Prerequisites for success

First assumption…
We already know that the first prerequisite for any SUCCESS is “proactivity” – that is, BEING A FIGHTER. The team that acts.
NO SUCCESS THANKS!
The second assumption…:
“When a violin virtuoso plays a perfect solo during a classical music concert, or when three tenors – Pavarotti, Domingo, and Carr eras – sing a beautiful aria, no one attributes their performance to happiness. When an artisan creates a beautiful piece of furniture, elegant and elaborated to the smallest detail, it is obvious that it is an excellent work; no one explains or facilitates it by smiling happiness at him. Whenever you see a person excellently doing something, you can recognize and appreciate the work of a master. You realize that great performance was preceded by weeks, months, and even years of hard work and detailed preparation. My good friend, Nido Qubein, one of the best professional speakers in America, told me that he had spent many times up to a hundred hours planning, rehearsing, and preparing for an hour-long speech, which he was to give only once to a single audience. ”

“While I was training young people, we learned together that if you work hard and hard, set goals, and have a clear vision of what you want to achieve; you will succeed, even if you experience partial failures.” (LOU HOL TZ, former head football coach at Notre Dame University, winner of the 1988 national championship, sports analyst at CBS College Football Today)
“Poor people want to be rich. Wealthy people are determined to work for their wealth. To be determined is to commit to one’s purpose unconditionally. It means that you give it you’re all. You will do whatever is necessary and for as long as necessary to achieve wealth. Such is the path of a warrior. No dials, no “buts”, no “ifs”, no “maybes”. Failure is not allowed. The warrior’s path is clear: “Either I get rich, or I die – but I die trying to get rich!” If you are not fully, honestly, and 100% determined, you will probably not get rich. ”(T. Harv Eker)
FAG  LAW:
“Nothing will amuse you, and you won’t have ‘fun’ out of it unless you’re soaked in it. To get to such a stage, you have to work hard. ”
“People sometimes think it’s hard to learn to play Bach on the piano by spending years practicing scales and chords. The opposite is true. The years spent practicing are just the easier way to master Bach. Imagine sitting behind a large wing in a busy concert hall and never rehearsing in life. I certainly find this a more difficult way. ”(John Ortberg, pastor)
How hard is toil?
“As you approach the end of the series, the pain increases geometrically with each repetition. Most people end the series was considered the beginning, whatever it was before warming up. We knew that the real growth repetitions were clearly outlined ahead of us, in the much-feared zone of pain. ”(Mike Mentzer, champion and champion coach)
“I broke through the pain barrier and shocked the muscles. Heavy pain, it was a new experience for me. ”(Arnold Schwarzenegger, 8x Mr. Olympia, actor, politician)
“Sleeping 4 hours is a must, 5 hours is comfort, 6 hours idle. A lot of food and sleep kills people. ”(Thomas Alva Edison)
How long does such a toil last?
“An exceptional result is achieved after ten thousand hours of training.” (Peter Krištofovič, Founder of AFS SK, which is now part of the multinational financial group Salve Group London)
How much is it?
If we worked on our goal eight hours a day, five days a week – that is, PROFESSIONALLY – it would take us almost 5 years.
AMATEUR TEMP – four hours five days a week – could take about 9 years.
IN PRACTICE, this means that if you are now 16 years old – then at somewhere between 21 and 25 years old, you can be famous. Rich. It will affect. Celebrity. Anything…

A small example:
“Petra Lorenzo (19 years old) at the V. B. Nedožerský Grammar School in Prievidza has been interested in biology since childhood. To everyone’s surprise, she finally found self-realization in the realm of mosquitoes, which most of us consider the most repulsive insects. “We still know little about mosquitoes, and it’s an increasingly topical issue. Some species in Slovakia can transmit, for example, West Nile fever or heartworm disease. That’s why I thought of inventing protection in the form of a repellent on a purely natural basis, “explains Petra, who has also improved in herbal medicine as a result. She successfully tested the product of cloves, motherwort, lavender, mint, essential oils, and olive oil in secret in twenty-two people. After winning the national round, an invitation to a global competition for young scientists came to Helsinki, Finland, where she presented her project to top experts. “It was especially a huge experience for me because I communicated with several Nobel Prize winners who evaluated my project,” is looking forward to a talented girl who has stepped on an auspicious career.  This is also an example of the success that can be achieved at your age and not small.

