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07/08/2025
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Power of the Psychic

Has the psychic any power? Power? It is usually the psychic which guides the being. One knows nothing about it because one is not conscious of […]
04/26/2025
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Basis of Equanimity

What is it that you call “the basis of equanimity in the external being”? It is good health, a solid body, well poised; when one does […]
04/08/2025
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Vibration of Good Will

Can one help the world with a vibration of goodwill? With good wishes one can change many things, only it must be an extremely pure and […]
02/17/2025
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Types of Prayers and Aspiration

There is the purely mechanical, material prayer, with words which have been learnt and are mechanically repeated. That does not signify anything much. And that has […]
02/15/2025
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Prayer can change the destiny

Who says that a sufficiently sincere aspiration, a sufficiently intense prayer is not capable of changing the path of the unfolding? This means that all is […]
02/14/2025
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What is being sincere?

..If you are sincere in all the elements of your being, to the very cells of your body and if your whole being integrally wants the […]
02/09/2025
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Why the need of exchange?

Why do human beings always want to have something in exchange for what they give? Because they are shut up in themselves. They sense their limitation […]
01/04/2025
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Knowing Oneself

Isn’t it more important to know oneself than to try to know others? Very important, of capital importance! Besides, that’s the field of work given to […]
11/24/2024
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Establishing Quietitude

When one aspires for something, if at the same time one knows that the aspiration will be heard and answered in the best way possible, that […]