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Small
Discourses - Series II b
Unless said otherwise, all translations were made by Luis Prada. To Truth It is Arrived By Sheer Intuition.
Sources
of Inspiration
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Master El
Morya,
from the Book Pearls of Light ("Perlas
de Luz"),
Volume II,
Centro Lusitano de Unificación Cultural,
http://www.centrolusitano.org
Original in Spanish, translation
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In true silence
is the force to use. In true Peace, the impetus. In darkness, Light.
Do not search in the illusory realms that which Is!
The essence of your task is in some place... where only can be arrived by silence, by peace, and by the magnetic force of Love, a tranquil and serene Love, but intense, positive, irresistible.
In the midst of the arduous task, it is possible to repair forces.
The more energy you give, the more you will receive, to serve more.
The more you abandon yourself, the more you will find yourself.
Here is the
ultimate tonic, all else should come from your silent Master Within...
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What
Is the I AM?
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Marcos
Hugo Cárdenas-Mancilla
Original in Spanish, translation
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The powerful verb I AM, more than a simple verb is God alive, alive within me, in those surrounding me and in all the world.
I
AM is the purest MANIFESTATION of the divine
on earth, it is the will of God acting through us.
I
AM is the eternal and indestructible LIFE,
the "universe" is the clearest manifestation of life.
I
AM is LOVE, He created us loving us,
expecting that we discover and utilize this fountain that cures all.
I
AM is TRUTH, the presence that reigns in our
lives and comes up afloat from any depth of lies.
I
AM
is INTELLIGENCE,
the energy that moves
among us and is in everything that surrounds us.
I
AM
is UNITY, we are made in the image and after the likeness of God, we are
a part of Him.
I
AM
is SPIRIT, it is the magical presence we all possess, we are eternal
spirits.
I
AM
is PRINCIPLE, the perfect harmony.
I
AM
is our
DAILY LIVING, what surrounds us, what we are.
I understand
this and I accept it.
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Beyond
the Heart's Thread There Is Nothing
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El Morya,
Heart, 1932
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The consequences of the beginning of the Greatest Battle react primarily upon the heart of mankind. The affirmation of the heart is especially needed now; otherwise the ignorant heart will not be able to withstand the hurricane of the confusion of the elements. Therefore, think of the heart as the basic principle, which connects you with the distant worlds. It must be realized what actually burdens the heart most of all. Not special events burden the heart so much as the succession of small specks of daily dust.
This is very necessary to remember, because great events can even give a special influx of psychic energy. But Armageddon does not consist only of great events, on the contrary, a multitude of small actions receive their evaluation, and to this shower of small currents it is necessary for the poor heart to become accustomed. I say poor because in essence it already knows the great fiery spheres, yet in the meantime it must be shattered against the rocks of Earth.
Thus, hold firmly; beyond the heart’s thread there is nothing.
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False
Jewels
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Kuthumi,
from the Book "Seeds and Pearls" ("Semillas
y Perlas"),
Vol. I,
from Centro
Lusitano de Unificación Cultural,
http://www.centrolusitano.org.
Original in Spanish, translation.
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Your hands are securing a basket of coins that tomorrow will cease to circulate. Such are the values, conceptions and pretensions of the old order that our Lord Maitreya comes to reform. Those are the treasures, possessions and conquests of the old world that powerful convulsions will devastate shortly. What are their use in that case? If you do not lack Faith in these truths we have spoken to you about, why are not your hands free to reach out the abundance of the true treasures —the sapphires, amethysts, eternal diamonds—- that are in the teachings, before you?
Brothers,
do not cling
to the things of the old world. Briefly you will see
—if
not already—
that
they are worth nothing.
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Owner
of My Emotions
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Unknown Author.
Original in Spanish, translation.
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Today I will be owner of my emotions.
If I feel
depressed, I will sing.
If I feel
sad, I will laugh.
If I feel
sick, I will
intensify my work.
