'Farmers were the first moral philosophers; they

don't expect to reap if they have not sown, and they

know very well that if they sow cabbages they will not

harvest carrots. How can someone who sows nothing

but hatred and strife hope to reap a harvest of love and

peace? If you want a marble palace you are not going

to start building with clay bricks. If you want a healthy

body you are not going to give it poisonous food.

How can anyone expect to develop a healthy, sturdy

psyche, a lucid mind and a generous heart if he is

seething with anarchic thoughts and feelings poisoned

by his own greed and resentment? Exactly as we sift

and select suitable food or building materials, we have

to sift and select the thoughts and feelings that present

themselves to us. The laws that govern the psychic life

are the same as those which have already been seen

to govern other aspects of nature or technology. It

was neither man nor society as a whole that invented

morality: it is intrinsic to nature, to every aspect and

dimension of nature.'

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov