itself in its solitude. Those who lock themselves in this armor are angry with the whole earth. »
â« I'm too far above this fox who suffers from the trap from too far away not to hear through the cries of disorder his simple despair. »
â« One understands evil only insofar as one escapes it; you can't do it and understand it on the same level. »
â« Wickedness comes from ignorance. »
â« Pity with all your heart evil beings, they are 'unrealized' beings.
âThe whole earth is populated by these unfortunates who shamelessly show the leprosy of their inner life, do not judge them, they are unhappy men. »
â« If someone hurts you, shows wickedness, anger, cruelty, tell yourself that he is a little advanced spirit on the path of spiritual evolution
â« The purpose of our life during our passage on Earth, then after our death, in the various worlds of the beyond, is an increasingly complete realization of our being. »
« Every soul must become aware of itself little by little. âIn evolution, the mineral becomes plant, the plant becomes animal and the animal will become human. This is the great chain of life. »
â« The important thing for you is to evolve in order to modify your vibrational state.
âThe Earth is a domain that allows the soul to modify its vibrations through more or less difficult life experiences. »
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and that you too have passed through this stage.
âBe indulgent, show kindness to those who have not yet understood the essentials. Do not react to the attacks of the other, nor to their negative vibrations. Listen to the voice of your conscience. »
ââ The mystery of the human soul
â« Don't be quick to judge others. Avoid judgment, because what is "wrong" for another today is what was "right" for you yesterday. His mistakes are your own past actions, now corrected. His choices are as hurtful and harmful, as selfish and unforgivable as many of your choices have been. When you can't imagine how another person could "do such a thing", you forgot where you came from. âYou are all in the process of becoming, you are all going through the experience of evolution. »
â« When I see a man fall into error or vice, I tell myself that this also happened to me, not so long ago. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« Aren't we all, of ourselves, already fallen from the Height, so many times? »
ââ The evolution of the human soul ââ How to protect yourself from evil
â« If someone looks at us as his enemy, we are the first responsible. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
The angel:â
You are thought ill of.
Lili: Did I wrong someone?
The angel:â
This is only possible.
â« Look at yourself constantly, have a mirror always before your soul. »
â« When you complain of being the victims of the ill-treatment of your neighbour, you should, before accusing others, go back to the source of your actions; it is then that with astonishment you will discover that you are the author of your setbacks. »
â« It is good to confess your mistakes. As a good sweep leaves the place cleaner, it is necessary to retrace your steps following an error in orientation. âJust as a man cannot see himself from behind, he is not aware of his own errors. âI admit that I have often been wrong in my estimates and my judgments... However, each time because I agreed to retrace my steps, no irreparable damage was caused. On the contrary, the truth came out brighter than ever. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« I can truthfully say that I am slow to see the faults of my fellow men. Having my own faults I need the charity of others. I learned not to judge anyone harshly and to make allowances for the faults that I sometimes notice. »
Do not react at the same levelâ« A 'bad guy', as people call him, can only harm a person of a higher level in material terms, but never by his radiations because they have no upward power. On the other hand, they can harm downwards, at the lower levels, particularly by his "evil eye". »
â« Send love to others and the reflection of that love will come back to you. »
â« Let all who have ears listen. For I tell you this: at the critical juncture, in all human relationships, there is only one question: ââ "What would love do in that case?" âNo other question is relevant, no other question matters to your soul. »
â« Everything can be crowned with love.
âBe aware of the need to observe the smallest acts of your life in this revealing light. »
â« The Gastiner Rabbe made it a rule never to express his displeasure on the very day someone upset him. The next day he said to the man:Â
You pained me yesterday.»
â« Sister Sarah had the wisdom, when I started to get carried away, never to contradict me. Later, when she saw me more in control of myself, she took up the subject again with a smile: âÂ
Emmanuelle, don't you think your project needs to be discussed?»
