The significance of life - Semnificatia vietii

The significance of life is the constant presence of inner courage. To remain happy in the face of obstacles, make progress. Just because there are hurdles, will you give up the race? Between you and the goal there may be a few obstacles, but  you have to overcome them. If you say, ”I do not want to overcome the obstacles, but I want to reach the goal,” how can you expect to do it? If you are just at the starting point, you have to be...

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Never stop once you have started - Nu te opri niciodata odata ce ai inceput

Only one piece of advice I have for you: never stop once you have started! When we become conscious seekers, devoted seekers, we accelerate our spiritual progress. Then God-realisation does not remain a far cry. But we have to start. Something seems difficult when we have not consciously started. Once we consciously started something, we have to know that that thing will not always remain difficult. If we start something unconsciously today,...

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Cosmic Game - Jocul Cosmic

Try to explore the limits of aspiration. God will give you the power of His self-giving Smile. God will never be satisfied unless and until each individual has realized Him. That is His Will. But it is a long, arduous process.  Today somebody becomes perfect, tomorrow somebody else become perfect, and the day after a third person becomes perfect. God's Cosmic Game has to be consciously played by everyone. And in this Cosmic Game, everybody...

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The secret of inner success - Secretul succesului interior

The secret of inner success is constancy to our highest character. When you enter the spiritual life, sometimes you see and feel many undivine qualities suddenly come to the fore. Do not think that weakness and imperfections are coming to the fore in you just because you have accepted the spiritual life. On the contrary, they were there before, but they were hidden. You should be grateful to your spiritual life for bringing your imperfections...

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Whatever - Tot

Whatever you have in your mind - forget it; Whatever you have in your hand - give it; Whatever is to be your fate - face it! {Abu Sa'id}  Tot ceea ce ai in minte - uita;Tot ceea ce ai in mana - daruiesteTot ceea ce este destinul tau - infrunta!    {Abu Sa'id} &nbs...

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Doubt and potential - Indoiala si potential

O doubt! Unreasonable is your existence-reality. What is worse, you have stayed with my mind far beyond my imagination.  Why do we doubt? Doubt enters into us, because we are not certain of our achievements, of our accomplishments, or of what we will do in the near and distant future. If we doubt others, we are not doing something really harmful. But if we doubt ourselves, we are doing something most damaging. The moment we doubt ourselves,...

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The ego thief - Hotul ego

Ego feeds on attention. The perfection of our precarious animal-human nature feeds on God's Compassion-Sea. If someone feels that by fulfilling the ego's demands the ego will be exhausted, as we exhaust our money by spending it, then he is mistaken. If we have money, we use it and then it is gone. In the case of the ego, it is not like that. It goes on and on. Ignorance is the mother of the ego. As there is no end to our ignorance until we...

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Truth and ego - Adevar si ego

The human ego can never, under any circumstances experiences inner joy. The human ego may experience pleasure in accomplishing many things, in accumulating wealth and in achieving power over others. But true inner joy is self-created. It does not depend on outer circumstances or outer achievements.  The ego, which is the little ”I”, is constantly seeking something others than itself because it is limited. The very nature of the ego is...

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Gratitude - Recunostinta

Recunostinta este una dintre scurtaturile dulci Pentru a ne gasi pacea mintii si fericirea in interio...

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Exercising ego - Exercitarea egoului

Oneness with unaspiring people means dining with death. Oneness with aspiring people means dancing with God. When you are with somebody who has a strong ego, you will consciously or unconsciously be influenced by it. How? By its unlit, obscure, arrogant, aggressive power. His ego will try to make you his slave. While he tries to make you the slave of his ego, from deep within your own ego will come forward to resist him. After a few months...

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In the spiritual life there is only one rule - In viata spirituala exista o singura regula

In the spiritual life there is only one rule, and that is to have faith. Faith is like a muscle: it can be developed. As we develop our muscle if we exercise regularly, we can also exercise and increase our inner capacity. God does not bring anybody into the world without giving him capacity. Through regular practice we can become inwardly strong. If we concentrate and meditate soulfully and sincerely each  morning, then doubt cannot...

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That is the goal - Aceste este telul

Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy. It is always best to be sincerely happy. That is the goal. Let us cry for happiness. If you are sincerely  unhappy, use the antidote. Be more spiritual. Increase your inner cry. Then your unhappiness will be illumined. Your inner cry will make your unhappiness go away. But do not stick to false happiness. Like a false coin it will be detected. Even you yourself will...