If I feel afraid, I will
launch myself forward.
If I feel
inferior,
I will don new clothes.
If I feel
insecure, I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty, I will
think in future wealth.
If I feel
incompetent, I will remember
past successes.
If I feel
insignificant, I will
remember my goals.
Today I will be owner of my emotions.
If
excessive confidence takes hold of me, I will remember my failures.
If I feel
excessively inclined to the good life, I will remember past hungry.
If I
feel complacent, I will remember my competition.
If I enjoy moments of
greatness, I will remember moments of shame.
If I feel
almighty, I will try to stop the wind.
If I reach great riches, I
will remember a hungry mouth.
If I feel
excessively proud, I
will remember a moment of weakness.
If I think that my ability
has no peers, I will stare at the stars.
Definitely,
today I will be owner of my emotions.
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The
Seven Precepts of the Light Servers
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Unknown Author.
Original in Spanish, translation.
Taken from:
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Atlantis/1706/index2.html
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1.
To make of
your life an example of conduct worth imitating.
2.
To seek by
all means to know, understand and obey the Laws of the Universe.
3. To
search for the self knowledge of who you are, where did you come from, why are
you here, which is your mission on Earth and where are you going.
4. To
recognize your own limits and to look for surpassing them.
5. To
be at Peace with your own consciousness and to transmit that Peace to your
fellow beings.
6. To
withdraw your mind and heart barriers, to be opened to the High and to donate
yourself as an efficient instrument of your own I AM.
7. To
be LOVE, WISDOM and POWER in constant harmony and balance.
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A
Day As Any Other One
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Unknown Author.
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And so after waiting for so long, a day as any other one I decided to succeed, I decided to not wait for the opportunities but to look for them by myself, I decided to see each problem as the opportunity to find a solution, I decided to see each desert as the opportunity to find an oasis, I decided to see each night as a mystery to solve, I decided to see each day as a new opportunity to be happy. That day I discovered that my only rival was not more than my own weaknesses, and that in these ones is the only and best way to excel ourselves, that day I let fear of losing and started to fear not winning, I discovered that I was not the best and that perhaps never was, I stop caring about who wins or loses, now I only care to know I am better that yesterday.
I
learned that the difficult is not to arrive at the top, but to never stop
climbing. I learned that the best triumph I can have is to have the right
of calling somebody "Friend". I discovered that love is more important
than a simple state of falling in love, "love
is a philosophy of life". That
day I left being a reflection of my scarce past triumphs and I started to be my
own tenuous light of this present, I learned that serves nothing to be light if
you are not going to illumine the path for others. That day I decided to
change so many things, that day I learned that dreams are only to become
reality, since that day I do not sleep to rest, now I simple sleep to dream.
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The
Three Plenitudes
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Unknown Author.
Original in Spanish, translation.
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There are three kinds of plenitudes:
The
plenitude of the glass, it retains and does not give
The plenitude of the
canal, it gives and does not retain
The
plenitude of the source, it creates, retains and gives
There are many glass-men:
They
are people dedicated to store virtues or science, who read everything, collect
titles, know what can be known, but believe finished their task when they have
concluded their storage:
they neither share wisdom nor happiness. They have, but do not share.
They are magnificent, but magnificently sterile. They are simple servers
of their own selfishness.
There are
also canal-men: It is the people who waste themselves in words, who pass
their lives doing and doing things. They suffer the neurosis of the
action, and have to make many things and all in a rush, they believe to be
serving everyone else, but their service is, sometimes, a wave of calming their
soul's itchiness. They give and then, after giving, they feel empty.
How difficult
it is, instead, to find source-men, people who give from what they have
made a substance of their souls, who share as the flames, lighting the
neighbor's without diminishing theirs, because they recreate all they live and
share all what they have recreated. They give without hesitation, they
water without dwindling, they offer their water without becoming dry.
Christ should have been one like this. We, perhaps, would do a lot by
being one of those threads that fall dripping from up high the great mountain of
Life...
