Having touched something good and kind, you are drawn to touch it again and again... this is the magnetism of our life...
Our greatest strength lies in the kindness and tenderness of our hearts...
If one or two friendly words can make a person happy, you have to be a scoundrel to deny him this. People, don’t be shy to say kind words - it’s so nice.
Nothing more is needed, just a little kindness.
Colum McCann. "And Let the Beautiful World Spin"
If everyone does good within the limits of their ability, the possibilities of good will become limitless.
Fazil Iskander
A person does not have the opportunity to do good to everyone, but he has the opportunity not to harm anyone.
It’s not difficult to say kind words, but their echo lives long in human hearts.
Kindness is the sun that warms a person's soul. Everything good in nature comes from the sun, and everything best in life comes from man and his kindness.
Mikhail Prishvin
GOOD OLD TOUCHING DIALOGUE:
So today the Hedgehog said to the Little Bear:
How good it is that we have each other!
The little bear nodded.
Just imagine: I’m not there, you’re sitting alone and there’s no one to talk to.
And where are you?
I am not here, I am out.
It doesn’t happen like that,” said Little Bear.
“I think so too,” said the Hedgehog. - But suddenly - I’m not there at all. You are alone. Well, what are you going to do?..
I’ll turn everything upside down, and you’ll be found!
I am not there, nowhere!!!
Then, then... Then I’ll run out into the field,” said the Little Bear. - And I’ll scream: “Y-yo-yo-zhi-i-i-k!”, and you will hear and shout: “Bear-o-o-ok!..” Here.
No, said the Hedgehog. - I'm not there one bit. Understand?
Why are you pestering me? - Little Bear got angry. - If you are not there, then I am not there either. Understood?..
What you give, you will receive - although sometimes it’s not at all from where you expect it.
What difference does it make whether it's warm or cold outside when a little rainbow lives in your heart all day long...
Not everyone gets to see what the stars are doing while waiting for summer. So sit down by the window, breathe as quietly as possible... and you will see... And let this be your big and amazing secret...
Open your heart!
Fill it with goodness and love!
And if you look at things correctly, then the whole world is a garden.
What you fill your heart with is what comes out of it...
Eduard Asadov
Mother! How long will we wait?
What to expect?
When the parachutes in the dandelions ripen, will we fly?!
Let's fly!!!)))
When I'm sad, I try to do something nice for someone, to do some good deed. Seeing another person rejoice makes you rejoice yourself. The best thing is when you can help someone.
Erich Maria Remarque. Shelter of Dreams.
If the day is cloudy, shine with the good you have - and everything around you will become brighter!
The good that you do from your heart, you always do to yourself.
Lev Tolstoy
Be pure in soul and kind in heart. The beauty of your soul is like the light of a beacon, attracting into your life the happiness you deserve.
Accustom yourself, when you first look at a person, to always wish him well from the bottom of your heart. Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh
The face is generally an amazing thing. You can immediately see from the face whether a person has lost his soul or not. If you haven’t lost it, if the soul is in place, then your face emits a soft light. Light of love.
I allow goodness to surround me. I accept the good. I give back good. I understand that this is one of the best qualities and I allow him to firmly establish himself in my life.
And so as not to reproach yourself after
The fact that he hurt someone,
It's better to be kind in the world,
There is enough evil in the world as it is.
E. Asadov
Dear sirs and gracious madams, grow in your soul, in its brightest corner, such beautiful flowers as virtue, modesty, honesty, justice and love. Then each of us will be able, here in this world, to decorate our window with a small pot of flowers. Victor Hugo
Anyone who eats pancakes with jam cannot be so terribly dangerous. You can talk to someone like that.
Tove Jansson. Wizard hat
Carefully guard this treasure within yourself - kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, lose without regret, gain without stinginess.
Do good deeds while waiting for a miracle.
Then the miracle will not come to you empty-handed.
Kindness is a quality, the excess of which never harms anyone.
If the day is cloudy, shine with the good you have, and everything around you will become brighter.
Simeon of Athos
All living beings seek happiness; so let your compassion extend to everyone.
Mahavamsa
Everyone needs something
so that he from time to time
told a good story.
Tove Jansson.
All about the Moomins.
How long will you fly in the clouds?!
Until the sky ends...
...If someone takes advantage of your kindness, do not regret it!
This means that it was given to you more than to the one who uses it...
“I just like to see people smile.”
Do your work with a smile and kindness. And everything will work out!
