""The learning experience of each individual is a composite one. It is taken in by breathing, by eating, by making love. Sometimes the teachings are understood and sometimes not. If, however, you find yourself in the presence of a Master, of someone who helps you to understand what you are being taught, then your learning becomes conscious, life takes on another meaning. In my case, my footsteps led to the presence of a Master ten years ago. With his support, I began at that time to become a conscious pupil in the study of life and of myself, in order to find the truth, the meaning of existence.""
KLAIRI LYKIARDOPOULOU was born in Athens. She went to school at the American College and completed her studies in pedagogy in the United States.
In 1980 she became member of Omilos Eksipiretiton - the ""Servers' Society"" Spiritual Centre and received teachings on the study of the self and the emergence of the humans' spiritual nature with the guidance of its founder, Dimitris Kakalidis. For more than three decades, she was President of the Society and was dedicated to its task. She wrote 20 books, conveying her personal experiences and the knowledge she acquired from the teaching of the Servers' Society, with an aim to demonstrate a dynamic way of life and a philosophical view which can help people to solve their problems when applied. She passed away in 2015, leaving a great legacy of experience and knowledge on human relationships and life.
For her literary work she has received commending reviews by the country's intellectual world. Extracts of her books have been included in anthologies and literary magazines. Her trilogy about the role of man, woman and the couple was approved for school libraries.
Mankind, life, people! Pain and relief, joy and unhappiness. In-numerable experiences, unanswered questions, but also many others to which an answer has come. These things, and many more, have been trying for four years now to find a way of expressing themselves on paper. I have written, and I have torn up what I have written. I have written again, and again I have torn it up. Then I stopped for a few months, waiting for new inspiration. How was I to impose some order on everything I wanted to say?
Then there came a telephone call from a stranger, who asked me: ""Mrs Lykiardopoulou, what happened to that book about the Master which you said you were writing when 'Spiritual Healing' was published?"" What could I say? ""It's being written"", I said. And it was true, because however much I tore up the manuscripts, the book was constantly being written in my mind. It wouldn't leave me alone, even when I wanted to forget it.
Nevertheless, one day my thoughts cleared, as though I'd realised why there was always something missing from my texts: be-cause I was merely giving the findings of a task, an apprenticeship in life. But I wasn't describing its progress. And so I was leaving the most interesting feature out of the book, because it is these processes which are of greater importance-the difficulties, the failures, and the successes - until some result is produced.
Putting out of my mind any previous attempt, I began again from the beginning, this time in a new way. It was as if the book wrote itself, easily and quickly, because now the content sprang up freely from within me. This book is my very self, it is a part of what I have learnt, experienced, and understood in the last ten years of my life. It is the whole truth as I remember it, and as it is written down in the many files resulting from my learning experience.
The events which I recount do not always follow the chrono-logical order in which they occurred. This is because an issue which concerns this discipleship is not rounded off within a short period of time, but makes frequent re-appearances, until the knowledge is acquired and the corresponding translation into reality occurs. I have tried, of course, to draw the experiences which I describe from the first year of my discipleship, with a few exceptions, when it was necessary to include happenings from subsequent years.
The learning experience of each individual is a composite one.
It is taken in by breathing, by eating, by making love. Sometimes the teachings are understood and sometimes not. If, however, you find yourself in the presence of a Master, of someone who helps you to understand what you are being taught, then your learning becomes conscious, life takes on another meaning. In my case, my footsteps led to the presence of a Master ten years ago. With his support, 1 began at that time to become a conscious pupil in the study of life and of myself, in order to find the truth, the meaning of existence.
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