Just as a healthy body accommodates fearsome bacteria, we can be good and honest
while harboring primal instincts.
By referring to it, we can understand weaknesses in others.

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Our faults, our tools

☞ Our inclinations and intuitions

The selfishness

Our image, our attitude

Patience, an inner strength

The astral influences

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☞ The fear

☞ The anger

☞ The hate

☞ The courage

☞ The mental, the spirit

☞ The thought

☞ The word

☞ The meaning of things

« Holiness can sometimes only
be an impure temptation. »

[Elie Wiesel, 'Hasidic Celebration']

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To dominate oneself
Mastering and using our faults

Acknowledging and mastering our inclinations
A battle within man himself
Use these inclinations, recover these impulses
Retake control
Beware of pride, always on the alert
...and our intelligence

(...) authoritarianism, contradiction, extreme selfishness and deviousness. These defects are only the shadows of qualities that are in you. » ( Joseph Sieber Benner, "The Impersonal Life" -1914- )

Contributions by Joseph Benner on the theme of:

The WAY, LOVE, LIFE ou DEATH
« We must master our faults before the end of life, otherwise we carry them with us into the next incarnation. We are the only ones who can cure ourselves of our bad habits, on a physical level. It is only when we are able to dominate external problems that they disappear from our existence. » [ Brian L. Weiss, psychiatrist ]
- Father, it's boring to always have to exercise self-control.

- If even for a second you do not impose your will on your favorite lion and at this moment of weakness he attacks you, you are lost. Our lower nature is a lion-like animal. Both must be constantly and securely leashed for their energies to serve us. So be careful! [ Elisabeth Haich, "Initiation" ]

Acknowledging and mastering our inclinations

Let's not hide our negative feelings from ourselves. That would be like sweeping dust under the carpet. On the contrary, let's recognize them.

« In the grip of formidable impulses we are, according to the Hindu doctrine, only half men. We must dominate the animal side of our nature. »

introduction of a biography on Gandhi)

Contributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:

The WAY, LOVE, LIFE or DEATH
« Each experience of life makes us live trials during which it is easy to fall into the trap of our impulses, thus highlighting our imperfections one by one.

Most of us walk unconsciously, unconcerned with our thoughts or actions, until we are faced with a trial. » [ Alain Joseph Bellet (medium) ]
For the strong, sin is teaching.
for the weak, perdition. [ "Dialogues with the Angel" ]
« Identifying the negative emotion that overwhelms you allows you to discover its root. A negative emotion always has something essential to tell you about yourself. » [ Sylvie Lorain-Berger, "The messengers from beyond" ]
« I know all too well my miserable faults,
but it is in being aware of them that all my strength comes to me. » (Gandhi)

Contributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:

The WAY, LOVE, LIFE or DEATH

A battle within man himself

« A number of characters exist within us. It is sometimes one, sometimes the other which manifests itself, and some may never manifest themselves in broad daylight. Their expression is censored but they act in depth.

Circumstances, external stimuli bring one or other of the characters that compose us to the surface. When a protagonist appears, we take ourselves for this character.

It takes a great deal of awareness to situate oneself in a central axis, which is really us - neither "good" us, nor "bad" us, nor "mystical" us, nor "vulgar" us. » [ Arnaud Desjardins, 'The paths of wisdom' ]
« My personality is a curious mixture of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. » (Gandhi)

Contributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:

The WAY, LOVE, LIFE or DEATH
« Forces struggle with each other within Man during his journey through the material world [earth life]. And this until he enters again in the between-two-worlds, in the Beyond. » [a reading by Edgar Cayce]
« "Scratch the veneer of this civilized man, you will find a ferocious and lustful gorilla," Taine said. I smell in me a secret affinity of corruption with my unfortunate human brothers led to evil. I sometimes feel in my flesh and my blood strange fermentations. » ('Sister Emmanuelle's Farewell')

Contributions by Sister Emmanuelle on the theme of:

The WAY, LOVE, LIFE or DEATH

I know how to be brave; yet by nature, I am fearful.
I can deprive myself, but I know I am greedy and pleasure-loving.
I know how to give; but I am fundamentally selfish.
I can contain myself; but I am angry and proud.

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☞ Our inclinations and intuitions

☞ Self-analysis

Use these inclinations, recover these impulses

« Your earthly passions, you must understand and accept them. What you resist persists. What you look at, disappears. » [Inspired message to Neale Walsch]
What you believe to be your fault can become your virtue
if you recognize it.
For the strong, sin is teaching.
For the weak, damnation. [ "Dialogues with the Angel" ]

If I were perfect, I'd hate everyone.
Any flaw would be abhorrent to me.