The place for good deeds is everywhere, the time for good deeds is always.
We will never know what is going on in someone's soul, but we can try to keep it warm.
The most beautiful music of the soul is kindness.
Do good - don’t let them understand...
Give kindness - may he not return!!!
Sow goodness here and there...
Let it touch everyone!!!
There is no more beautiful feeling in the world than the feeling that you have done at least a drop of good to people. Lev Tolstoy
One small gesture - a smile, a soft look, a pat on the shoulder, kind word- can change a person's life.
Until this day is over, you have a chance to live with this possibility.
Look. Watch. See what this day brings to you. And be prepared.
If you think I'm exaggerating, please know I'm not. After all, someone is waiting for your smile, your look, your gesture right now.
You don’t think that you’re just reading these lines? Is this a coincidence?
A. Lindgren.
Baby and Carlson.
Everything that we send into the lives of other people comes back into our own. I want to wish each of you a drop of warmth that would warm you every minute, no matter what.
The main thing is to breathe correctly)
Inhale Happiness...
Breathe out Good...
Try to do good to everyone, whatever and whenever you can, do not think about whether he will appreciate it or not, whether he will or will not be grateful to you. And rejoice not when you do good to someone, but when, without rancor, you endure insults from another, especially from someone who has benefited you.
Alexy Mechev
Each person has his own good Angel. These angels live on White Clouds, wear white socks and eat white marshmallows.
Live a life that makes you kind and friendly towards other people, and you will be pleasantly surprised at how happy your life becomes.
Do good deeds and you will reap their fruits.
Remember: from your bright smiles
It depends not only on your mood,
But a thousand times the mood of others.
Eduard Asadov
If you can help a person - help, if you can’t help - pray, if you don’t know how to pray - think well of the person! And this will already be a help, because bright thoughts are also a weapon.
Be kinder and people will reach out to you!
If there must be a little of good, then let it be at least often.
Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
— Anger compresses the soul, and a person goes blind. Tell me, is it possible for an evil person to understand heaven?
- Well, everyone can see it, both good and evil.
“He sees with his eyes, but not with his heart.” He will see and pass by. And he will die without understanding anything.
Everyone will be given the choice -
Who is ripe for what?
But a Man's life must consist
From small good deeds!
Do good as if you are alone in the world and people will never know about your action.
Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.
Above all, be kind; kindness disarms most people.
Every creature living on Earth is initially endowed with the gift of love, kindness and compassion. It is these qualities inherent in man as a rational being that are the true measure of the value of human life in all its manifestations. 
The more love, wisdom, beauty, kindness you discover in yourself, the more you will notice them in the world around you.
The soul of every person rejoices when he does good to another.
Lead your life in such a way that every evening you can say to yourself: one day of my life has decreased, one good deed has been added...
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; there is no need for complex philosophy. Our own brain and our own heart are our temple; and philosophy is kindness.
Dalai Lama
Strive to do good and you will understandthat happiness will follow you.
DO GOOD AND LIFE WILL BE EASIER
A person has offended you, but you go and do him good, give him the warmth and affection of your soul, and the knot will be untied, the anchor will fall from your heart. After this, you will both live and breathe easier. Through such victories with love in the places of your defeat, the heart, step by step, victory after victory, will gain purity.
This world is mountains, and our actions are screams: the echo of our scream in the mountains always returns to us.
Each gives to the other what he has in his heart.
Are you cold?
No, but if you want to warm me, then I'm cold.
If you expect gratitude for kindness -
you don't give goods, you sell them...
If you want to win hearts -
Plant the seeds of Love.
If you want a heavenly life -
Don't throw thorns on the path.
True kindness is silent.She has many actions in stock, but not a single word.
To have the whole world in our hands, we just need to stop clenching our fists and open our palms...
Once you get used to a good life, it becomes even better!
The day will not be in vain if you give someone your smile.
The truly great religion: a good heart.
The smarter and kinder a person is, the more he notices goodness in people. L.N. Tolstoy
My religion is very simple. I don't need temples. I don't need any special, complicated philosophy. My heart, my head - this is my temple. My philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. This is my religion.
Try your best to cleanse yourself of evil towards people. For by accumulating evil towards people in yourself, you accumulate poison, which sooner or later will kill the person in you.”
Excuse me, but by chance you won't bring me any good?
And ice melts when we shine, and hearts open when we love, and people change when we are open, and miracles happen when we believe.
Bring each other out!
Bring to goodness, happiness and love.
