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Our homeland is in heaven. Lk 21,20-28
Many people were already expecting the near end of the world in Jesus’ day. They expected him with great inner turmoil. About these last days and many writings circulated among the people. Jesus does not deny the end of the world, but it connects him with his second coming, when he comes into the world with power and great glory. Hope and joy pour into these terrifying scenarios because he says it will be the day of our redemption. The world will find salvation and salvation with the Son of man.
“When it starts to happen, stand up straight, raise your head, because yours is coming to redemption ”(Lk 21,28).
In recent days, it will look like in the days of Noah. God intervened, they will sink into the history of Noah’s time amid people’s daily lives.
Some worked, others rested, but that’s not important. The important thing is that their life went on without God. And that became fatal for them. Even with Jesus’ second upon arrival, people will go for their work, rest, interests. And vigilance means living your daily life with God. We know that, as in the days of Noah, so many today live as if God were not. What they mean, words to stand up and raise our heads when Jesus comes? Standing uprightness is a sign of our freedom, the freedom of God’s children. But standing, it is also a sign of joy. And a raised head shows where we’re looking for rescue, where is our hope. It is a sign of our desire to be closer to God. We do not know whether the second coming of Christ will take place during our lifetime, nor do we not need to know. Even if it did, not for a faithful Christian is a reason for fear. On the contrary. We long for Christ, for meeting him, and we look forward to His coming. Therefore, let us watch all the time and pray that we could stand upright with our heads up before the Son of Man when it comes in glory (cf. Lk 21: 28.36). For blessed are those whom the Lord has arrival finds vigilance. There are so many issues in the world that you are not can’t give advice in today’s world. Even though scientific progress was advancing miles forward, he was able to explain several natural and physical phenomena beyond his natural intellect abilities. Doctors, scientists, and no one else can answer the question unequivocally, whether there is eternal life, the life of man after death. Today’s man is most confident with both feet on solid ground. He is influenced by materialism and some visions of the future eternity, which are built only on man’s faith – such are what is very difficult today to accept. The contemporary believes only what he can touch, what is firmly holding in hand.
The priest asked his believing parish priest, “Would you like to go to heaven?” “True!” “Would you go anyway?” The parish priest was breathtaking; he didn’t know to answer her. He had never thought about it before because he was young, full of strength and plans, and as he had somehow never thought about eternity. And how would we react? Probably like the believer. Who would do that? Thought that in the best years he had to leave his job, his family, friends … Each of us should realize that death is not a grave or a pit, but it is the gateway to a new, eternal life. Eternity is not a “grave life,” but communion with God. Everyone is heading for eternity. What would the point we had our earthly life if it didn’t lead to eternity? We know all of them, our efforts and endeavours every day deserve our eternal reward in heaven. Can you imagine everything ending with death? What sense would it make, then, our life? We deserve our eternity every day. St. Paul writes: “Neither the eye saw nor the ear heard, nor came into the human heart, has it God prepared for those who love him” (1 Cor 2: 9). Whoever accepts Christ into his own life becomes a new man, he finds man’s meaning, and death for him ceases to be a scarecrow. Lord, give us more faith and wisdom so that we do not dwell on the thought of death. Instead, fill us with great joy and confidence when the day comes of our departure; you will be with us.
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Perseverance in Christ
Encourage to follow Jesus patiently in prayer of the heart A Slovak proverb says that anyone can begin, but only a master I finish. When we are only a few days away from the end of the liturgical year, the texts of the Gospel remind us of the end times. They warn us to remember where our home is. But are we confident that we will persevere even? Jesus lovingly counsels the apostles. “If you persevere, you will keep your life.” (Lk21:19).
