Asking if God exists is like asking: do I exist? I know God in me, not whole, but a particle, a manifestation. God is the one whose manifestation I am, and his existence is as inevitable as mine.
The bad part of medicine is that people deal with the body more than the soul. Life is arranged in such a way that millions of young strong, healthy, children perish, life itself perishes, while the old, useless, evil ones are treated. And above all, it teaches people, even the common people, to take care of the body more than the soul.
It is said that there is no spiritual principle, everything starts from the body. If people live for the body, deal only with the body, never fight with it, then how can they think otherwise? The child lives for the body, but does not explain, does not justify it. But the trouble is when the adult continues to live like a child and finds clever philosophical justifications for it. Only he who wrestled with the body knows what the body is, knows what was fighting with it and what is more powerful than it.
Freedom, equality can only be achieved through love, not through violence. If they are obtained by violence, they are the greatest evil.
There are two exact sciences: mathematics and morals. One is the most superficial, the other the deepest. These sciences are exact and indisputable because all people have the same reason that receives mathematics and the same spiritual nature that receives morals (teaching of life).
God changes everything, but he does not change himself.
I have the consciousness of the body, of the soul, but I do not have the consciousness of the one who has the consciousness of both. This is He, God, Love.
Life is not in the body, nor in the soul, but in the spirit. He alone has the consciousness of both, but nothing has his consciousness.
People's lives are crazy. Both the old life and the new are mad and fighting each other. The mad life that has grown old is considered wise, the new mad life is considered progress: faith, politics, science, art, pedagogy, industry, commerce, finance, agriculture, the press, sex relations, medicine, psychiatry, tobacco, wine. Everything is just as crazy, both the old and the new.
The world reveals itself to me at a certain moment in its evolution, and it reveals itself to me as a human (and to other humans) in a certain rhythm, i.e. with the same rapidity, like a constantly turning clock wheel. I can imagine the beings who became human thousands of years ago, when they were animals, I can imagine the world hundreds of thousands of years from now, when the wolf will sit with the lamb (when he will become a herbivore or will be tamed). These are about the timing of the reveal, but I can also imagine a slower or faster pace of the reveal than ours. Even this change of rhythm alone will make possible the existence of the most diverse and incomprehensible to new creatures.
The main goal of the current civilization is to decrease the volume of work and increase the pleasures of life (Jewish civilization: inactivity is a condition of heaven), while the main good of man in the material plane should be to make work more pleasant. In the current civilization, man and his joys are sacrificed to profit. Steam instead of the horse, the seeder instead of the hand, the bicycle, the engine instead of the legs, etc.
The worst thing about medicine is that it gets in the way of the quiet solemnity of the dying process.
The surest way to banish doubt and fortify yourself against the source of doubt is to preach, to teach others the thing you doubt.
When man is deprived of the ability to see, he can no longer distinguish light from darkness. In the same way, the man deprived of the consciousness of his divinity loses the possibility to distinguish good from evil.
The Bible is permeated with a feeling that binds all the mixture of thoughts, rules, stories different in meaning and value, namely the feeling of exclusive, narrow love for your people.
What great words: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." * This means: you will look for the rest in all possible ways, as if you were looking for the top, and you will certainly not find it, and the kingdom of God you will not only not find it, but you will move away from it. And vice versa: seek the kingdom of God and you will find it and everything else. It is the only way to receive all this. How I wish I could convince people of this.
Many understand "in part", in fact they think they understand Christian doctrine and religious and moral doctrine in general, and take something from it, but leave something else. It's like taking a word from a prayer, a maxim, a poem, throwing away the others. Les grandes pensées viennent du cœur *. That would be good, les grandes pensées viennent, but du cœur is no longer necessary. Is it not the same as unopposed Christian doctrine?
The fact that life is a ceaseless unfolding of what already exists is confirmed because we cannot in any way stop this unfolding that occurs through our movement. I can always force myself to act (that is, I think I can). But basically, I can't not act, I can't force myself not to act, to stop blood circulation, breathing, to fall asleep.
