How can people freely decide about the direction of their lives...

...on the basis of manipulated information and the mass‐media‐ induced exaltation of anti‐values that hold up as the ultimate model of behaviour the powerful, who shamelessly exhibit their violence, threats, abuse, arbitrariness, and lack of reason?

Peace will not be achieved from a zoological vision of life...

...that promotes the struggle for survival, the struggle for the domination by the fittest. That myth will not work.


Silo's words at the First Annual Celebration of Silo's Message
Punta de Vacas, Argentina. May 4th, 2004

To reconcile is neither to forget nor forgive...

...it is to acknowledge all that has happened and to propose oneself to emerge from the circle of resentment. It is to look at the situation, acknowledging one's errors and those of others. To reconcile within oneself is to propose to not walk down the same road twice, but rather to dispose oneself to repair twice‐over the wrongs we have done.

Here the worldly...

...is not opposed to the eternal.

If you believe that your life does not end with death...

... you must bring into agreement what you think with what you feel and what you do. All must advance toward coherence, toward unity.

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

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



from "The Inner Look" chapter XIII The Principles

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.





from "The Inner Look" chapter XIII The Principles

We consider the human being to be the highest value ...

... —above money, the State, religion, all models and social systems.

Do not oppose a great force. Retreat until it weakens... ....

... then advance with resolution.

from "The Inner Look" chapter XIII The Principles

In repressed societies, the Force (the energy of the representation of the sensation of the intrabody) turned back towards the crepuscular.

In those societies, cases increased of the “possessed,” of “witches,” of the sacrilegious, and of criminals of all kinds who rejoiced in suffering and the destruction of life and beauty.

If day and night, summer and winter are well with you...

...you have surpassed the contradictions.

from "The Inner Look" chapter XIII The Principles

When you force something towards an end...

...you produce the contrary.

from "The Inner Look" chapter XIII The Principles

To go against the evolution of things...

...is to go against yourself.

from "The Inner Look" chapter XIII The Principles

A Community of the Message is based on two pillars... ...

... ...freedom of interpretation of the Message and freedom of association around the Message.

From the free interpretation of the Message, different and sometimes even opposing positions arise, which should be fully recognized with complete freedom of thought. This obviously excludes any given position or interpretation from being considered as the only correct one.

The freedom of association around the Message gives rise to different forms of organization that enable the experiences and studies proposed in the Book, the Experience and the Path to be developed. Whatever the form of organization a community adopts, decisions affecting the whole should be made by consensus or by direct vote, if consensus is not possible.