Daily Meditation: Saturday, August 22, 1998

Stop, several times a day, and take a good look at yourself …

08/22/1998

Stop, several times a day, and take a good look at yourself to work out what is the most significant in your life: spirit or matter. We cannot eliminate matter. We have a physical body that needs to eat, drink, take exercise, relax, sleep, and we should not deprive it of anything unnecessarily. We should make sure it is in good health so that it may act as a support to the spirit. However, our physical body should not take up all our time and all our energies. So, watch yourself and when you become aware that divine life, the life of the spirit, is slowing down, that the needs of your physical body – hunger, thirst, sexual desire – are taking the upper hand, then watch out and make sure it does not last. When your physical body flourishes and at the same time you feel something awaken within you, something spring up, something shine – the spirit – then rejoice, because one day the spirit will triumph. But make sure to allow the spirit more and more opportunity to have his word.