HUMAN POWER

The power of human beings lies in their capacity to say ‘no’. Human beings, created in the image of God, are as powerful as Him. So why do they show such weakness? Because they do not know where their strength lies. Their strength lies in their ability to say ‘no’. This means no-one in the world can force them to do what they do not want to do. Even if all the creatures from hell united against them to force them to act against their will, they would not be able to. Even God cannot compel human beings. Which is why if they knew where their true power lies, they would be above all seduction, all temptation, all crime. If people commit crimes it is because they consent to do so. The spirits of the invisible world have ways to tempt human beings, but they do not have the ability to force them. It is because people are not aware of their divine origins that they are so weak in the face of evil. "

" Every day life presents us with complex situations and we need to learn to be flexible in order to cope with them. There are people who react in the same way to every circumstance, using the same means, the same methods, what ever the situation. However, since every problem has its own specific solution, these people never stop running full tilt into obstacles. You need to be flexible, and flexibility is all about being more a psychologist, more of an educationalist, more of a diplomat – but not a diplomat in the pejorative sense of hypocritical and sly. True diplomacy implies wisdom. The sage is a diplomat who knows the most beneficial method to choose to do maximum good in every given situation, or vis-a-vis any individual. A sage, a true sage, thinks and finds ways to manoeuvre like a sailor who knows the currents and reefs, and knows how to steer his craft to avoid shipwreck. Flexibility therefore implies wisdom. To be flexible in life means to have wisdom and psychological insight. "

" Like nature, the human being is a creation of God. How absurd, then, that certain creatures do not recognize they have a Creator! How can they refuse to acknowledge something so perfectly obvious: that creation and creatures by necessity have a Creator? When a crime has been committed, we begin by asking ourselves who the perpetrator is. In most cases, he is long gone by then. He has not stayed near his ‘handiwork’, and yet no one doubts that this work has a perpetrator! In the same way, when a painting is discovered without a signature and we do not know to which painter we should attribute it, we do not say that no one painted it. We simply say that the painter is ‘unknown’. Although we have no idea who the painter is, it would never occur to us to doubt his existence. Why then do some claim that this grandiose, sublime work of creation has no author, that it is the product of chance? Let them say instead, if they wish, that the creator is unknown, but to deny this author’s existence is the greatest possible aberration. "

" Your happiness depends on your ability to change your state of consciousness, to extricate yourself from the realms of the unconscious, the subconscious, and even the self-conscious, in order to elevate yourselves to the realms of the superconscious, or divine consciousness, so that you may dive into it as into an ocean of light. Doing this, you realize not only that you are free from the limitations of your physical body and the impressions of the five senses, but also that your whole being extends to infinity. In this fusion with divine light, even if it only lasts for a brief moment, you feel that you are gradually being taken over by your superior self, which is a tiny part of the Godhead. And then, one fine day, all of a sudden, you will be given all the comprehension, sensations, or achievements you previously lacked. "

" While youth and beauty last an actress or singer knows success. But what happens later? More often than not she will be forgotten and a younger, prettier star will take her place. However bitterly she rebels against this apparent injustice there is nothing she can do to change it. She should have been prepared for it. She should have known that the public is ruthlessly fickle. Every star fades and is replaced in its affections unless they possess a secret. And what is this secret? It is to know how to renew the life within. If you are capable of radiating new life every day, a life of love, light and purity, no one will want to put anyone else in your place even when you are three hundred years old! No one ever thinks of replacing the sun. We replace all kinds of things and all kinds of people but no one has yet succeeded in taking the place of the sun. Husbands get rid of one wife and put another in her place. And vice versa. You will say, ‘Yes, but that is because he was not earning enough money, or because he had a broken nose!’ No, the real reason is that he had allowed his life to stagnate. No one wants to replace those who radiate life, because life is the one thing we most need. "

" There is one justice, and there are two injustices. You don’t believe me? Well, let me explain. When you go to the greengrocers to buy a kilo of cherries, he can give you exactly a kilo… or a little less… or a little more. In the first instance he is being just, and in the other two he is being unjust, but of course the second injustice is most welcome to his customers. They wish everyone were as unjust as this good man, whereas the first injustice does not please them at all. So you see, we have one justice and two injustices. People are always advised to be just. Well, on the contrary, I am going to advise you to be unjust, in other words to learn to work with love. Yes, love is the greatest injustice there is: whether the person deserves it or not, you give him something. Maybe no one has ever classified love as an injustice, but I repeat: love is a magnificent injustice, and I advise all of you to be unjust in precisely this way! "