The ability to love is a talent from God.
The ability to feel sorry comes from kindness.
The ability to forgive without knowing the deadline -
from the wisdom and tenderness of the soul!
“... be patient, don’t get annoyed, most importantly, don’t get angry. You can never destroy evil with evil, you can never drive it out. It is afraid only of love, afraid of good..."
From the letters of St. Athanasius
Sometimes they say - the struggle between good and evil. I think that good cannot fight evil, otherwise it will be some kind of strange good. Good is like light, and light cannot fight darkness; when it exists, darkness simply disappears.
Learn to understand others with your heart, and your heart will learn to love.
By doing evil, we harm both ourselves and others. By doing good, we benefit both ourselves and others. And, like all forces in man, these forces of good and evil draw their vitality from the world around them.
At the end of your life, it won’t matter how many cars you have in your garage or what clubs you’ve been to. What matters is how many lives you changed, how many people you influenced and helped. Do good! It's nice!
When we surround ourselves good people and good thoughts - life begins to change for the better.
Don’t complain about the coldness of the world around you if you haven’t put a drop of warmth into it.
Live without causing harm.
Take care of the person in you.
Note: Tea without treats, brewing is a waste!
We drink and say: diet, diet, wait until summer!
Goodwill in a person makes him attractive. If you want to conquer the world, do not try to put pressure on it, conquer it with kindness.
Alexander McLaren.
It’s somewhat discouraging, of course: to spend your whole life struggling with the problem of humanity in order to finally understand that the fruit of all your research fits into one single piece of advice: “Let’s be at least a little kinder to each other.”
Aldous Huxley
Hug people, animals, trees:)
Take a RAINBOW and decorate your world.
Take a ray of LIGHT and direct it to where darkness reigns.
Take a SMILE and give it to someone who needs it.
Take a TEAR and place it on the cheek of someone who is not familiar with tears of sympathy.
Take KINDNESS and show it to someone who has never learned to give.
Take FAITH and share it with everyone who doesn't have it.
Take HOPE and support with it someone who has already begun to lose it.
Take LOVE and bring it to the whole world.
Today I dreamed of a real miracle!
Solar Rain fell from heaven to earth.
He gave every person on earth a drop of the Sun-Happiness.
Everyone handled their drop differently.
For some, she became the light of the only hope in the night, others did not even notice her because she herself glows, almost like the sun.
This drop of light froze in someone’s soul, as if it had turned into a diamond, but did not go out.
The time will come and it will melt.
For someone, it was with this sunny gift that the dawn began; somewhere, a single light drop brought a small sprout back to life in a dry time...
But this rain brought good to everyone.
And after it, a rainbow shone for a long time, and not only in the sky, but also in every heart...
Such a childhood dream, after which you want to believe that the world will be kind and bright...
TAKE CARE OF THE LIGHT IN YOURSELF, SOMEONE DEFINITELY NEEDS THIS
One little girl when she had Bad mood, entered the room with the words: - Hello no one!
“There is so much madness in the world that the only excuse for God is that he does not exist,” Stendhal once said. The entire history of mankind is a history of suffering. From time immemorial, people have been haunted by endless wars, violence, oppression and bullying, terrible crimes, the most severe executions, a triumph of injustice crying to Heaven. Even in peacetime, earthlings are tormented and exterminated by disease, hunger and all kinds of natural disasters. And, it would seem, really - why has the Lord never brought order to the Earth, allows so much evil and allows His creatures to suffer so much?
Temptation of Adam and Eve
If there is no God, then all earthly madness can be explained solely by human stupidity, natural selection, the eternal struggle for a place in the sun and absurd accidents. But in this case, the very existence of people and their suffering, in essence, becomes meaningless and hopeless. From the point of view of Orthodox Christians, everything in the world has a deep meaning and can be explained.
The first people on earth lived happily in God's beautiful and harmonious paradise. One day, Adam and Eve frivolously listened to the tempting serpent and violated the only commandment given to them by God. When they ate a certain forbidden fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, the world was attacked by evil, and the nature of all living beings was damaged and distorted. The first parents lost contact with God, became sinners and were expelled from paradise. The earthly world was created by the Creator for people and is interconnected with them. When the masters of nature lost their greatness and immortality, their entire habitat changed. Because of Adam's fall and the sins of his descendants, man turned from a ruler into a slave of nature, his body and passions, the earth lost the ability to bear fruit abundantly, and all living beings, one way or another, are doomed to suffer.
