“Every life has meaning, and rather than giving our opinion
on the lives of others, every one of us must try to bring more and more meaning
to our own life in order to prepare our future.
“Know thyself” was the maxim inscribed on the pediment of
the temple at Delphi. What is this
‘self’ that we have to know? Is it a question of knowing our own vices and
virtues, our strengths and weaknesses? No: to know oneself is to know the
different bodies (the physical, etheric, mental, causal, buddhic and atmic
bodies) of which we are formed and what each of these bodies needs. If the
initiates of old insisted so much on the necessity of self-knowledge it was
because this knowledge opens up tremendous possibilities for growth, progress
and success. As long as man is ignorant of the needs of his higher self, he
will continue to surfeit his physical body while his soul and spirit suffocate
and die of hunger and thirst.’
~ Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov ~
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