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Austin did not consider her existence ordinary, insipid or inconspicuous, she found it pleasant and exciting and wanted us to treat our lives in the same way. After all, what our days are filled with nourishes our hearts, and what lives in our hearts becomes books.
- You're right. Values do not have ... - she said quietly.
Quote Explanation: The heroine's bag is stolen and the policeman interrogates her about the contents. She lists items that were very dear to her with their memories. The policeman writes down after her that the things have no material value.
To admit the existence of God is a prejudice, an absurdity, a sign of mental retardation.
If we discover cycles that infinitely contain other cycles, but all have a single distant center of rotation - the deity, then can we not, by analogy, imagine the existence of lives in lives lesser and greater, and all within the divine spirit?
A strange, incomprehensible fate: to return to life only to be cut off from it and doomed to complete loneliness!
You are neither good nor bad - you are just being yourself. You are, you exist!
Life can be as changeable as the weather. So Imogen was not blind to the fickleness of life. She knew how fragile the threads that make up someone's existence can be.
The existence of our government and laws, obviously, is due to the great imperfection of our reason, and therefore of virtue; for to control a rational being, one mind is enough.
Morality itself is needed because it helps to ensure public order; however, it leads to inner emptiness. No one can comply with the moral standards that are established by most religions, and therefore most of humanity lives in a state of constant guilt, shame and fear. This is a tragically mutilated existence. Humanity also leads to social order, but it does not require any external compulsion.
Our concepts of good and evil are humane and socially conditioned. They are very good as norms of social life. But the existence of the world does not take them into account. The world is not subject to judgment. He treats all of us the same.
Reflecting on the secrets of the universe: what do different currents of thought say about God and the universe? Theism claims that God created the world and governs all its processes; Deism - God created the universe and does not interfere with it; Panentheism - God includes the universe, but is also above it; Pandeism - when the world was created, God dissolved in it, and now he is the universe; Pantheism - the eternal universe is also God, or it is sacred, nature is sacred; Atheism - lack of faith in the existence of the supernatural, or there is only self-organizing matter; Agnosticism - the answer is still unknown, or absolutely incomprehensible.
We, people, complain about ourselves in vain, we complain about fate in vain! We are miserable and doomed to a miserable existence. And does it matter whether our own guilt, influence from above or chance, vice or virtue, wisdom or madness will cast us into the abyss of destruction.
Ideally, of course, the whole life of a Christian is and should be a preparation for Communion - just as it is and should be the spiritual fruit of the Communion. "We offer you our whole belly and hope, Vladyka Humanity ..." - we read in the liturgical prayer before Communion. Our whole life is judged and measured by our membership in the Church, and hence by our participation in the Body and Blood of Christ. Everything in her must be filled and transformed by the grace of this participation. The worst consequence of current practice is that it separates our very lives from preparing for Communion, making it even more mundane, more divorced from the faith that we profess. But Christ did not come to us so that we could devote a small part of our life to the fulfillment of "religious duties." It requires the whole person and his whole life. He left us in the Sacrament of the Sacrament of Himself, in order to sanctify and purify our entire existence, to unite with Him all facets of our life.
Quote Explanation: "The Significance of Preparation for the Sacrament"
It is a completely different matter, when a person already at birth occupies a high place in human society. To whom the inherited wealth brought a completely carefree existence, who from his very youth is generously surrounded, so to speak, with an abundance of everything that a person is entitled to, gets used to seeing these benefits as the most important thing in life; the dignity of a person richly gifted by nature is not so noticeable to him.
The question is not whether it exists, but whether you have cognized it.
Quote Explanation: Gilgamesh explains what pleasure is to Kotomin Kirei.