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Unnatural sleep MM 21

Unnatural sleep occurs in unilateral mental exhaustion. A person in constant mental activity, who has no rest since is exhausted, and this exhaustion gradually turns into a disease state. And this disease state also goes to sleep. A man sleeps, but in the morning, after waking up, he is exhausted and knows that even in his sleep, work, the problem did not give him peace. Thus, mental causes are most often involved in sleep disturbance. One does not find night rest due to a morbidly escalated urge to act. His brain works feverishly; he has thousands of ideas, and his mental employment does not give him peace. Similarly, a person who suffers from depression or melancholy does not get sleep. Feeling guilty, worried, a bad conscience can also hurt sleep. A necessary precondition for sleep to come is the complete cessation of any thought activity. We also overcome this state with a vivid image of our own sleep, which means that we see ourselves in a peaceful, undisturbed, strengthening sleep. The figurative car suggestive image should be repeated daily at bedtime at least 20-30 times. This creates a new esplana in the upper subconscious, which then satisfies the affected areas. Some light entertainment is also recommended during the day. Thus, the activity of the relevant reworked field ceases to calm down and strengthen. Through unreasonable physical exertion, the small brain is quickly reworked. Which causes a disturbance of the soul, and we get up in the morning as if we had struggled at night. As a rule, we cannot finish the work we dream of. This is because impressions pass to the cerebellum, where they remain and only rarely pass to the motor nerves. . Then both brains are active, and we wake up tired in the morning. In addition to brain sleep, this is the sleep by which we mean the loss of consciousness; there is also the body’s sleep. The body’s sleep relates to the overall motor skills, that is, to the muscles and thus to the musculoskeletal system, which, as we know, is subordinated to the conscious will-controlled nervous system.

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Acceptance and non-acceptance


To point out that in life in the apostolate we will not only have time to receive, whether reward, but also misunderstanding and ungrateful After graduating from primary or secondary school, many of us applied for further studies, we wanted to know something, to get it somewhere in life, to be educated, wise. After all, investing in education always pays off. Onto we needed to do a job interview or some other exam. We went to see the school whether they accepted us or not. When we succeeded, we breathed in our minds, and we were happy. We were proud of ourselves; we felt good.

Jesus was rejected in today’s gospel, even by his own family. They said, “He is mad” (Mark 3:21). When the closest ones do not understand us, it does not add to self-confidence. But Jesus was aware of his mission; he did not let himself be disgusted. Crowds from all over the country followed Jesus because they expected him to help them save them from the misery they found many times. They put their hope in him. If Jesus did so many good miracles among those who pressed for him, why then did he not succeed in his nation, and more precisely in his family? Probably because he grew up among them, he was for them, as one of them, they found nothing special in him. And yet Jesus is the Son of God. They did not believe that what he did was his merit was very common to them. When we put ourselves in the situation of Jesus’ relatives, they didn’t have it easy because he had never exceptionally manifested himself before and now like this? The wonders and miracles of Jesus were to confirm his saving mission. But for many, it was not proof; on the contrary, it was a reason to doubt his mental health.

We are also often faced with a situation in which we do not understand, and we should understand. We try to be good, help, be willing to listen, offer ourselves help, and, on the other hand, we get a hard rejection because we have to take care of ourselves. Let this not be a reason for us to be disgusted. No one wanted man better than God; he sent us his Son Jesus, who did everything to settle the enmity between man and God, whose cause was a sin. But the man rejected him and killed him. He killed God. God’s love has no boundaries. It’s natural that we get somewhere or accept us, whether it is a school or a job. But as disciples of Christ, we must also remember that some doors will remain closed before us. Let us hope that the love of Christ will penetrate beyond the door, which is now still locked. May the Lord Himself help us with His blessings so that we may remain faithful to Him in every situation of our lives.