âContributions by Sister Emmanuelle on the theme of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« A gentle response calms the fury. »
â« A violent man stirs up quarrels, but one who is slow to anger calms disputes. »
â« To obtain a decisive result it is not enough to convince reason; it is also necessary to touch the heart. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« Never think or speak to an adversary or suspected enemy without first enveloping him in light. Barricade yourself in the light. »
â« When you painfully receive what someone has said or done, the first thing is to confess, honestly and precisely, how you feel. Too often you fear doing it because you fear it will "blacken" your image. »
â« In situations where you are being abused, you will stop the abuse. It will be good for you and for the abuser. Because it's damaging to the abuser to allow them to continue. Despots must not be allowed to prosper: their despotism must be stopped. love of self
Excerpt from the page: "Taking-back-control" :
â« In you there are two characters, one terrestrial, stuck to matter, mired in its heaviness, and the other celestial, letting itself be carried by the light. The moment you conceive your two poles, you become greedy for unity and begin your quest for purity. But that's also where the trouble begins! In the innocence of unconsciousness you found a certain tranquility, operating in the same patterns for generations, fit to taste the pleasures of the flesh.
âHowever, as soon as your consciousness opens to greater lucidity, your thirst for clarity comes up against the shadows.
âIn the grip of an existential despair, your mind then plays monumental tricks on you. You become the prey of grief, terrible doubts, loneliness and your impatience.
âWe are with you more than ever in these wanderings. Because then we recognize in you the flame, the inner fire. âThen begins an interior dialogue between your soul, which has already recognized us, and us who are your servants, your companions on the way. At your side, ready to support you in the difficult passages, smiling at your stammerings as a child of light. âIn your heart of hearts, ego of earth and soul of light manifest themselves to each other and show themselves in turn. There is no point in adjusting them with a master's hand, there is no point in wishing for their fruitful friendship. Their role is not to oust each other. Thus you grow, by making in you the union of your part of incarnated man and your part of brilliance of light. It is there, in the balanced axis between these two aspects of yourself, that you touch that you touch the new dimension that allows you to Over-Live(among earthly torments) . Then your personality of light irrigates your being incarnated in matter for a happy birth: that of the new Man in you, an incarnated reflection of the Father Creator. »
and the despot's love
require it. »
â« Where fear reigns the tyrant prospers. »
â« Force them to build a tower together and you'll turn them into brothers. But if you want them to hate each other, throw grain at them. âA civilization rests on what is demanded of men, not on what is provided to them. âWhen the mold takes hold in the wheat, look for it outside the wheat, change the granary. When men hate each other, don't listen to the presentation of the reasons they have for hating each other, they have just as many reasons for loving each other. âI will not be able to cure them by the exercise of my justice. It could only harden their reasons, by founding the resentment of those whom I would find wrong and the arrogance of those whom I would find right. âLearn to listen not to the wind of words nor to the reasoning that allows them to be wrong. Learn to look beyond. If each stone is in its place and serves the temple, then only the silence born of them counts. And who hears that we speak of stones? »
â« You have to divert your adversary from error with patience and kindness. This work of patience means that one makes fall on oneself all the necessary sufferings. Thus the truth must make itself known not by the sufferings that one inflicts on others, but by those that one imposes on oneself. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« Strive to overcome the adversary with love. This law is more effective than violence. I can get angry, but I've almost always managed to control myself. I can allow myself to be surprised, but I try to remain faithful to the demands of these inner struggles. The more I dedicate myself to it, the more joy I have in living. This is proof that this law conforms to the plan of the universe. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â- Can we put an end to the animosity that some feel towards us?
â« Yes, by returning good for evil, they end up understanding their faults; moreover, if one knows how to put oneself above their machinations, they cease when they see that they gain nothing by it. »
â« Return good for evil, go beyond the stage of instincts. »
â« Return good for evil. »â (Krishna)
âThere is always a traitor among the twelve. It's the most unfortunate.
â- Can I do something against the Judas, or should I let them?
â- Keep the fire going! Keep it ! Don't worry about anything else!
âIf you lift your heart very high, darkness can do nothing against you.
â« When we are in a delicate situation that does not depend on us, we must ask our guardian angel to go see the guardian angels of people capable of solving the problem so that they can prompt them with a solution. »
âââ Help from Heaven
Their purpose
Who is this "I" speaking?