Believing people, they do not need to know the day of the Lord’s coming. The important thing is to know their hearts are not burdened with sins and worries about this life, so that as the Lord says: that day shall not surprise them. It is significant that hearts be with the Lord. And in this lies vigilance at all times. Living in conformity with God’s order. To live with God everywhere. To be Christian in all events. And this is where the Lord’s Prayer will help. He often prayed, and he calls us to do the same. In the Garden of Gethsemane, he called the apostles, “Watch and pray.” (Mt 26:41). He himself prayed. The apostles were asleep. A result? The Lord Jesus is taken captive, condemned and tortured, balanced and full of God’s power.
And the apostles? They scatter. Peter denied three times. Here we see very clearly the great power and necessity of prayer. Soon we will begin the beautiful season of Advent, when we look at the world, at our lives, as it were, from a perspective, with our eyes fixed on eternity. Advent calls us to watchfulness and prayer, to quietness and repentance, to purify our hearts. For a life of watchfulness and prayer, that is, a life with a pure heart, makes us happy already here on earth. The fruit of watchfulness and prayer is peace and joy in families, in society and at work. No heart attacks, no stresses, but the peace of God. Who of us, I ask, who of us does not long for this ? Let us therefore make the most of the Advent season ! Let us find more time than ever for prayer and for the sacrament of reconciliation. True believers long for the coming of the Lord. That is why the early Christians cried out: “Maratha – Come, our Lord !” Because in the end times it will be as in the days of Noah. Those who will live their life with God, will find refuge in the Lord, as the righteous in Noah’s day found from the flood in the ark. Jesus offers us a way out of this condition in the words. kingdom will enter only he “who does the will of my Father, who is in heaven.” (Mt 7:21). What it means to do the will of the Father is explained by St. Paul: “For this is the will of God
will, your sanctification” (1 Sol 4:3). Personal sanctification, and the resulting works, can be a reason for us to have a joyful hope of meeting the Lord in the kingdom of heaven. And how do we sanctify ourselves? By making everything we do, we will do for the greater glory of God. Our prayers and acts of piety we will make them sincere. Let us make them more inward, so that they spring more from our hearts than from our lips. St. Augustine says that we can ask for the gift of perseverance by prayer. God never wants something we can’t handle, but when we allow Evil to deceive us, we think it is beyond our power. Jesus is the way. He walked through a tight gate by himself during the Gethsemane struggle, and God sent an angel to him, to strengthen him. We, too, have strength. Not only angels, but Jesus himself comes and gives himself to us in the Eucharist so that we may persevere and preserve life. Life eternal!
It is not important who, when he embarked on this journey, but that all of us together and reach the destination. Let us not, as Pope Gregory the Great said, be seduced by the beauty by the splendour of the surroundings, by the splendour of the meadows of life, that we should forget the goal. Let us run to the Kingdom of God with joy and perseverance. Let us not be discouraged by the falls. He who has called us also strengthens us to go through the tight gate and also help others along the way.
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Two coins.
The Kingdom of God for two coins1
Is it possible to buy everything for money? Experience convinces us relentlessly that not. We lack health, peace, love and happiness, good friends. What do you think, how much perhaps then would the kingdom of God stand? We start the last week of the church year, and our readings will gradually take place to present the last days of the world when Christ comes as king of the world. Today is it prepares us to know how much the kingdom of God costs. Jesus, indirectly, he told the apostles at the temple.
“Verily I say unto you, This poor widow hath cast in more than all others. For these all gave gifts of their abundance, but she gave her poverty, she gave everything she had, all her livelihood” (Lk 21: 3b-4a). What did the two small coins mean at the time? About as much as today’s decathlon. What could we buy for that? Probably nothing if there weren’t at least them
half a kilo. But Jesus saw the opposite. A poor widow who knew she was giving everything did not regret even sacrificing it for God. She trusted him. We, sometimes ,we will succumb to some scepticism if we have to do something small. We’ll say that It’s not even worth the effort because there are more critical tasks in the world that need to be done to rescue people. Wrong! Even a petite maid, done with love and confidence for God, she is precious in Jesus’ eyes. The desire to have more and more is dangerous. And it is also difficult to succumb to the knowledge that I am a perfect Christian. Only in heaven, but not here on earth. We don’t think it’s enough to come every Sunday to church; supporting the church and private life outside the church is my business.
