Daily Meditation: Wednesday, September 17, 2003

Human beings do not understand where their rejection of …

09/17/2003

Human beings do not understand where their rejection of certain laws will lead them, because they have never studied the far-reaching consequences of a thought, a word, or an action. If they had more discernment, they would sense that at the exact moment they reject these laws, they become weaker, because they open the door to dark powers which seize them and bind them hand and foot. It is a law: the less we control our thoughts, our desires, and our whims, the more enslaved we become. You will say that you need to satisfy your desires. Fine, but you must know that this is the direct path to slavery. You will be a slave to yourself, or rather to very primitive inner forces which will knock you down and take complete command over you. You cannot be king of your own kingdom as long as you do not have control of yourself. When wise men advise human beings to learn to master their impulses, it is not for the pleasure of seeing them suffer, but because they know that the absence of mastery opens the way to illness, imbalance, and death.