Daily Meditation: Sunday, September 23, 2001

I want to help you, I want to see you happy; that is why I …

09/23/2001

I want to help you, I want to see you happy; that is why I go back over this fundamental question of nourishment for the soul and spirit so often. Until you learn to nourish your soul and spirit, you will feel unsatisfied, in a void. However, since you have not understood why I am obliged to repeat this, you find it boring to hear the same words over and over again. You have the same attitude toward spiritual science as you have toward other sciences. You study grammar, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, etc., and once you have assimilated the different notions set out in your books, you do not need to repeat them every day, you know them. Let us take grammar: it is useless to review the conjugation of verbs or other details every day. And you suppose it is the same for the spiritual life... you have read and you can repeat what you read, so you think you have understood. Well, no, spiritual life, on the contrary, is based on repetition. Every day you must go deeper into the same truths until they become flesh and blood within you. As long as they have still not become flesh and blood, you must continue to repeat them.