Thoughts of balance

The manifestation of evil is a signal that attention is required. Where attention is, there is energy. By controlling attention, we can change the state of things towards balance and vice versa.

If one side predominates in the manifested, then everything is doomed to return to balance through the destruction of another false concept created by the mind.

The essence of all concepts existing on Earth is always the same, but interpretations often distort the very essence for the sake of individual interest or the interest of a group (motive: dominance, predominance of one over the other).

You can verify this by looking at the world tree of religions and choosing one of the branches, asking about the history of its foundation and the reasons for degradation or prosperity.

Why religions? Because this is one of the oldest tools for controlling the consciousness of the masses, which clearly reflects all manifestations of life in its “truths” and dogmas. It all starts with you, it’s all in you. Existing and emerging individuals carry within themselves the potential of a co-creator, which they must reveal and embody within themselves, taking into account the conditions of the path of human life and other factors that impede the process of self-realization.

Having revealed the potential, the individual has the right and opportunity to influence matter and other minds, which in turn are the main source of energy and the very perpetual engine of progress. But the mind of each individual is subject to weaknesses and susceptible to illusions, which force the mind to interfere in processes that do not concern it, which leads to global imbalance and destruction in order to again show the mind that it is lost in itself.

An example of this phenomenon can be found in any of the empires that have ever existed and their rulers, who reached the peak of the development of the individual and the collective but still ran into the illusion of separating themselves from the whole, allowing the Ego to take over, which led to their complete destruction.

The creation of any empire is based on a philosophical concept that basically includes opposites that are initially in harmony with each other.

As soon as opposites become conditioned, resistance immediately arises, which soon leads to imbalance and destruction of one by the other and vice versa, but this is how evolution occurs.

The mind at first adheres to the truth, but an obstacle will inevitably appear on the way, which will draw the mind away from the truth with only one purpose – to remind the mind where its place is.

Since the mind is very strong, as long as it is active, it will not give up trying to show zeal towards the next illusion in the pursuit of imaginary pleasure. The truth is always the same, no matter how bitter or sweet it may seem to the mind.

May love be with you!

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It doesn’t matter what I personally like or dislike.

Name three objects or phenomena that you dislike.

The first is hypocrisy. For me, it’s the most miserable event that exists in human behaviour. Hypocrisy is the reason for many man-made catastrophes. For those who live life from the perspective of truth, hypocrisy is like direct insulting.

The second is violence. Violence creates more violence and pain that accompany the destruction of life.

The third is ignorance. But the fact that the first two things that I don’t like are the results of ignorance.

Anyway, these things are eternal parts of life, which is exciting for the balance and evolution of everything.

In conclusion, I would say that it doesn’t matter what I personally like or dislike because, in fact, everything is alright and in its place. Even negative things exist for good.

The main lesson of life is to learn.

May love be with you!

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My favourite subject at school.

It’s History. Even history has always been changed by the rulers; anyway, the truth is appearing through time.

I am always excited when I see something old and know what period of history it belongs. It seems the spirit of that time stays with the historical item. I love to imagine how people approximately lived their lives there.

As I learn and travel, I feel no difference. Yes, technologies have changed, but the level of ignorance among humans is still high. In the culture where I grew up, the society’s focus of attention was concentrated on the past—what made them lose their lives now—and now they are looking back, rushing forward and even don’t look under their feet. So in this way, those humans never realize that they were blind to what is really happening right now.

That is a sad fact, but I don’t feel sorry for that because those humans are the main reason for their own and next generations suffering.

The world loves everyone, and we are able to see and feel it only if we want.

May love be with everyone.

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Story of your life is the most interesting one.

What book are you reading at the moment?

Don’t you get tired of permanently consuming information from books, movies, YouTube, etc.?

I found that there is no difference in how important the information is. There will be a point where nothing can satisfy your desire to learn.

I realized that information itself is useless without your own experience with anything you read, watch or learn.

I heard from somebody that it’s important how much life is in your days, and it’s not important how many days are in your life.

Every new day is a new story, book, chapter, or episode of your unrepeatable life path. Even a boring daily routine is full of existing and magical moments, which we are usually losing by worrying about whatever.

How nice to be alive and be in love with your own story, where bad events are also good and good events are even better.

I wish to share books that really impressed me:

1. “Steppenwolf” Herman Hesse

2. “Flowers for Algernon”

3. “Meditations: Thoughts to Myself” Marcus Aurelius

May love be with you!

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Be silent and meet a great person in you

If you had the opportunity to meet a historical figure, who would you choose to meet and why?

We don’t realize that we already met them when we first encountered the prints (arts) they left in our culture.

They speak to you every time you think of them. All that wisdom or stupidity in you is from the people who lived on this planet before. So we are in constant connection with them, but we think that all of our thoughts and ideas are only ours.

If you imagine that you met those people in person, it could be a really unpleasant experience because, for you, they will look like just regular people with their own craziness.

How much do you pay attention to those great personalities in your daily life? As Tesla’s, Jesus’s, Buddha’s, and other great people’s contemporaries were annoyed by them, you could feel the same if you were that ignorant to think that you are separated from the universal mind that is all of us.

Be silent and meet a great person in you.

May love be with you!

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Nobody really cares

What first impression would you like to make on people?

Humans are addicted to thinking and get crazy when comparing themselves with others. If you try to impress anyone, get ready to fail or face judgment, which is always unpleasant.

It might hurt you if you are a sensitive empath. Always try to impress yourself, whatever you are doing. As you learn how to do it yourself, others will be impressed by you anyway.

Don’t be dependent on others opinions because they are always wrong. If you have a chance to hear what people sometimes say about you behind your back, it might shock you. So make your opinion important.

Be careful here and don’t step into egocentrism. Be honest with yourself and be able to accept your negative and positive characteristics.

Love yourself, and others will love you, hate yourself, and others will hate you. Accept yourself and you will see the magic happens in your life.

Any perspective is beautiful and unique. When you are the original and not a copy of the copy, you won’t be unconfident from that how others see you.

May love be with you!

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Do you regret anything?

Life flows through us, and we are forced, passing it through ourselves, to react to the events that arise in it. Events themselves are neutral, but our reaction is always polar: negative or positive. Polarity is always relative. The richer our experience, the closer we are to the balance between polarities, which is synchronization with the flow of life itself.

Any experience is priceless in itself; it is important to realize what the experience you go through teaches you. Otherwise, it will repeat itself again and again.

Regret about something is a signal that the lesson has not been learned and you will have to deal with it again.

Solitude and meditation are two of the most effective ways to review past trials and look at your character’s life from different angles.

Accepting what was and is, forgiving others and yourself—this path seems difficult and sometimes impossible. Only fear can hinder this process of awareness and liberation from shackles.

What’s your biggest fear? Look straight at it, because most often we are afraid of what we cannot see.

May love be with you!

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No time

Do we need time?

Time is just an illusion of the mind that a person uses as a guide in space. There is only the moment now, and the past and future are just figments of our imagination.

When we wake up, we are still in the now, and tomorrow never comes. The illusion of time is mainly used by people to speculate and force other people to act in a certain way by making them believe that time is limited.

We all know that matter has a lifespan and that everything material will inevitably collapse. Therefore, the world of people is in a constant rush in pursuit of desires, guided by the fear that they will not succeed in something in life.

Time is a very profitable commodity for traders. It was they who came up with the phrase “time is money,” forcing the masses to shift their focus in time and exchange their lives in the now for a tool with which we exchange material and intellectual goods.

Everything is alright. No matter if time is important or not. What has to happen, will happen for sure.

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Never rush

What are you trying to avoid in your daily life?

From the moment I open my eyes in the morning, I am convinced that everything is in perfect order, as it should be, no matter how sad or joyful reality may seem.  

Maintaining inner peace, I begin my daily activities. What I do every day is do it in different ways to avoid repetition and the slightest hint of routine; that’s how I feel alive. No matter how urgent the matter is, I always avoid rushing.

Sometimes the mind, carried away by a problem, tries to force the body to speed up processes, which often leads to confusion and results in new problems that only add stress. 

Under such circumstances, solving one problem in a hurry can create an even bigger problem or a series of problems for yourself. 

My advice to someone would be: under any circumstances, do not rush into making decisions or taking actions. 

It may turn out that nothing else is needed other than just being at that moment. 

I overheard someone’s formula for a happy existence: first you need to be, and only then do it if there is a need. 

Say no to rushing and allow yourself to enjoy this endless and beautiful moment now.

May love be with you!

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Find yourself

What was your greatest discovery of your life?

When all attempts to pull on the images of the surrounding society failed and the dark time came for the loss of any meaning to live, at that very time something happened that led me to the greatest discovery of my life.

By a happy coincidence, at the age of seventeen, I had the opportunity to leave my parents’ home, the country in which I was born and raised, and go to the other side of the globe, where I was completely on my own. At that time in my life, I did not have a mentor or someone who could correct the direction of my growth.

I was surrounded by the same careless people whose lifestyle boiled down to an endless feast and satisfaction of carnal pleasures, and somewhere in parallel, there was a barely noticeable awareness that such a path leads to inevitable self-destruction.

There were also those who, indulging society, accepted the generally accepted path of the average person, enslaved by career growth and the thirst for profit, and who, one way or another, did all this in order to ensure that very idleness.

As it turns out later, the so-called idleness was a way to drown out the pain lodged deep inside, but I would find out this almost a decade later.

No matter how terrifying it may sound, as I described above, in fact, I am eternally grateful for the path I have traveled, on which I have had the opportunity to put on countless masks and try on many roles, among which there was not one that personified the real me.

When life brought me to the question “Who am I?”, I stood on the threshold of something else; I’ll call it “incorporeal existence,” that is, the end of earthly existence. It was during this darkest time that I found what I had been looking for for so long in the world around me—the real me, which I had ignored for many years, and he waited patiently, watching over and over again the false me cause pain and suffering to my body.

It is the discovery of oneself that is, for me, the greatest of all. My experience shows that every person on the planet, to some degree or another, is trying to find themselves.

I wish everyone who consciously follows this path to come to their true selves.

May love be with you!

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