In a spiritual teaching, you learn how to excel yourself, to surpass yourself. Of course, this is just a manner of speaking, for you cannot distance yourself from yourself; everything is inside you. It is your consciousness that must raise itself to attain higher levels. When you feel as if you have been projected into heaven, as far as the stars, and come into contact with divine light, what you have really done is go further, higher – you could even say deeper – within yourself. What you have attained is your Higher Self, and it is your Higher Self that gives you the potential to create new, purer and more harmonious forms.

In order to express the realities of the spiritual world, we need to use the concrete language of the physical world, as though we are talking about spatial distances and volumes. But in reality, everything takes place within us, in our Higher Self, our Divine Self.

#Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
Izvor Book 228, « Looking Into the Invisible »
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