To be born again
What does a person desire? What is the most necessary for each of us?
As many people, as many desires, and there is no end to them. It seems that having achieved something in life, you will feel relief, mental balance, a taste for life. But this does not happen, there never comes a moment when we can say with confidence: “I am the happiest person, I have been the luckiest in my life!” And this is probably because none of us really knows what he needs. Then who knows what the purpose of a person, his existence is.
Each of us is unique, each is a particle, a cell of a single organism called the Universe. “We are all members of the Body of Christ” - according to the Bible. And as soon as one cell of the organism does not fulfill its function, the whole organism reacts. How should this be understood in relation to a person? When we begin to protest, condemn, show our pride, show superiority, we are given illness, the first sign that we are doing something wrong, that we need to change ourselves, our way of life. We want to achieve all earthly goods. And the more we want to have them, the less we will receive. Because the main goal is the accumulation of love in the soul of every person “A person is first God and love, then a soul filled with love, then a spirit and only then a body – if we realize this, our dependence on the world around us will decrease, we will learn to be happy no matter what,” writes S.M. Lazarev.
In this world, everything is perfect, everything is ideal. The sun warms both good and evil with its warmth. The earth feeds everyone. A day is born, a flower is born, a person is born... The Creator's love for his most perfect creation - man is so great, "that we cannot love ourselves so much: but the soul sadly thinks that the Lord has forgotten it and that He does not even want to look at it, and it suffers and languishes. But not so, brothers. The Lord loves us endlessly and gives us the grace of the Holy Spirit, and comforts us. The Lord does not want the soul to be in sorrow and misunderstanding about its salvation. Believe firmly that we suffer only until we humble ourselves, and only when we humble ourselves will there be an end to suffering, for the Spirit of God through humility informs the soul that it is saved," wrote the schemamonk Father Silouan. What does it mean to humble oneself? Pride is the greatest sin. We must remember that there are no worse or better people among us. No one is worth more than each of us individually. Before God, we are all one: both those who live in fairy-tale cottages and drive Mercedes cars and those who beg for alms on the street. “God calls everyone, but not everyone hears him. Those who have converted to God are severely tested, and the degree of severity of the test is measured by God with the degree of loyalty and devotion to Him. A lover of God goes through such suffering that a person who does not have deep faith in God cannot endure and becomes mentally ill. From deep faith and love, great courage is born, which saves a person from illness when meeting with the world of evil spirits. A lover of God knows these sufferings, but despite the experience of such suffering, he remains not only normal, that is, not only retains the ability to self-control, the ability to logical and moral self-control and everything that can be a sign of normality, but also achieves an incomparably greater depth and subtlety of all these abilities than is observed in the average person,” wrote Father Silouan.
Only deep faith and sincere prayer give us strength. Prayer is a conversation with God. We are all sinners and only through prayer and repentance does the soul become purified and turn to God. The Lord is patient, He waits for every sinner, He wants to save everyone. We turn to friends and acquaintances for help, knowing in advance who and how they can help us. Why do we forget that nothing happens in life by chance, that everything is only a consequence of our bad thoughts and actions. The more aggressively we treat our enemies, the more we will suffer, but if, without malice in our hearts, we let go of everything to God's will, the problem will suddenly be solved without complications.
The Creator cannot speak to everyone individually, so in life there are various situations that become lessons for us to understand this world. If, for example, someone offended you, cursed you, said something that you did not like, then something is wrong with you, and you need to calm down, not be offended, and thank God for this lesson. Enemies are the doctors of our soul, so the biblical commandment: “Love your enemies” helps to cleanse the soul, although it is difficult for us to understand this. Elder Silouan wrote: “Even people who accept Christ’s commandment about loving their enemies with their souls do not fulfill it in life. Why? First of all, because we cannot love our enemies without grace; but if people, realizing that this surpasses their ordinary strength, would seek gracious help from God, then, without a doubt, they would receive this gift.”
So, everything in life is given to us, because God’s love for man is immeasurable. Through prayer we come to know this love, receive gracious help and spiritual joy. Every day is a gift for us. Stop the thought that flies ahead, distracting you from this unique moment. Everything that happens today will never happen again. Live now and today. Thank God for the happiness of being alive, ask for the strength to endure the trials of this day, thank God for everything that has happened and will happen, accept it as given by God, and then after something unpleasant, joy will certainly come. For all troubles are only steps that help us accumulate love, heal the soul... Humble yourself and be glad for what is given to you, and then you will live with God,” says Elder Silouan.
You should not envy those who have more earthly goods than you. Everyone is given what is necessary for him, and not for someone else, everyone is given their own path to God. And who knows who finds this path easier: the rich or the needy, because everything in the world is changeable. Rejoice for everyone who is well, help if you can, sympathize, advise, protect.
In every person there is a Divine beginning, and then an earthly one. Everything that a person receives on earth is perishable, only the soul is immortal. Love God above all, because with God we know eternal life, and earthly life is given for temporary use.
It is a pity when there is misunderstanding, betrayal, and lack in the family. So there is something to think about, something to realize. Remember: everything The bad that happened to you is the best medicine for your soul. It is impossible to love a person more than God, because what we put above the Creator will be taken from us. Everything is changeable, there is only one God. Family is also given to us to go through the earthly path. And when we put it above God, problems will begin. We must love the family, but this love must come from gratitude to God, to love the Divine in a person, without trying to change anyone, accepting everyone as they are, without judging, understanding that everyone has their own higher purpose, their own path, their own trials. A broken family is difficult, but the medicine can also be bitter. Every end of something is at the same time the beginning of something else. Life is always interesting, at every stage of it.
How do we understand whether we love God? If I love God, then I will love everything around me, and I will not put anything above it. Love for the whole world and people is a sign that I love God most of all.
