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