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A selection of quotes and deep reflections on consciousness, the Invariant Law, contemplation, and the logic of existence.
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No. 1It is easier to live simply than to live as a philosopher or a guide, but one must take care not to be too simple. Yet it is shocking to see false philosophers and false guides exploit the curiosity of those who live simply.
No. 2To be born is also to realize oneself. Yet ninety-nine percent of us do not know how.
No. 3Man waits for divine signs. He will find them within himself.
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No. 4To remake history. Many are called, few are chosen.
No. 5The happiness of the sage lies in creation.
No. 6Wisdom is to live as long as possible, so as to contemplate as long as possible.
No. 7Immutability is being just, equally in good and in evil.
No. 8Do not trouble yourself with death; think instead of your birth, or rebirth.
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No. 9No more than one percent of humanity can be asked to live in truth. The rest lack the spiritual resources to reach it.
No. 10Life goes on, since less than one percent of the human race can attain the divine flow. Not so for the other ninety-nine percent, who rest upon illusion. Adopt Shabda (Divine Vibration).
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No. 11I watch all things pass through auditory contemplation (Shabda) and visual contemplation (Téjas).
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No. 12The minimum required is to believe. Yet it is sad to see so many people settle for that minimum, never tasting the divine.
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No. 13Faith is like the pilot light of the furnace, love is like the fuel, and respect is like the dosage. The flame burns within the method.
No. 14Love is an open door onto respect which will lead you into the divine flow.
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No. 15Man prefers to dwell in awareness of ecological disasters rather than in awareness of the stars.
No. 16Placing respect before love, and love before material things, is the sound way to live.
No. 17Shabda is a universal calling from which no religion, no culture can be excluded.
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No. 18Thought: the summary of a mountain of words. Thought: the expansion of my actions. Thought: a cheap nourishment. Thought: the scenery of writings.
No. 19The identities that make up our world must move toward a single goal: absolute consciousness.
No. 20When we are granted a body, we must undertake a journey of knowledge toward the Divine.
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No. 21Never promise, but always achieve.
No. 22There is no philosophy or morality for one who vibrates on the divine path.
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No. 23There is nothing false. There is nothing true. There is only one way to realize oneself.
No. 24Outer forms dissolve into the Divine Energy.
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No. 25Pride is a flaw made of many small vanities.
No. 26Aggression often comes from a lack of reasoning— a scar left by darkness.
No. 27Sick natures cannot create, so they destroy.
No. 28Wealth and poverty meet under the same roof... One that hardly tells them apart.
No. 29Liberation is the awakening to our divine identity.
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No. 30The need to rise higher belongs to the wise alone.
No. 31Earn it before you receive it.
No. 32Doubt makes the imagination run backward. Only when the water is clear can we see the riverbed.
No. 33Let us take the stairway of realization, and take it again.
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No. 35We cling instead of letting go of earthly possessions, and this leads us to acts of aggression.
No. 36THE DEVOTEE'S REWARD Shabda and Téjas.
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No. 37Love is unconditional and singular, on one condition: choosing the right soul... Choose the divine creator.
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No. 38What lies between the question mark and the exclamation point? The point of contemplation.
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No. 39Glory and money are fleeting before the divine presence.
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No. 40The way: to reach the Divine. The choice: to reach the Divine. The life: to reach the Divine.
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No. 41There is often more talk than action, because humanity has lost its understanding of the eternal.
No. 42Let us move about by cleaner means, and we shall grow.
No. 43Does a fish in a bowl see the same as a fish in the ocean?
No. 44Humanity stands in the presence of the infinite; only through awareness and through honoring its values will it attain what is owed to it.
No. 45Only inner vision can bring relief.
No. 46Nothing is more soothing than absolute presence.
No. 47A fire must be fed for its warmth and light to endure. So it is with our inner energy— it too needs nourishment.
No. 48What devotees seek is the spark that overturns every false value— a reflection that draws them into a field where states of balance and inner fullness revolve.
No. 49My ego drives my outer path. My soul guides my inner path.
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No. 50Reading volumes of knowledge gives you the frame, but not the painting. That is the work of true knowing.
No. 51To acknowledge the Creator is a logical conclusion. To live with the Creator is a logical reality.
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No. 52To contemplate, in order to set my soul free.
No. 53Cross the barriers of your mind to realize yourself.
No. 54Feed on the fruits of knowledge to tell the true from the false.
No. 55What and how can we see with our eyes closed?
No. 56In the face of error or failure, choosing encouragement is far better than choosing destruction.
No. 57INCARNATION— a question mark, a gap in memory, the secret of past, present, and future.
No. 58An object has only the value that humans grant it.
No. 59There is no use running in every direction, for there is a single point of focus.
No. 60Because of his handicap, the deaf man cannot understand. But what handicaps the one who fails to understand without being deaf?