Many are perplexed: if the Lord did not want people to know good and evil, then why did He even hang the forbidden fruit on the tree?! It’s the same as hanging a bare wire in a room with small children and demanding that they not touch it, and when they do receive an electric shock, you also cruelly punish them for their curiosity! Why did God allow the devil to reach people and not prevent the impending catastrophe? Let's try to figure it out.
According to the teachings of the Church, primordial man possessed complete knowledge and the deepest knowledge of the created world. He knew God personally, so intimately and obviously, as no other saint could subsequently know. For this reason alone, comparing Adam with a small child cannot be objective.
In only one aspect was the knowledge of the ancestors incomplete. They did not know in practice what evil was, had no real experience of contact with it, and had little idea of what existence without God was, and what kind of nonentity man turns into when he falls away from the Creator. God’s warning “you will surely die” was only theoretical knowledge for them. The theory, not supported by practice, could not prevent people from breaking the fatal taboo. But we can hardly blame Adam and Eve for this stupidity. If any of us were in their place, we would probably do the same.
Mark Twain's joke: “If the serpent had been forbidden, Adam would have eaten it too” is very close to the truth. After all, the very first commandment was established by God so that a person could easily realize his love for Him, or just as freely refuse this love. In the Hebrew language, the phrase “tree of the knowledge of good and evil” is a stable idiom, meaning the absolute completeness of knowledge, making a person equal to God and independent of Him. Therefore, the forbidden fruit cannot be taken primitively and literally. The ancestors were destroyed not by its use itself, but by the motivation of their actions and the state of their souls at the moment when they doubted the goodness and truth of God, believed Satan and decided to become “like God,” self-sufficient and great. By breaking the commandment, a person, in essence, betrayed the Lord, trampled on his love for Him and infected his own soul with death.
Further sad consequences were not punishment, but a natural consequence of the falling away from the Source of all being. To figuratively understand the essence of this catastrophe, imagine a branch broken off from a tree, which, although it will remain green for some time in a vase, is inevitably doomed to dry out, having lost contact with the roots that gave it vitality. Or imagine a smart computer that was connected to a powerful server via LAN, and then suddenly decided that it was completely self-sufficient and broke the connection with it, becoming defenseless against network viruses, hackers and software errors. It is so arranged that the fullness of human existence is realized only in his union with God. A break with Him inevitably entails degradation, destruction and other grave consequences.
Having twisted their souls and their own nature, Adam and Eve could no longer remain in paradise. They were burdened by communication with God and a sense of their own unrepentant guilt. Further stay in the Garden of Eden became painful. This burden of the presence of God and the desire to hide from Him will haunt fallen man until the very end of earthly history.
All talk about God punishing and punishing someone is nothing more than a figure of speech, which is easier for primitive people to understand than talk about God-Love. In fact, there was no punishment from the Heavenly Father. The main essence of evil lies in the departure from God and the break with Him. Adam and Eve punished themselves by entering the path of evil and falling into the power of the law of death and suffering. All the tempting promises of the devil turned out to be disastrous lies.
Zmiy and his team
Dr. S. was excellently educated, respected, and showed great promise. But one day he wanted to become the most important doctor in the world. However, all his intrigues and attempts to achieve a leadership position ended in failure. S. went crazy, was fired and became a dangerous charlatan, creating his own “center” where patients are only fooled and maimed, and fleeced like crazy. For now, they still tolerate him, warning people about the dangers of treatment from this madman. But sooner or later the unfortunate doctor will have to answer for everything he has done over the years...
Something similar to this figurative story happened in celestial spheres. The first in the universe, even before the creation of the material world, fell were the angels created by God. One of God’s main assistants, Dennitsa, aka Lucifer, once lost his mind due to immense pride. God's creature wanted to become God and take His place, and about a third of the heavenly spirits supported him. Such an inadequate assessment by Lucifer of his power and perfection resulted in a war, as a result of which the rebels were defeated and overthrown.
The fall of the proud angels created not evil itself, but its disembodied carriers, whose existence turned into a dull, hopeless hell. When the Lord created man, gifted with freedom and having flesh, the opportunity opened up for evil spirits to seduce people and through them bring disharmony, anger and suffering into the earthly world.
Envying God, but not having the slightest opportunity to harm Him, the demons extended all their hatred of the Creator to His creations. Their anger is so great and boundless that they even hate each other. The very fact of their own existence is very painful for them, worse than that of any mad dog. The meaning of existence for them was the desire to destroy and destroy everything that they could put their “dirty paws” to.