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Occupation


Raise awareness that everyone is responsible for the profession they have from Christ – to spread the kingdom of God
We are all different. We look different, our hair, figure, face, abilities are different, no one is as sure as his neighbor. We have different jobs, hobbies, hobbies. Let’s imagine that we would all be, e.g., gardeners, our neighborhood would it was like in a paradise garden, but what would we do in the winter and who would do what other. What would we eat, how would we get a job, who would treat us, if we broke our leg, or what we would look at home if it weren’t television, and who would take care of the programs we like to love? Jesus calls his disciples to his ministry in the gospel. “He called to him those whom he himself wanted, and they came to him ”(Mark 3:13).

After a night spent in prayer, Jesus chose the twelve apostles to
they dwelt with him and later continued their mission on earth. The evangelist noted and their names, and we could hear them. They become an extraordinary subject of love. By this choice, the Lord lays the foundations of His Church. Twelve men areas of the twelve patriarchs of God’s new people – the Church. Why have these men received such favors, and why not others perhaps more capable and more learned than they were? We cannot answer why these. “He called to himself those he wanted. It was not you who chose me, but I chose me you ”(Johan 15:16). Christ chooses his own, and the choice is their only title. The Lord Jesus, from his authority, calls urgently but at the same time gently, just as Yahweh called his messengers and prophets: Moses, Samuel, Isaiah … Those whom you never called your vocation to which they were chosen they did not deserve, either by their good conduct or by their personal qualities. “He called us … by a holy vocation, not for our merits, but from his own decisions and graces ”(2 Tim 1: 9).

The Lord also calls us to His ministry, perhaps differently from His disciples, but calling, that’s for sure. He also has tasks for us that await us right where we are located. And what is our role? Translate the gospel message into the environment in which we live so that it may feel that God’s servant resides there. When a person puts himself into the task he wants to do, he is very resourceful. He can do many things, examples of which are saints, martyrs, missionaries who, for the love of Christ, could renounce everything and nothing to them; it was not difficult to do for the name of Jesus.
The fact that caring for flowers is nice and kind and useful; not everyone can do it. But what anyone can do is preach the gospel of Jesus. Not all the same in the same words or deeds, but in the variety and diversity that our world has needs. He wants to act through us so that his words can be heard everywhere. This is ours, a common mission for which Jesus still calls us. Let’s not be afraid it will be challenging; he is always with us and will help us overcome obstacles. Let us receive him into our hearts so that we may be strengthened by him and live in his presence, which will certainly feel in our surroundings. Christ wants to enter through us everywhere; let us not close the door to our loved ones in front of him.

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The kingdom of God is here


Realize that we live for God and with God.

Surely each of us will remember our childhood times when our parents read us fairy tales. In almost every story, it took place in a certain kingdom. In it, the king rules his subjects, the army helps him, and certain laws must be observed for there to be peace in the land in the kingdom.

Jesus also mentions the kingdom in today’s gospel. It is at the beginning of its public ministry, and its first statements include the words, “The kingdom of God is at hand” (Mark 1:15). What kind of kingdom is this? Who rules in it, and what laws apply here? Before we talk about the kingdom of God, it is important to note the first part of the sentence: “The time is fulfilled” (Mark 1:15).