Not. It cannot be separated. Property that often binds us on the road to perfection takes various forms. It’s not just money, but frequently status, power, pride, trying to control others, vices, and things around us. The world convinces us that we need this; life is not possible without it. Two coins are also property. Modest but expressive relationship. The widow renounced him. What is my attitude? There is such a small fictional episode in the book Christmas Stories as Jesus walked with St. Peter in the villages. Once they got lost, and after a while, they came across the town. They asked overnight, but only in the poorest shack was there a place for them. When they woke up, the poor woman gave them soup, to which she added some tallow.
Before they started to eat, Jesus called on Peter to count the stitches in the soup. Twenty-five – he said. And the Lord Jesus, he, pulled exactly twenty-five gold coins out of his pocket. Yeah, how the woman rejoiced. Now she ran to buy rare guests something better. A rich woman met her at the market, and when she did when she found out what had happened, she invited Jesus and Peter for lunch. Navara, as it should be. Full plates and properly loaded mass. When Jesus asked Peter to count the stitches in the soup, he didn’t have many robots. All the ointment combined into one big eye. And when they ate, Jesus took the gold money and gave it to the woman. She was stopped, and Peter defended her. Better for him, the tasty soup tasted good, but Jesus rebuked him. Peter, the poor woman, gave us little because she had a good heart, but this rich woman gave so much ointment to make as much money as possible. Not for the good of the soul, but for profit. Maybe that’s how we often behave. We want to impress who we are, but only to people. God, who comes at the end of time, sees the depths of our insides. We have to create treasures in heaven, but how? By that, today I can buy or. We don’t have to become beggars, to strip naked like St. Francis of Assisi. Being liberated from the property means trusting God, even when difficulties come. Poverty will not surprise those who are open-hearted to God, but those who compose his property.
The kingdom of God is priceless, but it costs exactly as much as you have, etc. Two coins. Buy it, and you’ll have it, or it’s already here on earth.
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Should we pray for earthly needs?
In the introduction to the encyclopedia of prayer (La Preghiera, Rome 1967) writes prof. R. Bocassino, his memories of Central Africa. A primitive woman of a forest tribe does from a clay pot. He prays to the gods in search of clay, at mixing, firing. He asks her who taught her that. He shrugs shoulders: «Who teaches children to cry? They do it themselves. Prayer also goes from the heart.” Prayer erupts from need and uncertainty. Begging to bless occurs in all religions of the world.
Most Christian prayers seem to be of this kind. People pray for the harvest in the field, for success in business, for healing in sickness. It’s not the rest primitivism, paganism? There have always been those who find such prayers less Christian and want to discourage them, like the rest of the old pagan mentality. Origen called all earthly worries the term “shadow.” None of the people buy the shadow. We only take care of the object; its shadow goes with it free. Thus, according to Origen, we are supposed to ask only for true spiritual things; earthly and bodily needs to be with us, they add without asking, like a shadow. St. Thomas Aquinas gathered objections, they put against prayer for early needs. Prayer to us, it is to elevate to heaven and not draw attention to earthly worries, which are often harmful. After all, the gospel itself encourages us not to worry about what we eat or what we eat (cf. Mt 6:25). Understandably, on the contrary, it is true that even in the Fatherland, we pray for “our daily bread.”
The rule for distinguishing between correct and incorrect requests even during Christ’s lifetime, great people came to him. Most people with a request for healing in sickness, restoration of sight, and bread miraculously multiplied. And yet, he fundamentally rejected some pleas or did not hear them immediately and as people would like. So how do we know each other in evaluating prayer requests? St. Augustine set the basic rule: «We can pray for what we can desire, what we can wish for ourselves and others.” Prayer for something wrong is ruled out. St. Gregor of Nazianz speaks ironically against those who would like to harm your neighbor’s prayer Father: «What a father are you calling, Not the one who is in heaven and gives only good! Your father, from whom you demand evil, is Satan, the spirit of hatred. .. »God will not hear the prayer for conscious sin, guide him at the same time, such a request offends and is sinful. It occurs as we hope very rarely and reveals a perverted character. However, we often want to achieve nothing wrong with what we don’t see: success, money, place. Can we laugh at that to pray? According to St. Augustine’s principle, of course, there is nothing wrong with asking for what we long for. After all, however, striving for similar values has its limits. We must not want to get rich by stealing; to get better , Instead of cheating, take care of the body to the detriment of the soul. Work and the pursuit of some values must stop where they were no longer suitable but rather evil. Prayer also wants to involve God in life
efforts for success and prosperity. It must always be conditional. It always thinks about what is so nicely expressed in the novena in honour of St. Francis of Xaver: «If not what I ask for the salvation of my soul, then I ask you ask me something else, more necessary! »
Then, of course, nothing would seem more perfect not to choose and not to ask for anything in particular, namely. The same is that the perfect one is, the more indifferent one is. He cares little about what the worldly cares about people.
About St. Gertrude writes that she more often promised her acquaintances that she would pray for their affairs. Hardly, though she prayed, she forgot everything. But God, did he hears about it. No wonder, then, that it seems more perfect to some people if they don’t ask for anything special. Already, Socrates said that prayer was enough for us to be god’s gracious. They attribute this opinion to Wyclef. They can, in addition, the texts of Scripture, e.g., from Romans (8:26): We do not even know what to pray for. However, if we took such indifference quite consistently, then nothing would be left of the prayer, which, after all, is so widespread in all religions and confirmed in the gospel: You will receive everything you need begging in faith in prayer (Mt 21:22). The Church, therefore, makes pleas for all that is good and for all that we tie for sound if this is done with the modest judgment of the appropriateness or unsuitability of completion. Such is the prayer always heard, even if I guess differently than we thought. For only the supplication that is with Christ and in Christ is made.
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The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christos, King of the Universe.
To accept Christ as King of your life on earth and have hope for eternal life.
On the last Sunday of the church year, we call the Sunday of Christ the King. When nations are beginning to elect presidents of prime ministers, when the titles of the king, tsar start to belong to the past, Pope Pius XI. In the encyclical Quas Primis of December 11, 1925, he established the Feast of Christ the King for the whole Church.
Most people have died in this king in history. One of those who died with the cry “Long live Christ the King!” Is the first Romani martyr, the Spaniard Zesiryn Gimenez Malla, at the beginning of August 1936, when he was shot at the cemetery in Barbastra during the Civil War. May 4, 1997, Pope John Paul II. declared him blessed.
Jesus King – without a crown on his head, without royal insignia, without bodyguards and armies, money does not have his seal in his Kingdom… And yet, the sun does not set in his Kingdom. The king calls himself to his brothers, and he also calls his faithful brothers and sisters. In his Kingdom, all languages are spoken. He alone is eternal; it will never belong to history… Every knee on the earth will bow before him. All early titles will expire once. In his Kingdom, everyone is equal. He alone can declare himself to be the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End. He alone can say: My words are valid, I am the way, I am the life.
Evangelist St. John described the dialogue between Jesus and Pilate: Pilate said to Jesus, “Are you still a king? Jesus replied, “You say that I am a king.” Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice” (Jn 18:37).
Jesus raised many questions among his contemporaries. And until the end of time, Jesus is the one Simeon declared: “He is appointed for the fall and rebellion for many in Israel, and for the sign to which they will resist,” so that the minds of many hearts may be revealed “(Lk 2: 34-35). ) Jesus Christ is King.
At the end of the church year, we must say that “there are truths that can be learned. One must know and control them if one wants to survive in life. There is also a value scale of truths; they are the barren truths of gossiping and the truths of the great words that move the world and change it. But above all value scales, there is one truth that is more than the sum of all truths. This single truth does not have a plural. We cannot own it or control it. We can participate in it: when we accept it, we enter its service. This truth sets us free. It is the truth of God, his original reality, the power of his holiness, his life, his faithfulness. This truth has clearly appeared, the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. ”
(Cf. SCHOTT: From the Table of the Word of God, The Good Book, Trnava 2000, p. 381.)
One fragment from the hearing of the Son of God by Pilate confirms the great truth. Jesus has no resemblance to kings. All the kings died, leaving only dust and ashes. Only Christ the King died, but on the third day, he rose from the dead, lives, and will live forever. Only his Kingdom is eternal, which will not pass away. Those who waited for the defeat of Jesus are not, and Jesus, his Gospel, and his Kingdom remain. Alexander the Great wept that he could not conquer the moon and the stars, for the earth was too little for him and nothing for him. Jesus’ power is also over the stars.
They were kings whom their contemporaries called noble, reasonable, and holy, but which of them are like Christ? For he loved every man without distinction and calculation. Christ alone, out of love, died for all without recognition.
The Romans gave the Roman Emperor Titus the title “kind and adornment of mankind” for nobility and goodness. When the day was over, during which he did nothing good for his subjects, he complained in the evening: “Alice, diem perdidi.” – “Friends, I have wasted the day.”, his flower and happiness, Jesus Christ, King of peace and mercy, truth, justice, and love.
Jesus is the King of the extraordinary Kingdom, of which he said before Pilate: “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, then my servants would fight, that I should not be delivered into the hand of the Jews. But my kingdom is not a standard.” (Jn 18:36) The greatest in the Kingdom of God is the one who has the most love for God and the least for himself, the most humble and selfless. The first will be the last, which does not push and lift its head high but works for God and the spread of His Kingdom. He enters the Kingdom of God, who knows, by the King’s teaching, to be poor, cries, be quiet, hungry, merciful, pure in heart, which spreads the peace that endured persecution (cf. Mt 5: 3-11).
The crown of thorns of Christ means more to the world than any other golden crown. They put it on his head to make him laugh, and it became a sign of love. Baptism opens the gates of the Kingdom. However, after baptism, everyone baptized is obliged to live according to the teachings of the King. Truth, justice, love, honesty, faithfulness, humility, peace,…
Napoleon the Great’s officer, de Guillet, became involved in the conspiracy against the emperor. The plot was exposed, and he was sentenced to death. One morning his sword was returned, and he was ordered to appear before the emperor for an interview. As he stood before Napoleon, the brutal conqueror told him, “Please return to your regiment! Tomorrow is an attack. You have plenty of time to think about whether to choose death by shooting or promotion to colonel.” In the coming battle, the officer deserved the rank of colonel. The emperor not only forgave him, but personally appointed him a colonel. He has been one of the emperor’s most loyal soldiers ever since.
We do not doubt that Christ the King is the noblest and most merciful, incomparable to Napoleon. He proved it not only by word but also by his death and the assurance that we, too, would rise from the dead. As we pray the Father’s prayer daily, we ask to participate in the kingdom of God. Today is the time to realize your faithfulness to Christ the King. Our loyalty pays off. Because only he came to save everyone, he died for all, opened his kingdom for all, triumphed over sin, and became a witness of the truth.
The decision of Pope Pius XI. is timely and correct. Although today’s world is indifferent to Christ the King, this title “King” is a challenge for us to be faithful to our God.
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Obstacles on the way to God.