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Only God is indispensable - Doar Dumnezeu este indispensabil

One can overcome the ego and have total humility if one can feel constantly that he is not indispensable, that only God is indispensable. God is constantly standing in front of each of us as a golden opportunity. One has to feel that this opportunity is the only thing that he needs. If he feels that God  needs him  for a particular purpose which he alone can fulfil, then he is totally lost. One has to feel that his spiritual...

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Be spontaneous like a child - Fii spontan ca un copil

A self-giving life is a special blessing-message that lives forever on earth. If we receive even an iota of inner peace or bliss, we will feel that life on earth is fulfilling. Whatever else we have or we are is absolutely worthless in God's Eye. Only if mental brilliance, material wealth and physical power are placed in the service of the Divine do they become meaningful. The divine light gives them a new life. Without spiritual wealth,...

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To please God and to please ego - A-l multumi pe Dumnezeu si a multumi egoul

Do not forget to ask your mind and heart every day, without fail, how you can please God in His own way. When you please God in God's own way, you have played your part. When you have done something for God in God's own way, your heart will expand to such an extent that you will be able to see all your friends, even your so-called enemies, inside your own heart. But if you please God in your own way, divine satisfaction will not be found...

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ARSENIE BOCA

Să vă învăţaţi să vorbiţi puţin şi esenţial.Aşa să fie vorba între voi: ca la rugăciune.Decât ceartă mai bine pagubă.Ajungi la bătrâneţe şi puterile scad şi te trezeşti că n-ai adunat nimic. Pentru valoarea mântuirii nici o suferinţă nu e imposibilă aici pe pământ, numai şi numai să poţi câştiga mântuirea. Dumnezeu iubeşte Ţara Românească şi pe ea vrea intai să o spele de păcate.La mulţi le-a zis: nu plecaţi din ţară că ţara noastră are...

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The human ego and the divine ego - Egoul uman si egoul divin

The human ego is constantly bothering us. But if we have the divine ego which makes us feel, ”I am God's son, I am God's daughter" we will not separate our existence from  the rest of God's creation. God is omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent. If He is all, if He is everywhere and if I am His child, how can I be limited to one particular place? This divine ego or divine pride is absolutely necessary. "I cannot wallow in the pleasure...

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Oneness with the others - Unitatea cu ceilalti

Never give any importance to the ego that wants to compete with others. You have to feel your oneness with everybody. When you do, immediately you will expand your consciousness. If someone does something well, immediately you will have to feel that it is you who have done it. He should also do the same thing when you do something significant. Whenever any individual does something very well, others have to feel that it is their conscious...

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The big ideal

I joined an ideal that is a little bit difficult: Transformation of the man into Man, the little son of God and brother of His elder Son. But all the big ideals have something  that  paralyze inside them: they do not let you paying attention to the nothingness of this life. Father Arsenie B...

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God's instruments

The human life itself is a strong desire to be led by the clever mind. We have to pray to God constantly to come to the fore in us. Let Him guide us mould us in His own way, into His very image. We are not the doers. We have to feel that  we are instruments  and He is the player. If we have that kind of feeling, then we can always be happy. If we feel that we are God's instruments and that we are helpless unless God acts in and...

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O Beloved!

O Iubitule, nu mai exista loc in inima mea Pentru nimic altceva decat pentru Tine! Rabia Bas...

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Surrender and ego

To strive to do something unique is undoublty good, but it is better to know whether that unique thing is what God wants you to do.  Our human ego wants to do something great, grand and magnificent. But this unique thing need not be the thing that God wants us to do. It is always nice to be able to do great things, but perhaps God has not chosen us to do that particular thing. God may have chosen us to do something insignificant in...

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The easiest way to conquer ego

Be sleeplessly on the alert. Your ego-life can easily keep growing without nourishment. The easiest way to conquer ego is to offer gratitude to God for five minutes daily. If you cannot offer gratitude for five minutes, then offer it for one minute. Offer your gratitude to God. Then you will feel that inside you a sweet, fragrant and beautiful flower is growing. That is the flower of humility. When you offer Him your gratitude, God gives...

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Unconditional surrender

Unconditional surrender is the immortal birth of a genuine God-lover. At one moment our ego will make us feel that we are nothing and the next moment our ego will make us feel that we are everything. We have to be very careful of both our feelings of importance and our feeling of unimportance. We have to say that if God wants us to be nothing, then we will gladly be nothing, and if God wants us to be everything, we will be everything gladly....

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