I wonder: can the awareness of the fact that the truth is a good always accessible, always growing, a good that after receiving it you no longer need anything, can this awareness become common, be transmitted through education? And I answer: yes, maybe.
The world seems to me to be a structure in which beings (including man) are endowed with their own initiative that gives them the consciousness of good, within limits between which they are free, but from which they cannot get out. So beings possess the good of freedom which cannot disturb the course of life of the Whole and its laws. Man may be conscious of one of these laws. This law is love.
Freedom of will is the possibility to live and act in accordance or not with the law of the Whole, according to your will, not an external, foreign will. But dissent is bounded by boundaries that cannot be transgressed. So that man may act freely according to the law of love, and may receive the good which continually increases, fills his soul with joy, the good which he obtains by himself, but he cannot violate the general law of life, for, by deviating from the law or reacting against they fulfill it.
That night I thought for the first time about the meaning of life. And again the same thing: you must and can do what your spiritual consciousness asks. And not what you owe to someone, but what urges you that only this activity brings true good. If you ask: why? Ein Narr kann mehr Fragen stellen als tausend Weise answerant können *. Why, it's none of my business, it's pointless and I'm not allowed to know. I don't even have the organs necessary for this understanding.
Our life and our purpose in life resemble something good, necessary for people, which is realized by a force incomprehensible to them. Let's imagine that something is being built. People cannot understand what and how, but they know that they have to move the materials in a certain direction: stones, sand, lime, wood, iron. and if people do that, it is good and easy for them. Some actually do it knowing that something is being built, others without even knowing it. There are some lazy people who just don't do the right thing, and they feel bad. They are diligent but confident people who think they know what they are working for, and either they don't carry the materials where they are told, or they start building the wrong thing.
Our life manifests dually: 1) as the liberation of the spirit within ourselves, as the perfection of the personality, and 2) as the liberation of the spirit in the All, as the perfection of the world.
The dog is amazed by the gramophone, but he is not surprised by the human voice, by the manifestation of life in him, in the elephant, in the horses, even the fly, he knows that there are other creatures like him, separated from each other. The fly and the louse know about the existence of the fly and the louse, but they don't know about that of man. Man does not know this about the globe. And the globe does not know this about...etc.
It is surprising how strong the opinions of stupid, unthinking people are. And how could it be otherwise? He who thinks knows how complicated any intelligent statement is, and often how doubtful it is.
I feel more and more the benefit of forgetting.
The sin of carnal gratification brought with it the sin of idleness and fornication; the sin of pride brought with it the sins of inequality, conceit, stinginess. All these sins together bring with them that of enmity.
There are only two conceptions of the world, consistent but unwise: 1) the body exists, the spirit appears to be; 2) the spirit exists, the body appears to be.
The body is the manifestation of the spirit. Movement and the body are the indispensable conditions of consciousness. Without body and movement, there could be no consciousness. Without consciousness there would be no body, no movement, and no space and time.
Consciousness is the condition of distance, imperfection, limitation. What is limited in man is itself limitless, it does not need consciousness.
The conception of the world cannot in any way be instilled, transmitted to another. Everyone has their own. If everyone didn't have one, the different one, they wouldn't all have a reason to live. One can find works for the formation of the conception of the world, but each one will take from them what he needs.
Divine love, i.e. love of God, can only be known through love towards enemies. Above all, they must be loved in order to cause those beneficial consequences that love brings. If we were to think of life in terms of space and time, we can imagine how our consciousnesses originate in the consciousnesses of the particles making up the body of the one who has consciousness, and out of our consciousnesses of separate beings is composed the consciousness of one supreme separate being, which it will have the same relation to us that we have to the particles of our body. These beings seem huge to us, but neither size nor number has limits (the stars).
... The entire corporeal world is only the result of our spiritual essence, and the true knowledge accessible to us is only spiritual.
All morning I thought and I think why the world presents itself to us im werden? * Why did I not exist and will not exist, and the world will be the same and continue to change? The answer is only one: I don't know.
here is what I want to say to everyone, and these, and those and all people: I want to say that we cannot live like this, we must come to our senses, as John said. We must come to our senses, understand that we cannot live without faith, and after understanding this, let us not invent new beliefs or new §scientific teachings, which do not explain the meaning of life, but only describe it from the outside and therefore do not offer no guidance whatsoever. We don't need all that, we just have to throw away from the faith in which we live everything that hides the essence of the true one, everything that hides the true one. Let's throw away the lie and live according to that truth that opens before us and that we are forced to accept through the terrible, bitter experience.