No. 61Indifference and fear are nothing but denial.
No. 62The pleasure of knowing the Divine never grows tiresome.
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No. 63Am I guilty of my neighbor's ignorance? Can the Immutable be blamed for our own?
No. 64People are so used to feeding on so little that when the one who brings true nourishment arrives, they are afraid!
No. 65Two souls in one. The individual soul and the absolute soul. Devotion, consecration, and divinity.
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No. 66Mastering desire through contemplation.
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No. 67TRILOGY OF THE ASURAS (toxins) meat, alcohol, and drugs.
No. 68Effort and freedom go hand in hand. Effort is the support. Freedom is the reward.
No. 69In our age, we believe we have attained freedom. But it is only partial, and designed for profit.
No. 70Every present action is the fruit of a past one, whether distant or near.
No. 71He who feeds on the sounds of the Divine knows hunger no more.
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No. 72To win the inner battle you are caught in, there is but one means: the lever of contemplation.
No. 73To be among those who can commune with That— is to have caught the secret that makes the flower rise. It is to unite with the very energy that makes the sun shine. It is to transcend all questioning.
No. 74Does knowledge flow from practice, or does practice flow from knowledge?
No. 75The trace left by unconsciousness is called doubt.
No. 76Quantity does not carry the weight of quality.
No. 77The human being has not learned from the past. He does not understand the present. What will he make of the future?
No. 78Wisdom is telling apart the two orders: the superficial and the spiritual.
No. 79Heaven lies within oneself, like existence, consciousness, and bliss.
No. 80Insuring my life in the Presence costs me less and guarantees me more.
No. 81The question is not how our society will make us swallow our birth certificate, but what it will leave for generations to come.
No. 82When we go looking for faults, we always manage to catch one. But it is far better to search for virtues.
No. 83The trait that follows a posture of contemplation is creation. The chief property of a time of meditation is grasping. So one must grasp before one can create.
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No. 84Patience is success's best friend. Patience is wisdom's companion.
No. 85The seed that comes to life must first abandon its original form.
No. 86Thought prepares the outcome. Time is its factor.
No. 87There is no freedom more beautiful than the one the Creator has given us.
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No. 88Faith is a great quality. Yet it does not lead to the divine, for the divine is immutable.
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No. 89The growth of consciousness is proportional to the benefit the lever provides.
No. 90Evil uses suffering to destroy. Good uses joy to succeed. So, to subtract evil, embrace it... :-)
No. 91What matters is to serve the divine.
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No. 92If too much illogic surrounds you, your own logic may become suspect.
No. 93The best a child has to give is innocence. Foolish are those who selfishly take advantage of it.
No. 94Investing in encouragement drives away despair.
No. 95Self-realization is the key to life.
No. 96There is Him. There is me. There is but one person.
No. 97You will die once you have accomplished everything. You will be reborn to begin again.
No. 98One who has no more existential questions is known as a universal resonator.
No. 99People are superficial. The divine form is depth. Therein lies the problem.
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No. 100We live in a wonderful world, poised at the cutting edge of respect. What happens when that condition no longer holds?
No. 101Everyone's mission is to grow from within.
No. 102There are two ways to change the world: consciously or unconsciously. On this site, you will learn the conscious way.
No. 103There is no love without contemplation; otherwise, that love is only ego.
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No. 104Fifty percent choose darkness. More than forty-nine percent vibrate in illusion. Let us hope for better!
No. 105Beware of jealousy! Enemy of serenity.
No. 106To reach the divine, you must resemble it. So become ever more pure.
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No. 107Specialize in being born, for dying is easy.
No. 108We are all a part of heaven.
No. 109Medication or meditation, that is the question.
No. 110Who can afford to promote baptism— a sacrament of its time, not renewable.
No. 111We are the sap that rises through the tree to make it bloom.
No. 112The identities that make up our world move toward a single goal: absolute consciousness. When that goal is reached, this world will end.
No. 113A giant earth, yet a fragile one. The earth could hold ten billion people with the right structures. We are close to eight billion, and already we struggle to move about it. What are the causes?
No. 114To realize oneself is to leave illusion behind and join the divine through the method of auditory contemplation, Shabda, and visual contemplation, Téjas.
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No. 115When we are granted a body, we set out on a knowledge of the divine.
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No. 116Why move in so many directions? There is only one direction worth taking.
No. 117My universe is to contemplate. To contemplate, to contemplate—all the rest is nothing.
No. 118But where is that vast garden? We no longer have a claim to it. And yet the light of the stars still reaches us.
No. 119Yet the light of the stars still reaches us.
No. 120We all carry two profiles: a universal marker, and a generator of personality.
No. 121Silence is the armor of the wise, for he is never alone.
No. 122If only there were not so many toxins to fight.
No. 123Only inner vision truly brings relief.
No. 124Those who have not yet understood are the ones who talk the longest...
