The sun's rays can be compared to little wagonloads of victuals. They speed along to deposit their treasures with us, and then return to the sun along an invisible path. These little wagons carry not only provisions, they also bring creatures who ...
...un gives and to bring light and warmth to others, touch the farthest reaches of space with their thoughts and feelings. In doing so, they meet a host of creatures who they greet and by whom they are greeted in return. For this is what true life...
Why do we go to see the sun rising in the morning? In order to receive its light, just as we receive air, water and food. We focus on the sun's rays and ask them, ‘O luminous rays, drive away these inner clouds that only your light can dispel.' ...
True power does not lie in ordering people about, striking them, punishing them or causing their death. True power lies in warming them, in warming them to the point where they can no longer resist and have to undress—metaphorically speaking—in ...
In order to understand what true religion is, human beings must draw closer to the light, warmth and life of the sun. That is to say, they must seek the wisdom which enlightens them and resolves all problems, the disinterested love which beautifies, ...
What is more visible and more radiant than the sun? But if you remain barricaded behind closed shutters, you will not even know that it exists. If you want to see it, you must at least open a window. The sun is not going to impose itself on you by ...
...Why do we watch the sunrise? Why do we concentrate on it? In order to learn to mobilize all our thoughts, all our desires, and all our energies, and to direct them toward the realization of the highest ideal.
A person who works to unify the ma...
When you look at the sun, the center of our solar system, try to find the center in you: your spirit – almighty, wise, omniscient, universal love – and draw nearer to it every day! While you remain disconnected from the center, you will be tossed ...
We are on earth for a reason, or the Lords of Destiny would have sent us elsewhere. There are plenty of places in the universe for a pleasant vacation. The best place to go, in fact, is the sun. You will say, ‘The sun? But we will be burned!' Yes, ...
There are so many things to discover when watching the sunrise, so many exercises that enable us to immerse ourselves in this life, this light and this warmth! As the day dawns, a great event is being prepared in the sky. Clouds, sombre or bright, ...
...Learn to rally your thoughts, your desires and even all the tendencies of your lower nature to fulfil a sublime ideal. The sun can help you achieve this task of unification and harmonization. As you watch it rise in the morning, imagine that yo...
...And not only will you improve your health, you will purify your feelings and illuminate your thoughts. ...
The sunrise – that splendid event that takes place each morning – is worth going to see, even if it's hard for you to get up early in the morning, even if you're half asleep. You may say you won't gain anything from it if you're half asleep. But you ...
From the moment you sincerely decide to do God's will, you come closer to him. And then, what does he tell you? ‘I am present in all creatures, and every time you bring them life, warmth and light, you serve me. Take the sun as your example.' You ...
When you meditate, strive to go very high inside yourself and then to remain that high for as long as possible. Going high and remaining there means never failing to be noble, fair and generous, which also implies knowing how to ‘come down' to help ...
Someone will say, ‘What is the point of making the effort to be honest, good and generous when the law of the jungle reigns everywhere in society just as it does in nature? Why should I be any different?' You hear this reasoning so often! But those ...
We endlessly oscillate between two poles: between the centre and the periphery, or the summit and the base. The periphery and the base stand for all the concerns of our lower nature, which cause us to leave our place at the centre or the summit. For ...
It is important to recognize that human beings cannot conceive of God. But as, in his goodness and generosity, he wants to be revealed to them, he has placed signs everywhere in creation to allow them to find him. Except that humans do not look for ...
When you want to attend the morning sunrise, think about preparing yourself for it the day before. And as you are setting off, hold firmly in your head and heart the conviction that not only will you meet the dawn, but you will also be taking part ...
Take the sun as your model, as it sheds light, warmth and life. You will say there are other models: a scientist perhaps, an artist, a philosopher, a hero, a saint or a spiritual Master, and they seem so much more accessible than the sun! Of course, ...
To learn a trade, however modest – as a cooper for example or a barber – you would go to someone who practises that trade to see how they make the barrels or cut the beards. But if people want to learn how to become immortal and live the eternal ...
What a privilege it is to be able to contemplate the sunrise! This is why, each year, as spring returns, you should prepare for these unique moments. No presence in the world can bring order and harmony into you like the sun, nor give you the same ...
Light is a spirit, a spirit that comes from the sun… Each ray is a current of forces travelling through space, and when this current is absorbed by beings and things it works on them. If there is one area that requires further study, it is that of ...
In our solar system the earth and the other planets harmoniously orbit the sun. We must take this image deep into ourselves, as we must reproduce in ourselves the harmonious movement of the planets around the sun, in order for all the particles of ...
... warmth throughout the universe, you can have an effect on all regions in space by means of your thoughts and feelings. During this journey you will meet a host of creatures, and you will greet them and be greeted back. Realize that this is wha...
