The activity of life is manifested through love. Man cannot increase love by himself, for love is the essence of life itself. Man can only destroy the obstacles to the manifestation of love. This is what man's life consists of, and his efforts must be directed in this direction.
If at the hour of his death man thinks he has nothing to do, he does not know what life is. He must continue to do what he has done all his life, free his soul.
Whatever view of life you have, you reach something that you know what it is, but can't put into words. That is all faith.
Man is everything and nothing, and he thinks he is something. That is the mistake, the sin. Hence the personality bias.
Materialists define concepts by concepts even more indefinite than what they define. For example: "The criterion of truthfulness is the possibility of rational activity." Defining matter, the world, movement and the relations between them, it offers statements much more incomprehensible than the concepts: soul, spirit, God.
There cannot but be exclusive attachments, but the sin consists not only in justifying them, but in elevating them to the rank of merit.
For the first time I had the consciousness of my spirituality with an unusual and fresh clarity. I don't feel well, I feel the weakness of the body and I imagine so simply, clearly, easily liberation from the body, not death, but liberation from the body. So clear has it become that the true "I" is indestructible, that only it, the "I", really exists, and if it exists it cannot be destroyed, while the body does not really exist. And everything became firmness, joy! The fragility, the illusory body, which only appears to be, became so clear. Is this new state of mind a step towards liberation? I think so, because I called Ivan and I felt something joyful, close, in the conversation with him. God bless, God bless. As if I felt the release of that one thing: LOVE. Oh, that it would remain so until death, and that it would pass on to men, my brothers!
Sin is a deviation from the life of the spirit, which is inevitably committed in human life. The mission, the meaning, and the joy of human life are to diminish and straighten it.
People have often imagined a better life than this, but they could not invent anything other than the nerd heaven.
The state order will not change until people are ready to die rather than participate in violence by paying bribes, martyrdom, and accepting the legitimacy of power.
Christianity manifests itself partly as a claim sometimes for freedom, sometimes for equality, sometimes for community, sometimes for justice and many others. All these are particular manifestations: Christianity embodies all that men can desire.
To love God is to love perfection.
If the meaning of life is perfection, it is clear that this does not mean the perfection of the soul (it is divine, therefore perfect), but only the destruction of everything that prevents the manifestation of life, the destruction of sins.
Almost all technical improvements satisfy either the selfish tendencies towards personal enjoyment or those of the family, the social fabric, the people, state pride (war).
Dreams are like life. The only difference is that dreams do not involve the will, the effort of the soul, that dreams are not so consistent (as Pascal says) and above all that not everyone sees the same thing in a dream. The similarity is that everything I find in a dream is given to me through my capacity to receive impressions, just as what I find being awake is given to me through the same capacity.
The prayer that asks, even if God were personal, is meaningless, because all the things we need have been given to us.
Life is the liberation of the spirit. Life is bad if you consciously live against what is done in life, and life is good if you consciously strive towards its goal, its course, its law.
Don't borrow answers to questions from others until the questions arise in yourself.
Dying, we must make the greatest effort to free the soul through the manifestation of love. It is the best opportunity to free the soul through love.
Violation of the Christian law of non-resistance is the source of all misery in the Christian world. This is because, without the law of non-resistance, Christianity is not a religion, but only a crude simulacrum of religion (and people cannot and have never lived without religion). This simulacrum of religion, with icons, communion, baptism, priests, is the grossest and, moreover, can be destroyed from within by the very Gospel it recognizes.
People are still facing a huge burden that they have to lift. Each holds a lever in their hands to lift it. and behold, instead of pressing the lever with all their might to lift the burden, men throw away the lever, jump upon the burden, thus increasing its weight, and stand there clinging to it with their hands in an attempt to lift it.
The legend says that the apostle John, reaching old age, spoke only a few words: children, love one another. They thought that it struck the minds of the children, but these few words are far more important, incomparably more important than everything that people say, write and publish now.
Divination and asking prayer are the same thing.
There's nothing worse than staring until you're done. Try to go and not think about how much is left. Now it seems difficult. But so is the path to perfection.
They say: what can we do with murderers, with thieves? The answer is difficult because it assumes the existence of special people who are obliged and have the right to act against crimes. What can we do with the frost, with the storms? Nothing, we just have to mind our own business and not think that we have the means to stop the frosts and storms. Mind your own business. Turn the criminal in you, turn yourself.
What a strange and true saying that husband and wife (if they live in spiritual communion) are not two, but one being.
Everything that seems infinite is illusory. Truly there is only that thing to which the concepts of large and small cannot be applied.
Disobedience to the law of non-resistance has an evil character because it destroys the religion shared by the people of the Christian world.
The basis of life is the consciousness of my existence, but not mine as I perceive myself, but of who I am, of who I really am. The rest just seems to be. I cannot recognize that there is in other beings but such a self as I arrive at when I free my own self from all that covers it and have the consciousness that other people are also me.
Another good part of old age is knowing that you probably won't live to see the consequences of your actions (actually that's true for everyone from the moment they become aware of death). So there is no point in doing something for the sake of people's opinion, especially the elderly.