No. 125My universe is to contemplate. To contemplate, to contemplate—all the rest is nothing.
No. 126We are close to Mars, yet still far from Earth.
No. 127Contemplate in the love of the divine and universal presence.
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No. 128That certain something that begins in childhood.
No. 129Auditory contemplation [Shabda] and visual contemplation [Téjas] fill your life with true and lasting values until the very end of your being.
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No. 130The consequences of certain deeds fall on no one but oneself.
No. 131The quality of a teaching lies in its flexibility.
No. 132Hypocrisy and freedom do not go together.
No. 133There is nothing to prove. There is nothing to conceive. There is only one way to realize oneself.
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No. 135The wrongdoer is punished for his wrongdoing. The wise is rewarded for his wisdom.
No. 136Indifference is the ruin of many.
No. 137When you glimpse the inner path, you understand why the outer world always needs remaking.
No. 138The master's experience is like a straight line. It spares you wasted time, so you realize yourself all the sooner.
No. 139The apple tree gives its apple to whoever is willing to take it.
No. 140One who contradicts himself is still searching; the more he searches, the greater his discovery will be.
No. 141To see humanity fully conscious seems impossible—for that would be its very end.
No. 142Taking offense is the mark of pride; doubt is the mark of jealousy.
No. 143All the paths already explored, forever growing back.
No. 144The master is like the pillar; the disciple forms the structure around it.
No. 145A calculation of probability: ABSOLUTE / INFINITE
No. 146Conflicts cannot touch you once you have understood the Creator.
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No. 147Some are like parrots. They begin to speak only after being told the same thing many times.
No. 148Those who frustrate you and those who please you always stand before you. Within, there is the Creator.
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No. 149The most beautiful science begins within oneself.
No. 150All beings live through experiences in which they shed a piece of their ego...
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No. 151As a picture is worth a thousand words, the experience of the inner journey is worth a thousand journeys.
No. 152Drawing the good out of hard trials.
No. 153Those who know only how to judge. Those who know how to appreciate. And those who know how to act.
No. 154A castle on shifting sand— such is the being who lacks firmness in his spiritual realization.
No. 155The wise develops his virtues; the fool, his faults.
No. 156The spirit is at ease; man is tense.
No. 157Doubt is like the cheese at the end of the trap. Doubt makes the imagination run backward. Only when the water is clear can we see the riverbed.
No. 158Though we may now understand the universal creator, it is far better still to join with it.
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No. 159Useless actions draw man toward useless pleasures. These actions fill the ego with pride and desire. We walk into these traps because our knowledge is not yet rich enough.
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No. 160Many see the Intangible as the way out, but He is more than that. He is the way in.
No. 161Until you have heard the One within you, there is little or nothing you can do.
No. 162To enter the greatest of all universes is to discover one's own soul.
No. 163Success is an examination of self. Success is seeing the One within you.
No. 164No word, spoken or written, can show you the vastness of That.
No. 165The advantage granted by the radiance of the Divine offers a glimpse of humanity's future.
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No. 166Your inner wealth lies in the way you see the Divine, understand it, and above all, live it.
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No. 167In this world of the infinite, within yourself, you ask for the Answer.
No. 168The goal is to unite our soul with the absolute soul. Do not imagine you can reach it through your neurons.
No. 169No being is powerful enough to destroy what God created.
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No. 170Time is the human being's best friend.
No. 171Such is the way of nature: the first actions are fearful, but once fear is far behind, we rush toward the food.
No. 172Until we have tasted the Divine, we do not know its flavor.
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No. 173Consciousness and freedom are wounded by those who feed on the inexperience of the most defenseless.
No. 174Those who seek neither glory nor fortune— they alone wish to be rich.
No. 175Hypocrisy shakes the foundation; honesty strengthens it.
No. 176To see humanity fully conscious seems impossible—for that would be its very end.
No. 177The attachments caused by daily, material life draw us away from the immaterial goal that is offered to us.
No. 178For those who believe they will die, that is their fate; for those who believe they will not, that too is their fate—but it is only the starting point of a belief. One must persevere. One thing is certain: it is harder to be born than to die.
No. 179Financial success has nothing to do with true success.
No. 180The greatest reward is finding the Why.
No. 181My ego drives my outer path. My soul, my inner path.
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No. 182He gave us the pleasures of seeing, hearing, and creating. Do we thank Him for it?
No. 183Realizing myself by purifying my ego.
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No. 184I am a dwelling place of the Lord. [ So Ham ]
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No. 186Every day, I am reborn through auditory and visual contemplation.
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No. 187Once you have purified your ego, you will enter into sagacity.
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No. 188True pleasure: divine union.
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No. 189One must go beyond belief in order to understand universal reality.
No. 190Anger is caused by a lack of knowledge.
No. 191Lord, I thank You for this existence.
