Christianity says that the meaning of human life is not in this world, but after death in that next World. This world is like a school where a person must learn love, courage and restraint. What is our life? A fleeting moment against the eternity of death.
Holy Nicholas the Wonderworker, his middle name Nicholas The saint. This example will open your eyes to the phenomenon of a miracle. The source of the miracle is selfless service to what you love.
A person will be able to free himself from the bondage of passion when he realizes that he is even worse than the devil. Any animals are taller than humans. Realizing the poverty of his spirit, a person will cease to be a cash cow for the passions of vices, because vice feeds on the human spirit, and until you empty it, it will not rest.
Then a person will pacify his pride when he admits himself to be even worse than the devil. Pride is when an arrogant person thinks he is better than the devil.
Man is the worst of demons, but when he humbles himself with his nothingness and discovers God in his soul, the unity of the devil and the angel give rise to the light of truth.
God is the word. To reconcile with God is to recognize the boundaries and meaning of words, then, having humbled your ego, stay within the boundaries of the spoken words, that is, not to lie. Humility is to voluntarily submit to words.
Having known himself, a person realizes that he cannot control himself on his own. The animal in man is very strong. However, you can voluntarily submit yourself to the words, realizing that God is the word. Realizing that God is words, you will begin to treat words with reverence and attentiveness.
God is the word. Respect for God is respect for words and their boundaries. The knowledge of God is the knowledge of the meaning of words and objects expressed by these words. Words should be treated with great reverence, attention, respect their boundaries and do not cross them. Violation of the boundaries of words is called a lie. The word is what turns a person into a person, allowing you to remain a person. Words allow a person to remain human by voluntarily submitting himself to words.
Having known himself, a person realizes that he is not able to control himself and protect himself from strong emotions, vices and super-valuable idols. Realizing this, a person realizes the need for external support. Having known himself and the world, a person will realize divine grace and ask God to help control himself. Having realized the gracious nature of God, a person, using free will, voluntarily recognizes himself as a servant of God.
God is the word. The knowledge of God is the knowledge of the meaning of words and of one's own language. Respect for God is respect for words and obedience to words. Animals do not understand words well and are reluctant to obey them. The mind was created by words, and therefore is able to obey the law of words and understand their meaning.
A reasonable person is in awe of the meaning of words and knowledge. God is the word. God is a language. God is knowledge. Exactly God distinguishes a reasonable person from an unreasonable animal. Man is a divine animal.
Love is good because in the name of love a person is able to control his vices. Man is a slave to his inner animal. Strong emotions generate a sense of unshakable truth, create super-valuable idols, turn a person into slavery of vices, insults and sins. In this sense, it is possible to pacify the evil within oneself only by sacrificing one's free will to love, voluntarily becoming a slave to love. Otherwise, the thirst for pleasure, vices and power, as well as vanity, fears, etc. enslave a man.
Having known himself, a person realizes that he is not able to control his vices and pride. Realizing this, a person turns to God for help. Ask, and it will be given to you. To come to God is to humbly become a servant of God, trusting in his love.
God is good and only does good. Only man himself, using free will, can give up God, seeking the best. The best is the enemy of the good. Reality is good, but a person obsessed with the machinations of the best rejects the good.
The nature of the world is simple. As it turns out, it will respond. Another question is that a proud man is a man with a log in his eye, so it is difficult for him to be aware of his actions. This is a schizophrenic person who does good with one hand, not noticing how he does evil with the other hand.
An honest and self-aware person answering the question "Who am I?" answers... "I'm shit. I am a worm" - so says an experienced person who has known life.
I am powerless to control my passion, but I can trust God and ask him for help. You need to realize your powerlessness and omnipotence God. This will pacify a person's ego and liberate from the bondage of passions.
The worst thing that can happen to a person is victory. "I won!" the man says complacently, and instantly falls into the mortal sin of pride, after which he falls into hell.
In a normal state, a person closes from God, but when a person prays, it's as if he opens a window and lets divine light into his soul. In the process of prayer, using free will, a person reveals his soul. For God cannot go against the human will.
Having reverently turned his full attention to God, a person seems to open a channel of communication with the divine. A small fire opens before the infinite fire.
The Greek word "philos" means love, which is ready to give her life for what she loves. Thus, a philosopher is a person who is ready to devote his life to the service of wisdom, truth and goodness.
A beggar in spirit is someone who realizes the poverty of his spirit and understands that he has nothing to be proud of. A person is weak, and he should accept his weakness.
Where there is no humility, there is no virtue. All actions motivated by vanity, greed and pride will eventually cause suffering and damage, although they may seem like a brilliant virtue to an inexperienced eye.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they have subdued all their passions and thereby found the joy of freedom. The souls of the poor in spirit are like pure mirrors, cleansed of obscurations, in which the divine light is reflected. The Light fills the poor with the spirit of joy.
The one who is strong, knows himself and is convinced of his weakness. He who has resigned himself to his infirmity becomes poor in spirit. The poor in spirit concentrates on the accessible and real, abandoning the thirst for power and expansion.
As long as a person does not realize himself to be a monster, which is worse than cattle and demons, he cannot pacify his pride and not come to the blessed poverty of the spirit.
Call all greedy and hungry desires temptation and do not believe them. Superfluous desires are greedily hungry desires that violate the principle of sufficiency and seek to overkill.
The idea of self-control is the idea of a snake devouring its tail. The more a person tries to control himself, the stronger his ego becomes and, accordingly, the tail grows stronger. They say the main thing is the tail, so the snake can't beat its tail. In this sense, it will be a good decision to turn to external divine help.
To know oneself means to know one's passions and one's insignificance in their face. Passion is a disease of the human spirit and all of us, people, are sick with passion, like leprosy.
The one who spends his time on vices, he robs himself. Time should be devoted to what you love, everything else is theft. There is no love in vices, there is only passion and sins.
What are you praying for? We should pray for your pardon from the slavery of vices and deliverance from envy, vanity, resentment, anger, pride, hypocrisy, self-deceit, etc.
The rich are especially afraid to die. These people live in eternal fear of losing their material possessions, but death for them is a guaranteed loss of all goods, which inspires horror. Living in fear of death is like living in hell. Death, in which there is no joy, is a direct ticket to eternal suffering.
The material is a soap bubble that bursts as soon as a person dies and there is nothing left. As if nothing had happened. The life of a soap bubble is tragic.