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The law of affinity - Complete Works, Vol. 29
“There exists a law of affinity which determines that each element is related by its vibrations, its very quintessence, to other elements of the same nature. And this affinity gives you a certain power of attraction. By your thoughts and feelings, you attract beings, elements and events of a like nature. Your thoughts and feelings, therefore, can cause you to be ground to dust or to become monarch of the world! It’s clear and simple… .” “There is a currant of life… There is a currant of death… A great deal of distress, regret and remorse accompany each of these stages. The beginning of eternal life is contentment and gratitude which bring joy. Joy brings peace, tranquility and happiness. These in turn bring strength followed by fulfillment and, finally, eternal life...”
True peace is a state of mind - Complete Works, Vol. 12
The truth is that peace can enter you only if your whole being has begun to vibrate in unison with a sublime, disinterested idea. You will never know peace until your whole being, even the cells of your physical body, are steeped in thoughts of love, that is, in mercy, generosity, forgiveness and self-sacrifice. Only thoughts of this nature can give you peace. Suppose you bear a grudge against your neighbor, you cannot find it in your heart to forgive him and keep trying to devise ways of avenging yourself; or suppose someone owes you money and you keep worrying about it and wishing he would pay it back. In these conditions you will never know peace because your preoccupations are too personal, too selfish. You may have a few moments or a few hours of tranquility, but that is not peace; it is no more than a respite, a lull (which even the wicked enjoy at times), and those moments soon give way to renewed torment and mental anguish. True peace is a spiritual state which can never be lost once you are in possession of it.
How the physical and psychic worlds are subject to laws - 5th May 2004
In whatever domain it may be, all scientific progress has taken place only because human beings have discovered that the physical world obeys certain laws. But people want to think of the psychic or moral world as a realm of the greatest chaos and anarchy where there are no laws to be understood or rules to be respected! Well, this is not possible. And if by their rash or unconscious behaviour human beings upset the extraordinary mechanism of their psychic organism, they do irreparable damage. Nothing is stable or reliable when we fail to respect these laws, because they constitute the framework of the universe – the psychic as well as the physical universe. Failure to recognise these laws is the greatest mistake. We behave as if they were a human invention, as if they rested on arbitrary and questionable foundations and can be transgressed without serious consequence. Not at all! Nothing and no one will be able to help those who transgress the laws of the psychic and spiritual worlds.
“As you have sown, so you shall reap.” - Complete Works, Vol. 12
Another moral law exists, one that is as eternal as the law of agriculture I have already spoken about, and it is this: “As you have sown, so you shall reap.” This law has been true since the world began. Perhaps you think that it applies only to agriculture, that it has nothing to do with morality. No, you have to realize that the laws that apply in the field of thoughts and feelings are the same as those that apply to agriculture. Thoughts have the same characteristics as seeds. When you plant a thought in someone’s mind it produces fruit of its own kind, for the mind is a soil in which things can be planted. That is why this law belongs to eternal moral law and not to man-made law. It has been said, “He who sows the wind reaps the whirlwind.” This too is a moral law that has never changed. It is as absolute as the laws of physics and chemistry.
Nature is not unmoved by what we do - Daily Meditations March 14, 2003
Most people conduct themselves with astonishing thoughtlessness. Indifferent to the examples before their eyes, they learn no lessons from them and continue to behave as if their acts entail no consequences, now or in the future. They transgress the laws of nature and upset the work of the elements, without realising that by their anarchic attitudes they provoke forces which will eventually react in order to re-establish order. Nature is not an indifferent, lifeless, or unfeeling matter which we have the right to treat as we like; it is alive, intelligent, and sensitive. Of course, it is also very patient, but each time human beings go beyond the limits of what it can bear, it retaliates.
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