S.M. Lazarev writes: “We pray not in order to receive more human happiness, but on the contrary - in order to renounce it, reduce dependence and feel that there is a happiness higher and more lasting than any human values. A person begins to pray like this and I see how he overcomes the disease. Most likely, he also did not have time to read all the sacred books and all scientific works. Fear of the future, fear of death, lack of confidence in his own abilities hinder a person on the path to recovery. Throw away doubt about your strengths. Your strengths are determined by your desire. If you have a great desire to change, you will overcome the disease. Stop being afraid of the future. A lot of energy flows out through fear, regret, dissatisfaction. And you need it now in order to work on yourself. Do not be afraid of your death. Your “I”, which is connected with your body, is not the only one. Your higher, true “I” is beyond time. It is eternal and is in To God and in love. If the amount of love in the soul is less than sudden happiness, increased dependence on human values breaks the soul and kills the body very soon. We do not know that happiness kills faster than unhappiness. The ideology, worldview and character of humanity at the present time, judging by everything, do not allow each person to accumulate in the soul the amount of love that allows not to depend on the scale of human goods that await humanity in the near future. And the more each of us makes efforts to put his soul in order, the more he helps all of humanity in overcoming future epidemics, diseases and wars.
God is love, man is consciousness. The entire Universe is a form of consciousness, time and matter. Consciousness divides the world into right and left, light and dark, sublime and the lowest. True love does not compare, does not evaluate and does not criticize for the simple reason: it is beyond space and time. Everything is one in it: and beautiful and the worst, and good and evil. Aggression appears when there is an opportunity to compare and evaluate situations. Comparison is possible when there is space and time. And if a person wants to live by the ideals of nobility, purity, wants to see the world only as beautiful, then he no longer lives by love, but by reason, by consciousness. The more a person adores good, the more he hates evil. The more we pray for good, the faster it becomes evil. A woman falls in love with a man and paints his image only in bright colors. And the more she admires his spirituality, nobility and beauty, the more arrogance and contempt she feels for other men, in whom she sees low, imperfect. The more she admires the values of reason, the more they displace love from her soul. The slightest flaw in a loved one causes irritation and dissatisfaction. Constantly growing aggression ultimately destroys the mind.
What is the meaning of our original sin, as interpreted by S.M. Lazarev. A man and a woman run naked through a forest clearing, ate something, then began to feel ashamed, and then sinned. True, thanks to this, we all live on a sinful Earth, and we are all guilty before God from birth.
Man was in paradise and was without sin until he tasted the fruits of knowledge, the fruits of good and evil, that is, man tasted the fruit of reason, consciousness. Consciousness was formed, separated from love, and mind, space and matter took shape in it. A personal, individual “I” appeared and this “I” began to compare, evaluate, analyze. Shyness appeared as a result of assessing the situation. The human “I” began to work for itself. The possibility of knowledge appeared, of making consciousness an end in itself. The human was separated from the Divine. And this gave a sharp acceleration of development, but at the same time - a temptation to make consciousness, not love, the main goal. Our feeling of love always has two layers - Divine and human. Through sexual attraction, the desire to reproduce, we receive a strong impulse to the development of everything human and living. But if in this impulse human pleasure becomes the main one, then there is a strong rush in favor of consciousness, not love, that is, the wrong attitude towards one's sexual feelings can imperceptibly and quickly make us slaves to everything human. And then Divine love is supplanted by human love, with jealousy, fear, hatred and contempt.
In simple terms: when a person did not have an individual consciousness, love was always more important for him, the human did not cover the Divine. The further a person goes in development, the better his body, his spirit and soul become. And the greater the temptation to focus on higher human values as primary. And overcoming original sin in each of us is overcoming the increased orientation to space, time and matter, to consciousness, to higher human values. And this is possible with a continuous striving for love and to God. Constant work must be carried out to preserve and increase love.
According to the Bible, there are two main sins in the history of our world. One sin is the sin of Adam and Eve, the second is the sin committed by an angel who turned into a devil, that is, it is the sin of the entire Universe. The most intelligent and talented angel became the devil, that is, the one whose consciousness was more developed than others.
We all carry the root cause within ourselves. And at the heart of consciousness lies love. And while the angel felt his unity with God, he was an angel. But then the mind decided to separate from love, and the angel declared himself God, that is, he called his secondary “I”, his abilities, his intellect God.
A tree that is deprived of its roots first turns black, and then decays. So devilism is not a personality, but a tendency to false development. No matter how exalted the human, it will always be secondary in relation to love.
Mostly the greatest spiritual achievements were associated with religious knowledge of the world. In Buddhism, for example, achieving the state of Buddha is overcoming dependence on all forms of consciousness. This gives a feeling of happiness. This is the feeling of the Divine in our soul. Each of us has a similar feeling when we forgive the one who gave birth to us! A similar feeling is experienced by women who love a man with all his shortcomings and achievements. When we love the world around us in all its manifestations, our love ceases to depend on the surrounding world and ultimately on consciousness. The more we see God in everything, the brighter the Divine in our soul. We must not forget for a moment that the warm feeling of love that we carry in our soul will always be more important than the most large-scale and important information. We learn to feel more, trying to reject thoughts, to get rid of their influence.
According to the Bible, the serpent tempted the woman, saying, “God knows that in the day you eat from the tree in paradise, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil,” so that a person, like the angel who became the devil, would try to comprehend the unattainable with his mind. God gave us the opportunity to make a choice and come to the conclusion that, using reason without love in the soul, we will only experience suffering. The struggle of man with the devil is the struggle of each with himself. The devil is pride, which encourages us to distinguish ourselves from others, excess in relation to people, the confidence that it is possible to live without God, using our own mind. However, among our acquaintances there are people who were not distinguished by special mental abilities, did not graduate from higher educational institutions and did not have special material wealth, but were happy in family life, they believed in God, thanked Him for everything they have, their eyes shine with love for people and everything around.