God's love is limitless, and in case of repentance, demons could return to the rank of angels. But their monstrous, ineradicable pride and malice forever closed the path to salvation for them. They are only capable of steadily developing in evil and envy.
Why does God tolerate evil?
But why didn't God destroy the demons and allow them to harm and tempt people to evil? We are unlikely to receive a definite answer to this question in earthly life, but something in general outline we can understand.
It is very likely that if there were no devil, man would have fallen without his help. People have the bad habit of wallowing in sins, unbelief and empty vanity that does not benefit the soul, forgetting about God. Many give themselves over to the power of Satan. But the meaning of life does not lie in earthly pleasures and benefits. True goal our entire earthly life is preparation for Eternity. Each of us needs to know good and evil, learn to distinguish between them and make a voluntary choice. Our fate after death directly depends on how pure we are and how ready we are to unite with the Lord. Unprepared dirty soul in the afterlife It will be, to put it mildly, very uncomfortable and difficult. The one who has not lived his life in vain will find eternal joy and happiness, and will never step on Adam’s rake again.
If you find yourself in a room filled with natural gas, where we cook our food, we can be fatally poisoned or explode. In its pure form, the gas is odorless. In order to notice and eliminate its leaks in time, a foul chemical odorant is added to it, the smell of which is familiar to everyone.
Human suffering and pain are also a kind of “odorant”, signaling that our bodies and souls are in danger and that they have been taken over by harmful destructive processes. For example, those who like to self-poison with alcohol are forced to put up with severe hangovers and depression. And a person who causes insults and harm to his neighbors, or corrupts the soul with immoral thoughts and actions, is tormented by remorse.
It is clear that you can suppress a hangover with medications and new doses of poison, and the conscience of the villains petrifies and atrophies over time, ceasing to cause anxiety and discomfort. But the results of such a life quite soon lead to irreversible consequences. Imagine a person who has lost sensitivity. He drinks boiling water, puts his hands in the fire, and does not feel pain from burns and wounds. Of course, he soon inevitably dies.
“I do no harm to anyone, I have no bad habits, and I still suffer - why do I need this?!” - other people are indignant. But if you look carefully, any of us will have shortcomings and sins that prevent us from achieving the perfection necessary for salvation in Eternity. Without shocks and suffering, people remain in a world of illusions and self-delusion. Which of us is completely free even from thoughts of condemnation and anger, from pretense and lies in any of its manifestations, from passions and forbidden desires? Outwardly, we may seem kind and righteous, but if we delve well and honestly into our soul, we can find in it such ulcers and black spots that we don’t even want to think about, and which we are sometimes afraid to admit to ourselves. But I really don’t want to delve into myself and admit the bitter truth! It’s easier to come up with an excuse that some of God’s commandments are “outdated” and no longer relevant. As the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Leibniz said: “If geometry were as contrary to our passions and interests as morality, then we would also argue against it and violate it in spite of all evidence.”
In the soul of a person all his life there is a struggle between good and evil. By allowing us sorrow, the Lord heals our internal “sores.” Often, only after serious falls do people come to their senses and begin to fight their evil “second self”, which, by the way, attracts troubles and suffering to us and our loved ones. A consolation for us can be the fact that God, in contrast to the inexorable automatic “karma” that representatives of Eastern teachings believe in, often shelters a person from the consequences of his sins, averting from him those well-deserved “punishments” that he could and can't stand it. Allowing us to suffer only to the extent that it contributes to our healing. That is why a hooligan and a disgrace who does not know what he is doing can for a long time seem like an invulnerable darling of fate. And in the five minutes without a righteous man, failures and sorrows sometimes pour in like from a cornucopia, even for the most seemingly trifling thoughts, making him even stronger and more tempered.
The “Dying Diary” of John of Kronstadt is very instructive. Dying from cancer, he suffered severe pain. There is a recording in which he repents and laments that during the next unbearable attack, he lost his temper and blasphemed God and the Mother of God for the fact that he was suffering so much. Even such a great saint, who healed thousands of sick people with his prayers, is capable of discovering dark spots in his bright soul through pain! But he perfectly understood the essence of his painful reaction to suffering, and thanked God for giving him the opportunity to see what the true state of the soul was, and what other “sores” needed to be healed and cleansed by repentance.
No matter how much demons dream of ruining everything, they are by no means free in their actions, and can only do what God allows them to do. The bite of a poisonous snake is fatal, but a skilled doctor knows how to prepare medicine from its poison. Likewise, the Lord, who turns any evil plans to good, uses the carriers of evil as a means to heal human souls. Satan, demons, as well as people who do evil, in fact turn out to be a kind of “scalpel” in the hand of a merciful God, who is trying to bring every human soul to intelligence and perfection, to heal and save, even at the cost of very painful “operations.”
Alas, it is impossible to live on this earth without suffering. But we can treat them not as a necessary evil, but as a school of self-knowledge and personal education, teaching us brotherly love, humility and wisdom, and detachment from everything petty and vain. A sincerely believing Christian, even in the most terrible and inhuman conditions of life, can become righteous and perfect, and gain the experience of heavenly existence already on Earth.
Sacred freedom
I have heard puzzling questions: “Why did the omniscient Lord, who foresaw what temptations of good and evil would lead to, not create people in such a way that sin and evil could not arise in their souls at all?” The whole point is that creatures artificially programmed for obedience, deprived of freedom of choice, would no longer be human. These would be biorobots, zombies, or, if you like, slaves. And God is interested in and loves those who are free personalities who have the opportunity to sincerely love and choose goodness without coercion, according to personal free choice.
There is an old philosophical riddle on this topic: “If God is omnipotent, can He create such a heavy stone that He himself cannot lift it?” It would seem that if he cannot create, then he is not omnipotent, and if he creates but does not lift him up, then he is still not omnipotent. In fact, the Lord has already created such a “stone.” This stone is a person created for happiness and bliss. In the vast world subordinate to its Creator, there is a territory over which He has no power. This is the heart of a person, endowed with the sacred freedom to love or not love his Creator and choose the path of his life. It is on this territory, beyond the control of God, that evil is so often born as a result of freedom misused by man.
The Lord loves us and wants us all to be happy and saved. And we bring on all the troubles and misfortunes ourselves. The main evil is the darkness that lives in the hearts of people who do not want to let the light of God's Love into themselves. If God forcibly expelled this darkness, then there could be no talk of any true love, for “robots” cannot love! A person is allowed everything, and only he can decide for himself - in which direction to move, towards Light or darkness.
Many would like God to stop all the villains in time and neutralize any Hitlers and Chikatilos even before they become dangerous to society. But in this case, He will again have to roughly trample on human freedom.
We are outraged by the cruelty of the villains who appeared before the court, not even suspecting how many of them have not yet been caught, and how many people around us who seem quite normal, but have darkness of evil thoughts in their souls. Too many of us would have to be "handcuffed" from infancy onwards. No, and there was not a person on earth who did not at least once cause pain and harm to other people. God looks at everything that happens from the point of view of Eternity, providing everyone with the most favorable conditions for healing his soul, depending on his condition. He is in no hurry to stop a person on his confused everyday roads and is long-suffering, waiting for misfortunes and suffering to bring people to their senses and turn their hearts to truth and goodness. And it destroys evil only when it is really necessary. Any evil has its limit. And any villain is responsible for his deeds not only before God’s Court. Even if he is not punished by earthly court or human revenge, the life of one mired in evil already on this earth turns into a real hell.
Who causes diseases and disasters?
But what about natural disasters that wipe out entire cities and continents? Here, a metaphysical relationship between a society mired in sins and responses from nature may well be at work. God delays the fatal outcome to the last and waits for human repentance and correction, but sooner or later the cup of patience is overflowing, and cataclysms happen.
Man-made troubles and disasters bother us much more. Let us remember how much evil civilized man has done just for last century, how he irreparably polluted the earth and air with chemical waste and radiation, violated nature and its harmony with gross, short-sighted interference.
An equally painful question is where do pathogenic viruses and microbes come from, and why doesn’t God destroy them? Some people believe that this dirty trick is sent to people by the devil, causing pathogenic mutations. But another version is more likely. Initially, man was invulnerable to any microbes and viruses created by God. But after the Fall, the world stopped perceiving man as its ruler. Our nature has changed, and some microorganisms have become harmful and dangerous to us. Our immune system protects us, but it can’t always cope with them. In favor of this version, we can cite the example of allergies to the most harmless substances, when a person can even die after smelling ordinary wildflowers or, say, eating a fruit that is an allergen for him.
Some diseases, such as cancer, occur when cells are damaged and mutated. human body. But often people themselves generate these mutations with their own thoughts and words.
A doctor I know told me about patient O., who had breast cancer. For the time being, she was absolutely healthy and strong, but one day she became very angry with one person and wished him to die of cancer. Soon her wish boomeranged at her. Before O.'s illness, few people loved her; she was known as an evil and frivolous godless person. But a rapidly progressing fatal illness led her to faith and gracefully changed her soul. When a friend quoted to her her own statements from the recent cloudless past, O. was sincerely perplexed and did not believe that these were her own thoughts and words. The disease, capable of destroying only the body, led her to complete moral recovery and helped her find blissful Eternity.
On the other hand, people's prayers sometimes pull their loved ones out of their deathbeds. During the early “dashing 90s,” when the provinces lacked basic medicine, my friend Alexandra’s wife literally begged for her son, who was dying of severe pneumonia. At some point, she felt that her prayer had been answered. And literally immediately the baby coughed up a whole lump of green mucus. The temperature, which had not gone away for many days, began to drop before our eyes, and after a couple of days the child was healthy.
Another amazing case was told in one of the Internet forums by Vera Danilova. Her friends’ 1.5-year-old daughter was dying in the best Moscow hospital. One by one, the things needed for life disappeared from her blood. chemical elements. Doctors said there was no chance of recovery. And then, on the advice of a friend, the desperate father, who had not previously been noted for religiosity, went to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra and spent several hours kneeling at the relics of St. Sergius of Radonezh, begging to save his daughter’s life. And a miracle happened - his daughter began to recover, and a month later the doctors declared her fully recovered. After this, the whole family - father, mother and their two children were baptized and became sincere believers.
Why do the innocent suffer?
I know a family who lost a small child. The tragedy led parents fixated on material wealth to faith and spiritual rebirth. They gave birth to a daughter, and consider their late son to be the guardian angel of their family. On the other hand, not everyone manages to survive such grief. Not so long ago, I couldn’t stand it mental anguish, the father of a terminally ill girl jumped out of the window of a cancer center.
But why, why do innocent children suffer in the world?
The reasons can be very different. One of them is the relationship between parents and their children. The sins of fathers and mothers often make the most innocent - their beloved children - suffer. Such cases can be allowed by God to push perishing sinful parents to correction. My friend A. told me about cases when his unbridled life directly affected the health of his beloved daughter. When he got drunk on vodka and suffered from a hangover, his little baby, in unison with him, suffered from a loss of vitality, stomach pain and nausea. And as soon as he committed a serious offense, which he could well have not done, his daughter became seriously ill and was admitted to the hospital. Having understood this relationship, for the sake of the health of his beloved child, he stopped drinking and put an end to many sins.
From point of view Eternal Life, not a single child’s suffering passes without a trace and is useless. This is how the world lying in evil is structured, that very often the best and purest people are forced to suffer and even die “for their friends.” The souls of such heroes, voluntarily or involuntarily sacrificing themselves, unite with God and find eternal happiness and peace. Martyrdom, according to the canons of Christianity, is the pinnacle of righteousness and the maximum possible acquisition of spiritual benefits. And the people surrounding the martyrs get a chance to start new life and become better, cleaner and kinder. It is only important to draw the right conclusions and never despair.
Sooner or later, earthly history will end, and humanity will move into a different form of existence. All souls from Adam to the last man on Earth who want to be saved and unite with God will acquire new, eternal bodies. In the new world there will be no more evil or suffering, but only eternal love, joy and boundless happiness. To become residents of that future world, you just need to try here and now to live according to your conscience, not offend anyone and do good for the sake of love for goodness itself. Then even this earthly world will become cleaner and better, and we ourselves will feel during our lifetime that the good, heavenly state of the soul is not a myth, but a completely tangible reality.
Konstantin Khabensky is not only an amazing actor, but also a Man with a capital M. He has enormous talent and incredible professionalism. His heart is filled with sincere kindness, which is expressed in words and actions.
I suggest reading quotes from Konstantin Khabensky. They are filled with deep wisdom and life experience.
Sayings about a person
Someday you will understand that there are people who never betray... But for this you will have to go through a lot of betrayals.
Someday you will understand that external shine is nothing compared to inner beauty. Because everything that is outside is before the first rain... And what is inside is always burning! Even if it has faded to barely visible embers. But, just put your lips together and blow gently - the fire will gradually flare up and warm you.
Someday you will understand that many formulas and aphorisms that you have picked up in the world around you are empty, albeit beautiful, sets of words - nothing more. Only those truths that you yourself have reached are important.