Dear brothers and sisters! What can be fulfilled? For example, the vessel, the dam’s reservoir, and the riverbed are filled with water, but not the river itself, because it is still flowing. Something similar seems to apply to time. We can fill an hour with fun, a year with study, life with good deeds. But time as such goes on. He was in front of us, and he will be after us. But will it be eternal? The Bible teaches us that God is the Lord of time. He is the one who creates things and people and gives everyone some time to fulfill the task God has given him. The people of Israel also got their time: from Abraham to Christ. This time is filled with the great works of God: the election of Abraham, the deliverance from Egypt, the sending of prophets. All of this was sufficient preparation in God’s eyes for the Jews to be able to receive Christ.
Therefore, the Old Testament had its time to come. Jesus Christ is born, and the kingdom of God came to earth in his person. While the Old Testament received participation in God’s kingdom through faith in one God, the faithfulness of the covenant, and the hopeful expectation of the promised Messiah, Jesus announces, “The kingdom of God is within you” (Luke 17:21). The kingdom of God is already here on earth, not just after death or at the end of the ages. To fulfill the will of the Father, Christ established the kingdom of heaven on earth. And the Father’s will is to elevate people to participate in God’s life. He does this by gathering people around his Son, Jesus Christ. This congregation is the Church, which is the seed and beginning of God’s kingdom on earth.
The program of God’s kingdom is all-embracing love. Let’s not just love half. Let’s love, let it hurt. Because to stop when love begins to happen, or rather not to start at all, because it costs something, would mean not to love at all. This love is a stone that the builders of the worldly kingdoms rejected, but which became the cornerstone of God’s Kingdom. The power of love is indomitable, “for he who falls on the cornerstone will be broken, but he whom he falls on will crush him” (Mathew 21:44). So if we are the bearers of this stone, we are not at all as defenseless as it seems at first glance. We are weak physically, but spiritually we are strong. We are strong if we strive to build the kingdom of God, but we are weak if we want to build the kingdom of this world instead. Finally, let us believe that if we seek to spread the kingdom of God and his righteousness, everything else will be added to us (cf. Luke 12:31).
The kingdom of God is a reality that already exists and works, even though it has not yet reached its fullness. Its full implementation will not be until the next age. From this, we can conclude that man’s vocation on earth is to know God, love him, glorify him, do good deeds, and thus build God’s kingdom already here on earth and expect his future fulfillment in eternal life. We are to fulfill this mission where we stand because the place God has given us is so sublime that it is not allowed to leave it. It is in this environment that we love and enable the kingdom of God to be known to others and spread it further.

Jesus speaks of many parables in the gospel of God. He likens it to a mustard seed that grows into a tree, to a leaven that a woman takes and mixes flour into three measures and lets, and treats hidden in the field, to a merchant who collects precious pearls, a fishing net that catches various species caught in the sea. Fish. What does this mean for us? We are to seek, grow, and be a good seed, that is, to surrender to the sower of Jesus, bear fruit, be leavened, serve, multiply values, and be the light of the world. From these values, I would choose one, the search phenomenon.
First and foremost, we are to seek the kingdom of God. Jesus is calling us to the Kingdom, and it is our duty to seek Him. Searching should be one of our primary activities. Many of those who consider themselves good believers commit one of the greatest sins of pride. It is the pride of the feeling that they own all the truth and live an almost perfect life together with the accepted faith. They are reminiscent of a “perfect” Pharisee who thanked God that he was not like other people, nor was that toll booth (see Luke 18:11). Jesus was opposed to such arrogance and superiority, for he condemned this Pharisaic “perfection,” which the Council reveals its merits, to the eightfold “Woe to you …!” (Mt 23: 13-33), which contrasts so sharply with the eight beatitudes: “Blessed are the poor for theirs is the kingdom of heaven ”(Mathew 5: 3). Jesus says this blessing in the first place and not in vain. It is a basic rule for understanding the kingdom of God. Only he will truly believe God, who will give up everything. The poor in spirit have placed all their confidence and security, peace, hope, and joy on God and his word. The poor in spirit are not unwise. They are the ones who are always ready to receive; attentive people who know how to hear others who can receive lessons from both the greatest sinner and the fighting atheist. They are honest seekers of truth who do not condemn the enemy but strive to understand what leads them to their attitude.

I have found no better example of how to live the kingdom of God today on earth like Mother Teresa. Although the figure of a tiny woman, a heart full of love. We could characterize her as a manager of love, and which the whole world, no longer communist but consumerist, needs as salt. She with padded sandals on her bare feet, only with a small scarf and a thin sweater – directly radiated the fire of love from her. At the same time, she attributed everything in her life to God. He says: “Everything was the work of God. Nothing in my work. I am absolutely convinced that it is the work of God that I am alive. ” Jesus was the king of her heart; he acted through her. She was poor in spirit, so the kingdom of God lived here on earth. We ask how? She attached great importance to sacrifice, which serves the kingdom of God more than long work, learned speeches, or discussions.

In his letter to the Romans, the Holy Apostle Paul reminds us, “The kingdom of God is not food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.” we will find and understand with a pure heart. If we want to have a pure heart, we must make Jesus the center of our lives and make sure that this decision marks everything we do. , make Jesus the king of your heart. And then we will know the kingdom of God here on earth. We will understand and experience that it is not just a fairy tale, a fantasy of priests and the Church, but a reality that we will not be able to oppose.

