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TO GIVE THEM LIFE

 

1.     What does man wed? Correct thought, exalted feelings and a healthy body. In these is contained man’s progress.

 

2.     A person who is healthy can achieve anything. In order to achieve everything in life you have to understand your own life and not the lives of others.

 

3.     Most people say that life is difficult. Life is difficult when we think only about people and not about God.

 

4.     Life manifests itself over a wide area. The wider the area, the more this can be made use of, both by individuals and the whole of mankind.

 

5.     The sense of life consists of what a person, at any given moment, can reasonably make use of.

 

6.     Life must be understood, not improved.

 

7.     If a person first of all expects the conditions of his own life to improve and then to live better, he is on the wrong road.

 

8.     Life is good in itself, but man must understand and moke use of it.

 

9.     Some say that one can learn from all sources and from everything. No, one can only learn from that which comes from God.

 

10.   Man should know that he is in a world created by God, in which God rules.

 

11.   If a person can take advantage of the bounties of this world, it will be for the sole reason that he bears the Truth within himself.

 

12.   If he renounces this truth, he cuts off the road by which these bounties come and thus severs his link with life.

 

13.   The greatest bounty jw man is life itself, but as we live we must learn to distinguish true thought from false, true freedom from apparent freedom.

 

14.   If a person thinks that others can carry out work on his behalf, that is a misunderstanding of life.

 

15.   Human happiness lies in understanding, adopting and applying things.

 

16.   In his present condition man is seeking a path along which to pass with the least possible expenditure, obstacles and contradictions.

 

17.   If he has not placed himself in God’s hands, a person has the right to seek the easy way, to look after himself. If, however, he has placed himself in God’s hands, there is no need for him to take care of himself, to seek his own path.

 

18.   Now we come to the beautiful side of life. This is knowing why we are here on earth.

 

19.   The following thought will now come to your minds: which doctrine is correct? A correct doctrine is one which is founded on complete, absolute faith. That means even in life’s most contradictory situations not allowing a shadow of doubt about God to enter one’s mind.

 

20.   Life is a place for setting things up, for work. If somebody has got dirty, it does not matter. Fetch some clean water and help him to clean himself. That is the path of lave, of exaltation.

 

21.   Show tolerance to yourself and your neighbours and be thankful that you were sent to earth to correct yourself and to learn.

 

22.   Do your work calmly, without becoming indifferent to it. This needs understanding.

 

23.   Man comes to earth to test his love far God.

 

24.   When will the kingdom of God came to earth? On the Day of Judgement. The Day ofJudgement will be dark, it will be a dark, stormy day. To greet this day joyfully you must have a lighted candle by which to read easily throughout all the storms and hurricanes, all adversities.

 

25.   The people of to-day have studied all the sciences except the science of life. When suffering comes, they will have to learn it whether they like it or not.

 

26.   Do not limit yourself or others.

 

27.   Learn to give, as other people give to you.

 

28.   The people of to-day have already entered the wide world. What should they do there? They must learn contentment, lo be contented under all conditions.

 

29.   Man must now learn love for his own self rather than for other people.

 

30.   “Fear God!” When will man stop being afraid of God? When he is liberated from fear, which is an animal state.

 

31.   “Love God!” How shall we love God, from within or without

 

32.   How will you find God? The only way to find God is love; only he who loves can find God.

 

33.   Man mast seek that which is new, that which bears eternal youth.

 

34.   Seek the new! Seek the new life! In order to enter this life you must find in everybody one good characteristic which enables you to love that person.

 

35.   The intelligent person should love all people without their suspecting it.

 

36.   Helping somebody who is in need without saying a single word to him, without showing that you love him is what is new on earth.

 

37.   What is the distinguishing feature of the new life? The new life carries freedom; it frees man from all bonds, from all delusions.

 

38.   Thus, he who wishes to set out on the true path of life must live according to love. Living according to love means loving all people without creating laws.

 

39.   Do not adhere to the law but to love. Let love be the standard in your life. If people embarrass or offend you, you will never find the path.

 

40.   Where can we find what is new? The new is distinguished from the old by the way in which it is given. In the old life a person would give something and expect something to be given in return. In the new life a person gives without expecting anything in return.

 

41.   Love is not yours. God is love, not man.

 

42.   God’s love will not be subject to any law. When you come into contact with it you will be imbued with a sacred feeling, and you will say that everything love per forms is right and good.

 

43.   Whatever love performs you should consider a great secret.

 

44.   Delusions do not stem from life, but from you yourselves.

 

45.   Beauty in life lies in the fact that when things are not going too well for somebody, still he does not worry.

 

46.   The new Teaching will tolerate no troubles or worries.

 

47.   Where does life’s meaning lie? In affection.

 

48.   The good things which people seek are ordinary things, but human consciousness should not be occupied with ordinary tasks.

 

49.   Ordinary life should serve only as a source of reference for us.

 

50.   When he understands the great law of life, man will be liberated from all things which until then have served as aids.

 

51.   Thus, until you place everything in God’s hands and stop thinking about what will happen to you, you will never find freedom.

 

52.   What are tribulations? They are conditions for getting to know oneself and one’s neighbours.

 

53.   All people want to hear something new. They seek the new but live in the old way.

 

54.   If you want to acquire new life, you will work on yourself, you will win your own inner peace and freedom by yourself.

 

55.   Should we not live? Should we not love? You will live and you will love, but you need to know how to live and love.

