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  • Prayers and Meditations
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  • equality
  • Eternal Presence
  • haste
  • inquietitude
  • Peace
  • seeking
  • Serenity
  • silence
  • tension

In Peace and Silence the Eternal manifests; allow nothing to disturb you and the Eternal will manifest; have perfect equality in face of all and the Eternal will be there….

Yes, we should not put too much intensity, too much effort into our seeking for Thee; the effort and intensity become a veil in front of Thee; we must not desire to see Thee, for that is still a mental agitation which obscures Thy Eternal Presence; it is in the most complete Peace, Serenity and Equality that all is Thou even as Thou art all, and the least vibration in this perfectly pure and calm atmosphere is an obstacle to Thy manifestation.

No haste, no inquietude, no tension, Thou, nothing but Thou, without any analysis or any objectivising, and  Thou art there without a possible doubt, for all becomes a Holy Peace and a Sacred Silence. And that is better than all the meditations in the world.

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