No. 192Ego is not healed by ego.
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No. 193From what temple does the light arise?
No. 194We cannot understand the soul; we can only live with it, or at least discover it. But each of us must come to understand our own ego.
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No. 195True fortune is contemplating the divine vibration.
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No. 196Evolving or devolving, that is the question.
No. 197Mastering desire through contemplation.
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No. 198One who is truly free has caught the power that makes the flower grow.
No. 199To be among those who can commune with the Imprint.
No. 200Rejection is a vain foolishness.
No. 201Action [ KARMA ], in reward or in punishment.
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No. 202Wisdom is telling apart the paths— inner or outer.
No. 203To be conscious: to evolve in the presence of the Universal. To be unconscious: to live without the presence of the Universal. To be semi-conscious: to wait before evolving with the Universal.
No. 204Introvert or extrovert, that is the question. Choose balance instead.
No. 205Man alone strays from this universe.
No. 206Why not draw closer to the Divine Presence?
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No. 207To live in divine light, or to live in the darkness of our own ego. That is the question.
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No. 208It is a shortcoming to believe in a Supreme Being without seeing or hearing Him. But it is more bearable than believing in nothing at all.
No. 209Once you have understood immutability, you have understood everything.
No. 210A thought for You, who created this universe.
No. 211My way out, my rescue, my exit, my...
No. 212Paradise lies within oneself, like existence, consciousness, and bliss.
No. 213Money may have its uses, but it cannot summon the Eternal within you.
No. 214The only true undertakings are those that unite us with the Immaterial.
No. 215Very often, the outcome of desire is disappointment. So watch your desires closely.
No. 216Be modest, like the sun's rays that nourish the plant.
No. 217Only beings attuned to the Immutable attain realization.
No. 218Svastika = a message of good omen. Sauvastika = a message of ill omen.
No. 219A temple of incarnations lit by vibrations? The human being.
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No. 221The truth is that everything is illusion and fleeting, except the force that sustains the universe.
No. 222BHUKTI The right conduct of affairs on earth.
No. 223I would not want to be God, having to satisfy so many egos. I prefer to contemplate Him—that is our mission instead.
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No. 224PRALAYA A prolonged sickness that weakens all beings, until the planet catches fire.
No. 225Do not campaign for glory; apply instead for a place near the Radiance.
No. 226Learn to master what the ego commands.
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No. 227Very often, love is illusion, and the heart is only ego.
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No. 228The proof of the divine lies in practice. So if you have no proof, it is because your practice is not sound.
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No. 229To realize oneself is simply to delight in the divine presence— for whoever is willing to understand it.
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No. 230The best attract the best— and the opposite holds true as well!
No. 231Do you think man invented God? It is certain, since He is immutable.
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No. 232Tyranny or democracy— the difference lies merely in shades of people. Why accept being ruled by one group or the other?
No. 233When you dwell within the spheres of illusion, you stifle your own realization.
No. 234Locked inside your selfish cocoon, you cannot delight in the divine presence.
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No. 235Build your life around divine joy, not around morality.
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No. 236Beware the golden calf, and beware evangelizing.
No. 237The wise acts the same way in success as in failure.
No. 238Sagacity cures foolishness. But foolishness can never reach sagacity. It is not what we believe that has value—it is what we are.
No. 239What matters is not to speak or write about Him, but to delight in Him.
No. 240Disappointment belongs to the one who waits for an answer.
No. 241It would be futile to ask for proof of divine joy—adopt it instead!
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No. 242Rare are those who can attain divine joy! Numerous are those who dig deeper into the confines of illusion!
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No. 243Illusion, though, is simple to understand. It is the present moment. Everything is illusion, even the universe, for it appeared and it will vanish. The only reality is our union with absolute consciousness, or the universal vibration; everything else is birth and extinction—illusion.
No. 244Do you believe John the Baptist or Jesus Christ would not have been capable of fulfilling their missions on their own? If so, beware of those who speak in their names.
No. 245Emergencies narrow our solutions.
No. 246To lighten the weight of your thoughts, contemplate [ SHABDA ] [ TÉJAS ]
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No. 247Fighting illusion with divine joy.
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No. 248Reaching the summit through divine joy.
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No. 249Realizing myself through divine joy.
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No. 250Belief and disbelief are matters of reason; vision is a matter of method.
No. 251The fate of one who cannot create is to copy.
No. 252Is it normal to live without the divine presence?
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No. 253We are all eternal. Yet we are also subject to the cycle of rebirth, so not all of us are immortal.
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No. 254A master must help a disciple escape illusion. A disciple must find the guide who will allow him to distance himself from illusion.
No. 255How do you explain that it is pointless to live without auditory and visual contemplation?
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No. 256Faith or morality, that is the question.
No. 257Without auditory and visual contemplation (shabda and téjas) you will never break free of illusion's grip.
