Daily meditation Wednesday 30th of September 2009

"You wish to understand others, to help them; that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to share and experience what they are living through. It is even preferable not to experience it, as this is a form of sympathy that usually keeps you on the astral plane. What you should do is try to rise to the mental plane in order to reflect and think clearly.
If you are sufficiently attentive, if you know how to listen to people and observe them, you will discover certain things about them and, with practice, be able to guess what sort of person they are, what they’re thinking, what they’re feeling and what they need, without being affected yourself. This has helped some people develop a psychological insight that’s a form of clairvoyance. It is dangerous to confine yourself to feeling without also understanding or seeing things clearly, for not only are you vulnerable, you cannot find the solutions that would allow you to help others."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Daily meditation Tuesday 29th of September 2009

"When we are in the presence of certain beings, observing the expression on their face, their look and everything that’s emanating from them, what immediately comes to mind is the word ‘light’. It’s as if, in their heart and soul, they were capable of distilling a subtle substance and projecting it out in the form of light, or as if they’d captured something of the light diffused throughout space and condensed it within themselves. Their whole body seems to be made of a translucent substance with a flame burning inside it.
For many people, this light remains a great mystery, because they do not know it is the result of very real processes of the inner life: the sage, the initiate, has obtained it through constant work. From each thought, desire, feeling and action that they manage to make more disinterested, more generous and purer, they extract an infinitesimal amount of light."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Daily meditation Monday 28th of September 2009

"Most often, human beings use their ima­gination solely to satisfy their lower desires. One will want to embrace a woman, another to achieve political ambitions and a third to clinch a business deal by eliminating competitors… and their imagination immediately sets to work, picturing the success of their enterprise. And, in fact, it could well be that, by dint of imagination, they will end up succeeding, but what good will that be for their evolution?
Disciples learn to use their imagination to ennoble themselves, to reconstruct themselves and work for the good of the whole world. Why not imagine human beings all over the earth becoming good, intelligent, honest and beautiful, and abundance and joy reigning everywhere? If you work for years, imagining nothing but positive images, they will begin to be realized. And if those who are working in the same direction become more and more numerous, they will be realized even more quickly."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Daily meditation 27th of September 2009

"As long as you haven’t learned to feed the fire in your soul, there is no point in begging for the divine presence. Even if someone gives you this presence, you will lose it very quickly, for if you do not know how to sustain a fire within you, it will go out. You would like to receive the Deity just as Christians receive the host the priest gives them. But God is not in the host; each of us must prepare the divine state, earn it, win it and nourish it.
The doctrine the church has taught its faithful does not always conform to divine laws. Why has the church appropriated the right to give God? It says, ‘Open your mouth. Through the blessing of the host, you receive the Deity from us.’ And that is how it keeps Christians lazy; it’s why so many of them remain dependent and weak. No one can ever give you God. It is up to you to find him, by making the effort every day to become conductors of his wisdom and love, and when he enters you, you will taste eternal life."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Daily meditation Friday 25th of September 2009

"For primitive peoples, fire was an enemy; water, wind, the earth, animals and all natural forces were enemies, and those that fought against them exhausted themselves or even died in the endeavour. Then, as time passed, they began to master these forces and discover how useful they could be.
What humans have understood with regard to the elements can be applied to other aspects of life, especially within the psychic realm. So, instead of fleeing from certain impulses that come to trouble you – sensuality, anger, vanity, jealousy, and so on – observe them, explore these regions, and try to understand them and see what they contain. This courage and boldness will lead you to discover that the forces of nature you take for enemies are in fact friends bearing gifts. The time is coming when humans must find a different attitude towards their instincts and lower tendencies. The educational methods they will be taught will liberate them, and little by little they will manage to escape their inner limitations."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Daily meditation Wednesday 23rd of September 2009

"From stones, where he is extremely limited and we can touch him, to the subtlest of all substances, light, and beyond, God is present throughout creation. Yes, he is present in stones, plants, animals, humans, angels, all the heavenly hierarchies and even further still… His limbs are deeply ensconced in matter, but there are other regions where he is freer. In the densest forms of matter he can no longer move, but in his kingdom he is absolutely free.
God is free, yes, but only outside our world. When he enters our world, he is limited. That is why when people protest indignantly about certain events and say, ‘God shouldn’t allow such things to happen!’ it’s because they have understood nothing. If they possessed true knowledge, they would understand that God is just not able to intervene. On earth, God is limited, and it is we who limit him. God is at the same time both limited and limitless. He is limited in our hearts, but he is free in the hearts of angels."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Daily meditation Tuesday 22nd of September 2009

"Farmers know at what time of the year they must prepare the land, sow, cut and harvest… but each of us must also learn to work according to the seasons.
Solomon says in Ecclesiastes, ‘For everything there is a season… a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;… a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;… a time to break down, and a time to build up.’ These words do not only concern the physical plane and physical activities, they must also be interpreted from a magic, cabbalistic point of view. Cabbalah explains how to determine the time for each thing; it is an entire science. According to which season it is, there is inner work to be done throughout the year: with the four elements, the four cardinal points and the four archangels, as well as the precious stones, plants and entities which correspond to them."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Daily meditation 20th of September 2009

"In every country you will find thousands of libraries filled with books. Humanity has certainly been well instructed by all these books, but it has not improved. What we need from now on are living books. If the invisible world sends initiates, saints and great masters to earth it is because they are living books. Humans need those living books more than they need the other kind, because the others they read and place back on the shelf without putting anything into practice. Whereas, when a living book appears they are stimulated and carried along by it.
Of course, most people prefer to read books made of paper, because these are quiet, nice and inoffensive, whereas living books are constantly giving them a good shake. And they don’t like being shaken up; they say, ‘Leave us alone, we’ve got our libraries, our sacred books and we read them…’ And then the living books reply, ‘Perhaps you do read them, but you don’t apply what you read. We’re here to show you how to apply them.’"

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Daily meditation Friday 18th of September 2009

"You feel sad, worried or irritated… These feelings correspond to lower levels of conscious­ness. So, why not change level? Just as there’s nothing forcing you to stay in your cellar, where it’s dark and cold, so there’s nothing forcing you to stay in your inner cellars either. Through concentration and prayer, try to rise up to the regions of superconsciousness, of divine consciousness, where you will live in light and peace.
When you do this exercise, you will notice that nothing is able to limit you, for you are an infinite being. You fuse with the divine light, and in this fusion, which is the only true experience of freedom, you feel, if only for an instant, your higher Self, which is a particle of God himself, gradually taking possession of you… From that moment onwards, whatever your circumstances, you will know that, above you, space is always free and open."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Daily meditation Thursday 17th of September 2009

"You are free, yes… you are free as long as you do not transgress the laws of nature. For nature is implacable and inflexible: you can cry, shout and threaten, it will not change its laws for you, and if you transgress them you will suffer. It’s up to you to accept these laws, to be in accordance with nature. You will say that nature is cruel… No, it wants to see its sons and daughters well and happy. But if they are stupid, then it’s nature’s task to make them more mature, and for that it needs to give them a few shocks from time to time. And if they refuse to understand quickly, these shocks can be terrible.
Nature has no wish to destroy humans, no, it has worked too hard to give them life and sustain the life in them to then decide to massacre them. But it wishes to educate them. That’s why, as long as humans behave like disrespectful, undisciplined, disobedient children, they will receive lessons."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

WORD FOR THE DAY
Wednesday, Sep. 16

To this day I believe we are

here on earth to live, grow,

and do what we can to make

this world a better place for

all people to enjoy freedom.

Rosa Parks