"If you can strengthen your body’s defences, it will be so well armed that the enemy, illness, confronted with such resistance, will turn in its tracks. The proof is, during epidemics there are people who go about safely among the sick without ever catching anything, whereas others, who take all kinds of precautions, are carried off by the disease. Why? Because the first people’s constitution was such that it didn’t allow germs to take hold. When the fortress is well protected, the enemy remains powerless. That is why it is so important that, rather than concentrating on illness, we begin by studying health – the laws that guarantee continuing good health and the factors contributing to it (breathing, nutrition, behaviour) – and that these laws be taught to everyone. True medicine begins here."
"Being a spiritual person does not consist in carrying out so-called spiritual activities, such as meditation, prayer or study. What characterizes spiritual people is the goal they set for their activities, and this goal has to be the realization of an idea, of a higher ideal. However, when one sees the reasons why more and more people are devoting themselves to spiritual practices – to control others, to seduce them, to achieve success, wealth or glory – there is cause for sadness and indignation. What matters is the goal. Thus any everyday activity can be made spiritual if you know how to use your thoughts to bring an element of the divine into it. To be a spiritual person is not to despise matter but to work with the light and for the light, to learn how to use any kind of work to attune oneself to the divine world and connect with the Creator."
"Do you sincerely wish to help others to better themselves? Avoid criticizing them or moralizing, and start by bettering yourself. Merely by your example you can show them they are making a mistake or behaving badly. Yes, by your example. Because, when you work on yourself, you are working on others: they notice qualities in you that are lacking in them, and that makes them progress, as they understand the advantages for them in doing as you do. Those who concern themselves with the weaknesses and vices of others become dull and disagreeable, as if the faults they talk about finally rub off on them; it’s awful, you feel sorry for them. So start by making changes for the better in yourself, and let other people be. Accept them as they are, be patient, work relentlessly, day and night, to show them just what can be achieved through sincere endeavour. If they don’t yet know, they won’t learn it from your words, but they will from your example."
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"Take this heart from me to you
it has lots of love and goodness too
sends out only warmth pumping true
It is identical to the one you have inside you".
Had a good read as I caught up with your thoughts. Hope things in NZ are getting ready for the Christmas time as well. Bit on the cold side here but no snow (YET?) in Peterborough. Love and Wishes
Barry and Tessa