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No. 258Do not let yourself be swept into the whirlwind of darkness. Drink deep from the flow of divine light.
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No. 259Does our immaterial companion take charge of your love? Hard to say—He is immutable.
No. 260Whatever the case may be, every human being is a receiver of the Immutable.
No. 261Omnipresence and immutability—there lies the secret that sets Him apart from us. Omnipresent throughout the whole universe, and immutable, for He neither reacts nor acts. So we must admit that He is in everything, yet without ego—the very opposite of us.
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No. 262Buddha, Krishna, Muhammad, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, Yahweh, Moses, Kartikeya, Hanuman, Agni, Surya, Indra, John the Baptist, and even Jesus—all of them served. Will we be able to recognize how far they had evolved?
No. 263Wherever you may be, whoever you may be, the day will come when you understand that the Eternal is immutable. It was a flaw in His purity that created the universe—our refuge.
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No. 264You may ask your ancestors for help; if you receive an answer, it means they still dwell in the timeless. If not, they are back in the temporal, caught in samsara.
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No. 265Fear and unconsciousness retreat far from you when you contemplate the forms of the divine.
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No. 266A moralizing God or an evolving God—which will you choose, which will you delight in? Adopt auditory contemplation (Shabda) and visual contemplation (Téjas).
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No. 267Do not search in the beyond. The one who will help you is within you. Adopt auditory contemplation (Shabda) and visual contemplation (Téjas).
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No. 268Serving God is the only permission needed.
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No. 269No sorrow, no laughter, no illusion, no mission, no death can touch the strength of one who contemplates the divine within.
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No. 270The future remains unknown to the human being. He suffers only his own mistakes. God provides the energy.
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No. 271Shabda and Téjas [ auditory and visual contemplation ] allow us to join with the vital, divine, and universal energies.
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No. 272The techniques of auditory [Shabda] and visual [Téjas] contemplation give our actions better reasons to grow.
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No. 273Often, love is illusion, and the heart is selfishness.
No. 274There is a superpower within us that joins the elements, all people—believers or atheists—devotees and guides alike.
No. 275So many people still take pride in their ignorance.
No. 276We are all a part of God; we need only own it.
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No. 277All things have a weakness— even God, since He created humankind.
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No. 278The dog is born a dog and dies a dog. Man is born and must die God.
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No. 279The self is filled with bliss, but the ego dresses it in uselessness.
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No. 280Understand the path within, and see the result without.
No. 281You will find glory and fortune within yourself.
No. 282Cross the barriers of your mind to realize yourself.
No. 283To win the inner battle you are caught in, there is but one means: the lever of contemplation.
No. 284An object has only the value that humans grant it.
No. 285Time is a good friend for improving things.
No. 286The healthy seed will grow; it needs only sound and light.
No. 287Devotion is the finest love; all others are fleeting.
No. 288The universe is the brain of the creator, but it is also the absolute soul. It is to this that we must join ourselves—but to do so, we must transcend our ego.
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No. 289The individual soul visits the absolute soul—this is what auditory contemplation grants you.
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No. 290We do not need scientists to understand our place in the universe, but they have proven mathematically the reflection of God—we ought to appreciate and understand that.
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No. 291We sail from disappointment to reward and from reward back to disappointment.
No. 292Think and spend, or spend and mend—such is the economy.
No. 293Wisdom is the ability to tell apart the two conditions: purity and impurity.
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No. 294Wisdom is the ability to tell apart the two paths: to govern or to wander.
No. 295Wisdom is the ability to tell apart the two threads: to love or to hate.
No. 296Wisdom is the ability to tell apart the two diets: vegetarian or omnivore.
No. 297Wisdom is understanding the emotions: fear and doubt.
No. 298Wisdom is the ability to tell apart samsara: birth and death.
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No. 299Wisdom is the ability to tell apart the opposites: to create and to destroy.
No. 300The greatest trial is birth.
No. 301Wisdom is the answer given by intelligence.
No. 304Some perceive foolishness as truth, and others perceive truth as foolishness. Balance is found in the rigor of the method.
No. 305For many, the heart has no equal but their own ego.
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No. 306Knowledge in a few pages; true understanding at your fingertips.
No. 307We are all eternal, but not all immortal.
No. 308The finest orator is the one who dwells within you; he speaks through vibration and light.
No. 309Being positive or negative has little effect on reality. But choose the positive all the same.
No. 310Here are a few practices you must honor: Love as the one true feeling. Contemplation as the means to realize yourself. Truth through universal presence. A healthy diet.
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No. 311The human being's mission is to cross a desert to reach paradise. Like the camel, he must build up reserves. For us, that desert is the mind and the ego. To accomplish this mission, we need a method.
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No. 312Torments, afflictions, bitterness, sorrows, and punishments—all born of a lack of understanding. How can an answer be forced upon suffering? The solution lies in the method of contemplation.