The path to true, God's love goes through suffering and humility. Suffering love is when you love regardless of whether that person loves you. or hates you; is nearby, or lives in another family; wishes you well or curses you. Such love is recognized by humility, not by reason. And only the Creator can give each of us what we call true happiness. With reason we love the unattainable, created in our imagination. But as soon as we get what we dream of, very quickly comes either disappointment or addiction, the confidence that it is already permanent, actually and eternal. And then sudden changes in life occur, circumstances change, unforeseen problems arise that cause irreconcilability, anger, hatred, and our pride begins to fight for itself to show its superiority, extraordinaryness. It is easier for us to endure when someone is humiliated, when misfortunes and betrayal happen to others. Therefore, when we feel that we live better than others, that misfortunes bypass us, that we are even envied, and of course everyone likes this, then we begin to condemn others, to scold them, imagining ourselves better, those who have the right to do so, and then, finally, it is in us that real problems appear. If we condemn someone for meanness, then they will treat us meanly, if we do not like drunkards, then one of our relatives will definitely become like that; if we condemn adultery, then they will betray us; if we condemn someone for having ill-mannered children, then our children will hurt us, etc. So, there are many problems, and the only cure is one: to accept everything with love, to pray to God to give us the strength to live without hatred, humbly. Then everything will suddenly be resolved and fall into place, problems will disappear, life will become more interesting, because with love we are not afraid of anything. So, the ability to evaluate, which people received as a result of original sin, we on Earth must use so that it does not become a tragedy of life for us. The knowledge of good and evil gives a person different thoughts, and thought is the foundation, the basis of action. Even the disease of the body is a product of thought. And it means nothing more than our desire to get sick. A paradox, but it is so. Why can such a desire arise, what is the benefit of it? The answer is simple: we want more attention, love from relatives, friends, or it is beneficial to have a pension for illness. We firmly fix the disease in our consciousness and as a result - we have what we want. So, to get rid of the disease, it is necessary first in thoughts, and for this it is not necessary to look for a sponsor. With thought, we plan our future, and you can change it without leaving the room. Thought works on the principle of a boomerang: it returns to its owner with a multiplied effect. That is, when we respond to evil with evil, we receive several times stronger aggression, which destroys the body - gives diseases. When we respond to the evil caused with humility, surrendering everything to God's will, without feeling hatred - we preserve both soul and body, and Divine love, eternal love, which supports the Universe and all humanity. So, the end of the world is the accumulation of evil in each person, which we send into the Cosmos with our negative thoughts.
Each of our actions has a dual nature: negative and positive. That is, if for some it is good, then for others it can cause grief. The people say: “There is no such evil that did not turn out good, and there is no such good that did not turn out bad”. Therefore, when from great goodness and abundance everything turns out to be evil for someone, it means that at the moment for this person it is the best medicine to save his soul. Even such evil as lying brings more harm if we deceive ourselves, and not someone. For example, we want to have money by any means, even when for this it is necessary to deceive, deprive, under-give, use someone - this is a lie against ourselves. A lie always turns against you, because, knowing and feeling it, you calm yourself down in your soul, justify yourself. And then suddenly you will either be robbed, or deceived, or there will be legal disputes with property. In reality, only the excess, earned dishonestly, used from someone else will be taken away. For example, during the Soviet era, individual officials, taking advantage of their position, tried to steal as much as possible: they wrote out “fake” documents for construction materials, used state transport for personal purposes, took bribes, bought cars, etc. Of course, such material wealth will not fit into the salary. For these unfortunate officials, a major crisis has now come, because an unusually large number of them have divorced, and there is nothing to rob, and they no longer know how to do anything. The time for craftsmanship and quality has come, a time for testing humanity, spirituality, and honesty.
Master Osho said: “Reality is hard; you have to suffer and go through fire. The more fires you go through, the more mature you become, and the more mature you become, the more valuable you are. Your Divinity cannot be bought in the market, you cannot bargain for it; you will have to pay with your whole life. When your whole life is at stake, only then will it happen.”
So, reality must be accepted, not fought against. Understand your essence and then there will be no fear. Be as you feel, regardless of anything, be real, do not be afraid of anyone’s opinion. Trust life, do not look for a goal. “If you have a goal, you are against life,” said Osho. The universe is an open secret, only you are closed. When you adapt to someone, feeling that you contradict your inner state, you no longer have your “I”.
The real spur, according to the Bible, is narrow, thorny. What is this path? It is the path of those who create a space of love around themselves, and not material goods that generate cruelty and indifference. Neither a car, nor a mansion, nor higher education will bring happiness to your children. Give them your love and you can stop grieving for your old age. There is no past, nor future, there is only the present and the present. So let us live with love for everything that surrounds us. And whatever happens, know that everything is for our own good. If doctors, miners, and educators are not paid, then they are not fulfilling their mission before God. We need to treat not the body, but the soul. And it is probably enough to devastate the bowels of the Earth, it is already wounded. Education is also not so necessary for us. Already now, academician Mikhail Pertovich Shchetinin has created a forest school in the Krasnodar Territory. The school belongs to the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, it is free. There is not a single vacant place in it, but there are two and a half thousand applications for a place that will only appear. The school is built by children with their own hands. This is a house where every stone is placed by a kind hand, it has healing power. Children of all ages study at the school. They sit in the hall, around the arranged tables. The children behave freely: they get up, go somewhere and come back again. Sometimes they approach the stands with numbers, or they can simply walk around the room, some talk among themselves, explain something to each other. “Here we see mainly an attempt to meet,” says Mikhail Petrovich. If the meeting takes place, the children will be able to master the high school mathematics course in no more than a year. This is the task. This happens to those who can meet with those who possess such knowledge, to the extent that their relationship will be open. Their field structures will be able to read each other’s information. A well-known observation among the people is love at first sight, when lovers understand each other with half a word. The only condition for a positive result is to cleanse the mind of negative thoughts. A person can easily use all the information that the Universe has in store for him.
As the heroine of the book “Anastasia” by V. Maigret says, a scientist will come to the village to his grandmother’s garden and ask for a tomato, and will turn his face to the ground. Because we do not need weapons, not an army and not factories that pollute the environment, but we need to cleanse ourselves of internal dirt – evil and aggression. Unite with God, with the Universe, and we will receive the Kingdom that is in each of us. The time has come for personal development, the time for everyone to find within themselves a treasure given by God, a treasure that will bring the joy of life. After all, it is not education that helps us to be kind, honest, modest, to love everything as it is, as the Creator gave it to us.
Fear of loneliness, fear of life, often gives rise to mistakes for which sooner or later we have to pay. “After all, we lived in society, were raised in it, and therefore completely forgot that we can be alone. In the deepest core of our existence, you are alone. Therefore, going into solitude for a few days just to feel your loneliness is wonderful. Then go into the world, but bring your loneliness there,” said Osho.
A lonely person is a person who accepts himself. He will be glad to everyone who is around, both when you leave him and when you come again. This person accepts himself, his significance and uniqueness. He knows that nothing will break him, he accepts the world with love. Such a person has no fear of the future, fear for his children, he does not traumatize them with his teachings. “A child grows only when he resists his parents, when he fights with his parents, when he moves away from them, against them, he gets his own ego. He has to go aside - that's what life is. Independence is pain. It is a struggle, and you can only fight when you are... Remember: no one is a goal for you except yourself. You are the goal, and you must achieve yourself - nothing else has a price,” said Osho. “Knowledge of oneself comes with a clear mind, not with a mind clouded by knowledge. Do not try to change anyone, not even your son, not even your brother. No one needs your efforts because you are dangerous. You can disturb, you can kill, you can maim, but you cannot help reincarnation. Until you change, do not meddle in someone else’s life. If you are filled with light, you can help. In fact, then there is no need to make an effort to help. Help flows from you, like light from a lamp, or fragrance from a flower; or the moon shining at night – there is no effort from the moon, it just shines. You love someone, but you want that someone to behave as if they were a thing completely in your hands. If that someone is a personality, you cannot possess them; if you can possess them, they are no longer a personality, and you cannot love them. Then they are just a dead thing, and who can love a dead thing. The personality must be free and alive, and only then can you love her. (Osho) So, to be a person is to be lonely. A lonely person does not feel the need to be needed, she has disappeared. He does not depend on your views, does not ask to be given importance. If you give him love, he will be grateful, but if not, there is no difference, he is as beautiful as ever. he will be equally happy whether you come to visit him or not. He will be happy to live in a crowd, but if he lives in solitude, he will also be happy.
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“Blessed are the lonely…” - people who can live with themselves as easily as if the whole world were with them, who can enjoy themselves like small children.
A lonely person becomes chosen, he is chosen by God. Because a lonely person never wants anything from this world. He has learned from this world everything that can be learned from it; this school is finished, he has gone through "He became like a high peak that remains alone in the sky" (Osho)
Every person sooner or later reaches this state and accepts it, or does not accept it. “Heaven is not really a place. It is a state of consciousness. Hell and heaven exist within you.
Love life, accept it as it is, and you will know heaven. Love is always outside the law. There are no rules or regulations for it, rules and regulations exist because you cannot love. “Love is connected with the essence. Love is a participation, it is a giving, not only of what you have, but also of what you are.” (Osho)
The main thing is to maintain love for God, no matter how everything human is destroyed. See God's will in everything. Do not look for the guilty, do not blame others or yourself.
A person suffers because there is no other way to mature, to grow. A person suffers because only through suffering can he become more conscious. When you suffer - do not complain, do not create torment from this. Go to church, pray, take communion, and you will receive the key, that is, awareness. You are not a sinner, you can be ignorant, but not a sinner. God is not against you. You can be against God, He will not take revenge on you.
Reincarnation occurs through surrender - surrender to what has happened, be reconciled
“Every soul that has lost peace must repent, and the Lord will forgive sins, and then there will be joy in the soul and peace, and no other witnesses are needed, and the Spirit Himself testifies that sins forgiven. Here is a sign of the forgiveness of sins: if you have hated sin, then the Lord has forgiven you your sins,” wrote Silouan.
Meet every day with a smile. Look in the mirror and say: “You are beautiful! This is the most beautiful day of my life! I will easily achieve success!”
Imagine what you want most - and you will receive it.
No one in life deprives you of anything and takes nothing away from you, except yourself.
Never think that everything is lost for you. Try to get rid of thoughts altogether - they prevent you from being here and now, noticing everything that surrounds you, enjoying today. You walk down the street, and your thoughts either take you back to the past, or reach into the future, and you do not immediately notice something that could become very important for you.
Love yourself, love life, love everything that surrounds you.
Meditate on the words of prayer when you pray, and gradually unnecessary thoughts will leave you. Pray for your enemies with love.
Jesus suffered, but prayed to the Lord for those who crucified him, because they themselves do not know what they are doing.
God created man. And he loved him so much that no one has ever loved anyone before. loved. The Lord sought to give man everything he needed to become a true creation of God, to make his life a joy and pleasure. And the Lord gave man Love - a power that nothing can overcome. This feeling is useless, not subject to either law or physical force.
Look at a baby who has just been born. He does not yet know how to speak, cannot even recognize his relatives, but he already knows how to love and feel love. Only later, thanks to the care of his parents, the child learns to live wisely and forgets about God's gift - Love.
According to the Bible, man was in paradise while he lived by Love. And as soon as he tasted the forbidden fruit, he received, as a consequence of sin, reason. Thus, the “ego” appeared in man's life. The “ego” began to divide into “mine” and “yours”, a desire arose to become above someone. As we know, selfishness is self-love, the superiority of one's own interests over others, over public ones, contempt for them. That is, man chose constant fear instead of Love. But Love forgives everything. And the Lord forgave people. He gave them the opportunity to live on Earth, guided by reason, without depriving people of Love - a gift from God, so that through his reason man himself would make a choice and return to Love, to the paradise prepared for him. So, paradise is the homeland of Love.
Man has chosen a difficult path, a thorny path, a path of self-knowledge, on which there is always a possibility of choice and on which everyone is accompanied by God's Love and God's help. This is very easy to see. Let us ask ourselves: “What do I want most?” And our heart will tell us – Love, support, comfort, mental balance. Some may say that the pinnacle of life is money, because it creates all the good. Yes, but these good things are temporary. Where there is money, there is benefit, deception, betrayal, meanness, and this is no longer Love. Even the most cruel people do not want to be in the place of their victims. After each of their insidious actions, they feel that something has broken somewhere inside, but their mind calms them down, having caught them in another trap.
Let us remember how in childhood we were fascinated by fairy tales. And, probably, what everyone liked most of all was that Ivan the Fool successfully overcame difficulties, defeating evil with love and kindness, and in the end achieved what he had never dreamed of.
Fairy tales were created by the people. Therefore, the authorship does not belong to a single person. We were not yet in the world, and life instructions were already waiting in fairy tales. And this was also God's will.
Why then is Ivan the Fool? Because he spoke the truth. How did he overcome obstacles and difficulties? Calmly, cheerfully, without meanness, thanks to his wit, without trying to make fun of anyone or deceive. For some reason, people forget that fairy tales also prepare for something, suggest something. They burn with the desire to rule the world, but the world does not obey them. This suggests a very simple conclusion: do not dream of anything, do not be sad about anything, rid yourself of the fear of life, never do evil, love everyone as they are. You will say that it is impossible, for example, to love drunkards, beggars, vile, disgusting and unattractive people. Remember, they are like that by God's will. This is their test, and it will be according to their strength if they accept God into their hearts.
