God breathes through our lives. I can tell myself in my wandering that I am me and God is separate or does not exist, or I can understand that I am Him, and then everything is easy and full of joy and freedom.
God breathes through our lives and through all the lives of the world. He and I are one and the same. As I understood this, I became God.
The materialistic explanation of life is an absolute consequence of culture, just like the invention of perpetual motion machines (I receive letters from peasants with such projects). Perpetuum mobile is the consequence of mechanical culture, the materialistic explanation of life is the consequence of philosophical culture. "Just smear it with tar or oil and it will keep going."
God breathes through us and is kind. His main characteristic is goodness. We understand it well. We seek the good, our whole life is this search, and therefore, whether we like it or not, our whole life is the search for God.
If we seek the good for ourselves, for our bodily "I", we will not find it. Instead of good we will find trouble, evil, but our mistakes, through their various consequences, lead to the good of other people in future generations. So the life of all men is always the pursuit of good and the attainment of it; only in the case of a false life is the pursuit of good for other people, for everyone but ourselves. If we lead a righteous life, we also achieve good for ourselves. If we seek God, we find good. If we seek the true good, we find God. Love is only the desire for good. The main theme of everything that exists is good. And that is why it is more correct to say that God is good, than that God is love.
I have often said to myself that when I meet, when I talk with any man I must remember that before me is the manifestation of the supreme spiritual principle, and deal with him accordingly. To remember is to be self-aware, that is, to awaken the God within you. And if you have already awakened Him, you will no longer treat Him badly, God is in you, so everything will be fine.
Music, like any other art, but especially music arouses the desire for all or as many people as possible to share in the enjoyment you feel. Nothing shows more clearly than this the true meaning of art, you transpose yourself into others, you would like to feel through them.
Walking, I felt with all clarity and acuteness the life of calves, sheep, moles, trees, each tree rooted in its own way does its job, put forth an elder over the summer. The seed gave birth to a log, the acorn turned into a tree, into an oak tree, the trees grow, they will last for hundreds of years and they will give birth to other trees, the same with the sheep, with the moles, with the people. And this has happened for an infinite number of years and will continue to do so for an infinite time. It happens in Africa, in India, in Australia, and on every patch of the globe. And there are thousands, millions of globes like this. And behold, when you clearly understand this, how ridiculous is talk of the greatness of anything human or of man himself. Of the beings we know, yes, man is above all, but just as below man there is an infinity of inferior beings whom we know only in part, so above man there must be an infinity of superior beings, which we have no way of knowing. As things stand, it is ridiculous to talk about the greatness of man. All we can want from people is that they don't do stupid things. Yes, that's all.
God breathes through us and is good. We seek the good, that is, we want, we do not want, we seek God. But if we seek good for ourselves (for our body, for our person), we will not find it, but through our involuntary example, through its consequences, we serve the good of other people (see competition, technical and scientific improvements, religious wanderings). But if we are aware that we are God, seeking the good of all (love), we find our good. If we seek God, we find good, if we seek true good, we find God. Yes, love is the pursuit of good. The first is not love, but goodness. It is truer to say that God is good than that God is love.
Man is aware of the fact that his life has always existed, no, not always, because "always" indicates time, and what is, simply is, but since there has been only one thing exists. My body came from my mother's womb, but I am something else entirely.
People who express their beliefs are often accused of not living up to them, and therefore their beliefs are not sincere. But if you think seriously, you understand that it is exactly the other way around. Can the intelligent man who has beliefs that do not correspond to his way of life ignore this contradiction? If he still expresses his beliefs, even when they do not correspond to his way of life, this only proves that he is so sincere that he cannot help expressing that which reveals his weaknesses, and he does not act like the majority, he does not adjust his beliefs according to weaknesses .
Religion is the establishment of our relationship with the world, it guides us in all our actions. Usually, people establish a relationship with the beginning of everything, with God, and attribute to this God everything that is human: punishments, rewards, the desire to be respected, love, which is essentially just a human attribute, so that no longer I'm talking about the absurd legends in which God is described as a man. He was forgetting that we can accept, rather we cannot not accept, the beginning of everything, but we cannot form an idea about this beginning. But we invent our human God and behave familiarly with him by attributing our attributes to him. This familiarity, this minimization of God, most perverts the religious conception of men and, to a great extent, lacks any religion, the control of facts. In order to establish such a religion, it is best to leave God alone, apart from the creation of heaven and hell, let us not attribute to him anger, the desire to atone for sins and other such nonsense, let us not attribute to him any will , no desires and not even love. Let's leave God alone, understanding that he is incomprehensible to us, and build our religion, our relationship with the world, based on those qualities of mind and love that we have. This religion will be the same religion of truth and love as all religions in their true sense, from the Brahmins to Christ, but it will be more precise, clearer, more binding.
For any man who understands God as he can and as he should, what a terrible sacrilege it is to see that the Jew Jesus is the only [man] recognized as God!
The body? Why is there a body? Why does space, time, causality exist? But the very question "why?" is a causal question. Why the body exists is a mystery and will remain a mystery.
The question is not why I live, but what I must do.
Our purpose here is to remain as a tool with which the master does something I cannot understand. We must stay at our best, if I am a plough, my edge must be sharp, if I am a torch, nothing must stop me from burning. But we don't know what will happen to our lives, and we don't need to.
The understanding of God even in its crudest form, which of course does not correspond to a wise image of him, is nevertheless useful for life, if only because his image, even crude, transfers the consciousness to an area from which the purpose can be seen man, and thus all his deviations, mistakes, sins become clear.
The love of children, husbands, brothers is a small example of the love that must, and can, be towards everything.
We must be like a lamp, closed to outside influences, wind, insects, and at the same time be clean, transparent, burn brightly.
Living before God is not living before a God in heaven. It means awakening the God in us and living before him.
Soldiering awakens the need for patriotism that justifies the villainy of soldiering. Patriotism awakens the need for the soldier who supports patriotism.
We can have God consciousness within ourselves. When you have His consciousness in you, you have consciousness in other creatures (and, very vividly, in people). When you have His consciousness in yourself and in other beings, you have His consciousness in Himself.
I have lost the memory of all, almost all of my past, of all my writings, of all that brought me to the consciousness with which I now live. Before, I could never think of that state in which I have in mind at every moment my spiritual "I" and its demands which now guide me almost always. I feel this state effortlessly.
Only God really exists. Man is His manifestation in matter, time and space. The more the manifestation of God in man (life) unites with the manifestations (lives) in other creatures, the more fully man lives. The union of his life with the lives of other creatures is accomplished through love.
We know God only by having the consciousness of his manifestation in us. Everything that derives from this consciousness is always useful to man in knowing God, and in leading a life based on this consciousness.
Everything is for the good of others, and especially for my own good. (November 3. Astapovo*)