Daily Meditation: Thursday, January 17, 2002

The majority of people enjoy nothing better than pleasures, …

01/17/2002

The majority of people enjoy nothing better than pleasures, activities and subjects of conversation that drag them down into the lower levels of the astral and mental planes. It is as if all that appeals to them is that which will weaken and destroy them. When will they finally put an end to this nonsense? You will say it is impossible to change one's tastes. Well, let me tell you, it is difficult, yes, but not impossible. And there is a way that you may find helpful: instead of directly fighting your taste for activities that demean you, try to find a way to awaken in yourself a love for light, for a high ideal by which you will be elevated, enriched and embellished. No-one comes to this earth with the sole need to elevate themselves. Everyone is tempted, particularly in their youth, by easy pleasures and preoccupations. This is normal. What is not normal is not to endeavour to move on from there. To an initiate, a person's degree of evolution measures itself on their ability to elevate their aspirations, to aim their desires ever further, ever higher.