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If
You Never...
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René Trosero
Original in Spanish, translation.
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If you never
break a bunch of grapes in the press house,
you'll
never have a glass of wine on the table.
If you
never risk to lose,
you'll
never give yourself the opportunity to win.
If you
never confront the pain of parting,
you'll
never know the happiness of returning.
If you
never suffer dying in the sowing,
you'll
never enjoy be reborn in the harvest.
If you
never suffer the pain of your guilt
,you'll
never savor the relief of forgiveness.
If you
never mill the grains of your wheat,
you'll
never know the taste of bread.
If you
never face the fear of letting go the way you are,
you'll
never discover the happiness of being as you can be.
If you
never are willing to die for a just cause,
you'll
never know why you live for.
If you
never confront your pain, and stop laughing to cry instead,
you'll
never know the joy of stop crying to laugh.
If you
never risk crossing the river,
you'll
never know what waits on the other bank.
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Know
When to Speak and When to Keep Quiet
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Unknown Author.
Original in Spanish, translation.
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TO SPEAK appropriately, is a success.
TO SPEAK in front of the enemy, is civism.
TO SPEAK before injustice, is courage.
TO SPEAK to rectify, is a duty.
TO SPEAK to defend, is compassion.
TO SPEAK before pain, is to console
TO SPEAK to help others, is charity.
TO SPEAK with sincerity, is rectitude.
TO SPEAK of yourself, is vanity.
TO SPEAK restituting fame, is uprightness.
TO SPEAK clarifying gossips, is stupidity.
TO SPEAK spreading false ones, is about consciousness.
TO SPEAK of defects, is to hurt.
TO SPEAK when should be quiet, is nonsense.
TO SPEAK just to speak, is foolishness.
TO KEEP QUIET when they accuse, is heroism.
TO KEEP QUIET when they insult, is love.
TO KEEP QUIET on the own pains, is sacrifice.
TO KEEP QUIET about yourself, is humility.
TO KEEP QUIET about human miseries, is charity.
TO KEEP QUIET on time, is prudence.
TO KEEP QUIET in sorrow, is penitence.
TO KEEP QUIET not uttering useless words, is virtue.
TO KEEP QUIET when they hurt, is sanctity.
TO KEEP QUIET to defend, is nobility.
TO KEEP QUIET before other's defects, is benevolence.
TO KEEP QUIET when required to speak, is cowardice.
We should learn first TO KEEP QUIET to be able TO SPEAK afterwards, but always
with success and skill, because if TO SPEAK is silver, TO KEEP QUIET is gold.
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Love
Yourself to Love Others
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Unknown Author.
Original in Spanish, translation.
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When you are well with yourself you can only be well with others. When you manage your loneliness you can only manage a relationship.
You need to value yourself to value other, love yourself to love other, respect yourself to respect other, and accept yourself to accept other, since nobody gives what does not have within.
No relationship gives you the peace you do not create within.
No relationship will offer you the happiness you do not build.
You will be able to be happy with another person only when you be able to tell him/her: "I do not need you to be happy."
You will be able to love by only being independent to the point of not needing to manipulate nor drive the ones you say you love them.
To be happy will only be possible when two happy people join to share their happiness, not to make happy one another.
To love you need a humble self-sufficiency, self-esteem and the practice of a responsible freedom.
To pretend other people make us happy and fill all our expectations is a narcissist fantasy that only brings frustrations.
So, love yourself a lot, and the day you may say to the other: "without you I live fine," that day you will be more prepared to live as a couple.
TO GIVE IS TO
LOVE
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How
Essential Is Spiritual Truth
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Charles A. Lindbergh
(1902-1974),
aviation pioneer. From his book: "Of Flight and Life."
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To me, in youth, science was more important than either man or God. I worshipped science. I was awed by its knowledge. Its advantages had surpassed man's wildest dreams. In its learning seemed to lie the key to all mysteries of life.