“We are all members of the body of the Cross” - according to the Bible. So, one part of our body is so unattractive, and we must accept it, because otherwise we will become cripples. For example, such natural defects as stooping, fullness, birthmarks on the face or something else, we try to hide from prying eyes. No one even thinks of a violent way that will harm the entire organism. Of course, not everyone can be outwardly attractive, but still they are one with us. Love for them is like love for yourself. We all support each other, like cells of one organism. If there is a rebel and challenges the entire organism, he will simply disappear, because he does not fulfill his function. The organism throws out dying cells. Living cells must fulfill their task, like, say, every detail in a car. Only when we are one, life begins to pulsate rhythmically.
For some reason, there is such a tendency in society that, having reached a certain level, a person begins to put himself above others, he begins to feel superiority, a desire to teach someone, to condemn. And here again a trap awaits. This superiority is only a manifestation of the imperfection of the environment that we have created in our imagination with our thoughts. Everyone whom we exalt sees his greatness in our eyes. And this can only happen when we are jealous and show our worthlessness, allowing ourselves to be offended. If we condemn someone, then in reality we are showing self-defense.
Life consists of ups and downs. Whoever stumbled and fell today chooses for himself: whether to rise or let himself be trampled into the swamp. Your pride plays a big role here. If you accept everything with resentment, hatred, fall into despair - it means you have given up on yourself. Looking for a way out, some lose themselves in vodka, debauchery or drug addiction, others - seek help from fortune tellers. Pride does not allow them to accept humiliation, the mind builds various options to rise again, to rise. In your imagination, you already see how you deal with hatred with the one who is to blame for your fall. You begin to fight windmills, like the hero of Cervantes. Denying yourself, becoming disappointed in life, even trying to get rid of it, you forget that life is given to you by God. God guides you through life, He is near, believe in him, do not resist circumstances, accept them. Know that God is the best support in all your misfortunes. But you think differently, you want your loved one to become your property, you adore them. But because you want it so much, they will definitely reject you, humiliating your dignity.
No one and nothing in the world can belong to us. We only use things and communicate with people, without having the right to demand. Everything is just a change of scenery. You have to study your own personality. If you choose yourself, you will definitely win, but if the goal is another person, you will be defeated. No person in the world is worthy of being placed above God, Divine love. Carnal love can never be the goal. Owning someone is not the goal. Only to own yourself, not to depend on anyone, not to demand anything from anyone, being able to live in solitude as if the whole world was with you and at the same time to be with everyone, feeling like an independent, but integral part of the universe - this is the goal.
Treat all diseases with love. Don't try to look for a benefit, it simply does not exist.
Life is freedom, consciousness, bliss, but not law. If we can feel and maintain constant fear, why can't we feel peace, bliss? By clinging to someone, we choose the temporary, the perishable. Life's pleasures soon disappear, and with them the benefits they bring. Then a person finds himself at a crossroads: he was thrown out as useless, despised. What then? Then comes existence, disappointment in everything and at the same time the desire to conquer the one who refused you. This is also another trap of our mind. By clinging to someone, we prevent them from finding themselves and forget that we were created for happiness
The fairy-tale hero overcame obstacles cheerfully. Smile too. Watch. By clinging, we create a cause, by not clinging, we become free. "Mine", "mine" - creates "ego". If you stop calling currents mine, the "ego" will disappear. He who chooses to be smart is already smart.
"Know thyself" means that you are not there. If you are not there, then why rebel.
Imagine that you are dreaming a dream. The dream ended, you woke up and as if you saw the creation of your mind in a movie. Daydreaming is our life. Do not interfere, just observe. Or imagine yourself in the theater. Ready script. You are a viewer, so you have no right to change it. You are an observer. So it is in life. As long as you do not demand, do not show your aggression, the scenario does not change.
Love does not judge, it accepts everything. You give love - you receive it, and vice versa. We want to receive, but we must give. We get what we give. Do not demand anything and do not be offended, because we are treated as we deserve. Live in the moment and don't try to live in the future. Don't live in imagination. Just watch yourself. As long as you try to impose yourself on others, demand attention from them, you will lose yourself, you will get sick. The best medicine for yours is insult, betrayal, meanness, deception and even a high position. Why the position of medicine? You have risen to a higher step, reached a level that is the pinnacle for some. Most people in this case show their true face. And what's next? The higher step is unattainable, the lower one is associated with deception, betrayal, meanness. So, you develop hatred and a thirst for revenge - one of the reasons for getting an incurable disease. It is easier if you immediately fall down, because those who have suffered more than once from your grace will be nearby. And here an interesting tale will begin. You will have to hear the truth, which once they were afraid to say to your face, because they had to say only what you liked. You are no longer able to take revenge - all steps are over. It remains only to draw a conclusion: there is no peak in life. If you have already lost everything that you were so longing for, do not resist, do not protest, accept life as it is.
“Ask and it will be given to you…” God’s love is boundless. It is in you, with you, and everywhere. If you are very difficult, prayer will calm your soul, give it peace. Everything you need is always nearby; you only need to want to become the master of everything if you get rid of desires. Try to feel more than to demand for yourself.
Try to imagine that the benefits promised by reason have already been received. Enjoy, look again at the dream, for example: a luxurious house, a happy family, a car, a swimming pool or something else. Imagine the faces of those who envy you, feel your triumph. How long will you want to see this? I think you guessed it: until a new desire appears. And a new desire is a temptation. You rushed after it, and the higher the desire, the higher the price. To get something, you have to lose. Now look around and think: what can you sacrifice for the sake of a new desire? As you understand, this is again a trap of our mind. Desires appear and disappear, and sacrifices for them are often very painful, because most of what you had is lost and there is no going back. Reason makes us hurry to live. We do not see anything that is happening today, because we are not here. Thoughts distract, creating new traps for us. The school of life began with our first breath, and we are late for it, because we want to show off to someone, to see envy in the eyes of others. And who are the others? Those who think the same way as we do. They are busy with themselves, looking for their peak and making their mistakes. Everything is like a vicious circle.