Our vision of the other
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Act on ourselfâ« On your scale, you have the ability to establish harmony or chaos around you. »
â« By changing himself, man can change the world which surrounds him and which weighs on his destiny. »
â« By working on ourselves, the situation will change by itself. »
â« The construction we wish for you is one that will lead you to discover what all men have in common: the embryo of divine nature. For that is what it is all about: the hatching and development, in each of us, of this particle that comes to us from the Origins. »
« Since we attract like-minded people, others begin to react differently to us when we transform. âAny relationship can be improved, because we have the ability to change ourselves. »
â« There is only one way to break the circle of violence: to wean the adversary from his error through sympathy, understanding, patience. And patience involves personal suffering. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« Welcome evil within you and transform it into good. »
â« Whoever wishes to develop his strength should not fear resistance; he must meet the wind of contrary opinions and stay in touch with what does not suit his tastes and even harmonize with what seems hostile, because it is really his friend, since he finds a contribution of strength there. He must learn to endure slander, animosity, envy and opposition.
âThe more the animal elements of the human constitution are stimulated, the hotter the battle will be, and the stronger will become man's reason if he resists successfully. »
« From the mountain I climb,
I see condition where they see litigation. »
â« Depending on the point of view adopted, events will only bring you constraints and conflicts or, on the contrary, the opportunity to strengthen your patience and your inner strength. »
â« I advise you not to argue, it leads nowhere. And those who refuse your truths in the name of their own evidence, tell yourself that in the name of your own evidence, if you argue against them, you refuse their truth. Accept them. Take them by the hand and guide them. Tell them,
â"You're right, let's climb the mountain though." » âBecause they are right. But lead them higher on their mountain. âIf I choose the mountain which decides between men according to their right to provisions, my justice will be different from another mountain which would otherwise decide between men. There is no justice, but an infinite number. I will always find a questionable quality scale that will show me my error according to another. So I don't mind being shown that my decisions are unfair. âDepending on the chosen mountain, your convicts will become your saints. »
â« There is a way to be happy in personal relationships: it is to use them for the purpose for which they exist and not for the purpose you have designed. âPersonal relationships are a constant challenge; they are constantly calling you to create, express and live larger visions of yourself, more and more magnificent versions of yourself. Nowhere else will you do it more immediately, with more impact. âIn fact, it is only through your relationship with other people, places or events that you can exist in the universe. Remember: in the absence of everything else you do not exist. You are what you are only in relation to another. âWhen you have clearly understood this, when you have deeply grasped it, you will feel intuitively grateful for each of your experiences, all encounters and especially personal relationships, for you will find them constructive in the highest sense. You will see that they serve (whether you like it or not) to build Who You Really Are
Excerpt from the page: "Taking-back-control" :
â« In you there are two characters, one terrestrial, stuck to matter, mired in its heaviness, and the other celestial, letting itself be carried by the light. The moment you conceive your two poles, you become greedy for unity and begin your quest for purity. But that's also where the trouble begins! In the innocence of unconsciousness you found a certain tranquility, operating in the same patterns for generations, fit to taste the pleasures of the flesh.
âHowever, as soon as your consciousness opens to greater lucidity, your thirst for clarity comes up against the shadows.
âIn the grip of an existential despair, your mind then plays monumental tricks on you. You become the prey of grief, terrible doubts, loneliness and your impatience.
