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What about psychological health?

from “Morya Wisdom 1: A deeper sense of life”
(Geert Crevits) © Mayil.com

(...) There is another power, a psychological power, you could call it a psychic health power, at work in every individual. This is a power that bears within itself or brings forth a unity. If you can see this you will discover that one person’s psyche is not the same as another’s. There are people who live in a state of disunity and are unable to find the oneness in themselves. These people have less psychological power than those who have found this unity. So you must try to find one specific, central, grand idea in your life and arrange all the other ideas around it.

One person’s psyche is not the same as another’s. There are people who live in a state of disunity and are unable to find the oneness in themselves. These people have less psychological power than those who have found this unity.

There should be within you a kind of centre of energy, a psychological, psychic centre where you can feel and touch the depth of life. When this happens, when this great goal of which I spoke earlier is present, when you have this great goal within your sight, then it is easier to find your equilibrium.

'Where do I want my life to go?'

A life without a goal, without a grand ideal, is not really a life. It can never lead you to joy. There should be, so to speak, a motor, and this motor is within your psychic center that you create by kindling the major idea: “Where do I want my life to go? How can I come to experience a deeper sense of life?”

This is perhaps the most fundamental power in your life, the deeper sense of your life. And if you can manage to see this, you will be psychologically healthier. Actually we are dealing here with medicine, but a real medicine, because you allow the people to think along about great ideals, and invite them to choose which ideal they want to strive for. 

A life without a goal, without a grand ideal, is not really a life. It can never lead you to joy. There should be, so to speak, a motor, a major idea: 'How can I come to experience a deeper sense of life?'

Whether they choose art or sport or an expression of feeling – writing poetry, composing music or whatever – you will see that each of these is just one possibility among many and that each of these possibilities can create an adequate centre for the individual to organize his or her life around it, if only for some time. For there are people who, for instance, spend half their lives busy with sport and function very well. 

At every human level – be it the body, the emotions, the mental, the spiritual or the soul – at every level of life it is possible to find or even create centres. So it is possible for one to pursue all kinds of worthwhile goals. And once you can see this you become healthy. Someone who has an ideal in his life and pursues it with all his energy is a healthier person than someone who goes from one thing to another and is bored or disinterested with what they are doing.

Someone who has an ideal in his life and pursues it with all his energy is a healthier person than someone who goes from one thing to another and is bored or disinterested with what they are doing.

Find a centre for yourself

You should have the courage to look at yourself and choose a specific goal, dare to catch hold of a great idea. That doesn’t mean you need to pinpoint it exactly but you should have the feeling that you can be occupied with it. You should at least have a feeling of the direction you can take and then go for it. In this way you can find a centre for yourself. 

The same is true in the world. There are a certain number of people with a certain centre, with a certain goal in their lives. This can be their work in the factory, in the bank, the post office or wherever and this gives them satisfaction because they are earning money and because they can incorporate an ideal therein and work for it, such as doing something for their family. All these are important aims, because without all of these things life is not possible in this world. These are things that make up our lives, so we should look at life realistically and realize that there are many important things that a person can strive for."

You should have the courage to look at yourself and choose a specific goal, dare to catch hold of a great idea. That doesn’t mean you need to pinpoint it exactly but you should have the feeling that you can be occupied with it.

Master Morya

Master Morya

Geert Crevits © Mayil.com
Source: “Morya Wisdom 1: A deeper sense of life”
from chapter 6: Powers in society'

Morya Wisdom 1: A deeper sense of life