Wake up in the morning and be born for life. You have opened your eyes - the lesson has begun. You have God's love within you. Look around. Everything you see was given to you by God. He thinks that this is exactly what you need. Pray and thank God. Use what you have with love, do every job with love, perceive people with love, think about everything that happened - this is homework.
You were deceived, which means that deep down you want to deceive someone in order to get a bigger share. Get rid of this desire, and no one will deceive you again.
You had money stolen from you or you lost it. So, you really want to have it. Perhaps you dreamed of finding it, or you did not give it to someone or received and even demanded a bribe. Remember: sooner or later, everything superfluous will definitely be taken from you. This is the highest will of God. Do not think about money. Live with God's love. God knows what you need.
You were betrayed, and you wanted it to happen to anyone, but not to you. You just really want someone to belong only to you. But do not forget - no one belongs to us. Why do you put your life in such a small frame and try to fence yourself off from the world with it? After all, you have only passed another stage of life, but it continues. You were good, you were happy, you were loved and you were loved - it means everything is good. Go with love, you are led by God, he loves you and will give you everything you need. Let go of the past with love and accept the new with love. Do not look for someone - find yourself, and you will gain freedom. You came into life to meet yourself and receive the paradise given by God. The Kingdom of Heaven is among us, and man is the Temple of God. Who can prevent us from entering there?
The feeling of fear, which is so difficult to get rid of, makes you hesitate in everything. And the more you have lived, the more fearfully you think about your old age, about the loneliness that awaits you, about the fact that only a reliable person can be a support here. Then you will definitely choose such a person and your slavery begins - another trap of the mind. Because no person can be reliable. People betray, deceive, mock, rob and even kill. And are you reliable? Remember how you have done rash acts, in which you may have repented later and sometimes could not even explain to yourself why you did it. So, with your fear you attract exactly what you are so afraid of, and push away what you strive for and love. No one controls either your life or death, and there is no need to look for them. First, find yourself, and you will open the way to the one who will free you from fear. Only God is reliable, because God is love. With him you will forget all sorrows and find peace. And if you don't have something, and it bothers you a lot, because you think that all problems converge, let's say, in housing or property, then this means one thing: God knows that it will turn into grief and suffering for you, so he doesn't give them.
Live only with God's love, and everything that surrounds you and that you use is temporary and perishable. You will always have what you need, because life is a path to God, and on the path they take the most necessary things.
Nowadays, we often hear that there is anarchy in the country, the mafia rules everything, and the people suffer from poverty and unemployment. But if you look closely, the mafia does not live, but exists. Where there is deception and profit, an abyss appears that swallows its victims, who, like wolves in the forest, make a purge, devouring each other. And this phenomenon is temporary. Humanity must cleanse itself of negative thoughts and emotions, get rid of dependence on its mind and the consequences associated with it.
Someone inside us constantly wants to show off, he knows what good and evil are. He tries to do good, but everything turns into evil, and it spreads in the world. This someone has no feelings, but possesses only pride and arrogance. He always puts himself above, but finds himself below, he is envious. Our mind, our ego - who is this? We fall down, because the mind does not trust anyone. It sets conditions, justifies itself, does not stop at anything to expose itself. It is clear that the mind is the source of world evil. It has the ability to compare everything, trying to be Everything and never Nothing. Even falling down, it struggles again to rise above everyone. The mind generates evil thoughts that destroy everything around, bringing harm to humanity.
How often do you meet people who do not like everything. They are everywhere: in the queue, in transport, and among our acquaintances. Accusations are poured on everything, starting from the authorities and ending with members of their own family. Let's try to analyze individual situations.
For example, the government is to blame for our material deprivation, the crisis of the economy, education. Why do we have such a government? Because evil and hatred radiate from the people themselves, who have lost faith in everything. They believe that someone must restore order. First of all, destroy the guilty to help the people get rid of poverty. Therefore, they strive to achieve happiness through violence, murder. Probably, our fairy-tale heroes would not have achieved anything, having such beliefs.
Love life, love the world around us, help it. With our negative thoughts we harm ourselves and the entire Universe. A national opinion becomes when a sufficient number of people master it. Therefore, change your thoughts, you have no right to blame anyone, because no one owes you anything and no one has any obligation to you.
If your children treat you badly, it means that the Higher Power is letting you know – don’t interfere in their lives, don’t dictate your terms. Resentment appears in you when you don’t allow yourself to do what you want. So don’t forbid your children to live their lives. After all, many young people with education today don’t work in their specialty, and their parents spent a lot on their diplomas, often accumulating debts. And how many graduates from different fields are now earning side by side, buying and reselling various goods. They easily find a common language, earning their daily bread. What is valued here is not a diploma, but decency and honesty in relationships. Complaints can be heard about the authorities, which do not adequately assess the knowledge and merits of their citizens. No one complains that under the Soviet regime they performed their work poorly, impatiently waiting for the end of the working day, and received their salary on time. That often even some specialists did not know their duties. They tried to get benefits only for themselves, if there was an opportunity to earn some money, but no one thought of bringing benefits. Remember how in the fairy tale the king found himself among his subordinates in the clothes of a beggar and in order to return his crown, he had to acquire a craft. So, a king is not a profession. You need to have a specialty, be able to do one thing very well, love your job. Then the money you earn will belong only to you and will benefit the whole family. You will say that not everyone was a manager, some worked very hard, on night shifts. Perhaps so, but they managed to do “minor work” with state raw materials during their working hours, and embezzled the money. Agree that a real specialist will not disappear under any government. And those who are used to adapting, and now find an opportunity to profit at someone else's expense. They have saved up money, buy up shops, stalls. Sellers, as a rule, are hired. Moreover, it is easy to understand here who has really earned a diploma, and who has obtained it for prestige. Of course, the most suffering are the hired salesmen who pray to God to earn at least a little for a living. But this is also God's will. Each of us receives according to our merits, God is waiting for us to finally come to our senses. Just as the prodigal son returned to his home, so we will get rid of suffering if we overcome our pride, which stands on our path to God. Ask in prayer for God's help to achieve purity of spirit, simplicity of heart, patience and humility. Give your children something that does not require expenses - your love. Teach them to accept life's trials with love, which teach unity with the Universe, without feeling uncomfortable in anything. Everything that is in the world is also in you. What you do not see in yourself is in others. And in order for you to see this, situations arise that you must accept calmly, because they help you see yourself, your true place. Your traitors show that you are also capable of betrayal - therefore, forgive them, and by doing so you will take a step towards knowing your personality. If you do not know how to forgive your enemies, then you will have to experience a lot more pain, similar situations will be repeated, and your rejection will only lead to illness and death. You must be content with everything you have, rejecting the predatory idea of demanding something extraordinary for yourself. Finally, stop putting yourself out there, reject the desire to surpass someone, to humiliate. To put yourself above other people is to humiliate them in your own eyes. And thus hide your self-doubt, the fear of showing this insecurity. When you want to be above others, know that you will find yourself the lowest. The universe will not adapt to you, it will force you to accept it. Otherwise, you will simply destroy yourself.