âWe are with you more than ever in these wanderings. Because then we recognize in you the flame, the inner fire. âThen begins an interior dialogue between your soul, which has already recognized us, and us who are your servants, your companions on the way. At your side, ready to support you in the difficult passages, smiling at your stammerings as a child of light. âIn your heart of hearts, ego of earth and soul of light manifest themselves to each other and show themselves in turn. There is no point in adjusting them with a master's hand, there is no point in wishing for their fruitful friendship. Their role is not to oust each other. Thus you grow, by making in you the union of your part of incarnated man and your part of brilliance of light. It is there, in the balanced axis between these two aspects of yourself, that you touch that you touch the new dimension that allows you to Over-Live(among earthly torments) . Then your personality of light irrigates your being incarnated in matter for a happy birth: that of the new Man in you, an incarnated reflection of the Father Creator. »
â« What does your conscience say? You have to become who you are. »
â« In every group is the disturbing element. It's about understanding it. »
âThe Kotzker Rebbe said, â« Do not hate the man who has wronged you. He has offended you with what is bad about him, but perhaps what is good about him is greater than what is good about you. »
â« I would have to shelter all the men with their luggage. I am tired of strangling, lest they ruin my work, those whom I do not know how to cover. Knowing that they threaten others and the questionable benefits of my provisional truth, but also knowing them to be noble and also bearers of truth. âI do not impose peace. I legitimate my enemy and his grudge if I limit myself to subjugating him. âTo build peace is to build the stable big enough for the whole herd to sleep in. It is to build the palace large enough to accommodate all men without amputating them. And this one shy and tender, and the other eager to live, and the other perhaps hunchbacked, puny and unwelcome. All in their diversity move the heart and serve the glory of God. Certainly nothing is obvious, but it would be too easy to make peace if they were already similar. »
â« Oh ! if all men could see what is in them! They would no longer hate each other, they could no longer be afraid of each other! There are no bad people! They hurt themselves because they believe that others mean them harm and they defend themselves even before they are attacked, out of fear. They thus give others a good reason to think that they have bad intentions. If we could convince them that they only act like this out of mutual fear, and not out of malice, they would be reassured and could shake hands. »
â« How many lifetimes will we have to live before realizing that the essential purpose of our passages on earth is to be able to develop, at each opportunity, our capacity to understand the other, to listen to him, to advise him, to heal its wounds? So that one day we can love unconditionally. »
« If someone owes you money and they can't pay you,(Presences of Judaism, 'The Straight Path')
don't walk past them. »
â« Do not be a fly on your neighbor's wound, seeking the wound and neglecting the healthy body. Cover your neighbor's wound and reveal it to no one. »
â« When someone says something positive, approve of it. If she does a good deed, praise her. Do not hesitate to praise her in her absence, and rejoice in the praise that is given to her. »
â« I seek to agree not with my previous statements but with the truth as it presents itself to me at a given moment. This attitude allowed me to evolve from truth to truth, and to spare my memory useless efforts. âYou don't draw your life as a straight line. It is made up of duties, which are very often contradictory. A multitude of forces influence our lives. Navigation would be easier if, from a single generative principle, all the decisions to be made could be automatically deduced. âMy demand for Truth has taught me the beauty of compromise. »
âContributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« To go towards the other is to communicate with him, to help him without assisting him. »
â« We must strive to reach out to those who have different vibrations from ours. It's okay to be attracted to someone who has the same vibes as you, but that's not the right way to go. On the contrary, we must reach out to people whose vibrations are opposed to ours⊠It is important to help them. »
â« Those around you can't help but behave the way they do. You prefer to judge them, but by judging them, you will only get the worst out of them. Your challenge is to accept people as they are. »
â« He who loves all men through God, loves each man infinitely more than he who loves only one and simply extends to his accomplice the miserable field of his person. »
â« Love God in every being. »
â« Trust in man and seek in him the child of God. »
Is he an enemy?(Enrico MacĂas)
Is he an enemy or is he a brother
The one who fell with me?
And both wounded, lying in the dust,
My hand joins his hand without knowing why
I weep, so does he; I share with himâČFoldâČ
The same anguish at the edge of the night
Our eyes say to each other, without speaking
How to understand each other, how to understand a stranger? We no longer fight over this poor corner of the earth
Everything seems so small before the great Law
Is he an enemy or is he a brother
The one who holds my hand for the last time? And in the growing shadow he escapes from here
When I close my eyes to him forever
He forgives me, I forgive him
I want to survive, I want to follow him further than life Wait for me! Wait for me! Wait for me!
