Only with the consciousness of my unchanging, noncorporeal "I" can I understand body, movement, time, space. And only the displacement of matter in time and space enables me to have self-awareness. One determines the other.
The outside world is matter in motion. For the movement of matter to exist, the separation of material objects is indispensable, and this separation exists primarily in me. I am separate from the whole world, and therefore I recognize the separateness of other beings from each other, as well as their separateness from the whole world. The relations between material objects are established by spatial measures, the relations between the displacements of separate objects are established by temporal measures.
Men gifted with reason and conscience to that divine principle within them which unites them, instead of developing this principle, they want to move faster than horses, deer, fly like birds, they stifle what has been given to them for their good and they strive to develop what they have not been given and do not need. Amazing!
At first it seems to you that the "I", the ego, is moving along with the whole world, but the longer you live, the clearer it is that I am not moving, like me, my true "I" is motionless, it is outside of time, and the whole world passes by this "I", along with my balding, toothless, emaciated body. The whole world passes by "I" freeing it from the illusion of life in time.
The more aware man is of his spirituality, the more clearly he understands the illusion of apparent movement in time.
The notion of sin, acting and refraining from acting not for worldly gain or glory, but because you fear sin, these are the necessary conditions of a true, wise, good life. Those who live without having the notion of sin and without refraining from committing it live an animal life. This is how all supposedly educated people live.
Life without understanding its meaning, that is, without religion, is what is called madness. When insanity becomes widespread until it reaches a large number of people, it manifests itself with impudence and reaches the highest degree of self-confidence. And then people in all minds are considered insane and are sent behind bars or executed.
Just as everything material tends to unite, according to the law of attraction, so also everything spiritual tends to unite, according to the law of love.
I died, and my spirit ceased to live in my body, but my real "I", my spirit, lives and will continue to live in other beings who understood me and understand me. "But this will no longer be your spirit," it says. "That's exactly what's good, in what will remain to live after me, my person is no longer involved", I answer. The person stands in the way of merging my soul with the whole. And after death my spirit will remain, not my person.
Materialists bluntly say that through their experimental scientific research they have explained everything and reduced it to general laws. There remained only one insignificant psychic phenomenon which had not been reduced to an explanation based on experiment, but that was delaying us *. Amazing stupidity or rather madness, but with all due respect we can say, they went crazy! Everything that is the basis of life, everything that means life and should be the cornerstone of any study, is left outside in the hope that in the coming days it will be explained by this professor in Berlin or Hamburg. Amazing!
Ah, if only I could always remember, when I am in front of a man, that I am right in front of God, in front of his supreme manifestation that is accessible to me.
Consciousness, the essence of consciousness is incomprehensible, insurmountable, it is what we call spirit, soul. Consciousness is contained in a part of matter, that matter which is our body. Consciousness knows the surrounding world through the extreme relations (of organs) with other bodies and the rest of matter. That is the essence of human life.
We always procrastinate. It means that time is our form of reception and we want to free ourselves from this form that constrains us.
Yes, at first it seemed to me that the world was moving in time and I was moving with it, but the older I get and the more my life becomes a spiritual life, the clearer it becomes to me that the world is moving again you stay put. Sometimes you see it clearly, sometimes you fall back into the illusion that you are moving through time. But if you understand that you are immobile, independent of time, you understand not only that it is the world that moves and you stay still, but also that, together with the world, your body also transforms: you turn gray, your teeth fall out, you lose weight, you get sick, but all this happens with your body, with what is not you. And you are the same, always the same: the eight-year-old and the 82-year-old. And the more acutely you are aware of this fact, the more life is transferred outside of you, into the souls of other people.
... The self remains still, but it is liberated, that is, it goes through the process of liberation, which inevitably takes place over time. Yes, that removal of the veils which is liberation takes place over time, but the "I" remains still. The liberation of consciousness unfolds over time: it was greater and becomes less, or it was less and becomes greater. But consciousness is one, it is unchanging and it alone exists.
If my memory had remained intact, would I have been able to direct my spirit's attention more fully to consciousness and self-enquiry?
