The True School Is Life
God Can Be Found
From a teaching hour by Gabriele on March 9, 1997 (Volume 1)
Many a one says: “I am a God-seeker –where is God?”
To seek God means to seek God in our inner being, because every person is the temple of God and God dwells in us. It is also written, “Seek and you will find.” True Godseekers are also sought by God. This means that those who truly seek God strive to gradually realize what God wants.
What does God want from His children? He wants His children to keep His commandments step by step. God takes several steps toward the one who recognizes a small commandment of God and tries to take that step, that is, to fulfill this commandment.
We humans have the habit of looking for God somewhere or other – but He is always with us, He is always in us.
The one who truly seeks God will find Him. If we seek God, then we should enter our inner being aware that God is in us, and God can be found with every step we take toward God in us, by fulfilling the smallest commandment, for example, making peace with our neighbor and keeping peace. We then feel His nearness, because we become more peaceful, more insightful, more understanding, calmer. This is the nearness of God; with this He has already come a few steps toward us.
The Kingdom of God is in us, and each one of us has the key to the inner kingdom – it is Christ, it is the Redeemer-power in us and ultimately, also the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount. If we fulfill particles – I deliberately emphasize “particles” – of the Sermon on the Mount, then we gain the key: Christ in us. With this key, we gradually open the inner kingdom, the Kingdom of God, and we find entry. We will then realize that God is love. We will realize that God loves us,
every one of us, even the greatest sinner. He loves us. We will then also feel: God is stillness – because we become calmer, because we make peace with our neighbor and are more understanding.
In this way, the God-seeker experiences God. He will never get to know God completely, because God is all-encompassing and powerful: He is in all the forces of the Being, in the kingdoms of nature, in the atom, God is everywhere – but we may recognize Him in the smallest steps we take toward God in us.
The smallest steps are, as stated, particles of the principles of the law. If we fulfill them, not only by resolving to do what God wants us to do, but by fulfilling these particles, these small principles, day by day, then we grow and mature into our inner being and open the inner kingdom with the help of our Redeemer, Christ. Then we feel that we can suddenly take bigger steps. We fulfill His commandments more and more and feel taken into an infinite love that we may feel, but which we can never get to know completely as long as we are human beings. We
may recognize and feel it, and that should be our help and direction. …
The true God-seeker perseveres in finding God! Even in the high waves of all-too-humanness, when he wants to give up, someone comes to him, and through their eyes, God looks at him and says: “Don’t give up, persevere, you will find Me!” – and the one who perseveres wins. …
The Language of the Soul Via Feelings and Moods
From a seminar by Gabriele in 2007 (Volume 1)
… How do human beings find the way to the language of their soul?
For one thing, the love for God and neighbor wants to reach our body through our soul. For another, our soul also wants to be heard by us, the human being.
If our conscious mind and subconscious are still very burdened, then the particles of the soul are also correspondingly darkened. Despite the different degrees of light and shadow, the soul tries to reach us.
We can hear it by means of our feelings, because the feelings are, as it were, the switching point between the soul and the physical body. The soul makes itself noticeable over the sounding board, “feeling.”
The soul does not have thoughts. It has no words. It communicates via the corresponding moods that the events of the day bring with them.
The moods that run through us every day are quite different, depending on what we see, hear, smell, taste or touch. During the day, we experience that impulses reach our level of feelings externally via the senses. The soul responds via feelings and expresses itself in the corresponding moods.
In the early morning when we awaken, our soul already makes itself known. A mood develops through our feelings. Either we are in a good or a bad mood. We are happy or we are angry. One person is sad, the other frightened or worried.
First of all, everything is based on attunement or moods. They come from the soul via the level of feelings. So already upon awakening, our soul speaks to us. The moods first have their images. If we allow the images to become clearer to us, we may learn in our thoughts what is important for today. The soul has spoken to us.
Dreams can also convey moods to the subconscious and conscious mind. Often we downplay our dreams: “Well, that was nothing but a dream” – yet everything, absolutely
everything, wants to tell us something! Especially if the dream leaves behind moods. If a dream is still “there,” that is, if the images of a dream are still present, then we notice certain moods that come to us from the dream. The dream itself is mostly symbolic, just as everything we do is ultimately a symbolic language. The dream is also a symbol. It has images that can be composed of different situations. But the mood comes from a particular aspect of the dream, and that aspect may be a help for the day. …
Keep the Inner Calm in Every Situation
From a teaching hour by Gabriele on November 26, 1995
(Volume 1)
“Keep the inner calm in every situation” also means to become aware that God is near to each one of us.