Someday you will understand that kindness, tenderness, affection and care are a manifestation of inner strength, not weakness.
I know people whose soul is the whole universe, but no one needs them.
A person does not have the opportunity to do good to everyone, but he has the opportunity not to harm anyone.
A person should never be ashamed to admit his mistakes. For by admitting them, he admits that today he is wiser than he was yesterday.
Quotes about friends
It doesn't matter how many friends you have. What matters is how many of them will help you Hard time and how many will remember you when they feel good.
When friends tell you about their problems, they are not complaining, they are simply trusting you.
Sayings about relationships
The most important thing in a relationship is to feel not passion and desire, but care and confidence. The fact that they value you, that they won’t let you go, that they become responsible for you, that they will protect you from any troubles and that they just want to be close to you.
Take care of each other. Now is the time that it is very difficult to find something truly worthwhile, real. And because of our stupid pride or the slightest mistake, we immediately give up our happiness. You need to learn to forgive and appreciate what you have.
Appreciate those who can see three things in you: the sadness behind the smile, the love behind the anger, and the reason for your silence.
Close is not the one you can reach with your hand, but the one to whom the soul reaches out.
If gossip bothers you, there is no need to be upset.
Know that worms choose only the best fruits!
Out of thousands of those who speak beautifully, I will choose the one who silently does things.
Each of us will have someone who will accept all our cockroaches and make friends with them.
People don't always need advice. Sometimes they need a hand to support them. An ear that will listen and a heart that will understand.
Every person has a limit within. The limit of feelings. Limit of pain. The limit of tears. The limit of hatred. The limit of forgiveness. Therefore, people can sometimes endure for a long time. Be silent for a long time. It takes a long time to draw conclusions. And then, in an instant, pick up and leave, without words or explanations.
Quotes about life
The reasons are inside us, outside there are only excuses.
The most terrible enemy is our doubt. Because of it, we lose what we could have gotten, but didn’t even try.
The one who, having made mistakes, has enough courage to admit and correct them, deserves respect.
You are not mistaken in considering a person good. It is he who makes the mistake of doing wrong.
Those who are more careful in their promises are more accurate in their fulfillment.
Your mistakes are your strength. Trees stand stronger on crooked roots.
Take care of each other, now is a time when it is very difficult to find something truly worthwhile, real. And because of our stupid pride, at the slightest mistake, we immediately give up our happiness. You need to learn to forgive and appreciate what you have.
The problem of our time is that smart people are full of doubts, and stupid people are filled with confidence.
Many people consider it important to find a person in life, but only a few know that it is more important to find yourself.
I will never deceive someone who sincerely trusts me. But I will never prove the truth to anyone who doesn’t believe me...
Only one betrayal is worthy of respect - betrayal of your principles for the sake of a loved one.
Take care of people, after meeting whom something bright and joyful settles in your soul.
Sometimes a person himself does not know what he wants, because the mind says one thing, but the heart says another. You need to choose not what is reasonable, but what you sincerely want. Otherwise, after many years you will regret it, looking at your unloved wife, unloved job and life in general.
You can’t just drive away someone you once let into your soul. His empty chair always remains there.
If you want to try everything in this life, try to be kind, honest and unspoiled.
You need to wait for those who come; speak to those who hear; remain silent only with those who understand.
There is no point in demanding from people what they do not have. For example, feelings that they do not experience.
The door to the soul, like the door to the house, must be kept closed. There's a breeze blowing through the open door cold wind, brings in all sorts of dirt and people with bad intentions climb in. And those who really want to come in will knock politely.
Before you pour out your soul, make sure that the “vessel” is not leaking.
The source of fatigue is not in the body, but in the mind. You can do much more than you think.
My soul, why are you so open? Where can I find a lock for you so that you can only open the door to those who cannot hurt or offend?
Take care of the person in you!
About women
A man must remember that a woman is defenseless. She always needs a man's shoulder, care and confidence in him. Even if she looks strong.
Every woman is a flower. The way you take care of it is how it blooms.
The beauty of a woman is not in her clothes, figure or hairstyle. She is in the sparkle of her eyes. After all, the eyes are the gateway to the heart, where love lives.
Indifference makes a woman nervous, and care makes her affectionate. Every man has what he deserves.
When you talk about women, think about your mother. When you communicate with a girl, think about how you would like your daughter to be talked to and treated.
Oh happiness
Happiness is when you are loved for who you are and for who you are. No matter what you have.
When you seek your happiness, do not take it from others.