In the morning you go to watch the sun rise: a luminous sphere emerges slowly from the darkness, and its brilliance soon fills all of space. Immerse yourself in this light, in this ocean of vibrating, pulsating life… Imagine you are swimming in it, ...
You are not yet aware that the sun's rays are able to feed your spirit. Yes, but only if you learn how to receive them, only if you open yourself to them with all your heart and soul. Can you not accept that light is more than a physical vibration, ...
The only way to attract angelic beings and keep them with us is to create a very pure atmosphere around us. One of the best times for doing this is while the sun is rising. As the sun climbs above the horizon, it changes colour. First it is red, ...
Each morning, the sun rises, full of life and vibrant, and sends its wealth of light, warmth and life out into space. And some people wonder why they remain insensible to it, as if there was a screen between them and the sun. Actually, there is a ...
The sun is the source of universal love. Each day it deposits living particles in all of nature, and we then receive these particles through contact with stones, plants, animals… and even our fellow humans. For men and women also possess some of the ...
Each morning we go to contemplate the sun, but we can only truly know what it is with a great deal of effort and patience. Even though it is there, shining, bright and dazzling, it does not reveal itself to us so easily, and our everyday ...
... the surrounding trees, also nourish us, if we know how to cook them… Yes, cook them! With our thoughts and our love we can make delicious dishes from all these elements.
Spiritual life is a kind of nutrition. It is the art of turning everythin...
...You will say that is cruel. It's not, for the peak is nevertheless still sending some of its thoughts, some of its love, to the valley below. As does the sun… The sun sends its rays to earth, and these rays are like long ropes it lowers down fo...
In the morning when you go to watch the sunrise, allow yourself to be filled with the purity of the atmosphere and with the glow that gradually appears on the horizon announcing the coming of a new day. Life on earth, it is true, is but a succession ...
An initiate's consciousness never ceases to expand – wider, deeper and higher. And in the vast space that it is able to explore and conquer, it embraces and enters all living beings. Nothing stops it; it keeps spreading out further and further, all ...
Jesus said, ‘Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect'. But what can we know of the perfection of the heavenly Father? The answer is in the sun: as we look at it, we find that the heavenly Father is infinite light, warmth and life. Jesus also ...
The idea of work is very often associated with that of difficulty, even of punishment inflicted on humans by the Creator in atonement for their original sin. And yet work can be a source of joy. But then it's not just any kind of work; the work you ...
Sometimes someone will come and complain to me, ‘You advise us to go to the sunrise. You tell us that the divine seeds the Creator has placed in us are made to grow by the spiritual sun, through the activity of the physical sun. But for the twenty ...
...earth, the surrounding trees also feed us if we know how to be good cooks! Yes, cooks. Using our thoughts and our love, we can make delicious dishes from all these elements.
The spiritual life is nourishment. It is the art of turning everything...
Do you wish to find balance and peace? Strive each day to connect with your divine centre. Every particle of your being and all the energies moving within you will then begin to revolve around this divine centre, finding harmony and order in ...
Every year, on 22 September, the sun enters the sign of Libra, beginning a new period. This is autumn, the time when ripe fruit is gathered, grain is sifted to be eaten or stored to be sown later, so that the cycle can begin again. But this work of ...
...Disciples learn to rally their thoughts, their desires and even all the tendencies of their lower nature to fulfil a sublime ideal. But perhaps you are unaware that the sun can help you achieve this task of unification and harmonization. As you...
...carry them within you, and because of them you have a garden full of fruit, yes, a garden of thoughts and feelings. Well, it is the same with the sun, because everything in the universe is built on the same model....
As you gaze at the sun and meditate on it, be aware that it has been bringing light and warmth to the earth and its inhabitants for millions of years. And it does so without needing to know who delights in its rays and is grateful to receive them ...
You feel weak and have no desire for anything… Don't remain doing nothing. Tell yourself you can draw on energies from the cosmic reservoir at any time. But, of course, the most propitious time is in the morning, at sunrise.As you look at the sun, ...
...carries a child in her womb. While she is carrying her child, she can influence it through her thoughts, feelings and wishes to walk the path of light. Then, the child is born, and what everyone here sees as a beginning is, in fact, the end of ...
Yesterday, you made an effort, and today you have to begin again, for today is a new day. And don't say you are tired. We all have to make an effort every single day, because every day we need new food. Yesterday's food was for yesterday.In the ...
Only after repeated efforts contemplating the sun each morning can we get to know it, for it does not reveal itself that easily, and our everyday activities are no preparation when it comes to perceiving a life of such subtlety, one that nourishes ...
It is generally believed that only adult humans really possess intelligence. They do, of course, and in a way that is particularly obvious, but actually there is already intelligence in new-borns, even in animals, although in a way that still ...
The sun is the source of universal love: it leaves its particles of life in all of nature, and we then receive these particles via stones, plants, animals and even humans. Yes, men and women also possess a few particles from the sun, but only very ...