Let us keep this awareness in our hearts: God is very near to us; God is our conversation partner. God, the love, God, our Father, the Spirit of love in us, knows us; He knows about our “pros and cons.” Let us keep in our hearts that we may speak with Him; let us keep in our hearts that He loves us and never punishes us, that everything that comes to us in the way of negativity – blows of fate, worries and the like – are our own inputs, the inputs of hatred, of envy, of destruction.
But in His law, God has neither hatred nor envy nor destruction. God is always unchanged, the helping and giving love; He is the Father with whom we can talk. Even if we say: “We do not hear Him,” we have
to admit that we want to hear Him in the way that we want it. But God reveals Himself to each one of us. He reveals Himself not only through the words of the “I Am,” but He reveals Himself in the situations that come toward us. God reveals Himself to us in daily occurrences.
It’s usually the case that when a disagreeable situation comes our way, our blood begins to boil; we get all worked up. What does this mean? “I’m right! I want to solve the situation as I think is right!” Then we cannot hear God.
God is just, because in every disagreeable situation that causes us to seethe, we are involved in something negative. I deliberately say “involved,” because our neighbors, who are part of this situation, may also be involved. But if we say: “I’ll solve the situation as I want!” or: “Let the others solve the situation!” – then we are agitated; we do not let God prevail. But God is in every situation; God is the help. And in everything negative that we have contributed to, so that
things are the way they presently are, God is, again, the help.
That God gives us an answer in the situation, that God solves the situation for us –this first requires the step of belief. Do we believe in the near God? Do we believe that He is able to help us out of any situation? Do we believe that He is our Father? Do we believe that we are His children? Do we believe that He loves us? Do we believe that He helps us – not only by telling us how we should do it, but that He is just and wants to help everyone involved in the situation?
If our faith is bigger than a mustard seed, we begin to trust. And when at one point, our blood boils, then we say: “Lord, you are the stillness! I know that I am involved here; I am also to blame in this situation. I will clear up my guilt, my part, but You, You help us all to resolve this situation according to Your holy law of love and justice.”
If we can say this full of confidence in our heart, then it suddenly gets warm in us. We get calmer. Our turbulent mind calms down,
and an inkling comes up in us – an inkling of what we can contribute toward the solution of the situation. We suddenly gain inner calm. Our senses turn inward. Our sense of hearing suddenly becomes quite calm and, in this calmness, very alert, we hear what our neighbor is saying. From what the neighbor says, we may discern an aspect of the solution –it is God’s answer through our neighbor. Again with another, we suddenly hear from the conversation aspects that concern us, and we realize: This is our sinfulness, our guilt in this situation. We then feel in our heart that we are getting calmer and calmer, because the solution is developing – for us personally and for the situation...
We Live Dangerously in the Causal Law, the Law of Sowing and Reaping
From a teaching hour by Gabriele on March 27, 1987 (Volume 2)
Our goal should be to grow closer to God day by day. This means to live more inwardly day by day, so as to become free of our “ego,” because our own ego is very dangerous for us. We often don’t want to believe it, but, to live in the causal law, that is, in the law of sowing and reaping, harbors unspeakable dangers. Our ego is in the causal law, and thus we, who are still our ego, are in the causal law. If we are willing to gradually discard this ego with its many variations, then we will find our way more and more into our inner being, and the realm of the inner being will open up in us. Only then can we live from the Spirit. …
Everything wants to tell us something! This “telling us” comes either from the spirit of the inner being or from our guardian spirit, which wants to admonish us at every mo-
ment: “Change your thinking, you are living dangerously. Pay attention to your feelings; make an effort to think positively, and what you say should be honest and come entirely from your heart.”
As long as we do not pay attention all this, as long as we live from day to day and do not make use of the moments, we live dangerously, and we will not come out of the causal law, and enter into freedom, into the Absolute Law, which makes us conscious children of God. …
We will recognize that when we think negatively about our neighbor, we are also thinking negatively against ourselves – we direct everything negative that we emit against ourselves as well. This is the danger in which we live. …
What keeps us in the causal law? None of us wants to live so dangerously. Living dangerously every moment is strenuous. Why is it actually so hard for us to get out of this? Isn’t it also because we were programmed wrongly from childhood on: The negative was always in the foreground. If there was something positive, it was talked
about briefly and then set aside – the negative was blown out of proportion, the positive was set aside. Let’s look at this day: When something positive comes, we have few words for it; we rejoice briefly. But if there is something negative, then it is talked about and talked about even further, and is blown out of proportion. And that is, namely, what is dangerous. We have to transform ourselves in a positive sense, the Spirit of God says “reprogram” – letting the positive grow in us, and that means to be alert.
