The cabbalists also teach that the human being has several souls: the emotional or astral soul known as Nephesh; the intellectual or rational soul, Ruah, and the three higher souls, Neshamah, Haia and Yehida. The Hindus, on the other hand, speak of bodies rather than souls and this is equally correct, for every particle of [...]
'Over the course of my life, I have had occasion to study many individual people and to see why they do what they do, to see what their motives are and what they hope to obtain. And as it was often easy for me to see in advance that a person’s built-in faculties and capacities [...]
Many new types of activity have appeared in recent years- 'Today, I want to add a few words to what I was saying yesterday about work, for there are a great many points that still need to be clarified. Certain kinds of work erode and disintegrate human beings and make it impossible for them to [...]
'Scientists have decided to limit their research to the objective, material world, because it can be observed by everyone in the same way. They ignore the world of the soul and spirit, or even deny its existence, claiming that no one is capable of constructing equipment needed to measure it. Scientists are compromising themselves with [...]
'When your soul leaves your body during sleep, it is not inactive – it travels, it contemplates immensity, it communes with heavenly spirits, and it strengthens its understanding of love, wisdom and truth. On its return, it brings back the memory of all this wealth and attempts to register it in the brain. And even [...]
'You should understand that you are all divinities. Yes, divinities, and you live on a high plane free of limitations, shadows and darkness, sorrow and suffering, in the midst of abundance and joy. We are like radios that cannot pick up all the stations Do you want to know what prevents you from manifesting the [...]
'It is interesting to converse with snails, besides which it helps you to understand how God created the world. He emanated a very fine subtle matter, his own essence, which then solidified. Between yawns you are thinking: silly bedtime story! One day everyone including the most learned and erudite will stay awake to hear such [...]
'Let us suppose you are looking at a prism. With the eyes of the personality you will see no more than an object, a three-sided transparent crystal from which, when the light hits it, seven wonderful colours come streaming forth. This is wonderful indeed, but it is still on an ordinary level of consciousness. That [...]
We must reach the superconscious level, the level of the individuality. The individuality is characterized by an expanded consciousness, we reach it only when we understand that all creatures, all life is one, that all living creatures form a unity in the ocean of universal life in which all are immersed. Then our feelings change, [...]
‘The higher and lower natures in a human being are not really separate. The individuality keeps trying to bring its good influence to bear upon the personality but, since the personality is interested only in being free and independent, it listens only to itself and seldom obeys the higher impulses. Continued from previous post... Although [...]