That your children orient themselves in a direction opposed to your designs...

...has more to do with you than with your neighbor, and more to do with you, certainly, than with an earthquake in some distant latitude.

What makes your way of life a model, a pattern that you have the right to impose on others?

You wish to impose your way of life upon another; you wish to impose your vocation upon another. But who has told you that you are an example that must be followed? Who has told you that you can impose a way of life because it pleases you? What makes your way of life a model, a pattern that you have the right to impose on others? This, then, is another form of violence.

There, in the “heights” above, we also find the hierarchies, the powers that be, and the flags of State...

All representations of the “heights” extend from eye level upward, above the normal line of sight. And the “higher-ups” are those who “possess” kindness, wisdom, and strength. There, in the “heights” above, we also find the hierarchies, the powers that be, and the flags of State.



And we, ordinary mortals, must at all costs “ascend” the social ladder in order to draw closer to power. What a sorry state we are in, still governed by these mechanisms, which coincide with our internal representation in which our heads are in the “heights” and our feet stuck on the ground.

When you force something toward an end, you produce the contrary.

It does not matter in which faction events have placed you...

...What matters is that you comprehend that you have not chosen any faction.

All worlds you aspire to, all justice you demand, ...

...all love you search for, all human beings you would follow or destroy are also within you. Everything that changes within you will change your direction in the landscape you inhabit. Thus, if you have need of something new, you must surpass the old that dominates within you. And how will you do this? Begin by realizing that even if you change your location, you carry your internal landscape with you.

What should I think of the human landscape, where opulence and misery are found side by side...

...where some children laugh while others cannot even find the strength to cry?

“Life searches for growth, not for the compensation of nothingness!”

Oh useless and wicked prophecy that proclaims the end of the world. I affirm that the human being shall not only continue to live but shall grow without limit. And I say, moreover, that the deniers of life wish to steal all hope—that beating heart of human action.


In the darkest moments, may your future joy remind you of these words: “Life searches for growth, not for the compensation of nothingness!”

If you pursue pleasure, you enchain yourself to suffering.

But as long as you do not harm your health, enjoy without inhibition when the opportunity presents itself.

The radiance of a spark or of a star dances for your eye...

...And though there is no light without the eye, on other eyes this radiance would fall with different effect. Therefore let your heart affirm, “I love this radiance I see!” But may it never say, “Neither sun, nor spark, nor star have anything to do with me.”


Of what reality do you speak to fish or reptile; to gigantic animal, tiny insect, or bird; to a child or an old person; to one who sleeps or one who keeps watch in cold calculation or feverish terror? I say that the echo of the real murmurs or resounds according to the ear that hears, and that for other ears what you call “reality” would play a different song. Therefore let your heart affirm, “I love the reality that I build!”

I declare before all of you my faith and my certainty of experience that death does not stop the future...

...that death on the contrary modifies the provisional state of our existence to launch it toward immortal transcendence. And I do not impose my certainty or my faith upon anyone, and I live in harmony with those who find themselves in different states with respect to meaning in life. But I am obliged in solidarity to offer this message—a message that I recognize makes the human being happy and free. For no reason will I evade my responsibility to express my truths, though they may seem doubtful to those who experience the provisional nature of life and the absurdity of death.

As life goes by, is it happiness or suffering that grows within you?

 Do not ask that I define these words; answer instead according to what you feel…
Though you may be wise and powerful, if happiness and liberty do not grow in you and in those around you, I will reject your example.

VIII. Control of the Force

The sixth day:

    1.  There is a way of directing and concentrating the Force that circulates through the body.

    2.  In the body are points of control on which depend what we know as movement, emotion, and idea. When the energy acts in these points, it gives rise to motor, emotional, and intellectual manifestations.

    3.  Depending on whether the energy acts more internally or superficially in the body, the states of deep sleep, semi-sleep, or wakefulness arise. Surely the halos that surround the bodies or heads of the saints (or the great awakened ones) in religious paintings allude to this phenomenon of the energy which, on occasion, manifests more externally.

    4.  There is a point of control of being-truly-awake, and there is a way of bringing the Force to this point.

    5.  When the energy is led to this point, all the other points of control move in a new way.

Upon understanding this and hurling the Force to this superior point, my entire body felt the impact of an immense energy. This energy struck powerfully within my consciousness, and I ascended from comprehension to comprehension. But I also observed that if I lost control of the energy, I could descend to the depths of the mind. Then I remembered the legends of “heavens” and “hells,” and I saw the dividing line between these mental states.

from the Inner Look by Silo

Experiences of Change

At times I see a sunset. And in this sunset I feel like I comprehend everything – for just a moment. This brief moment of understanding everything, linked to the sunset, is for me an experience of change that could be very important, although normally I don’t explore its consequences.


Everyone has had experiences of this type, but very few people have gone into them deeply. These experiences happen in a different mental space, in a different mental situation, in another state of consciousness.

Those are the experiences that interest us, and there’s a little book called The Inner Look that explains quite a bit about those experiences.

The Parks of Study and Reflection that are appearing on all continents...

...signal the search for, and expression of, the sacred; that is, of the best aspirations of the human being who today is preparing to awaken from a profound sleep.

Learn to recognize the signs of the sacred...

...within you and around you.

I discovered, not through teachings... ...

... ...but through experience and meditation, that there is no meaning in life if everything ends with death.

Day of Testimony

... we take the opportunity to send our warmest greetings to our very dear friends who, in different latitudes, in the halls in the parks of study and reflection, neighbourhood halls and meeting places are commemorating once again the anniversary of what took place on May 4th, 1969. From this magnificent place we should consecrate this movable day so that in the future it will be remembered as the “Day of Testimony” that gives priority to this human attitude and that justifies it in itself and places it above all ideologies, all theories and all practical calculations. This point of view, according to which what comes first is the expression of human life with its certainties, its doubts, its attempts, its rebellions, and which raises up those who have their feet on the earth and their head in the heavens.

Silo - 6th May, 2006. Parks of Study & Reflection, Manantiales, Chile.

Learn to surpass pain and suffering...

... in yourself, in those close to you, and in human society.

DISPOSITION TO COMPREHEND

...If you ask me what attitude is appropriate, I will tell you that it is to meditate profoundly and without haste on what is explained here.


...If you reply that you are busy with more urgent things, I will answer that since your wish is to sleep or to die, I will do nothing to oppose it.

Never believe the lies of the poisoners of life when they refer to sex as despicable...

...on the contrary, in it is beauty, and not in vain is it related to the best feelings of love.

May those of you who do feel the presence of a separate life consider that death has only paralyzed this body...

...that the mind has once again triumphantly freed itself, opening its way toward the Light...

Though the Force circulates through the body involuntarily...

...it can be directed through conscious effort. Achieving an intentional change in the level of consciousness grants the human being an important glimpse of liberation from the “natural” conditions that seem to impose themselves on the consciousness.

The real importance of an awakened life became evident to me.

The real importance of mastering the Force...

... in order to achieve unity and continuity filled me with joyful meaning.

The presence of the force

When I was truly awake yet lacked the strength to continue the ascent, I was able to draw the Force from within myself.

(Image from Parks of Study and Reflection, Schlamau, Germany).

It did not strike me as strange to find a devotion to the Sun‐god among ancient peoples. And I understood...

...that while some worshipped this heavenly object because it gave life to the earth and to nature, others recognized in that majestic body the symbol of a greater reality.

Here are joy, love of the body, of nature, of humanity and of the spirit.