It is clear that it is difficult to accept some of the actions of your children. It seems to you that you are helping them, and it is not easy to immediately adopt a position of non-interference. To begin with, try to direct them, to suggest something, without imposing your opinion. If the child accepts your position, then it is God's will for this. After 14 years, children become different, we call this period a transitional age. So, it is from this time that we must understand that we must give them the opportunity to be independent. You have nothing to worry about and be sad about - God is leading your child, there is no one more reliable. Your duty is to help children find the way to God, to believe in Him and love Him. If there was no place for God in your family, then, of course, children will not follow the right path. It is never too late to come to God. Start with yourself, change, let love into your heart, and you will see a miracle. Try to feel oneness with the Universe through a joint family prayer, and you will receive peace, tranquility and bliss. “Peace to your house” means that it is in our power to calm the storm both in ourselves and in our family, to teach children to recognize good and evil. Find peace within yourself, and you will bring it to others.
A person prepares both reward and punishment for himself. How we want a reward, how we wait impatiently for someone to pay attention to us, take pity on us, console us, help us, that is, we want to receive. But the biggest paradox is that only we ourselves can fulfill this mission. Just give what you want to receive. For example, when caring for your elderly parents, do not create an appearance for the human eye, but do it, feeling yourself in their place, be sincere in relationships - this is the key to success. Good deeds should be done simply, from the heart, without expecting any reward or return, immediately forgetting about them. If you wait for someone to do you good, as most people think, then you will never receive anything. It does not matter who will be the first - the main thing is that there are more of them.
I like to communicate with people. I often have to hear complaints about the authorities. Most people are so preoccupied that it seems as if a world catastrophe will happen any minute. They see all the shortcomings, all the problems, they can give advice even to the president himself. They forget only one thing: all power comes from God. Try not to set your own conditions, be able to agree with others, give up the habit of doing the opposite, and you will create the conditions for your freedom. Every good deed is good in relation to yourself, and, conversely, every hostile act becomes hostile against yourself. So, we can only have demands regarding our own person, because it is we who create problems for ourselves. The most important of them can be safely called money. There is no sin in hiding, but they are necessary for our well-being, and everyone has the desire to have them, but the opportunity is far from it. Moreover, the worst thing is that they are always in short supply, regardless of the amount. People have a hard time learning the rule “receive – give”. Here, the animal world can serve as an example. After all, the smallest fish in the ocean gives 80% of its energy to support the environment, without which it is threatened with death. A person acts according to a completely different principle. Firstly, she never knows what she needs, secondly, she does not refuse anything. And what a reward is, such is the reward. God gave everyone a talent, thanks to which we must survive. Everyone does something in life and should do it best, with a constant feeling that they are doing it for themselves, for their family, thereby bringing a piece of their soul into the work. Even if you do not love your chosen profession enough, fulfill your duty conscientiously. Try to keep your work equipment and workplace in proper condition. Be faithful in small things, and God will reward you. When using other people's things, take care of them, and God will give you the opportunity to have your own. When promising, keep your word. Respect the house in which you live, even if it does not belong to you - and you will definitely have yours - and you will definitely have yours. Be faithful in everything. Always rejoice in other people's successes, by doing this you will not create a barrier to your well-being, you will increase your own strength. There are no other people: everything around us is our continuation, our flesh and soul. Learn to love what does not belong to you. After all, true love does not set any conditions and does not demand anything. We should have love at first sight for everything, and unrequited love should not exist at all. Love cannot be divided, because everyone has it, therefore, there is nothing to share. It cannot be taken away, even if the love is not mutual. True love will never allow you to hurt someone just because they do not love you. If you love truly, then you will do everything possible and impossible so as not to become an obstacle to the happiness of your loved one. It will be enough for you that there is a person in the world whom you love, and this feeling will help you survive and be happy.
Pure thoughts in everything are the key to success. Do what you like and how much you like. It is in your power to change your life, and you invent suffering for yourself. Accept the gift of well-being given by life and use it for the benefit of yourself and others. Try to imagine more often what you want to have and imagine yourself next to that object and you will definitely get what you want. Just decide first for what purpose you strive for this - the goal should be pure, decent and real. Then there will definitely be people who will help you.
Life is beautiful. Everything that surrounds us, created by God, is perfect. The universe works according to a clear schedule. Do not disrupt it, do not destroy anything. The only thing: live honestly, never do to someone what you would not want to do to yourself. Love all people. Do not condemn someone for a mean act, because everything that happens has its purpose and is the only optimal option in solving the problem. God knows what he is doing, He loves you and will save you if you want it.
Suffering often also makes a person wake up to make the right choice.
Wake up! Accept love, and God will be with you. The sooner we all purify our thoughts, the sooner the life of all humanity will change for the better. Elect to parliament people who are honest, decent in the family, faithful in business and duties, and our country will flourish. Radiate warmth and love every day, and you will see the light in your heart that God gave us.
Your thoughts should be pure in relation to all people. Try not to respond even to your enemies with evil. Perhaps you will lose materially from this, but your conscience will remain clear. Learn to feel joy when you give and do not receive wages or rewards. Yours will always remain with you, because only through good deeds can you receive good. No one owes you anything, is not obligated to you in anything and does not have to do what you want. There are no enemies at all. Through the mouth of the so-called enemy, the Lord God himself stops and warns you, showing your true face: the external corresponds to the internal. If you see people who constantly do evil - do not judge. They are also on the way to heaven or hell and will receive theirs.