Farther than the earth
Wait for me! Wait for me! Wait for me
Up in the sky
ââ« It is not necessary to distinguish what ravages you from what founds you, because it is the same wind which sculpts the dunes and erases them, the same wave which sculpts the cliff and collapses it, the same constraint which sculpt your soul or stultify it. âYour enemy forces you to build yourself up. Without enemy you have neither form nor measure. âThere is no enemy in the world. The enemy limits you, therefore gives you your form and founds you. âCertainly the enemy who founds you, at the same time limits you. But remove the enemy and you can't even be born. âI have no enemies. In the enemy I consider the friend. And he becomes. »
â« If you understand that your construction, your inner strength, depends on the obstacles you have overcome, then you can admit that what you are, you also owe to those who have harmed you. »
â« Beyond your universe of duality, understand that what appears to be an obstacle and an enemy is actually a friend that Fate disguises because it places you in front of your own image. »
âContributions by Anne Givaudan on the theme of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering, HEALTH or DEATH
â« Anyone who leads us to develop patience should be considered a friend. »
â« My beloved enemy is the condition of myself, for the ship would have no form without the sea. »
â« Whoever wishes to develop his strength should not fear resistance; he must meet the wind of contrary opinions and stay in touch with what does not suit his tastes, and even harmonize with what is hostile to him, because he is really his friend, since he finds there a contribution of strength. He must learn to endure slander, animosity, envy and opposition. âHe alone who can create in his mental sphere the conditions required by his spirit is independent of all external conditions, and free. âThe true ascetic is he who lives in the world, surrounded by its temptations; the one in which the animal elements are always active, but which masters them by the power of its will. »
â« As unsympathetic as the people we have relationships with, these are probably the people we needed the most. Those who apparently do not suit us at all can often turn out to be our greatest teachers. »
â« He who expresses his suffering through violent acts, hurtful words is a precious good. We must consider it a treasure. So are those who behave selfishly. They teach us to surpass ourselves, to understand. They are our masters on the way. âOur most precious masters are our enemies. This is not just a basic Buddhist teaching. Our friends can help us in a thousand ways, but only our enemies can provide us with the challenge we need to develop fearlessness, inner strength and patience, the essential virtues for character building. »
â« Each personal relationship, nurture it as an extraordinary thing, as an opportunity to shape Who You Choose to Be now. »
â« When you step onto the Path
â« The purpose of our life during our passage on Earth, then after our death, in the various worlds of the beyond, is an increasingly complete realization of our being. »
« Every soul must become aware of itself little by little. âIn evolution, the mineral becomes plant, the plant becomes animal and the animal will become human. This is the great chain of life. »
â« The important thing for you is to evolve in order to modify your vibrational state.
âThe Earth is a domain that allows the soul to modify its vibrations through more or less difficult life experiences. »
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, your enemies are paramount. They represent a unique opportunity, a chance to progress by helping you develop patience and tolerance. âA teacher can give us a theoretical idea of ââpatience, but only the enemy gives us the opportunity to exercise it. We only really go into practice when we come into contact with it. »
â« The other, the one who shoots an arrow at you, always offers you a way to reconcile with your memory (you are a body-memory: the film strip of all your pasts, but also that of your relationships with others). »
âContributions by Anne Givaudan on the theme of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering, HEALTH or DEATH
â« An enemy is also a tool of Heaven. We are all tools for each other. »
â« This one in her disloyalty and her deviations, demanded more of me and forcing me to live in the silence which is a sign of true love, gave me a taste for eternity. »
â« Do not rejoice at the fall of your enemies, neither gloat, lest God see you and reprove you. »
« Not only should we wish our enemies no ill, but we should even wish them well because we must wholeheartedly return good for evil. »
â« If, in all circumstances, you took the trouble to substitute yourself in the place of your adversaries, you would probably no longer have enemies. »
ââ« Always alone, locked inside me in front of me. And I have no hope of getting out of my solitude by myself. Stone has no hope of being anything other than stone. But by collaborating, it assembles and becomes a temple. »
â« If the soul came to the body, and the body to life, it is in order to evolve
â« The purpose of our life during our passage on Earth, then after our death, in the various worlds of the beyond, is an increasingly complete realization of our being. »
« Every soul must become aware of itself little by little. âIn evolution, the mineral becomes plant, the plant becomes animal and the animal will become human. This is the great chain of life. »
â« The important thing for you is to evolve in order to modify your vibrational state.