It took many years for me to discover that science, with all its brilliance, lights only a middle chapter of creation. I saw the science I worshipped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve, and which I thought as permanent as the earth itself.
Now I realize that to survive, one must look beyond the speed and power of aircraft, beyond the material strength of science. And, though God cannot be seen as tangibly as I had demanded as a child, His Presence can be sensed en every sight and act and incident. Now I know that when man loses this sense, he misses the true skies; the brotherhood of men; the joy of wife and children. He loses the Infinite strength without which no people can survive, the element which war cannot defeat or peace corrupt.
Now I understand that spiritual truth is more essential to a nation than the mortar in its cities' walls. For when the actions of a people are unguided by these truths, it is only a matter of time before the walls themselves collapse.
The most
urgent mission of our time is to understand these truths, and to apply them to
our way of modern life. We must draw strength from the almost forgotten
virtues of simplicity, humility, contemplation, prayer. It requires a
dedication beyond science, beyond self, but the rewards are great and it is
our only hope!
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Experiencing
the Meeting with Divinity
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Reflection of Hindu poet
Kabir as told by
Paulo Coelho.
Original in Spanish, translation.
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From the Hindu poet Kabir (1440-1518):
“There is no more but water in the sacred pools and rivers. That I know since I swam in both places. None of the gods, not even the carved in precious wood and marble, can say a single word. That I know, since I beseeched them. The sacred books of Orient and Occident are no more than loose words. That I know, since I studied their covers, and I already read them.
“However, if
you experience the meeting with Divinity, all start to make sense: the waters
turn back to express the sacred, the gods answer, the words reveal. But
that only happens when you experience Divinity. In that case, these and
others are only but many of the important things that other generations wanted
to leave us and did not know how to explain them to us.”
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The
Greatness of God Is...
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Unknown Author.
Original in Spanish, translation.
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The Greatness of God is...
More sky
that man can see,
More seas
that he can navigate,
More sun
that he can see,
More stars
than those he can measure
More breath
that he can breathe,
More yield
that he can produce,
More Grace
that he can comprehend.
More Love
that he can know.
Qualities
and Obstacles to Happiness
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Torkom
Saraydarian.
Original in Spanish, translation.
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The seven qualities of happiness:
Spirit is resurrection. The body may be crucified, but not the spirit.
Obstacles of Happiness:
Health increases your happiness. If you are
not healthy, you lose happiness. Dynamism and enthusiasm increase your
happiness. For example, if you are doing dishes with hate and anger, and
you have malice, your happiness evaporates. But if you are working with
enthusiasm, you increase your happiness.
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If
You Love Your Child...
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Unknown Author.
Original in Spanish, translation.
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If you
love your child...
Answer
him, do not inform him.
Protect
him, do not cover him.
Help
him, do not replace him.
Keep
him warm, do not cover him.
Love
him, do not worship him.
Give
him company, do not carry him.
Show
him danger, do not frighten him.
Incorporate
him, do not isolate him.
Encourage
his hopes in him, do not
disenchant him.
Do
not demand him to be the best,
ask him to be good and give him your example.
Do
not lavish him, surround him with love.
Do
not teach him to be, be yourself as you want him to be.
Do
not dedicate your life to him, live all together.
Remember
that your child does not listen to you, he watches you.
And
finally, when the canary cage is broken, do not buy another cage, teach him to
live without door.
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And
God Said...
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Unknown Author.
Original in Spanish, translation.
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And God said...
If nobody loves you, my happiness is to
love you.
If
you cry, I AM desiring to console you.
If you are weak, I 'll give you
strength and happiness.
If
nobody needs you, I look for you.
If
you are useless, I cannot disregard you.
If
you are empty, my tenderness will fill you to the brim.
If
you have fear, I carry you in my arms.
If
you want to walk, I will go with you.
If
you call me, I will always come.
I
you get lost, I do not sleep 'til I find you.
If
you are tired, I AM your rest.