... No matter how clouded you are, no matter how dizzy you are with your kingdom, no matter how much you are tormented, hardened by needs and insults, you are like all of us, the possessor or rather the proof of the same spirit of God that lives in me and I hope, I think, I'm even convinced that he speaks through me and tells you: why, why do you torment yourself and others too, who do you communicate with in this world?
My dear brother, for God's sake, for the sake of your soul, for the sake of your life, do not decide in advance that everything I write here is false, does not correspond to that superior science that you think you possess. For the sake of all that is dear to you, I beseech you: read carefully what is written here, try to understand what is written (as we must always relate to the thoughts and words of another man) in the way they- he who wrote them understood. And if you are unhappy, and I know you are unhappy, think that what is proposed to you here is not invented by me, but is the fruit of the intellectual efforts of all, of the highest human minds and hearts, and is not just reasoning and words empty, but the most practical and surest means of ridding yourself of your unhappiness and bestowing upon yourself the greatest good. Think and feel this.
If you complain that you suffer, physically and spiritually, you complain about life: sufferings are the asperities of life, without which there would be no life, no essence of life: the liberation of the soul from the body, from the mistakes of the body, from the sufferings connected with the body . Small sufferings are the slow movement towards liberation; great sufferings, both of body and soul, are a quicker deliverance. And we complain that we suffer. Understand this and you will see the good in suffering, and suffering will cease to exist, just as it ceased to exist for the toiler.
As for knowledge, it is not their quantity that counts, nor even their accuracy (for there are no absolutely exact sciences and never will be), but their logical connection so that they illuminate the world from all sides. The same thing happens with buildings. The building may be splendid or poor, the Winter Palace or a hut, but both are wise buildings only if they protect you from all the ravages of bad weather and enable you to live in them summer and winter. The most splendid three walls without a fourth, or four walls without a roof or without windows and a stove, are much worse than a humble hut, in which you can shelter without suffocating or freezing. The same can be said of scientific knowledge, the actual knowledge of scholars compared to the knowledge of the illiterate peasant. This truth must become the basis of education and teaching. Knowledge must be broadened uniformly.
The law of life is beautifully illustrated by the fingers of the glove. Separate them, imagining that you will increase the heat for each finger, and they will all be cold, and the further apart they are, the colder they will be. If you remove the barriers and bring them together, it will be good for everyone.
All life is freedom, conscious and unconscious, from the lusts of the flesh, from the carnal life. Death is complete liberation. How can you fear it, how can you not want it? It's hard not to want her. It's possible to be afraid and not want it only if you don't understand, you don't have the consciousness of your spiritual "I", that "I" which is equally non-carnal in the old man, in the child, even in the mother, well even in the animal.
All life is material process, evolution and relationships between beings. Okay, but what is the separation of beings, the consciousness of separation that every being has? For if there is only matter, this matter must be unitary, indivisible. Why then are some conglomerates of matter conscious of their separation from all others?
You can't help but think that falling asleep and waking up are like death and birth. Just as when you fall asleep you lose the connection between your former waking consciousness and your new dream consciousness, so must it happen when you die. And just as a new consciousness arises in awakening, so must it happen in birth.
The main similarity between sleep and wakefulness in relation to time is that there is no time either in sleep or in the rest, but we imagine it, we cannot help but imagine it. I remember a long, coherent dream ending with a gunshot and wake up. The sound of the gunshot comes from the wind blown window. In remembering the dream, time is necessary for me, indispensable because in the waking state I can sort out all the impressions from the dream. The same happens with memories of waking events. All my life is in the present, but in the memories of it, or rather in the consciousness of life, I cannot but place it in time. I, the child, the man, the old man, all are one, all are in the present. Only they cannot have their consciousness outside of time. I wonder why? And the answer is self-evident: to give me the possibility of the good of life. If I were outside of time and space, I would not exist either, there would be no good for me, nor the possibility of living according to my will, that is, according to the will of God. God lives in me. (Je m'entends *) Just as, waking up from the noise of the wind blowing window, I know that the dream was an illusion, so before death I learn the same about all the events of the world that seemed so real to me.
If men knew all women as husbands know their wives, they would never discuss with them or respect their opinions.
A good worker does not give up his work, even if he knows that he will not see the result and will not be rewarded. The same is true of life's work until the moment of death.
I am still far from life only for the soul (God), and I am still troubled by worldly glory. Yes, as Pascal said, there is only one true good, that which no one can take or give. If only we knew how to find it and live for it!