Retake control

« By your touch, by your words, by your gaze, you can erase, in a single act of love, thousands of inferior acts That is the key! » (Messages from Isabelle - Lights from Beyond)
« No good impulse is wasted, even if we have subsequently sinned. The severity that reigns in human relations is unknown to the justice of God. » [ Celestial Messages from Pierre Monnier ]
« Having a thief attack someone else is not going to satisfy us. This other victim is also a human being, that is to say ourselves in a different form. » (Gandhi)

Contributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:

The WAY, LOVE, LIFE or DEATH
« When learning the discipline of the mind, our faults are never concealed or denied. They are transformed; their negative energy is transmuted into positive energy. » [ Dalai Lama ]

☞ Efforts & difficulties on the way.

« The guides know that failure and imperfection are useful for the progress of a being, that his future is the consequence of his present. » [ Sylvie Lorain-Berger, "The messengers from beyond" ]

☞ Chess

Beware of pride, always on the alert

« The man who is proud of his virtue often becomes a scourge to his neighbors. » (Gandhi)

Contributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:

The WAY, LOVE, LIFE or DEATH
« Do you want to know if this Rabbi is not a poser? Ask him if he knows how to drive impure thoughts out of your mind; if he says yes, he is a poser. » [Elie Wiesel, 'Hasidic Celebration']

...and our intelligence

« Our tragic attraction to sin causes us to use our minds to justify our actions. » ( Martin Luther King )

Contributions of Martin Luther King on the subject of:

The WAY, LOVE, LIFE or DEATH

The selfishness

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« The ego is nothing other than the animal reflection of the human being. » (Jean Casault - metaphysician)
« Human beings are selfish by nature, but to varying degrees. If all of you could become aware of your selfishness, you would take a big step towards improving yourself and your society.
(...) Man is not always aware of his selfish acts. This revelation often comes when he experiences suffering.
He can too (without waiting for this pain) overcome this imperfection by putting himself in each situation in the place of his neighbour. » [ Alain Joseph Bellet, 'Dialogues with the spirit world' ]
Selfishness is natural, vital even, since it is what drives us to feed and protect ourselves. However, a being will be more or less selfish, depending on the degree of advancement of his soul.

If he thinks only of himself, it's because his soul is still young.

« We've been told so much about what a horrible flaw it is to be selfish that we don't readily admit that we are. What you need to hear very simply is that the human being - even the generous one - is selfish, but more or less. The definition of the man who has done no inner work is to be completely selfish.
This teaching seems primary, whereas it is the great Teaching, the Supreme Wisdom. » [ Arnaud Desjardins, 'Yoga and spirituality' ]

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A billionaire, returned from a near-death experience reconsiders his life: :

« (...) I had found myself on a negative path that had transformed my thirst for life into an insatiable appetite for self-gratification. » ( Ned Dougherty, "Fast Lane to Heaven" )

Contributions by Ned Dougherty on the theme of:

The WAY, LIFE or DEATH
« The way

Excerpt from the page: "Taking-back-control" :

What is the way?

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« What all religious or esoteric teachings call the way, is for those who are tired of being wrong.

The path begins with a complete reversal of our way of seeing. When you have known enough rich, admired and unhappy men and women, you know that money and success do not bring happiness and that there must be "something" to understand and find. Conversely, how many people without beauty, without notoriety, are nevertheless relaxed, at peace and happy. There are people who are both fulfilled and desperate, and people who are disgraced or crippled, but radiant with joy. Happiness or suffering only apparently depends on external conditions. Happiness or misfortune are the expression of what we are, not the result of what we have.

The important thing is not to have but to be.

The sage is free from desire. He stopped opposing what we like to what we don't like.

The one who, on the contrary, can feel himself to be only on the condition of having is necessarily in competition with those who also covet to have what he desires. For him there is neither rest nor peace. To have does not only mean to have money or material goods, but all that is combined with this verb: to have knowledge, prestige, honors, original ideas, an ideal, an ideology, experiences, friends, admirers, everything that we can say "my", everything that can give the illusion of filling the inner void and the nullity of being. » [ Arnaud Desjardins, 'The paths of wisdom' ]
« The way is a huge hospital where those who have recognized and accepted the fact of their illness meet. This disease is the disease of the ego, of individualism, which imprisons us in the duality of desires and refusals. » [ Arnaud Desjardins, 'The paths of wisdom' ]
is above all a question of inner growth, from selfishness, narrowness to understanding and universal love. » [ Arnaud Desjardins, 'The paths of wisdom' ]

« Self-love is a balloon inflated with wind,
which makes a big noise if you prick it. »
(François Marie Arouet, known as VOLTAIRE (1694 - 1778))

Our image, our attitude

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« The fundamental quality of the mystic is to be himself. He does not try to hide his negative polarity hypocritically in order to deploy only his positive polarity to the eyes of the world. He knows that the greatest masters themselves possess this double polarity as long as they are embodied and it is by remaining themselves that they give the best example.

By being himself, the mystic is a complete being . However, he learns to use his positive polarity for others and to keep his negative polarity for himself, which is a considerable help, to share his joys and overcome his sorrows.