Always be cheerful and content. We create the future with our faith and love. “Believe, and it shall be given you…” Yes, there is a lot of evil, but it is borne by people themselves. Now a lot of literature has been published on magic, fortune telling, and fortune telling. All you need is your desire and the impossible will become real. Just remember: evil remains evil and will definitely return to you. God allows this to happen in order to educate our soul and give us the opportunity to see the bitter consequences. A believing person is not afraid of any spells, because God’s Love is with him, and there is no need to look for a fortune teller to get rid of what has been done.
Go to God, believe in Him, because nothing happens without your desire. And only you decide when the suffering will end. Instead of going to a fortune teller with faith, come to God with faith, and the strongest fortune teller will be powerless against you. You cannot serve God and mammon at the same time. “I am the Lord your God; you shall have no other gods before Me,” says the first commandment of God.
We perceive the visible world, rebel and resist it, evaluate and compare, condemn and justify it. This leads to disbelief, despair and powerlessness in the face of circumstances. Mentally we turn to God, waiting with hope for His help, although no one has seen God. God is invisible, but His presence is felt everywhere. Especially after prayer comes relief and inner peace. Open your heart to God with sincerity and simplicity, give Him your love, and God will come to you, give answers to all questions. The Lord comes to a simple, humble and humble person, who does not exalt himself high. Such a person rejoices like a child for everyone who is good, grateful for the happiness of living and loving the world given by God. It is very difficult for educated people to become like that, because they are preoccupied with everyday life and in love with themselves and their extraordinaryness. And how many former high-ranking officials, retiring and finally losing power and influence, are only now beginning to understand that their lives were wasted. The price for everything is inner devastation. And the truth is one: they want love, support, they want to be needed. Even in their families, such individuals preferred monetary calculations, depriving their own children of the opportunity to find themselves in life.
We are all on the path to God, but the shortest path is seen only by those who have seen, although there are still quite a few of them. The majority so far are those who have ears but do not hear; they have eyes but do not see.
I think this message is not for one person, but for all of humanity. We need steadfast faith so much. It’s probably enough to invent misfortunes for ourselves, we need to be able to accept everything in life as a natural phenomenon. The main thing is not to hurt anyone, so that our conscience remains clear. And this is possible only when any humiliation for the sake of preserving love does not scare us. Because only through humiliation do we get rid of pride, which is the beginning of all evil. Take off the arrogant mask that prevents you from living. Don’t be worried, because you are not able to solve any problem. Everything begins to work out in your favor only when you stop putting yourself out there. Don’t swim against the current. There is still a lot of evil, and you try to live so that no one feels bad because of you. The best pillow, as folk wisdom says, is a clear conscience. And for this you need to endure, forgive and love, as our Savior did. Our salvation is in our hands. So let's save ourselves and all of humanity.
Evil is one of the parts of a person and the size of evil depends on each person in particular. It is impossible to eradicate it by force. Only by increasing love and kindness will it be possible to reduce the amount of evil in oneself, and subsequently the amount of evil in oneself, and subsequently get rid of it. God did not create man for suffering. If you suffer, it means that you are not suffering, it means that you do not understand and do not fulfill the rules and requirements set before you by higher powers.
True religiosity requires boundless faith in God and constant service to Him. Monks took such a vow. By praying for us, they bring salvation to their family and to all of humanity. And can a person who lives an ordinary life be religious? I think that a holy life in the world is possible, and the Savior himself gave us an example of such a life when he was among people. In his prayers to the Father, Jesus always said “…let your will be done.” Without showing any of His desires, He firmly knew that the will of the Father is always true and leads to salvation. Such faith makes it possible for God's will to act, to get rid of thoughts and desires, so that misfortune and suffering leave us forever.
Make the world around you the way you would like to see it. Do not wait for someone to do it, start with yourself, and people around you will change. There are no bad people, everything that happens is the Higher Will. What is bad is our incorrect acceptance of events and reaction with evil, not good. By this we act against God, His Higher Will.
It is bad if people dear to us die, and everyone perceives it in their own way. But do not forget: we are on the road, on the road to God. There are many stops on this road and someone gets out at each one. Our will is neither for life nor for death. And at funerals you can often see exceptional artistic scenes, that is, a game for the audience. Of course, no one is an advisor to anyone on how to perceive grief, but you will never be able to hide real pain from prying eyes, even if your reaction is not so violent.
You cry for what was lost because you do not believe in the future. Let the past remain good and believe that God is nearby. He gave you the past and will give you everything you need to be good, and you are ready to bury yourself in order to fall into another trap of your mind.
Each of us does good or evil, thereby educating each other, healing our souls. However, the choice is always ours. Responding to evil with evil, cursing someone, we plan in advance for ourselves what we wish for someone, and we always receive for the evil caused an even worse option than our victims suffered. That is, everyone pays their own bill. And then we cry: “God! For what?” Instead of saying: “Thank you, Lord, for the lesson!” You will say: “How? To accept insults, meanness, humiliation and give thanks?” Yes, give thanks, because these are the only medicines for the salvation of your soul, chosen by the Higher Power. And so that accepting them would not be so bitter, imagine that God Himself speaks through the mouth of your enemy, as a father punishes his children for their own good, and they, loving Him, bow their heads in humility.
“Honor your father and mother…” As God is one, so is your father and your mother. Love them as they are, do not offend, do not demand, do not reproach, do not judge. Even if you have never seen them, be grateful for the gift of life. God knows that such a life path is the best for you, to fill your soul with love. By choosing hatred, you will surround yourself with evil and lose your soul.
So, sooner or later you have to pay for everything. Don't be happy that someone is in despair and in tears because of you. These tears are yours and will definitely come back. Do good just like that, and it will always be there. Give what you want to receive: attention, sincerity, kindness, respect, affection, love. Do not demand anything for yourself, consider everything you have enough. Love life, accept it as it is, do not invent suffering for yourself. Everyone wants warmth so much, and only Love gives it. So warm those around you with your love and warming will come to the whole Earth. On the spiritual plane, all people are equal, and the difference in material terms is necessary for the accumulation of love in the human soul and for the achievement of our perfection. Only love is able to work a miracle and this miracle was given to man by God.
The path to God is open to everyone. To begin with, turn to the Creator in prayer. “Prayer is the best thing for the soul. Through prayer one obtains humility, patience, and every good thing,” wrote Silouan. In each prayer book there are daily prayers and the Lord’s Prayer.