We could make ourselves aware of this every morning: “I am a child of God.” Let’s say it openly in the morning, freely out of our soul – not only in thought, but spoken. At that very moment, we are already motivating soul and body. We immediately come into a different vibration, into a higher vibration, and we tackle the day more joyfully, more consciously; we are clearer. Then we practice thinking this joy into ourselves: “I am happy; I am glad; I am a child of God; I am immortal. Father, I am Your child; You
have given me this day; I thank You! You will vivify me anew day after day and show me what needs to be overcome. Then day by day, I will grow more filled with light, brighter, clearer. I will become pure, dynamic and thus, Your image.”
What flows out of us now?
Hope, confidence, trust, nearness to God.
Where Are We with Our Consciousness?
From a teaching hour by Gabriele on January 8, 1995 (Volume 2)
… We could ask ourselves: Where were we, for example, in the last few days, where were we last year? Were we in God? Or did we refresh and enlarge our magnets from the past?
Did we clear up what occurred in all the different places – where our magnetism, that is, sinfulness is or was – so as to find ourselves more in the present, in God, who dwells in us?
How was it at work? I worked; I fulfilled my tasks as best I could. But did I truly fulfill them? Did I imbue them with inner strength? Or did I merely carry them out? I was with my family. Was I consciously present with my family? Did I truly fill what I said and did in my family with the power of God’s presence? Or did I merely speak and act? Was I physically present, yet absent in terms of awareness? And where was I?
The “where” is interesting. It tells us what is still lies beneath the surface in our subconscious; it reveals the magnets present there; it tells us whether we have built up or broken down this negative magnetism. And so, step by step, we learn what causes, which sinful elements, still lie beneath the surface. … We have surely all been on vacation at some point – Were we truly on vacation? Normally, we say; “Of course, it was wonderful!” Was it wonderful? The sun was shining; the birds were chirping, the flowers were blooming, the sky was blue. But where were we? Did we truly communicate with the blue of the sky, with the countless forces of the heavens, with the sun’s rays that warmed our body, with the flowers that brought us joy, with the wind that swirled around us, with the stones lying on the ground? Or; where were we? Where? – That is decisive. What did we nourish? Did we clear up the magnets of the past, the sinful things that moved us? Or did we enlarge the magnets?
We could also look back in order to know where we really were and what we might
have been nurturing. If we look closely and are honest with ourselves, we can explore aspects of our future. For just as it was yesterday, so will it be tomorrow – if we do not, with the help of Christ, resolve yesterday’s all-too-human human aspects, that is, the sinful, and instead continue to act the same way. ...
If we are alert, we are immediately reminded when our conscious mind is drawn to this or that place. The magnetism affects us, images come; they do not hurt yet. So we have the chance to recognize them and clear them up before they become painful. …
Do we maintain communication with life, with God – or communication with our own inputs, with sinfulness? Communication with ourselves, that is, with our own inputs, is a spinning top; we keep revolving around our own situations, our own desires, our own concerns.
This is tiring; it makes us listless and brings sadness into our hearts. Why? Because in this way we build up our burden.
In contrast, and positive communication helps to clear up many things and gives us increased strength.
Communication is life and positive communication – communication with God – is life in the present, is life in freedom; it leads to happiness and inner harmony, to balance between soul and body. …
The Call of the Soul for Liberation
From a teaching hour by Gabriele on August 10, 2007 (Volume 2)
I want to introduce one word and that word is “Liberation.” Many a one will now take a deep breath and say: “Oh my, that would be nice, if I could free myself from worry, hardship, illness, attacks from outside, quarrel, hatred, envy, malice and much more.” And some people will say: “Well, I’m human, and it’s not that easy.”
Let’s ask ourselves: Why isn’t it so easy? Isn’t it so, that we want to hold on to many things that are all-too-human, that are sinful?
