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Youth Advice![]() In wild storms, the High Ideal is an anchor into the spiritual world that will stabilise you and even rescue you. Treasure and nurture your chosen High Ideal in your heart... Put the Sun at the centre of your life. The Sun is like a High Ideal. ![]() Quotes Adults give very bad advice to young people when they say, ‘Go for it, make the most of it, because youth does not last. If you only knew how quickly it passes!’ It is true, their youth has passed very quickly, but why? Well, precisely because they listened to this harmful advice when they were young and rushed to enjoy themselves, to experience every pleasure, which is the surest way to lose one’s freshness! So, since these are the facts, people draw conclusions. Yes, but if the facts are what they are, it is because they did not know beforehand how to observe and reason correctly. What I, myself, would say to young boys and young girls is this: if you work for the light, for a high ideal, the older you get, the more alive and expressive you will become. You will even acquire a life and an expression that you did not have when you were younger. Of course, you will stoop a bit, you will have a few more wrinkles and grey hair, but do not let that stop you: allow your body to age gracefully and remember that your soul can continue to manifest through it with an extraordinary youthfulness. (O.M. Aïvanhov) We must prepare young people to face life in the best way possible. It is not enough to train them to be electricians, chemists, biologists, and so forth. If we do not explain what difficulties they will inevitably encounter later on in the outside world, and especially within themselves, if they are not told how to view these difficulties, and what attitude to have in order to resolve them, they will fall apart at the slightest setback. Take a very simple example. If someone does not know that the seasons change and that a cold winter will come, what will happen to them? Whereas if they have been forewarned, they will prepare the clothing, food and fuel they need to keep warm, and will calmly make it through the winter. Yet most young people throw themselves into life as if they had no idea that there will inevitably be ‘winters’. (O.M. Aïvanhov) When we are still very young, each of us should think of preparing favourable conditions for the future, by devoting our energies to the service of a high ideal. For once consecrated, these energies attract corresponding particles of subtle matter, which serve to make our physical body and psychic bodies gradually more supple and resilient. Matter cannot exist without energy, and energy needs a material support to which to bind itself. This means that those who devote their energies to crude or chaotic activities attract particles of opaque, impure matter, and quickly sink into decrepitude a few years later. So try to understand how important it is to orient your energies towards celestial regions, for they necessarily bind themselves to fine and subtle particles, the only ones that can be drawn towards the heights, and as these particles accumulate, they prepare the best possible conditions for your future. (O.M. Aïvanhov, What is a Spiritual Master?, chapter V) ![]() |
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