Never forget this, each time you achieve something, stop and ask yourself what is decreasing at the same time. For instance, if you spend your time increasing your wealth, you might wonder if your health is not decreasing. Take what I am giving you today and keep it in mind for the rest of your [...]
Many people have no sense of the value of things – sacred or not, splendid and precious or not – they just trample on them. No matter how virtuous and qualified the person before them is, no matter if they stand to gain the sun and the stars by paying attention to them, they remain [...]
You have to be alive to enjoy things! People are preoccupied with dead things; the more dead things they accumulate, the less alive they are and the less they rejoice! Do you long for cars, money, a swimming pool, a lover or mistress? Well, make sure you are capable of enjoying them, that you have [...]
I have met many creative people who were as satisfied as they could be, but still, something was lacking! Do not look for happiness or for the solution to your problems on the lower planes, the soul and spirit need an element that is not to be found on the lower planes. Go up to [...]
Human beings fill their lives with all kinds of things, work and study, travel, sport, marriage and children, jobs, hobbies for their spare time, etc., but if you ask them, ‘Are you happy, do you feel satisfied and fulfilled?’ they answer that for all their activity, possessions and occupations, there is something lacking. What is [...]
As was foretold by the Prophet Ezekiel, the changes that will take place in the future will be so great, the light and love of God will be so powerfully and so widely diffused throughout the world, that men will learn directly from God himself; they will understand the Scriptures and live a life of [...]
Of course we cannot force our teaching or our way of life on anyone. Only very few are ready and anxious to transform themselves and their way of life, and if they have achieved this frame of mind it is often because they have experienced difficulties in their lives and have come to realize that [...]
There is already one whole volume of my lectures about the sun, and yet I have still not told you much. What horizons would be revealed to humans if only they understood more about the sun! Take Jesus’ command to love our enemies for example. How difficult it is to accept such an idea—to love [...]
The Church of St Peter has always been appallingly intolerant, chopping off heads or burning at the stake all those who refused to think or behave exactly according to the rules it laid down. The members of the Church of St John, on the other hand, have never cut off anyone’s head; they have never [...]
St Peter's Square - The time is coming for the Church of St John to manifest itself, and when it does so, its riches and its superiority will be visible to the whole world. When that day comes, the Church of Peter will be forced, whether it likes it or not, to transform itself and [...]