Agnostic Jean Rostand was forced to write. I really don’t see how it is possible to derive all the richness of man’s spirit and culture from matter and its atoms. How is it possible that people resist acknowledging spirituality and accepting God as the fundamental reality on which the world and man’s whole life rests? The narrow horizon of human consciousness is the most common cause of the disorder in knowing God. Not all newspaper readers read both sports and economic news. Music professors will probably be less interested in financial issues. We have strong mental attitudes. They are often obstacles to knowledge. The artist finds it difficult to understand the technical problem of the dam. This is obvious to the builder. Today’s man quickly becomes one-sided. He doesn’t see things outside his department. Even if he sees them, he sees them through the eyes of his union. This also applies to attitudes towards religion. Many bases all their knowledge on empirical knowledge, closing the way to God. They want to see everything in the laboratories under a microscope. What they don’t see there doesn’t exist for them. How many times it has already been shown how limited this requirement is. How do you prove that Aristotle lived? How can you prove many philosophical truths in this way? Another obstacle on the way to God is our way of thinking, which goes into more and more detail, but it escapes the whole. The specialization of our sciences betrays us. We are satisfied with the details. We must have the entire person in front of our eyes. who goes beyond what can be seen and touched by the hands—being human means constantly asking questions, not stopping at any artificial boundaries. If natural science suffices as an explanation of a lifetime, it is a sign of touching naivety. There are two ways of knowing: counting knowledge and intent knowledge.
Computational knowledge is natural science and technology. Contemplative wisdom seeks the last causes and the last meaning of life. We begin to talk about God when we ask not only about the pattern of chlorophyll but when we ask about the entire, how a person in the world is possible, how the entire universe is possible with a thinking person at the top. Information about God cannot be seen and captured by the senses. Understanding God has been and always has to do with understanding with being and order. The idea of the order has struck people from the beginning. People thought about it. They knew they couldn’t rearrange the stars in the sky. And they discovered that, behind the world of stars and the world of living beings, there must be some organizing factor that is the originator of all the phenomena of the world. This originator is God.
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Canonized saints.
Today, in general, the meaning of the word “holy.” considerably limited. It belongs as a title to those by the Church publicly worshipped. We can privately call for mediation of whoever died in God’s grace and who we hope is in heaven. We pray for the peace of the soul of the deceased parents, relatives, acquaintances. However, few people realize that we can and should pray for them as well. Death naturally interrupts human bodily relationships but perfects spiritual ones, especially true love. Of course, we can’t picture exhibit their acquaintances in the Church on the altar.
The Church has the right to verify the virtues of the one who gives himself to others as a role model in God and as an intercessor with God in eternity. The so-called canonization process is now governed by legal norms, which, as everyone acknowledges, are very strict. In the old days, local service and folk respect were enough. However, it is still not critical enough. The victory of orthodoxy over iconoclasm, the image of the rectum, meant, of course, an extraordinary flourishing of respect to the saints in the Christian East. It can be said that religion and its manifestations have also been enriched emotionally, artistically, and culturally. The liturgical calendar has penetrated folklife with proverbs, sayings, folk songs, and scenes.
However, they made some mistakes in the saints’ calendar and inaccuracies. Understandably, the new martyrology (list of worshipped saints according to the calendar) corresponds to historical truth. The objection that the Church has long kept even the names of saints who did not exist is not as severe as it might seem. After all, prayer to one saint reaching to God and the whole heavenly Church. God then looks at man’s heart and purpose. She certainly doesn’t blame her grandmother for not studying history spring’s before, she prayed for the harvest and begged for the intercession of some strange saint of the century calendar.
The history of the Church is like any other history. Legend and reputation easily complement the picture, which of the guaranteed reports, it is not always entirely clear. In the old days, the so-called Apocrypha, falsified gospels, and accounts of the life of Christ, Virgin Mary, the apostles. We don’t believe in fairy tales, and national legends do not mean that we despise them. They are the expression of the people’s soul and have, as J. Zeyer said, their “inner truth,” which is often truer.
Then the truth of external facts. Even the legendary lives of the saints are such an expression of the soul of the people. Let’s notice how the church calendar penetrated rural life in the form of proverbs and sayings. St. Gregor, St. Margaret throws a scythe into rye, st. Martin arrives at a white horse, etc. Today, they no longer correspond to the way of life or the new reform of the church calendar. Still, they show us something to strive for again: a living sense of “communion of saints,” the unity of the Church on earth and in heaven. In fairy tales, Christ the Lord walked with St. Peter after our homeland, and it is just a popular expression of a reality that is unspeakably more beautiful.
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Many faces of freedom
Sometimes it is possible to replace the word freedom with the word freedom. It is an analogous term used in various senses. Left, Elza was born to be single, so she was never destined for a cage. A bird that is not in a cell is free. Well-oiled doors are doors that move freely in their hinges. Or there is a mother of six finally has free time to accompany her last child to kindergarten.
In some cases, freedom may refer to the absence of any inappropriate element. For example, a gluten-free diet. So it’s not that gluten. Or decaffeinated coffee. So it’s decaffeinated coffee.
When John Paul II speaks of freedom as the root of human dignity, he thinks of a profound fact that means more than freedom of movement or the absence of any inappropriate element. Freedom is part of human nature and radically separates us from the rest of creation. Humans are essentially free beings, even when they are caged or locked up in labour camps. The animal is not free even when it moves freely in the forest. The animal must necessarily obey its instincts. Even nature is not free, but it follows the laws and rules. The water always flows down the hill. We will not be able to ignite the fire in a vacuum. The combination of sodium and chlorine can produce salt, but it never makes black pepper. Human freedom is not sexual freedom, but the freedom of will by which we control our actions and deeds. It is essential to distinguish between human activities and human actions. A human act is an act that is performed freely and voluntarily. We sometimes act consciously and intentionally and sometimes unintentionally. For example, when a salesperson spends money out of a hundred instead of fifty, she did it inadvertently. However, when the customer notices that she has given him more, he will perform a human deed because he did it consciously freely. Human freedom must also include moral freedom. One must be able to choose between good and evil, virtue and vice. Human freedom deliberately and judiciously decides between good things or between good and evil.
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What does it mean to be successful?
The great philosopher Thomas Carlyle once wrote: “Let everyone happen what he is able to become for what he was created for.” A better definition of success I will not invent. Life is a daily challenge to the maximum development of ours abilities. We are successful if we pursue the highest goal within our capabilities – if we do our best.
In the quote before this chapter, it is said that success lies in not in receiving. I place particular emphasis on this point. Life from us, he doesn’t want us to always be on top. He asks us to their current experiences, have done the best we can. Exactly make successful people in some of the most critical areas of life:
• Successful people take life as it is, with all the difficulties and challenges. They adapt to him rather than complain. They accept responsibility for their own lives instead of blaming others, or they make excuses. They take life despite its negative side and, in all circumstances, make the best use of it.
Successful people create and maintain a positive approach to life. Behold, they give good to other people and the world around them, and they usually find it. They take life as a series of opportunities and possibilities that are needed to explore.
Successful people build good interpersonal relationships. They can perceive the needs and feelings of others. They are considerate and polite. They can inspire others to do their best.
I Successful people have a sense of direction and purpose – they know where they are going. It provides goals, achieves them, and then sets others. They like to accept demanding tasks.
Successful people long for new knowledge: about life, about the world, about themselves . Learning is a joy for them, not a duty. They are constantly enriching your life with new knowledge and self-improvement. They are constantly discovering something new and growing internally.
Successful people are active. They finish what they started because they are not afraid of hard work and no time. They use it creatively. They are not lazy in the routine and are not bored because they are constantly looking for new experiences. The moral standard of successful people is high. They know honesty is one of the essential parts of a reasonable person’s character. In personal and public life, he honours the truth.
Successful people understand the difference between mere existence and living, and always choose real life. They get the best out of life because they also give him the best. They reap what they sow. They enjoy life as it goes the most.
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