âThe Earth is a domain that allows the soul to modify its vibrations through more or less difficult life experiences. »
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. And you use your relationship with everything to determine what you are becoming. âTo become, consciously, what you wish to be is the task you have come to accomplish. You brought your Self into the relative world in order to experience Who You Really Are
Excerpt from the page: "Taking-back-control" :
â« In you there are two characters, one terrestrial, stuck to matter, mired in its heaviness, and the other celestial, letting itself be carried by the light. The moment you conceive your two poles, you become greedy for unity and begin your quest for purity. But that's also where the trouble begins! In the innocence of unconsciousness you found a certain tranquility, operating in the same patterns for generations, fit to taste the pleasures of the flesh.
âHowever, as soon as your consciousness opens to greater lucidity, your thirst for clarity comes up against the shadows.
âIn the grip of an existential despair, your mind then plays monumental tricks on you. You become the prey of grief, terrible doubts, loneliness and your impatience.
âWe are with you more than ever in these wanderings. Because then we recognize in you the flame, the inner fire. âThen begins an interior dialogue between your soul, which has already recognized us, and us who are your servants, your companions on the way. At your side, ready to support you in the difficult passages, smiling at your stammerings as a child of light. âIn your heart of hearts, ego of earth and soul of light manifest themselves to each other and show themselves in turn. There is no point in adjusting them with a master's hand, there is no point in wishing for their fruitful friendship. Their role is not to oust each other. Thus you grow, by making in you the union of your part of incarnated man and your part of brilliance of light. It is there, in the balanced axis between these two aspects of yourself, that you touch that you touch the new dimension that allows you to Over-Live(among earthly torments) . Then your personality of light irrigates your being incarnated in matter for a happy birth: that of the new Man in you, an incarnated reflection of the Father Creator. »
, in relation to everything else. âYour personal relationships are the most important part of this process. »
â« The others are us, and we are the others. âThe feeling of being a separate, different identity arouses the spirit of competition, jealousy, contempt. âAlways put yourself in the other person's shoes. Give up your opinions for a while in order to understand it. »
ââ« âLove your neighbourâ does not mean forcing oneself to rub shoulders with and appreciate our enemies. Pretending to be kind and loving is worse than holding a grudge. Sincerity is paramount. »
â« You can only give forgiveness to people who ask for it. It is necessary for the other to recognize that he has done something hurtful. Both parties are then committed and forgiveness becomes possible. True forgiveness frees both people involved. He who receives it is relieved of the weight of his responsibility, and he who gives it gets rid of his resentment completely. Both therefore feel lighter and calmer. »
â« So learn to forgive as you would like to be forgiven, that is, without reserve. Stop making forgiveness a mercantile act. We don't forgive "on the condition that. »
âContributions by Anne Givaudan on the theme of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering, HEALTH or DEATH
â« If guilt is a burden, hatred and resentment are heavy chains that weigh down and overwhelm us. But when there is no request for forgiveness, one can only protect oneself from pain by barricading oneself behind indifference. It's more about protection than cauterization. »
â« Difficulties in forgiving often come from ignorance of what the other has experienced. Knowing his life course(yet how would we know it?) would allow you to understand the reasons for his behavior. »
â« It is not the behaviors that deserve our indulgence but the people. â"
I don't want to confuse you with your mistakes anymore."
âThe first step in the process of forgiveness is to see the wrongdoer again as a human being; a soul
Excerpt from the page: "Why life" :
â« If different minds conceive such different truths, it is because evolution is not the same in everyone. »
â« The Spirit, like man, also has its childhood.