Pride, the desire for worldly glory, is based on the ability to transpose yourself into the thoughts and feelings of other people. If man lives only the carnal, selfish life, this capacity will be used by him also for himself, so that, divining the thoughts and feelings of others, he may arouse praise and love towards him. But in the man who lives the spiritual life this capacity will only arouse pity for others, the knowledge of the things he can do to serve people, will arouse in him love. I, thank God, feel it.
I have never felt a hundredth of the compassion, the compassion to the point of pain, to tears, that I feel now when I try even in a small way to live only for the soul, for God.
Today, September 5, 1910, I clearly understood the meaning of matter, space, movement, time. Space is the measure of matter, time is the measure of motion. If I say that matter is hard, I am only saying that it is harder than something less hard. Iron is stronger than stone, stone than wood, wood than clay, clay than water, water than air, air than ether, ether than what? All these measures of strength against the zero strength that I know is within me. Same with space. Sirius is further than the sun, the sun than the earth, the earth than the moon, the moon, than Siberia, Siberia than Moscow, and so on to my hand, my body, the zero distance that I know is in me. Same with movement, time. The primordial geological minerals are earlier than plants, plants than animals, animals than man, Egyptians than Jews, Jews than Greeks, and so on to the zero of time in me, and to the zero of time movement that I know is in me. And that is why only what is immaterial, nonspatial and immovable, that is, timeless, exists and is real. And this is what I am aware that I am. (I expressed myself badly, but it's okay.)
Motherhood is not the supreme purpose of a woman.
The worst man is the one who thinks he understands everything. He is a certain type of man.
To think and say that the world came about through evolution or that it was made by God in six days is equally stupid. The first statement is more stupid though. And only one thing is wise: I don't know, I can't know and I don't need to know.
There is only one thing we know with certainty, the only thing indisputable and which we know above all, our "I", our soul, that is, the non-corporeal power connected to our body. Therefore, any definition of anything in life, any knowledge is based on this unique and common knowledge of all people.
Progress is not important for each individual, nor for the human species, because it takes place in time, which is infinite. Progress in time is only the indispensable condition that makes possible the consciousness of the good of perfection.
For the first time I clearly understood the importance of living in the present: to avoid everything I do and think with the future in mind: games, fortune-telling, concern for the impressions my actions leave, and above all I understood the importance of what , every moment, it is and must be good, because it is in my power to feel what is happening as an inner process. I have tried several times and each time with success.
Knowledge and science are different things. Knowledge is everything, science is a fragment. Just like the difference between religion and church.
If there is a God, it is only the one I know in myself, as myself, and in all living things. Matter is said not to exist. No, it exists, but it is only the means by which God is not dead or nothing, but is the living God. Matter is the way through which He lives in me and in everything. Why, I don't know, but I know it is.
I must remember that my soul is not something, as they say, divine, but is God himself. As soon as I, God, have self-consciousness, there is no more evil, no death, nothing but joy.
I am in a bad mood: nothing is good, everything is bothering me, nothing is as I would like. and behold, I remember that my life is nothing but the release of what hides me from myself, and immediately everything falls into place. Everything that tormented me seems like a trifle, that thing that is life and gives you its joy appears before me. It's enough to reach out. Trouble is replaced by a quiet return to myself, and everything that tormented me becomes material to process. And processing is always possible and always gives me the greatest joy of life.
What a terrible poison to the mind is contemporary literature, especially to the youth of the people! First, they cloud their memory with the vague, confident, empty chatter of those who write for contemporaneity. The greatest evil of this talk is that it is made up of allusions, quotations from the most diverse, newest and oldest writers. The words of Plato, Hegel, Darwin are quoted, about which the writers have not even the faintest idea, alongside the words of a Gorky, Andreev, Artabasev and others, about which we don't even deserve to have an idea. In the second place, this talk is harmful because it imposes on the mind and leaves neither room nor leisure for the knowledge of the ancient writers, who have endured for thousands of years, not just ten or a hundred.