Where does all the negativity come from? We are biased, prisoners, so to speak, of these complexes. This pressure – often, already in the morning, which then triggers thoughts, pain, suffering, worry and much more – ultimately comes from the soul. The soul wants to free itself from everything that we have inflicted on it. These are the complexes that I have just pointed out, and that
the day shows us, step by step. People who hear the day speaking in themselves or let the day speak in them notice that the soul is constantly knocking and calling: “I long for liberation” – just as we as human beings, ultimately do, too. How often do we say: “It would be so nice to be free of worries, of problems, of thoughts!” This is of no use if we say: “Oh, it would be so nice,” or if we simply say: “Lord, I give this complex over to You; You take care of it!” Well, He is already doing it, and, at that, by way of the day. He shows us what we can recognize and clear up, if we want to.
Thus, the soul wants to liberate itself. It wants to be free. It wants to feel the beat of the wings of the eternal Being, and the One who dwells in us, the Spirit of love, the Spirit of our Father, wants to see us human beings free, happy and joyful. He wants us to live in unity and freedom, in love and fellowship with our fellow human beings, with our brothers and sisters. …
Let us go to the Christ-center near our heart, and allow ourselves to be guided to the level of feeling. Many a one will sense:
“Oh, the soul wants to say something to me.”
An image comes. We let the picture come. Let’s look into the picture. Perhaps thoughts come, too. We wait, for what the thoughts, the content of the thoughts, say.
We move in the picture or in the thoughts and allow the remorse that comes from the level of feelings and thus from the soul. In this way, we can repent from the heart, from the bottom of our hearts, by then also taking the steps with Christ: “I ask for forgiveness. With Christ I forgive,” and at the same time we address the call to Him: “Christ, please show me a commandment of life, so that I may keep it, reflect on it, and hold fast to it within me, when a new impulse comes from the soul, in order to clear it up.”
My Thoughts – the „Settlers“
From a teaching hour by Gabriele on July 19, 1998
(Volume 3)
Every human being is ultimately a vessel consisting of cells, cell complexes, of many, many building blocks of the body, for example, of hormones and glands – one could list all the building blocks. And while the processes in our body are going on, we are constantly thinking. We think and think and think. We think first in the brain. The thinking, our thinking, we could also call seeds or settlers. They go from the conscious mind –when we think the same and similar things over and over – into the subconscious; from the subconscious, the settlers, our thoughts, go like seeds into the various cells of our body, into the cell complexes, into the blood vessels, into the hormones, into glands, into fluids, into all the building blocks of the body.
So we fill up our vessel with our thinking, thinking, thinking. And just like we think, so does our vessel radiate. As we know, when
one vessel is full, we take another one to fill it, and it is similar with us: If our vessel is largely filled up with our thinking, thinking, thinking, then these settlers are also in our soul and – in addition to the soul – in the heavenly bodies that exactly correspond to the vibration potential, to these frequencies of our thinking.
As a result, we have created a “wheel”, so to speak, a wheel, that is: conscious mind, subconscious, cell complexes, soul and heavenly bodies. And this wheel is constantly running, with each of us, however, with very different thoughts, because everyone has different thoughts. This also includes our feelings, sensations, words and actions, but the thoughts are the most massive, because we think continuously. And so we create this wheel. And in this wheel, we incorporate our fellow human beings who think the same or similarly as we do, and take in our settlers –we can also call them flying seeds. This picture is then also in this wheel.
Let us think, for instance of a dandelion. What does it look like? The dandelion comes out of the soil; the plant grows and then the
flower, and what emerges then? The flying seeds – and the wind blows the flying seeds here and there. And our “flying seeds” move here and there, according to our thinking, our vibration volume, and settle in places where they find the same and similar things.
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And it’s similar – speaking symbolically –also with us: First we fill our vessel, create the wheel in which we are connected to the cosmos, to the material cosmos and to the purification planes, and because the vessel is full, we distribute without thinking; we scatter our flying seeds, our thoughts, our “settlers.” People take in our settlers, through this, some things may be triggered in them. …
So the “settlers” are not to be taken lightly! We have to ask ourselves: What is the content of our thoughts? We, ourselves, settle in with the content.
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the All-too-Humanness Dies, then Death Has Been Overcome
From a seminar by Gabriele on November 9, 2002 (Volume 3)
… Many people are focused on their bodies; few affirm their inner being, which during their time on Earth is merely encased in a physical shell. They forget that deep within their soul, the life from God shines forth, seeking to radiate into the shell, the human being, and permeate it. Those who gradually become certain of this will increasingly and more consciously dissolve with Christ the alltoo-human aspects, the shadows that draw them outward, and will live more in the inner realm, in the world of light, which is the true reality. Then they will find support in their inner being. They will gain security, strength, and inner richness and feel more and more secure in God. This is the process of becoming, toward the being in the light.