In contact with the world which is a laboratory for him, his consciousness blossoms. » [ R. Bernard, Grand Master of the Rose Croix ]
« Those whose hearts are open to flattery, or who are too conscientious in their science, are on the wrong track. » [Message collected by Allan Kardec]
« Man is haunted by what he is. His own personality blinds him to the point that he reflects it in everything. The thief thinks he is being robbed, the clever see tricks everywhere.

(...) Throughout his life, man seeks his rhythm. If he is a thief, honesty will cost him, likewise cleanliness if he is neglected, likewise truth if he is a liar; on the other hand, he will be enchanted by virtue if he is holy, by goodness if he is good, by justice if he is just. » [Celestial message from Roland de Jouvenel]
« Know what you are worth, but don't seem more than you are. » [ Arnaud Gourvennec, celestial messages ]
« The pride of knowledge is worse than ignorance. » [Elie Wiesel, 'Hasidic Celebration']
« It takes me longer than others to understand certain things. Intelligence has played a subordinate role in my life, I find myself narrow-minded. God gives man the intelligence he needs.

Often the speeches addressed to me contain qualifiers that I find difficult to swallow. No one can find anything good in it. This humiliates me unnecessarily because I must admit that I do not deserve this praise. And if some were deserved, they could, if I wasn't careful, turn my head.

My shortcomings and failures are just as much a blessing from God as my gifts and successes. Why did He choose the imperfect instrument that I am for such a great work? It was necessary to come to the aid of millions of ignorant poor who suffer in silence. A perfect man would have discouraged them in advance. On the contrary, all the hopes seemed to them allowed when they saw advancing on the way of the ahimsâ (the love) a man like them, with the same weaknesses. » (Gandhi)

Contributions of Mahatma Gandhi on the subject of:

The WAY, LOVE, LIFE or DEATH
« Detach yourself. Believe me, this is the only way to stop resenting human shortcomings. »
(Roland encourages his mother to get less involved in social life, to pay less attention to remarks, to the judgments of others) . [Celestial message from Roland de Jouvenel]

« Patience involves personal suffering. » (Gandhi)

Patience

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« Patience makes tolerable what cannot be prevented. » (Quintus Horatius Flaccus, known as HORACE (-65 to -8))
« Patience. A word that is pronounced quickly, a virtue that is difficult to obtain. » (Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, 'The Gospel According to Pilate')

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Patience is not a weakness but a strength.
It demonstrates self-control.
By dominating suffering
it masters our moods and even the events.

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Patience sets us free.
Free to act, and no more to be the toy of our reactions.

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Patience calls for Love, tolerance.
Impatience breeds anger, incomprehension, resentment.

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« The ability to remain steadfast, whatever the circumstances, is a strength. » [ Dalai Lama ]
« Time, Space and Patience are the means by which Man, as a limited spirit, becomes aware of the Infinite.

Patience does not simply mean waiting, but it is the attitude of those who bring their nature into accord with the laws of Nature. » [a reading by Edgar Cayce]
« The ordeal, in any case, will end as soon as you have internally removed from it what is necessary for your evolution

The fulfillment of our being

« The purpose of our life during our passage on Earth, then after our death, in the various worlds of the beyond, is an increasingly complete realization of our being. » [ Patricia Darré (medium) ]
« Every soul must become aware of itself little by little.

In evolution, the mineral will become vegetable, the vegetable will become animal and the animal will become human. It is the long chain of life. » (Hélène Bouvier, medium, "Mission of souls in the afterlife")
« The important thing for you is to evolve in order to modify your vibrational state.
The Earth is a domain that allows the soul to modify its vibrations through more or less difficult life experiences. » (R. Terral-Meyer, 'Lettres de l’invisible')
continued... . Be patient, the ordeal will pass. » [ R. Bernard, Grand Master of the Rose Croix ]
« Inner peace is the pivot that determines our behavior. » [ Dalai Lama ]

The astral influences

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« The thousand quarrels of which you are the faithful instigators, spectators and actors, whether they take place in the social or family arena, are the first acts that the Brothers in the shadows obtain from you. » (D. Meurois and A. Givaudan, 'Par l’esprit du Soleil')

Contributions by Anne Givaudan on the theme of:

The WAY, LOVE, LIFE, HEALTH or DEATH
« Man is surrounded by innumerable spirits, familiar or unknown. These can spy on his thoughts and behaviors. They feel very easily the vibrations that man releases and can thus have a positive or negative influence according to their nature. » [message received by Alain Joseph Bellet (medium)]
« In my teens I tended to attract individuals who gave off harmful energy. Also I am concerned for these young people whose luminous aura indicates in the middle of a group because I know it today: the negative entities are naturally attracted by the light, which they then try to manipulate. These dark beings are able to spot their opposite from miles around. » (Allison Dubois (medium))