Daily Meditation: Monday, February 11, 2002

If you try to jump across a large chasm, you will fall into …

02/11/2002

If you try to jump across a large chasm, you will fall into it and if you ever get up from your fall you will have had such a fright that you will never attempt even the smallest obstacle. Whereas if you learn to jump across a ditch that is, say, fifty centimetres wide, then one of sixty and then one a little wider every day, you will go far because you will gradually grow in confidence. People who throw themselves into major challenges straight away expose themselves to disappointments and accidents. Many are those who have wanted to launch themselves into occultism in order rapidly to acquire power, become clairvoyant and so on, and they have ended up destroying themselves. Therefore, do things gradually; begin with little things - I have given you so many methods in the past - a few words, a simple gesture. But you do not use these methods because you feel they are too insignificant. It is by using these very methods, however, that you will go far.