If
you sin, I AM your pardon.
If
you speak, address me by you.
If
you ask me, I AM gift for you.
If
you need me, I tell you: I AM here within you.
If
you resist, I do not want you to do anything by force.
If
you are in darkness, I AM lamp for your steps.
If
you are hungry, I AM your bread of life for you.
If
you are faithful, I AM faithful with you.
If
you want to talk, I always listen to you.
If
you look at me, you'll see the truth in your heart.
If
you're in prison, I'm going to visit you and set you free.
If
you go away, I don't want you to keep appearances.
If
you think I AM your rival, I don't want to be above you.
If
you all want to see my face, look at a flower, a fountain, a child...
If you are excluded, I AM your
affiliated.
If
everybody forgets you, my entrails tremble
remembering you.
If
you don't have anybody, you have me.
If
you are silent, my word will inhabit your heart.
The
Tators
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Unknown Author.
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Some people never wanted to help or to participate in anything; they prefer to look at how others act. These are the SPEC - Tators.
Others never offer themselves a hand, but are very skillful at criticizing those who act. They are called COMMEN - Tators.
Then there are the authoritarians who like to giver orders and to say to others what they have to do, without ever "getting their hands dirty." These are the DIC - Tators.
Some like to sow discord instigating and provoking distrust and criticism in others. For them everything is either too hot or too cold, too late or too early. These are the AGI - Tators.
There are also the ones who wanted to do something, but cannot ever fulfill their commitments or do them at last moment. They are the DUBI - Tators.
Others even place themselves on a stage and show an image of themselves that does not correspond to their true personality. They are the IMI - Tators.
And in short there are those who look at others with affection and keep their word when committing themselves. They are always willing to interrupt their activities when dealing with lending a hand to others. These are as the sun in our lives. We call them the Good Tators.
If you
know Good Tators, send them this message of encouragement.
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Your
Attitude in Life
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Unknown Author.
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The problem is not if life is easy or difficult, but in how we react before obstacles. If one day a door closes before you, the solution is not by breaking your head banging against it, but to ask yourself if there will be, beside it or in the same direction, some other door through which you can pass.
In life sometimes you have to accept emergency exits, though they force you to make a little meandering. Procure, at the same time, to have two or three illusions light up always; thus, if one is extinguished, you still have others from which to continue living.
Always distinguish between you ideals and the ways of fulfilling them. Those are untouchables, these ones, not. If someone places obstacles to your ideal, ask yourself if he opposes your ideal or the way of fulfilling it. And do not see problems in changing the form of looking for it, as long as you continue searching for the same ideal.
Learn in life to be persistent and tenacious with a stubborn head. Do not cede to your ideas nor your convictions, but do not forget that a truth can be said a thousand ways and it is not worthwhile to suffer for certain ways of expression.
And when a
wave stronger than you comes, stoop over, let it pass, wait... and then continue
swimming. Attempt to convert yourself to the best you can ever be.
Many have fear of achieving their potential because they're afraid of finding a
closed door. This is not a correct attitude. You should develop
yourself to the best possible. Even the smallest person has the greatest
potential if he (or she) utilizes all within himself (or herself.)
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Bad
Desires
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Gloria Otero-Gutiérrez
Excerpt from the Book "Faith"
("Fe"), Editorial Orión,
Mexico.
Original in Spanish, translation
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Pay attention to the bad desires that deep inside are no other thing than the desire to manifest GOOD, but looking for it the wrong way.
The desire itself of taken someone else's love partner, it is not but the desire to find your own LOVE. If I desire my neighbor's husband, I can understand that is not that God wants me to take my friend's husband, it is that LOVE itself is knocking at my door, for which I have the legitimate right of possessing or manifesting, but not other people's love, I have the right to possess mine, and if I fall in love with the neighbor is because I am mistaken the way of developing my love, in other words, I have the right to have my love, mine own, to be so beautiful, so good, so desirable as the neighbor's husband, but, I repeat, my own. The majority of times we are carried away by the blind desire, without analyzing which is truly this one, since in the case of desiring my neighbor's husband, it is not the man I desire, but my LOVE manifested in the appropriate man, and mistakenly I believe that the desire is on other people's man.
