Questions and Answers 1953

10/29/2023

Should one work when one feels lazy?

If it is a work that you are doing for the collectivity and not for yourself personally, then you must do it, whatever happens. It is […]
10/28/2023
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Preventing repeat attacks by adverse forces

Q: Sometimes when an adverse force attacks us and we come out successful, why are we attacked once again by the same force? Because something was […]
09/26/2023

Sincerity

Sincerity is perhaps the most difficult of all things and perhaps it is also the most effective. If you have perfect sincerity, you are sure of […]
06/27/2023
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The grace can change everything

An act carried out has always a consequence and this consequence brings along another and so on. And this is absolutely ineluctable. That is universal justice. […]
04/29/2023
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Something to learn…

One’s cocksureness is in proportion to one’s unconsciousness; the more unconscious one is, the more is one sure of oneself. The most foolish are always the […]
04/01/2023
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Latent Powers

How can one know whether one is capable of doing it or not! By trying. That’s the best thing. And if you do not succeed immediately, […]
12/11/2022
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Think …

Nature has much more imagination than you, you know! She imagines new things all the time. It must be so for it is changing all the […]
10/17/2022
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Changing course of one’s dreams

Sweet Mother, you have said that one can exercise one’s conscious will and change the course of one’s dreams. Ah, yes, I have already told you […]
06/19/2021
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Handling an Argument

You are with someone. This person tells you something, you tell him the contrary (as it usually happens, simply through a spirit of contradiction) and you […]