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HELL…

Hell is the opposite of Heaven. That is the opposite of salvation. The opposite of deification. But what exactly is it? Widespread naive ideas
“Religion has really convinced people that there is an invisible man up there behind the cloud who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And that invisible man has a special list of ten things he doesn’t want you to do. If you do one of those ten things, the invisible has a special place, full of fire and smoke and torture and flour, where it will send you to live and suffer and burn and suffocate and scream and cry forever. But he loves you! … ”(G. Carling, comedian)
“Nothing, absolutely nothing in history, even in the whole of history, is far from equal to the atrocity in inventing such abomination as hell.” (Mark Twain)

<What would YOU say about HELL?
– Is there HELL?
– What does HELL look like, and what is it about?
– Is the existence of HELL just, and is it compatible with the idea of ​​a “just God”?
– Is the existence of HELL necessary? Or wouldn’t HELL have to be? >

How do Catholics see it?
Catechism of the Catholic Church 1033 We cannot be united with God unless we freely choose to love Him. But we cannot love God if we sin hard against him, against our neighbor, or against ourselves: “He who does not love remains in death. Everyone who hates their brother is a murderer. And you know that no murderer has eternal life in him ”(1 Johannes 3: 14-15). Our Lord warns us that we will be separated from him if we do not help the poor and little ones who are his brothers in the serious needs. (CCC 1861) To die in mortal sin, if we have not repented it and if we have not attained God’s merciful love, means to remain forever separated from God because of our free choice.

AND THIS STATE OF DEFINITIVE EXCLUSION OF SELF (KKC 393) FROM THE COMMUNITY WITH GOD AND THE BLESSED IS DESIGNED WITH THE WORD “HELL” (CCC 633)
1034 Jesus often speaks of “hell” (“Gehenna”), of “unquenchable fire,” which is determined by those who refuse to believe and convert until the end of their lives, and where both soul and body may perish. In solemn words, Jesus announces that he “shall send his angels, and shall gather out of his kingdom,” those who commit iniquity, and shall cast them into the furnace of fire “(Mathew 13: 41-42) and that he will condemn:” Come from me, cursed, eternal fire ”(Mt 25:41).
1035 The Church’s teaching confirms that there is hell (393) and that it is eternal. The souls of those who die in a state of mortal sin descend immediately after death to hell, where they suffer the torments of hell, “eternal fire.” THE MAIN PENALTY OF HELL IS IN ETERNAL SEPARATION FROM GOD, OR ONLY IN HUMANS CAN HAVE THE LIFE AND BLITHENESS FOR WHICH HAS BEEN CREATED AND DESIRED.
1036 The sayings of the Scriptures and the Church’s teaching on hell is for man a challenge to responsibility (1734) with which he is to exercise his freedom about his eternal destiny. At the same time, they are an urgent call to conversion: (1428) “Enter through a narrow gate, for the wide gate and the spacious way lead to damnation, and there are many who enter through it. How narrow is the gate and the narrow way that leads to life, and few who find it! ”(Mathew 7: 13-14). “But since we know neither the day nor the hour, we must, as the Lord warns, keep vigilant that, at the end of our only earthly life, we deserve to go to the wedding with him and be counted among the blessed, and not be commanded as evil and lazy servant to leave. Into the eternal fire, out into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. “
TO SUMMARY:
Hell is a CONDITION; it’s not a place. It is the way of human existence. Hell means not to be deified and not to live with God. No matter what another person gains or achieves in life, if he does not live with God and is not like God, it is HELL… – just like living with God and being like God means being in Heaven, no matter what it cost a man and what he had to undergo and sacrifice for it…
And it is called HELL (that is, a place of suffering) because, in man’s very essence, the desire to be like God and live a perfect relationship of unity and love is possible only in God. Therefore, if a man were to gain everything in the world but would not achieve this one, the result would still be a state of eternal, unfulfilled, and unfulfillable dissatisfaction without God…
The Bible figuratively compared this state of suffering, eternal thirst, eternal dissatisfaction to fire, flames, and death, …

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Jesus helps at all times


Saturday should not be an obstacle for us to do good.
When we sometimes went out of the church after Holy Mass, especially in those larger cities, we could notice a man standing at the door and begging. We may have felt such a struggle in ourselves to give or not to give a crown. For a few days, we could meet the same person somewhere else in the city where the meeting repeated, and we experienced the inner struggle again. I’ll help him, or would I rather leave it at that? Let someone else help him! What if he abuses it, and in the end, my help will only hurt him?

