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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. 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. 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).
Learn more about Contemplation ›
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. 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. 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. 21 — Never promise, but always achieve.
No. 23 — There is nothing false.
There is nothing true.
There is only one way to realize oneself.
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. 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. 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. 50 — Reading volumes of knowledge gives you the frame,
but not the painting.
That is the work of true knowing.
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. 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. 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. 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.
Learn more about Contemplation ›
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
Learn more about Contemplation ›
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. 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.
Learn more about Contemplation ›
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. 147 — Some are like parrots.
They begin to speak only after being told the same thing many times.
No. 149 — The most beautiful science begins within oneself.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 182 — He gave us the pleasures of seeing, hearing, and creating.
Do we thank Him for it?
No. 184 — I am a dwelling place of the Lord.
[ So Ham ]
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. 193 — From what temple does the light arise?
No. 196 — Evolving or devolving, that is the question.
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. 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. 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. 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. 230 — The best attract the best—
and the opposite holds true as well!
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. 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. 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. 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. 253 — We are all eternal.
Yet we are also subject to the cycle of rebirth,
so not all of us are immortal.
Read more in The Laws ›
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. 256 — Faith or morality, that is the question.
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.
Read more about the ego in the Treatise on Immutability ›
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. 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.
Read more in The Laws ›
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).
Learn more about Contemplation ›
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).
Learn more about Contemplation ›
No. 271 — Shabda and Téjas [ auditory and visual contemplation ]
allow us to join with the vital, divine, and universal energies.
Learn more about Contemplation ›
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
Learn more about Contemplation ›
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.
Learn more about Contemplation ›
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. 315 — Luminosity refines the self.
The method activates luminosity.
No. 316 — Everything depends on the means you choose to haul your mental burden.
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.
Read more in The Laws ›
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. 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. 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.
Learn more about Contemplation ›
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. 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. 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. 360 — Do not search in the beyond.
The one who will help you is within you.
Adopt auditory contemplation (Shabda) and visual contemplation (Téjas)
Learn more about Contemplation ›
No. 363 — Faith, morality, or mere label—that is the question.
No. 364 — To embody the consciousness of Ganesh.
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.
Learn more about Contemplation ›
No. 368 — A little respect, and all will be well.
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. 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. 384 — The body exists to allow the soul to do what it must do:
reach the eternal within immortality.
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. 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. 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. 401 — Faults do not erase virtues.
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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 442 — The wise grow within the absolute, and so they remain solitary.
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. 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. 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. 464 — The inadequacy of knowledge in the face of true understanding.
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. 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. 472 — Freedom is having answered all of one's own questions.
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.
Read more about the ego in the Treatise on Immutability ›
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.