A caterpillar contains the butterfly. It is similar with our body: The body is the caterpillar, the innermost part is the butterfly.
Those who emerge (from their chrysalis) into life feel the wings of the butterfly, whose ele ment of life is the eternal Spirit. ...
Dying means to let our ego die. Passing on means to become aware that our past has been largely cleared up. Then fear recedes. We know that we will continue to live in another garment, in a finer-material garment, and we also sense that our path will go through the intermediate realms, into the more light-filled purification planes or into higher spheres of life, depending on how we have lived in this existence. Life is God, life is freedom. Life is without fear, without dread. Life is unity and connectedness with the innermost being of all people, con nectedness with nature and with cosmic being. Ultimately, this is the goal that every soul, I would like to say here, must strive for, because it is everlasting or immortal. The redeeming power takes us by the hand – but do we extend our hand to Christ, by doing what He wants? …
It is true that we must die at some point, but we do not have to endure death, which
practically tears the breath from our bodies. For the soul takes our breath with it – let us not forget that! Life is in the breath. The breath does not die. When the soul departs, it takes the breath with it. …
Let us allow our all-too-human traits to die and let us gradually become new people in the spirit of freedom, in sovereignty, in the awareness that our fellow person’s inner being is part of us. From this also develops love for our fellow people, love for all of creation.
That is the becoming in spirit. And when someone dies, then it is quiet around him. The person breathes. His breath is a little shorter, ever shorter, then suddenly he no longer breathes. The soul has taken the breath with it. Death has no shadows, there is no shadow. That is ultimately the goal of every human being, no matter what he thinks, how he behaves.
What Do Nature and Animals Want
to Tell Us?
From a teaching hour by Gabriele on June 11, 2005 (Volume 3)
We often encounter animals, for instance, when we go into nature. What should we do so as to understand what the animals want to tell us? Many, very many, animals suffer under great fear – why? Because they are beaten, because they are hunted, because they are not loved. They, too, want to love; they give love, often more love than we can give. They want it. And what can we do, in order to simply say to the animals – no matter where we encounter them: “I understand you, I love you; you are a part of me and I am a part of you.”
What can we do? Perhaps when we meet animals, we could ask ourselves:: “So, what am I thinking right now? I want to become free from my thoughts now, from all my worries and simply want to just link with the animals; I want to get in touch.” Let’s prac -
tice this when we encounter animals – even when we just go into the garden and see the birds in a tree: Let us stand still and say: “So, away with human thoughts, here is a part of me,” and then we walk very slowly, very softly through the garden.
The birds will fly away at some point, but over time, their flight will no longer be filled with fear. Instead, they will retreat a little further into the tree, or move to a higher branch, and no longer fly away out of fear.
And we can also encounter the larger animals this way: Let us take ourselves back and say to ourselves: “Now I just have to stop thinking,” and we feel into the animal. …
And then, if we notice that an animal doesn’t run away, we look at it. It “speaks” with its eyes. The animal’s part-soul is also looking through its eyes. It moves its head, it moves its body – a few steps back, a few steps forward, or away from us. Everything, the animal’s every movement, wants to tell us something. …
Just as we have our body language, so does the animal also have its body language. If we
learn to establish communication with animals step by step, many worries and problems will disappear. We realize that we are not alone. We are not on our own; the great power of the Spirit is always around us –even in animals.
Let us also think of the plants. With animals, we notice when they turn away from us; we don’t notice this with the plants. But when we approach the plants with our thoughts, then even a plant begins to tremble. And what does this trembling mean? It is afraid of us. …
We enjoy the rose. But have we ever considered that the rose might also want to enjoy us?
How do I approach the rose bush? It is life! The flowers, the bushes, the trees – they can exist only if there is life in them, and life always wants to establish communication, communication with the human beings.
There are so many wonderful reasons to get away from ourselves, to feel that we are surrounded by the great Spirit of nature, by the Creator-God in animals, in plants, even in stones. Then soon we will no longer pick
up stones and throw them somewhere or other. We realize there is life-force in the stone. And when we pick up a stone, then we will place it back on the earth and not throw it into the next corner.
The animals, the plants, the whole Mother Earth, help us to attain harmony, if we want this and take ourselves back in the awareness that life is omnipresent. …
