I remembered the dear little boy Nikolasa so vividly that it seemed to me that I was him, that I was smiling with his smile, that his eyes were shining. This is what happens when you love. Is this not a clear proof that one spirit lives within us and that love cancels out separation?
Time is the washing away of the waves from the still, unique and true spirit of God.
At first the impenetrability of matter in space hides from our sight the unity of true spirit. Movement through time removes these veils.
Only old people and children live the real life, free from sexual desires. The rest are just an animal perpetuation factory. That is why the debauchery of the elderly and children is repulsive. And people imagine that all poetry is in sex life. True poetry is always outside of it.
The most terrible and dangerous deception for humanity is Pharisaism, the hypocrisy that makes selfish activity for personal purposes pass as serving God. (This hypocrisy dates back to ancient times.) The political Pharisaism developed in our time is perhaps even more harmful. People, from the Tsar to the common worker, convince themselves and convince others that they are concerned with the good of the people, when in fact they have no intention of doing so, they are driven only by selfishness primitive. There is also family Pharisaism. The man is miserly, power-loving, he wants to convince himself and others that everything he does is for his family.
How simple everything is. All those who are down want to climb up, those who are already there. They climb under various pretexts, the most common being lighting. But who will support them when they have all climbed? Good thing England has slaves in India, in the colonies. Reading Pascal I understood for the first time how l'homme dans l'etat de pêche * and la rédemption ** should be interpreted. The natural course of life, the transition from animal spontaneity to the demands of spiritual life, he (and all clerics) calls salvation, atonement received from Christ.
Ekklesia * as an assembly of the elect is the first sin, the violation of Christ's teaching of universal brotherhood.
All revolutions are harmful and futile because their militants are driven only by selfishness. Only work for the benefit of God can change the arrangement already established.
I say: life unfolds. But what am I in this process? Can I or can't I contribute to this disclosure? You can. You can not by moving, but by respecting your stillness, by transferring yourself into the one truth, which is always still.
The prayer-request, although false in its purpose, is still useful to the soul, it is still a sign of dependence on God. The mistake consists in transferring the timeless present into the future and the spiritual into the corporeal.
Rabbits multiply and fight, but humans perfect themselves and therefore do not need to fight.
Just as all the water drains out of the bucket through the smallest hole, so all the joys of life (love) do not remain in the soul of man if he is not loving even to one person.
In order not to harm your neighbor and to love him, you must learn not to say anything bad to him, nor to say anything bad about him; and for that you must learn not to think anything bad about him. It's possible. Only then can you not harm man and love him.
It happens to me that when I love someone, I don't just see, but feel his smile and feel that I am him, as happened recently with my little boy Kolia. That's what happens especially when you feel sorry for yourself. It is the confirmation that God is one in all of us and that He is love.
Isn't memory the consciousness (revelation of spirit) of the past, and reason, the consciousness (revelation of spirit) of the future?
The only difference between man and animal is that man knows he will die and animal does not. The difference is huge.
The merciful woman is pleased that she had mercy and gave to the poor woman. And the poor woman thinks that she knows how to ask, she is satisfied and boasts about it. "I can't get away from it."
There is my personal memory, what I experienced; there was the memory of the nation, what the ancestors lived, which is expressed in me through character; there is the universal memory, of God, the moral memory of what I know about the beginning from which they come.
I think about the hierarchy of ideas about the moral education of children and I see that in the spiritual domain there was no first, second, third, nothing more or less important. Everything is equally important and everything comes first.
I feel (I felt) as much as possible the joy, the peace, the happiness of the state of love towards everything. Only in this state is everything good both in life and in death. Even though it rarely happens, I still try this feeling.
The zephlemeau, especially the intelligent one, presents the zephlemist above the one he laughs at; but most of the time (in fact, always) the joke is a sure sign that the person does not understand the subject he is laughing at.
We think and even say: why doesn't God tell us in words what he wants from us? But we forget that only we, in our weakness, speak with inaccurate, insufficient, one-sided words. And God has another language, another means of transmitting his will. This means is the whole life of the outer world and all that has been invested in our soul.
Life unfolds. Well, what are you doing? Can you contribute to this disclosure or not? You can by maintaining your immobility, by being still with that which covers you. Moving, staying still. By keeping still, you move.
To forgive you have to forget, to want to forget what you are forgiving for and to start relationships from the beginning.
Only now I begin to live the real life. Only now do I begin to fear one judge and to be guided by His judgment.
Moses did not see the promised land to which he was leading his people. I really like this allegory. We often regret that we do not see the fruits of our labor, but not to see, to perform without expectation of reward is the indispensable and essential condition of any truly good deed.
Time is one of the forms of manifestation of true life, the form in which this life is accessible to us, humans.
Those who live the true life are mostly children, when they enter life and know nothing of time yet. They always want nothing to change. The more they advance in life, the more they submit to the illusion of time. Towards old age, this illusion weakens, time seems to pass faster, and finally the elderly step more and more into the timeless life. So especially children and the elderly live the real life. People who live for the sexual life rather prepare the material of real life than live it themselves.
Selfishness is to blame. But selfishness is the fundamental law of life. The problem is what can be considered our "ego", the consciousness or the body, or rather, the spiritual or the corporeal consciousness?
Anarchism that allows violence is a ridiculous misunderstanding. There is only one wise anarchism: Christianity, the disregard of any external political manifestations of life, and the life of each for his own "self," but not the corporeal, but the spiritual.