At their origin, the Spirits have only an instinctive existence and are barely aware of themselves and their actions. »
â« If you don't feel ready to forgive someone's actions, at least forgive the person. (Tell yourself that his still animal conscience is not awake, but that his soul is nonetheless a reflection of God). »
who makes the journey of life, with its ups and downs. »
â« It only depends on the strength of each one to want to overcome the offenses, the misunderstandings often born of clumsiness or misconception. âThis forgiveness necessary for any transmutation is then etched forever on the screen of your lives, like a victorious imprint going beyond the weaknesses of the flesh and the soul, claiming the Force of the Spirit over the shadows of incarnation. »
â« Indulgence is the ability to forgive one's neighbor for an injury. Anyone who advances on a spiritual path will place themselves in acceptance, and this, understand this, without actually feeling hurt. »
â« (...) My father agreed to put his ego in his pocket to apologize to me. When you truly love someone, a simple "I'm sorry" can go a long way. »
âContributions by Allison Dubois on the theme of:The WAY, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« Sometimes you can try to do everything to be liked by someone and only receive indifference in return. This kind of relationship hurts, but you have to admit that the other can not give you more (Cf. the young souls ) and consider that this problem belongs to him. If you have reached a certain level of evolution
â« The purpose of our life during our passage on Earth, then after our death, in the various worlds of the beyond, is an increasingly complete realization of our being. »
« Every soul must become aware of itself little by little. âIn evolution, the mineral becomes plant, the plant becomes animal and the animal will become human. This is the great chain of life. »
â« The important thing for you is to evolve in order to modify your vibrational state.
âThe Earth is a domain that allows the soul to modify its vibrations through more or less difficult life experiences. »
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, you will know how to understand it, and show indulgence in acceptance. »
â« We don't have to forgive, just be more understanding. »
âContributions by Marlo Morgann on the subject of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or HEALTH
â« (...) Here, when we evolve, we understand the importance of loving and accepting the other with his faults, his limits. »
â(...) You cannot force the other to love you because he has his own limits, but you can do your part without expecting anything in return.
Excerpt from the page: "Hate" :
â« Negative emotions are a torture that you inflict on yourself. They destroy you. âFeeling hatred towards someone is like sticking a sword in your stomach in order to hit someone behind you. »
The effect of our thoughts on ourselves
â« Thoughts of hate generally create a fatal bond with the hated being, a bond which can last, for the suffering of both, over several existences. »
Contributions by Karl Schmidt on the theme of:The WAY, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
â« (...) Remember that they don't have enough spiritual understanding, they don't realize. »
â« Only a strong soul excuses weaknesses. »
â« We are not all on the same level(of spiritual vibration) , we don't all have the same past. Besides, what do we know of what we did before this life, in other spaces, in other times? Perhaps it is better that we forgot about itâŠÂ »
â« All levels of evolution are present within the human species. »
ââ See "Human Nature" above. ââ "The forgiveness" to a deceased
« Any friendship which does not have virtue as its basis
ceases with the cause which gave birth to it. »
"The friendship"(Françoise Hardy)
Many of my friends have come from the clouds
With sun and rain for only luggage,
They have made the season of sincere friendships,
The most beautiful season of the earth.
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They have the sweetness of the finest landscapes
And the fidelity of birds of passage,
In their hearts is engraved an unending tenderness
But sometimes in they eyes comes sadness
Then,
they come
to get warm
in my home
And you too, you'll come.
You will can return to the very depths of the clouds
And to smile again to a lot of new faces
To give those around you a little of your tenderness
When someone else will wants to hide their sadness from you.
As we don't know what life gives us
It may be that in my turn I am no longer anybody
If I have one friend left who truly understands me
I'll forget in one time my tears and my pains,
Then,
maybe will I go
by your home,
To warm my heart
to your wood.âČ Fold âČ
ââ« To love 'the whole of humanity' is very easy; it is each man in particular that it is important to love. »
â« Friendship is first of all the truce, the great circulation of the mind above vulgar details. â(...) There is no gateway from you to the other except by the path of God. And those alone are my true companions who prostrate themselves with me in prayer. »
â« Never ask more of your friends than they are capable of.
âThis is a rule to know that you should never depart from. »
â« If you open channels of affection, you will receive love in return, spiritual love. »
â« First of all, the friend is the one who does not judge. And I can be silent with him, that is to say fear nothing for my interior gardens and my mountains and my ravines and my deserts, he won't walk here around with his shoes. »
â« A true friend is one who does not judge. It is one who opens his door to the wayfarer, to his crutch, to his walking stick set aside in a corner, and does not ask him to dance just to judge his dance. And if the traveler tells of spring on the road outside, the friend is the one who welcomes spring into his heart. And if he tells of the horror of famine in the village from which he comes, he suffers the famine with him.
