How important it is to know and remember this when we are in public and be forewarned. That is why religious teaching is so important. It frees us from submission to the mob. Only her.
God is that whole from which I am conscious of being separate. He who has the consciousness of separation from the material Whole will have a God in turn, but the trouble is that the material Whole is absurd, because it is infinite, just like time and space.
The worst deeds are done for the sake of worldly glory. Bad deeds are also committed out of carnal lust, only that lust decreases with age, instead the temptation of worldly glory increases and increases with age.
Apparently, what could be more innocent than a funny and harmless joke? But in fact the joke is one of the most common, powerful and insidious methods of masking the seriousness of life and sins for those who do not want to see them.
Old people forget a lot, almost everything. Dying, forget the last things. If we imagine the birth in the future life, when he comes into the world, the one born does not remember anything, that is, he finds himself in the same state as every newborn child in our world (so the Buddhists believe). The only thing wrong is that rebirth requires time, and forgetting is only an exit from temporal conditions. Death always remains a return to the state from which you came out, not a transition to another life. The worker has completed his mission and returns to the master to receive new orders.
A bad mood is not only not harmful, but it is useful for working on yourself.
Instead of thinking that the mind does not work well due to insufficient irrigation of the brain with blood or our soul is clouded because we have problems with the liver, could we not say that the brain is insufficiently irrigated and we have problems with the liver because the mind works poorly and the soul is it cloudy The two are inseparable. The cause is at the same time the effect. Usually, however, we consider matter as the cause of the soul because our attention is directed to the material transformations, and not to the soul ones.
There is only one true knowledge: knowing how to live. People know a lot, but they don't know that, and I really think they don't need to and don't need to know how to live. Unnecessary knowledge occupies their minds and prevents them from knowing what they need to know.
Miracles are needed by those who lack a rational basis for faith.
When you believe in love you have nothing to ask for. You just have to do.
The hardest age, the critical age, is the one when a person stops growing, gaining strength... I think around 35. The development, the growth of the body ceases and the development, the spiritual growth must begin. Most do not understand this and continue to be preoccupied with body growth, and the consequence of this misdirection is damaging.
I can't help but wonder why God chose a wretch like me to speak to people through him.
Buddhists say that just as old people forget all the past, newly born souls do not remember their previous lives. We might add that as we approach death (old age), we not only forget the past, but we lose all interest in the future, that is, we get out of the ephemeral life and approach the timeless beginning of life, God.
All that is material is not even insignificant, it is nothing, because everything is always a / ∞ = 0. Only "I", my consciousness, really exists. Then they will say that there is nothing, there is neither life nor its meaning. Not true. Life is about clearing, and clearing takes place only in the temporal and spatial world, which in itself is unimportant, but necessary for the clearing of consciousness. It seems that Muhammad said: God wanted not to be the only one who receives good and made men.
Just as we get used to making the cross, saying the words of prayer, so we can and must get used to loving and respecting people. Thank God, I started not long ago, but I got used to it: I often do it unconsciously. Help me, God! So good.
About the One Commandment. To believe that an unseen witch gave birth to me, not the mother I see, is to deprive myself of the joy of motherly love. And people do this, imagining a non-existent God, a Creator God of the whole world and of many miracles, and therefore they do not know their true God who manifests himself through love.
In the beginning you have to clearly separate yourself from people's opinion, so that the false, humiliating opinion of others about you does not touch you. You will be scared and lonely, but if you manage to get over it, to put everything before the God in you, before your conscience, how strong, firm and free you will be. Foolishness in Christ is a great thing.
We know God in three ways: a) in himself, b) in ourselves, and c) in our neighbor. To know him in himself is to know his will in order to accomplish it. To know him in ourselves is to know this will in love. To know him in our neighbor is to love our neighbor as ourselves.
I invented a prayer for the meeting with each person: Help me, Lord, to deal with this manifestation of Yours with respect and love, to think only of Your judgment, and not that of people. And that helped me a lot.
As usual, I walked through the woods and prayed. Today for the first time I included at the end of the prayer about temptations the most necessary thing: the consciousness of sin and the weakening of the worry about the judgment of people. Help me, Lord, when I talk to people to think only of what I have to do before You. It's hard, but what freedom, and not only that, what power you get when you succeed.
It seems to us that we have a lot, a lot of work to do. But it's not true. There is only one, the work on yourself, the purification, the release in you of the divine "I". This work is joyful, unhurried, always within your reach, and as you toil it is always done and never finished. You always have before you the prospect of the same work, but increasingly charged with joy.
Not only has "No man ever seen God," but it is not in the power of man to comprehend Him with the mind. As one said: I know the law and the source, the cause of the law, not only the cause of the law, but also the cause of my life. But how is this not only I cannot understand, but I know I cannot even try to understand. Praise, prayer, repentance are impossible in relation to God. Not that He does not hear them, but it is a meaningless relation in relation to Him. It would be like saying that a bug subject to the law of gravity asks, praises, repents in relation to the movement of the heavenly bodies. But all this is not well said. I understood for the first time that I am one of the manifestations of the infinite trifles of life in relation to the infinitely great life, therefore the relation I am in is this: I am almost nothing, but I am in relation to the All. No, I cannot or do not know how to express not only the concept of God, but also my relation with him.
Just as my little finger can only have self-consciousness if I want it to have self-consciousness, so I can have self-consciousness when God has self-consciousness in me. But just as my little finger cannot grasp the whole body, so I cannot grasp God who has self-consciousness within me.
Prayer is as good as it can be and necessary, but true prayer, because it raises man to that higher spiritual level to which he is able to rise, gives him the strength to fight with the flesh.
I wrote like this: to consider that your individual life is the only true life is madness, dementia. Fake. That is not possible. I would rather say: the more universal life you accept in your individual life, the less individual life, and vice versa. But that can't be done either. It cannot be because what we call our individual life is the divine principle, the same that lives in everything. What we call mercy, participation, love is only the manifestation in us of this principle.
We are talking about the boundlessness of time and space (therefore also about the size of objects). In essence, however, this inevitable acceptance of the infinity of time, space (size) is only the acceptance of the fact that everything that is temporal, spatial (big, small) is illusory, that is, in fact there is no size of time and space, because any size , a year, millions of years, a verse *, a billion kilometers is nothing, a / ∞. Time and space only give the form of the spiritual principle, and in this consists what we call life.
I have lived long enough to understand that I am not the one who lives, but God lives through me. It seems crazy arrogance, but I feel it so sincerely that it is true humility. All my villainy is not my life, it is not me, for me my life is only what is good in it. As little as it is, it exists. And this bit does not belong to me, it belongs to God. All the efforts I can make, all my efforts are only to open my soul for God to come in, to leave room for his work, stifling my impulses.
I thought that at the root of the fact that life is illusory is what we call movement. Fundamental to illusion is movement. Movement presupposes the illusion of time and space. Time, as I said, is the ability to imagine two objects in one and the same place. Space is the ability to imagine two objects at the same time. Movement is the ability to imagine objects moving from one place to another. The number of objects, however, both for the infinitely small and for the infinitely large, cannot be imagined other than infinity. And therefore the number of passages of objects from some places to others cannot be imagined other than infinity.
... Motion, the thing without which we cannot think, understand, acquires the consciousness of life, is but illusion, just as when, standing still, while everything around you is running uniformly, it seems to you that everything stands still you run on the spot. So it is with the essence of the human "I". The "I", the true "I" of man is outside of movement, space and time, but he cannot understand life otherwise than in movement, and it seems to him that the world is standing still (although movement takes place in the world) and he is moving, evolving, aging, approaching death and dying. He seems to come and go, and the world remains. All these are obviously illusions.
The life, both of each separate being and of the whole world, is this liberation, this good which increases and increases liberation. Why? Why does this happen? Why is this process of liberation, that is, life, needed? Man is not given to know. The only thing he can know is that therein lies the good, the great good of life. And obedience to this law increases good.