Stranger in a Strange Land: January 2026

Friday, January 30, 2026

Are You An Apocaloptimist?

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

Now, In Our World - A Quotation by M.N. Hopkins

Now, in our world the voices of fear sense a change of concentration and gather their forces to maintain their disorderly order. Mankind acts in a self-destructive manner as if caught within their own traps.

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Sleeping Lions Behaving As Lambs - A Quotation by M.N. Hopkins

In truth, there is nothing to evolve into. Only a simple acceptance of what you already are and have always been. Sleeping lions behaving as lambs.

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Monday, January 26, 2026

True Reality - A Quotation by Omraam Mikheal Aivanhov

Reality, true - can only be found in the world of the soul and spirit

Humans tend to flee the world of beauty and poetic imagination, on the pretext of needing to keep a sense of reality. And this tendency is even spreading to artists: painters, poets, film directors and playwrights do all they can in their works to present the most prosaic reality, and not just prosaic but sometimes even crude and repulsive. As if we didn’t already know enough about these aspects of reality! Why is it necessary for them to keep going over them, reproducing them and parading them everywhere in their work? To be well-balanced and fulfilled, it is infinitely preferable for people to have access to the world of harmony, poetry and wonder and to strive to live there as often and for as long as possible. You will say that that world is an illusion, since it is unreal. Well, no, on the contrary, the world that people claim is unreal is precisely the one that is most real. It is where we finally feel we are living in purity and light. True reality is found on high, in the vast spaces of the soul and spirit.

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov was a Bulgarian philosopher, pedagogue, mystic, and esotericist. A leading 20th-century teacher of Western Esotericism in Europe, he was a disciple of Peter Deunov, the founder of the Universal White Brotherhood.

Sunday, January 25, 2026

Rumi - Fifteen Quotations

Rumi was a 13th Century Sufi mystic and poet, from Persia (Rumi was born in modern day Afghanistan and lived for a while in Turkey). Rumi’s poetry expresses his longing for union with the Divine. It is a personal mystic journey he invites us all to join.

In The Beginning All Beings Were Created Free - A Quotation by Peter Deunov

Today men are slaves, and in order to be set free, they must be born anew. The new birth is the release from those bonds which fetter us at present. This means escaping from the chains of destiny and necessity; this means the recovery of the primary link of man to God, existing since man's appearance in the world. This means the recovery of his freedom. In the beginning all beings were created free.

Peter Deunov

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https://mnhopkins.blogspot.com/2012/08/true-freedom-wisdom-of-peter-deunov.html

Saturday, January 24, 2026

Amor Fati, Embracing Everything In Your Life

Friday, January 23, 2026

Truth Requires Balance - A Quotation by Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Truth - balancing the heart and the intellect

It is important to know how to move from the realm of the intellect to the realm of the heart, and balance the cold current that blows in the region of wisdom with the warm current of love. Truth lies in this balance. If love is not tempered by wisdom, it leads to sensuality, and wisdom without love leads to coldness, contempt and cruelty. So, the coldness of wisdom must balance the heat of love, and the heat of love must moderate the coldness of wisdom. Life will find the best conditions in this temperate climate. For a grain of wheat to develop normally, it needs heat – but not too much heat – and cold – but not too much cold either. There is an ideal temperature for all seeds, so why should there not be one for the seeds that are human beings? Why should they be an exception?

Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov