Omraam: 320 books

‘God has given the mightiest, most potent form of power to the spirit and as every one of our thoughts is pregnant with the power of the spirit which brought it into being, that power is constantly at work. Knowing this, each one of you has the possibility of becoming a benefactor of mankind; by...

‘Sexuality tends to be self-centred. It drives men and women to seek only their own pleasure, even to the detriment of others. Love, on the other hand, thinks of the other’s happiness above all else. It is based on self-denial and sacrifice: the sacrifice of one’s time, energy and money, even...

‘There are spiritual foods just as there are material foods; in the same way that you eat bread and drink water each day to feed your physical body, you must nourish yourself with the sun – its warmth, its light – so as to nourish your spiritual bodies. In this way you will become truly alive....

‘You must not imagine that, just because some people have mediumistic capacities, this necessarily gives them access to every region of the invisible world; on the contrary, they will see only what corresponds to their own level of consciousness, their own thoughts and desires. Each individual receives...

‘There are several possible attitudes towards love. You can eat it, you can drink it, and you can breathe it, but you can also live in it. Those who eat love remain on the physical plane and are never fully satisfied because they are content with pleasures of a lower order. The pleasures...

‘From the earliest days of history, men have sought a language which would be both universal and synthetic, a language capable of expressing the richest and most complex realities while, at the same time, reducing them to the barest essentials. It is this research that led to the discovery of images...

‘“Know thyself!” All science and all wisdom lies in knowing ourselves, in finding ourselves, in the fusion of our lower self with our higher self. The symbol of the initiate who has succeeded in this is the serpent with its tail in its mouth. A serpent forms a straight or wavy line, and a line...

‘Let the dead live in peace. Don’t cling to your family and friends, don’t let your sorrow at their depature hold them down and, above all, don’t try to communicate with them by calling them back. This only troubles them and prevents them from breaking free. Pray for them, send them your love,...

‘How wrong we are to think that silence denotes emptiness, nothingness, the absence of all activity or creation. In reality, there is more than one kind of silence: the silence of death and the silence of a higher degree of life. It is this silence, that of the higher degree of life, that concerns...

‘When we focus our attention on the sun, the centre of our universe, we draw closer to our own centre, our higher self, the sun within; we melt into it and begin to resemble it more and more. ‘But to focus our attention on the sun also means to learn to mobilize all our thoughts, desires,...

ʻFarmers were the first moral philosophers; they don’t expect to reap if they have not sown, and they know very well that if they sow cabbages they will not harvest carrots. How can someone who sows nothing but hatred and strife hope to reap a harvest of love and peace? If you want a marble palace...

‘Jesus was the most revolutionary of God’s messengers. He was the first to defy all the ancient customs and his audacity in claiming that he was the son of God and that all human beings are equally sons and daughters of God was expiated on the cross. The insistence with which Jesus accentuated...

‘Human beings come and go, work and play, and busy themselves with all kinds of things, never realizing that their life is growing dim and dirty because they do nothing to protect it. They think that the life they have received is theirs to dispose of, and that they have a right to use it for pleasure...

‘We live in a civilization which requires us to know how to read and write, and this is very good. It will always be necessary to read and write but we must also know how to do so on other planes. In Initiatic Science, to read means to be able to decipher the subtle and hidden side of objects and...