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No. 313The flavor is in what is contained, not in the container. Your destiny is bound to that mouthful. You may discuss it once you have opened the vessel.
No. 314We are all beings in search of the divine presence, which we must discover before we die.
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No. 315Luminosity refines the self. The method activates luminosity.
No. 316Everything depends on the means you choose to haul your mental burden.
No. 317Hypocrisy is a weakness of the ego.
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No. 318Silence is a friend, but if you do not learn to listen, it will serve you nothing.
No. 319Mastering one's emotions fosters respect.
No. 320Whatever we do, sooner or later, the bill will come due— whether today or in a hundred years.
No. 321Action is built into us. Each day carries its own karma. One action will bring another action, or a reaction.
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No. 322The unfortunate, of course, will remain caught in excess, money, and sex. But one with a keen instinct can make his life more serene and draw closer to divine joy.
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No. 323The atheist tears down the mountain, the believer tries to reach its summit, and the wise simply shovels its snow.
No. 324Must we believe that one who claims to have no soul actually has one? He has simply just lost it. At the very least, it must be nourished, or it leaves the body. Let us never forget the battle of birth: we are the one chosen among millions, and that, once a month.
No. 325Allow yourself to draw closer along the inner path, amid the blindness of temporal things.
No. 326Insight is the ability to see what others cannot.
No. 327The human being is the wonder of the Earth, and of the universe as well. But because of his weaknesses, he drifts in a world of violence and unconsciousness.
No. 328Reach for divine love, tend to your ego (your heart), and take care of your health.
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No. 329Each of us invents our own reason for wearing a mask: to protect a flaw, out of sheer hypocrisy, to please others, out of fear, or from a lack of maturity.
No. 330We quickly notice that some people set limits on their inner life. They would rather suffer within their minds, or, less severely, chase after fleeting joys. This kind of hiding place is the most common of all.
No. 331Between freedom and imprisonment, the human being naturally chooses freedom. But when it comes to our inner life, we must sadly admit the opposite tendency.
No. 332God is known to devotees as a state of euphoria.
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No. 333The intoxication produced by simple, enriching methods of contemplation is called mada, the intoxication of God. Of course it is the hardest to reach, but not impossible.
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No. 334The phenomenon of creation has its origins in purity; a flaw can produce an impurity, and from that fault, Creation is set in motion. Who will draw the conclusion...
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No. 335Love is a singular feeling. As such, it must be directed accordingly— toward a single goal: the Supreme Being.
No. 336Man is evolving, transformed visibly by the force of generations. For the human race to endure, the child must surpass the parents.
No. 337Though a doubt always lingers, a magus lies hidden within us— an immaterial being.
No. 338To persevere in subtlety without reaching the absolute— such is the fate of a few among us.
No. 339Humanity is cast from matter itself. And yet, the paths that lead to inner life and to our reasons for being should never be disturbed or left to nothingness.
No. 340That inner place should be our reason for living.
No. 341God awaits His germination within us. All that is missing is the water: auditory contemplation...
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No. 342The triathlon of the ego: climbing the mountain of jealousy, cycling across the plain of unconsciousness, and swimming the lake of inertia.
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No. 343In communication, we find both the undoing and the perfecting.
No. 344True freedom is that of reaching the creative energy. All other forces governing our planet arise from rights: the right to speak, the rights of women, the rights of men.
No. 345Knowing how to forgive is an asset, for it allows a better understanding of our troubles.
No. 346Holding onto hatred or a taste for vengeance affects the state of the mind, to the point of eroding the very structures of happiness.
No. 347Duality is a waste of energy and a failure to master one's own personality.
No. 348A parallel notion, like good and evil— that of peace, and that of duality.
No. 349You will find everything within yourself, though the means to reach it will not come easily. Few are those who truly have the ability to help you.
No. 350Let us compare knowledge to studying, and true understanding to the exam itself.
No. 351How can we reach the love of the immutable divine? Clearly, the ego blocks the way.
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No. 352The adult who has known how to prepare for the future, entrusted with the mission of self-realization, will find his way.
No. 353All alike in our souls, yet all different in our personalities, we must climb through stages to begin again—that is the secret of birth.
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No. 355How comical is man! On earth for millennia, and he still has to learn how to live here.
No. 356Why settle for subtlety, when the absolute is within reach?
No. 357To the one you give life, that same one can give life back to you— just as the tree is reborn from its own acorns.
No. 358You cannot imagine His beauty. You can only live it.
No. 359The future remains unknown to the human being. He suffers only his own mistakes. God provides the energy.
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No. 360Do not search in the beyond. The one who will help you is within you. Adopt auditory contemplation (Shabda) and visual contemplation (Téjas)
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No. 361Do not let yourself be swept into the whirlwind of darkness. Soar instead through the flow of divine light. [ TÉJAS ]
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No. 362Parallel worlds. Contemplation and universe.
