Soaring for the First Time: Discourses from “Así Hablaba Quetzalcóatl (Thus Spoke Quetzalcóatl),” Part 2 of 2

Let us now continue with more excerpts from the wonderful, words by the Venerated Quetzalcóatl in “Así Hablaba Quetzalcóatl (Thus Spoke Quetzalcóatl).”

ABOUT PAIN “Someone asked Him: Quetza, what is pain? And He answered: Real pain is what you do not know about yourself, knowing it is there. Bodily pain is a relief for the spirit. It is like dung that is expelled, and this is illness.” “Those who ignore the Laws of Life think that pain is a punishment, that is why they run to fight it. The wise man accepts it, going in this way further beyond. Because what is written, written it is, but what is being written can be changed. Do not think about today’s pain but rather about the glory it will bring to you tomorrow. Do not think about today’s glory, but rather about the pain it will bring to you tomorrow. Be ‘now,’ always now. Because a step never goes back on the sands of time.”

CLEAN YOUR MIND AND EVERYTHING WILL BE CLEAN “And you will say: I wish to fly beyond this city because it is polluted, and I would like to leave this house, so I can feel the clean field and its purity! And I tell you: Clean your mind and everything will be clean. Clean your heart and everything will be clean. Clean your body and everything will be clean. Ignorant is the one who, seeing dirtiness outside does not realize his own dirtiness and says: I will go inside my heart in order to clean my temple, because its altar is dirty and its light dim. Ignorant are those who try to clean their temple in someone else’s temple, and every day and every night of their existence, think that evil is outside themselves and not in their hearts.”

ABOUT GIVING AND RECEIVING “Corn is not only the kernel. It is the soil and the water, united with time and the Sun’s will. Even the winds help to ripen it. In this way, when you sacrifice it for your nourishment, you are sacrificing all its evolution and yourself too. But many are those who think that what they possess, or what life has given to them, belongs to them. These are the ones whom you have to pray for, so they stop hurting themselves. Because if I give to you, I only fulfill Heavens’ will. And if I keep for me what belongs to you, it is because I am more in need of you than you of me, and even without giving me anything, it is you who has given me.”

ALL THE UNIVERSES “I only want a canticle for my heart and, a path for my steps. I only want a flight for my soul, and a voice. I have taken impulse from the torrent. From the eagle I have taken its judgment. I have learned to rise above the circumstances that mist the moments, that form the days, that form the years of an existence. I have learned suffering from the grass that borders the edge of the roads. I have taken from the wind to be everywhere. Although I go from place to place, I am still everywhere.”