âŒSee more...⌠â« For the friend who dwells within each of us is that part of yourself that belongs to you and opens a door for you that may never open elsewhere. And your friend is sincere, and everything he says is true, and he loves you even if he hates you in that other homeâ« Through long discipline and prayer, for over forty years I ceased to feel enmity for anyone. »
. And the friend in the temple, the one whom, by Godâs grace, I rub shoulders with and meet, is the one who turns toward me the same face as mine, illuminated by the same God, for then unity is made, even if elsewhere he is a merchant while I am a captain, or a gardener while I am a sailor at sea. Beyond our divisions, I have found him, and I am his friend.
â« You, my friend, what you receive from me with love is like an ambassador from my inner realm. And you treat him well, you seat him, and you listen to him. And here we are, happy. But where have you ever seen me, when I received ambassadors, keep them at a distance or refuse them because deep within their empire, a thousand daysâ journey from mine, they eat foods that do not please me, or because their customs are not my own? Friendship is first and foremost a truce and the free flow of the spirit above vulgar details. And I have nothing to reproach in the one who sits at my table.
â« For know this: hospitality, courtesy, and friendship are encounters of one human being with another. What would I do in the temple of a god who would criticize the height or weight of his followers, or in the home of a friend who would refuse to accept my crutches and insist on making me dance just to judge me?
â« You will encounter more than enough judges in this world. If the goal is to shape you and toughen you up, leave that work to your enemies. They will take care of it, just as a storm shapes a cedar tree. Your friend is there to welcome you. Know this about God: when you come into his temple, he no longer judges you, but welcomes you.
â« If you wish to forge friendshipsâwhere there is nothing left but the sharing of provisions and the resulting divisions of the heartâfor if you want them to hate one another, throw them some grainâthen rediscover respect for humanity, and know that a community is only breathable where no one criticizes another. When you think ill of your friend and express it, it is because you have not met him on the level where men are, that of the assembly when it is one, in the temple. »
âČFoldâČ
â« My friend is a vantage point. I need to hear about that from which he speaks because in this he is a particular empire and an inexhaustible supply. He can be silent and fill me up again. I then consider according to him and I see the world differently. Likewise, I demand of my friend that he first know where I am talking about. Only then will he hear me. Because words always contradict each other. »
â« The acquisition of love is comparable to the work of a gardener. The man plants and harvests. âA friendship is acquired, cultivated like a garden, like a tree which must bear beautiful fruit. A friend is a precious stone that you must constantly be afraid of losing. »
ââ« I sometimes worry about Westerners' habit of thinking in terms of black/white opposition, for/against, forgetting the interdependence and relativity of facts, too often neglecting the inevitable zone that exists between two points of view. »
â« During a dialogue, many men feel immediately prompted to express their approval or an objection, thus projecting onto the sounds heard the reaction of personal feelings; whereas everything should be silent in itself, that both assent and response should be silenced. âWe must learn to listen to others, pay all our attention to receiving information about what they say.
âWhether it is agreeable or not, pleasant or unsympathetic, only one thing must occupy our soul: what is happening in the being which emits the sound. We thus acquire, by disregarding our own person, the ability to vibrate in unison with another being. âThrough the words, we then hear the inner voice of another soul. Sound becomes the best agent for perceiving soul and spirit. »
â« To listen, you need an inner calm. This passive yet alert state is apt to hear that which is beyond the verbal conclusion. Words are a source of confusion; to commune beyond the sound of words, one must listen with relaxed attention.
âIt is only when you listen in the absence of thought that you are in direct contact. »
â« I learned and I am still learning how to keep a clear and transparent mind like spring water, how to watch, listen, learn to make yourself available to others. »
âContributions by Jeanne GuesnĂ© on the theme of:The WAY, Relationships, LIFE, Suffering or DEATH
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