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No. 363Faith, morality, or mere label—that is the question.
No. 364To embody the consciousness of Ganesh.
No. 365We are all eternal, yet we are also subject to the cycle of rebirths.
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No. 366The foundation is to purify oneself through divine joy, the joy offered by the techniques of auditory and visual contemplation, Shabda and Téjas.
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No. 367Fighting illusion through divine joy. Reaching the summit through divine joy. Realizing myself through divine joy.
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No. 368A little respect, and all will be well.
No. 369Locked inside their selfish cocoons, they cannot delight in the divine presence.
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No. 370The proof of the divine is obtained through practice. So if you have no proof, it is because your practice is not enough.
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No. 371It is pointless to raise up a crowd if it is not led toward wisdom. Few are those who succeed. They pierce more deeply through the veil of illusion.
No. 372True pleasure; divine union.
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No. 373Outside influences draw the human being away from his original nature. He is far richer than he believes.
No. 374What happiness, to know both the beginning and the end!
No. 375A crystal shimmers within you, a crystal that cleanses.
No. 376Respect, first among virtues, you live in us all. Sad are those who cast you aside.
No. 377Never pass judgment too hastily.
No. 378The care put into an action is what makes it great.
No. 379Taking offense is the mark of pride, doubt is the mark of jealousy.
No. 380When you glimpse the inner field, you understand why the outer world always needs remaking.
No. 381Hypocrisy and freedom do not go together.
No. 383Heaven is like a faucet—nothing is simpler than understanding how to turn it on. Adopt Shabda and Téjas.
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No. 384The body exists to allow the soul to do what it must do: reach the eternal within immortality.
No. 385The more we evolve, the harder it becomes to believe that we are alone in the universe. There is only one reality: that we carry the divine within us.
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No. 386There is nothing to prove. There is only one realization.
No. 387Know the right way to save your soul—that is all!
No. 388Only the Inner Being has no body—surely because it possesses them all.
No. 389Are we bound to lose the purity of childhood as we grow old?
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No. 391All my thoughts are for You...
No. 392The imprint of your efforts is also the sum of your mistakes.
No. 393There is no speech the Sovereign can understand, for He is immutable. That is all!
No. 394The state of consciousness at death determines the state of consciousness at birth...
No. 395God is pure energy; we merely display its limits.
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No. 396If your guide cannot show you how to reach the light of the Divine, all he can do is wash your brain.
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No. 397Since we form a whole with the creator, we are That. So Ham
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No. 398Competence—you will end up finding it within yourself.
No. 399The universe is a code; the question is who created this formula. The answer is within you—listen to its sounds and drink its light.
No. 400Every reason serves to turn our awareness away from the divine presence. But every one of them is simply a waste of time.
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No. 401Faults do not erase virtues.
No. 402The right procedure sets off the right result. Adopt auditory contemplation.
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No. 403Loving God is an observation of harmony; being God is a reality.
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No. 404Inspiration flows from the intensity of contemplation.
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No. 405Every action is done selfishly, except the action of contemplating.
No. 406The heavier the baggage, the greater the chance of not fitting through the door.
No. 407Life will go on until everyone has reached the Immutable—that is our mission. We all come from the golden vessel.
No. 408We quickly learn to put butter on our bread, but for a better flavor, it is best to add jam. Adopt Shabda and Téjas.
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No. 409Some are like gerbils: they follow their narrow little trail and cannot see the vastness of the prairie. Fortunately, a gerbil can turn into an elephant.
No. 410Does delighting in the divine outweigh turning it into a plaything of the ego?
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No. 411Indeed, love allows us to balance the ego. There is no limit when love is directed toward our Creator; otherwise, it is fleeting.
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No. 412Thank You, Lord, for this place in the universe; all my thoughts turn to You—may my children do the same.
No. 413He is our thought; since He is immutable, He neither acts nor reacts—otherwise He would be human.
No. 414So Ham, I am God. We are all God, for He has chosen us as His dwelling. He is within us, and we are at His service—not the other way around.
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No. 415Is it a mistake to believe that God wills to help us? The answer brings understanding, whether false or true.
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No. 416The mistake belongs to the one seeking material things; the devotee can more easily rise above it.
No. 417Faith is a great quality; but beware—blind faith becomes a prison.
No. 418Since we have been chosen as the divine residence, we surely rank among the most evolved...
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No. 419Since we form a unity with the Creator, we are that unity—So Ham.
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No. 420Woman comes into the world with a flower in her hands, man with a weapon...
No. 421The constant between man and woman must be respect divided by desire.
No. 422To live within the spiritual bond, or to live within the mental image—that is the question.
No. 423It is not despair that wins, but hope that loses.
No. 424The lie serves no one, since most people believe in nothing anyway.
No. 426The essence, the sound, or the word is the innate form that sustains the universe; every axis combines for its manifestation within us.
No. 427We cannot deny the truth of angels; it is only that they can live in no body but a human one.
No. 428The wise is the one who gives everything and takes nothing, for he has understood that the true wage is immaterial.
No. 429The present moment is an illusion, or is fleeting; the accumulation of these illusions is consciousness—which is why we must transcend our ego.
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No. 430Our bonds are divine. It is up to us to find them, so as to break free from mere interrelation.
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No. 431There is no use bringing a heavy suitcase for the earthly journey; we are born naked and we die naked.
No. 432We must understand that we stand at the summit of the universe; beyond it lies a governing energy.
No. 433Our ego is the cradle of illusion; auditory contemplation is the nest of our soul.
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No. 434Only atheists demand proof. You cannot understand the Divine with your mind. It is immutable, pure energy.
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No. 435What existed before the big bang is the same thing that exists within us. It is purity.
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No. 436What you believe can only be fleeting. What you live can only be fleeting. The big bang itself was fleeting, and yet it created a universe. So why not create a universe within our own fleeting life?
No. 437Sound (Shabda) and light (Téjas) energize the universe; humanity's only ultimate goal is to join that sphere.
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No. 438To be born facing a pure and immutable energy—that is transcendence.
No. 439Any reason will do to sustain our unconsciousness. Only one reason is needed to validate our consciousness. Done!
No. 440How can we hope to preserve the planet when most people do not even know how to live on it? PLANET = VEGETARIAN + VEGAN
No. 441It took thirteen billion years of evolution to create a destructive ego. Will we manage to create a constructive one?
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No. 442The wise grow within the absolute, and so they remain solitary.
No. 443God, that immutable consciousness—how does He go about satisfying the ego? Quite simply, He does not.
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No. 444The trouble with atheists is that they will never manage to master their ego.
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No. 445Love consumes itself, contemplation takes it on, That ignites it—and you, cleanse the scum from your kingdom.
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No. 446To live within the spiritual bond, or to live within the mental image—that is the question.
No. 447Silence is in vain if there is no one listening.
No. 448Placing respect before love is the sound way to live.
No. 449There are only two ways to live: spiritually, or greedily.
No. 450It is hard to break free of the fleeting to reach the Immutable, though that has been the destiny of every man and woman for millennia.
No. 451You may have all the money in the world, but without knowledge or divine joy, you have nothing.
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No. 452The atheist demands proof from the believer, who needs none. The answer, however, lies in practice, not in theory.
No. 453The bad seeds die, the good seeds live. So be it: you are incarnated.
No. 454Loving God is a statement of balance; being God is a truth. So Ham
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No. 455Find reality through shabda, the divine vibration.
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No. 456Hope for nothing from the outer world; vibrate instead within the divine flow.
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No. 457Whatever the case, it is your own house you must clean first.
No. 458Arrogance is the hat that ignorance wears.
No. 459Most fall silent before the truth, because they have gotten everything wrong.
No. 460The present moment is illusion. We must indeed learn to free ourselves from it, though we quickly fall back into it.
No. 461Alas, you cannot cure selfishness with selfishness.
No. 462Relentless effort has its limits. Balance between letting go and pressing on provides the solution.
No. 463It is plain to see: the ego often weighs more than intelligence.
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No. 464The inadequacy of knowledge in the face of true understanding.
No. 465If you wish to become subtler and more luminous, master your ego.
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No. 466Without negation, there can be no affirmation, and the reverse holds too. It is a matter of learning to live with both rails of the track.
No. 467A path there is, that few will ever see: the path of contemplation.
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No. 468No one can escape illusion without contemplation.
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No. 469We must see the idealist and the materialist not as opposites, but as running in parallel.
No. 470We lose our freedom, of course, because of our own self-centeredness.
No. 471The simplicity of inner peace, set against the complexity of the ego.
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No. 472Freedom is having answered all of one's own questions.
No. 473You will learn from others—master your ego.
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No. 474The triathlon of the ego. Climbing the mountain of jealousy, cycling across the plain of unconsciousness and swimming the lake of inertia.
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No. 475While the owl sees the trail of the mouse, the mouse cannot see the owl in flight; and while the sage soars within, the uninitiated follows the trail of his own ego. But fortunately, the mouse can grow and become an elephant.
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No. 476Fighting fear to reach freedom.
No. 477Many use brainwashing, but few know how to rinse and wring it out. Beware, unless you want to be left with plenty of murk still in your brain.
No. 478Wear a good life vest if you intend to swim in the depths of the ego.
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No. 479The method gives life to the soul; writings and words merely feed the ego.
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No. 480Do not settle too deeply into your ego, for once it has spent its centripetal force, it falls like a spinning top.
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No. 481To escape the labyrinth of the ego, one must follow Ariadne's thread, as Theseus did.
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