We put obstacles to fulfill
our desires when we lose sight of the real point of desire.
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Faith
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Unknown Author.
Original in Spanish, translation.
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Each
one is saved by his faith, if he lives in conformity with it.Faith
is like a light. It is not lit to see it but to see what it illumines.If you want
to show me your faith, do not tell me how many truths you believe;
show me how you live.When
you profess your faith in God and do not believe in man, ask yourself what
your God thinks about man.Do
not accuse the believer because he does not live consequently with his faith,
but before ask yourself how far are you consequent with your atheism.You
do not convert into a believer when you change the way of thinking, but when
you change your way of living.Any
light shines surrounded by darkness. Any faith shines surrounded by
doubts.When
you believe in God, you walk in the night and with the light of a lamp someone
else carries in his hand.The
light of the faith never illumines all the road, but each day's journey.
If you want it illumine you tomorrow, walk today.All
are more atheist than we believe and more believers than what we think.When
you stop believing in God, you start to venerate many idols.If you are
sure of your faith, you will let others believe what they want.
Insecurity does not tolerate what is different.You
cannot have the same faith by reciting the same creed and practicing the same
rites. Look around you and observe life!If in some
terrain each person's liberty and originality must be respected, it is in
their way of relating with God.THERE
IS ONLY ONE GOD, but each believer sees him with his
eyes and in his own way.I
think atheists do not reject God, but only the caricatures of God shown to him
by believers.
How
God Teaches
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Pablo Coelho,
from the book:
"Light Warrior" ("El Guerreo de la Luz")
Original in Spanish, translation.
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God...
Uses
solitude, to teach cohabitation.
Uses
anger to show the infinite value of peace.
Uses
boredom to stress the importance of
adventure and abandonment.
Uses
silence to teach about the responsibility of
words.
Uses
tiredness so that the value of awakening
can be understood.
Uses
disease to stress the blessing of health.
Uses
fire to teach about water.
Uses
earth to comprehend the value of air.
Uses
death to shown the importance of life.
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To
Change Myself to Change the World
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Sufi Bayazid
Original in Spanish, translation.
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Sufi Bayazid says about himself:
As a youth I was a revolutionary and my prayer consisted of saying to God: "Lord, give me strength to change the world".
As I was becoming an adult I realized that half my life I had passed without being able to change a single soul, I transformed my prayer and started to say: "Lord, give me grace to transform all who come in contact with me. Even though they be my family and friends only. With that, I'm satisfied".
Now that I am an old man and have my days counted, I have started to comprehend how stupid I have been... My only prayer is as follows: "Lord, give the grace to change myself". If I had prayed this way from the beginning, I wouldn't have wasted my life.
The key is:
To change myself, to change the world!!!
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The
Aphorisms of Taniguchi
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Masaharu Taniguchi
Taken from a
Spanish text, translation.
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Wise
is who is able to do simple and natural things...
Divine
love is the human being's true love...
To live truthfully is to live "the
now"...
A
radiant smile illumines the soul as the light of the Sun illumines the Earth...
Don't
be low-spirited with failures...
God
is the force that fills to the brim all the Universe...
Love
without expecting a reward...
Who
believes the Truth and puts it into practice, overcomes...
Love before you desire to be loved...
The human being grows and improves when
enjoys true freedom...
What you desire is in your interior...
The
feeling of gratitude is the only force capable of creating a perfect world...
God
manifests where there is a feeling of gratitude...
There
is no better than the words of praise...
Praising the qualities, the defects
disappear...
To
think is to create...
For
the human being there is no death...
Every
new day is the beginning of a new life...
There
is only light, darkness does not exist...
Be
born daily...
Only
overcome who does not hang on others...
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