 

56.   You will say that one should help the poor; but which poor should be helped? There are poor people who are, in fact, not pom at all. For them poverty is a blessing. But we have to use force to take money away from the rich to give to the poor, and that means creating unhappiness in the world. There is no need to resort to violence to increase artificially the suffering which, in any case, will come as a method of correcting mankind.

 

57.   The time has come for everybody to be tested, for everybody to see for himself how far he had got. However far each of us has got, we should remain there and be tested. If that person is a minister, he will be tested as a minister; if he is a soldier, he will be tested as a soldier; if somebody is a student or teacher, he or she will be tested as such.

 

57a. In order to come to the reality in which God manifests Himself, one needs to penetrate into everything.

 

57b. You are not on the true path until everything inside you comes to life. When everything inside and around a person comes to life, he is on the right path and has found the Truth.

 

58.   Your life is difficult, even unbearable, which shows that you are in need of a new set of assumptions, a new philosophy for life.

 

59.   What should you do? You should study.

 

60.   One should study unceasingly. Study embraces the application of the divine life.

 

61.   God wants us to live and to be satisfied with our lives.

 

62.   The sense of life is not in large numbers of quantities, but in what you yourself have worked upon and applied. However little it is, it should have been worked upon.

 

63.   Man should reach his own thought from within, he should reach the unity in himself and listen to it.

 

64.   The cause of the pain, unhappiness and illnesses that people suffer from lies in the fact that they live in an unorganised world. What is the difference between an organised world and an unorganised one? In an organised world each component lives for itself and at the same time lives far the whole. In an unorganised world the components live exclusively for themselves.

 

65.   The organisation process should begin from the human mind. So that the human mind may be organised, something new needs to be brought into it. Only the new is able to rejuvenate man’s mind.

 

66.   When we say ‘a good life’, we also mean common sense. A sensible person learns from everything and seeks the causes of things.

 

67.   You must set the divine in you in motion and await the results. The divine is within a person, not without.

 

68.   When the divine in man starts to manifest itself fully, people will understand one another well and will always love one another.

 

69.   People are divided when their interests are different.

 

70.   It is not bad far a person to look after himself and his home, but he thus limits himself and does not allow the Divine in him to function freely and correctly.

 

71.   The Divine excludes any kind of insult or offence.

 

72.   If you have insulted or offended somebody, what should you do? Do not apologise to him, but look for a way of helping him. When you find him in some sort of difficulty, make haste to help him. In this way the offence is wiped out. If you help him, he will forget everything. Otherwise, however much you apologise, however much you talk, nothing will help.

 

73.   The people of to-day have reached the most perilous place, the boundary of human life where big mistakes can be made. They are like travellers picking their way over a slippery place in the mountains.

 

74.   What should they do to pass in safety? They should be wide-awake, aware and. strongly imaginative.

 

75.   It is now time for people to enter the divine life, to set in motion the divine ideas within themselves. It is these ideas which will make life worthwhile and not the ideas of men.

 

76.   Happiness is only to befound in the divine life. True science is only in the divine life.

 

77 Work and. study are what the divine life demands of man. It is only there that he will understand its essence.

 

78.   To improve your life you must first of all improve your mind. How can this be done? By entering the divine life.

 

79.   Only the divine life is able to change the human mind.

 

80.   All energy is used sensibly in the divine life.

 

81.   The human is corrected by the divine. It is sufficient far one to have a strong desire to correct one’s life in order to be helped. Higher beings come down from the divine world to help one.

 

82.   How does this happen? In various ways: externally by means of other advanced people and internally, through the person himself.

 

83.   Now study human and divine life at the same time and apply whatever you understand in your private life. Mind you do not turn sour, for this is afeature of human life but not of divine life. In the divine life the fruits do not turn sour.

 

84.   The people of to-day aspire to progress. They do not even suspect that progress means finding the truth, a deeper inner understanding of things.

 

84a. He who possesses a deep inner understanding of things gradually overcomes the difficulties of his own life. This means that one passes from divine to human life. Then even if he was a weak, mediocre student, he begins to develop gifts and become a gifted student.

 

85.   If you have a talent for singing, you should use your talent to acquire something significant. Sing, apply the divine in yourself for the improvement of your life. If you have strength, use it too, and do the same if you have patience. Everything should be applied at the right place, at the right time.

 

86.   This is so because, if you understand the laws of life, you will understand people, you will know how different people manifest themselves — in a human way or divinely. For example, you see that a man is angry. You must know why he is angry and what the nature of his anger is. He may become angry when God’s laws are broken. Such anger is not out of place. He may become angry when his personal interests are adversely affected. That is human anger, and it is out of place.

 

87.   Now, in order to make use of the life that has been given to you, you. must reason correctly, you must learn.

 

88.   You are good, but you have not manifested your goodness as you should. You have gifts, but you have not yet manifested them. Why? Because you are seeking the easy way.

 

89.   You are confronted with a great task in which everyone must participate.

 

90.   Everybody should cultivate something precious in himself which will distinguish him from other people. The precious thing inside him is his capital, his strength with which he works under all difficulties and vicissitudes.

 

91.   Speaking of himself, Jesus says he is the true vine on which people should be as shoots, capable of developing and bearing fruit. In other words, people must study, must recognise the will of God and be prepared to carry it out. It is only under these conditions that their lives will develop correctly, on earth and in heaven.

 

87.   Now, in order to make use of the life that has been given to you, you must reason correctly, you must learn.

 

“I am the true vine.”

 

 

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