The self-confident, who are therefore worthless people, always impose themselves before the modest, and who are therefore dignified, smart, moral, precisely because the modest man, judging by himself, cannot imagine how the bad man he would respect himself so much and speak with such self-confidence about what he does not know.
In man is the heart and the mind, that is, the desires and the ability to find the means to satisfy them. But man is not only that. The full man is also the ability to have self-consciousness outside of time, with his desires and his mind.
I felt so clearly the superiority of the reaper who works early in the morning in the dew of the field, even in the midday heat, compared to the miserable state of the master who reads his annoying newspaper over a coffee, full of irritation, boredom and hemorrhoids.
Not long ago I was glad that I felt the necessity, the naturalness and the joy of loving communication with all people, and now I understood that this feeling was secondary, and the primary one is the consciousness of loving communication not with people, but with the source of everything, with God. This feeling includes the first. I felt this deeply for several days, every moment I felt His closeness and lived under His gaze, fulfilling His will. Now the feeling has subsided, but I'm trying to renew it and hope.
Love is not a special feeling among other feelings (as it is usually understood). Love is only the result of the more or less clear consciousness of belonging to the All. The fingers of the hand do not love each other, but live a common life. They would not understand what love is. I am the incomplete consciousness of the Whole. The full consciousness of the Whole is hidden to me behind space and time. Space and time deprive me of the possibility of having the consciousness of All that exists.
There is Something imperishable, unchanging, in short: nonspatial, timeless, and not in part, but whole. I know it exists, I feel part of it, but I see myself limited by my body in space and movement in time. I see how a thousand ages ago there were my human ancestors, and before them were the animal-ancestors and animal-ancestors, all this was and will be endlessly in time. I also see that I, too, occupy a place in infinite space with my body, and I am aware of the fact that all these were and will be, but all of them, both in infinite space and in infinite time, are all me. This explanation, which seems strange at first, but is essentially the simplest, is the way man understands his life: I am the manifestation of the Whole in space and time. All that is, all that is me, only I am limited by space and time. What we call love is only the manifestation of this consciousness. Manifestation is, of course, more alive in relation to beings closer in space and time.
here is what I would like to say to the children: you all know that Christ had a beloved disciple, John. this John lived a long time and, in his old age, when he could hardly move and hardly speak, he said the same few words to everyone he saw. He said: children, love one another. I am also old, and if you expect me to tell you something, I cannot tell you anything from myself, but I will only repeat what John said: children, love one another. It cannot be said better than that, because in these words there is everything that people need. If men would put these words into practice, if they would endeavor to rid themselves of all that is opposed to love, of strife, envy, reproach, condemnation, and other evil feelings towards their brethren, they would all live well and in joy. And all this is not impossible to do, not even difficult, but easy. If people did that, everyone would be fine. Sooner or later, people will get here. Let's learn from now on, each a little bit.
It is natural for man to fulfill the will of God, to live in love, just as it is natural for a bird to make a nest, to chirp, to bring out young. Only false teachings divert man from the right path.
All passions are an exaggeration of natural, legitimate attractions: 1) pride is the desire to know what people want from us; 2) miserliness is saving the fruits of other people's work; 3) fornication is the fulfillment of the law of the perpetuation of the race; 4) pride is the consciousness of your divinity; 5) malice, hatred towards people is hatred towards evil.
Proof of God's existence! Can anything be more foolish than the idea of proving the existence of God? Proving God is like proving your own existence. Prove your existence? For whom? To whom? By what? Outside of God there is nothing.
How easy and joyful life becomes free from passions, especially from worldly glory.
Life becomes a dream. You are aware of its absurdity and you may find yourself dying. Yes, life is a dream: some people wake up early, without sleeping enough, their death is early; others, sleeping enough, die of old age.