Qualities, Virtues And Powers

 Innate or basic characteristics are properties that are unchangeable. It's
impossible to take the heat out of the sun or sweetness out of sugar. Heat
and sweetness are part of the unchanging make-up of the sun and sugar
respectively; they are the basic properties of each of them. In the same
way, in spite of whatever I have become as a human individual, my deep basic
characteristics are still the same ones that have always existed in me. It's
my inner core of qualities that in fact inspires me to seek the ideal in
whatever I do. The impulse to seek and to dream comes from my own store of
innate attributes that is just waiting to be found and brought into
practical activity.

*The innate qualities of the soul are those that are the most basic: Peace,
Truth, Happiness, Love, Purity, Power and Bliss.* *They are so basic that
they themselves are the foundation of all virtues and powers. *They are like
primary colors and *virtues* and *powers* are secondary colors. Just as
orange (a secondary color) is made of red and yellow (both primary colors)
and blue is made of yellow and green, virtues such as patience, tolerance,
courage, generosity etc. and powers, are obtained by mixing the basic
qualities *e.g. *

Patience - peace, love and, power

Humility – love, peace and truth

Courage - power and truth

The aim of meditation is to emerge and enhance my *qualities* so that my
behavior becomes full of *virtues* and *powers*.