In today’s Gospel, Jesus asks us, “It is free to do good on the Sabbath, or evil, to save a life, or to destroy ”(Mark 3: 4)? Jesus knows what is right and good, and that must be done on the Sabbath. He’s on he did not hide or want to conceal what he intended to do; on the contrary, he told the sick to stand in the middle and that everyone who has been there to see and understand it. Jesus, he was angry at the hardness of their hearts. He says clearly: “Stretch your hand! He shot her and his hand she healed him ”(Mk 3: 5). The sick appear before all filled with confidence in Jesus. His faith is manifested in obedience to the Lord, by fulfilling what from long experience he knew it was impossible: to stretch out his hand. When he does not consider his own experience of being chronically ill, his confidence in the Lord allows a miracle.

Everything is possible with Jesus. Faith enables us to achieve goals that we thought were unattainable, to solve old problems in nature, relationships, and health. Faith in Jesus surpasses even in our lives what we may have long ago buried as unsolvable. He does not hesitate to positively answer the man’s need, although it should be just on Saturday. Still, he risks the Jews accusing him of desecrating the feast day. Clearly, it shows us people that we are something more to him than Saturday. She’s here for us and not use for her. Saturday will do without us, but we will not do without God. The holiday is to lead us to God and not to lead us away from God.

God has chosen the Jews from among all nations and wants to, through that nation, bring everyone to salvation. He wants a person to speak to him one day a week to the cult. But this cult, a compliment, should not be an obstacle for us not to prove service to my brother or sister, my neighbor. In each of us, Jesus is a mysterious present. I am to worship God present in the tabernacle and pray to him, but when he asks me for the service of love through my neighbor, and it is on Saturday, I should not serve him because I have to focus on the Lord. The Lord Himself asks me for service, and I shouldn’t help him just because of that day I don’t help. It is a great misunderstanding of what Jesus told us. Even in today’s Gospel, he wanted to say that even though we do well, we should always do well on Saturday and especially on Saturday because then we are more aware that it’s good to make them out of love for God through His grace. We can do it on our own something good? Is it not rather God’s grace in us that encourages us to do good?

When we meet a person in need, don’t be afraid of us; on the contrary, let’s think about how best to help him. What could we do for him? To serve. Let us not expect that our help will free him from the problems he has. His problems arose for several years, and we want to help him in a few minutes. Let’s not be naive. God knows why this or that is happening and may want ours inside to arouse willingness to help. Even the little service we can help with will not be forgotten.

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Natural sleep MM 20

Surely each of us was thinking about sleep and trying to find out and capture the moment when it falls into it, but no one succeeded. In a healthy person who goes to sleep, there is activity throughout the gray crust, manifested by waves and flow. The idea of ​​sleeping lies in the radiant esplane and is manifested by a stronger nodule, which is still oscillating. The ever-oscillating nodule affects the gray cortex when it is tired. That’s when we get the thought of sleeping. When we go to sleep, we like to accept this idea as our own. Its effect is manifested by the fact that the gray substance’s activity gradually ceases, we feel fatigued of the oncoming sleep.

Then our consciousness and thoughts are dull; we no longer control them. At the appropriate time, as soon as the gray bark’s activity ceases on command, the conscious event stops once. A weak jerk manifests this stop. At this time, consciousness has completely disappeared; there is peace in both brains. It has been found that much more blood flows into the brain during sleep than when awake. He who somehow wakes up the night and thus deprives himself of all the soul’s work feels terrible the next day and cannot give adequate performance. In sleep, attention and willpower are stopped. The subconscious and conscious selves balance each other.

The subconscious self envelops itself in accepted impressions and often appears as a separate individuality. Both of me become a helpless toy, an instrument of these alien impressions. It is not a manifestation of the conscious self but a manifestation of a lower order of mental events, which is evoked by foreign causes or experiences that have passed into the soul’s consciousness plan. Only if the impressions are sharp, the clouds of the proton plan tremble significantly, as a result of which there is a gradual ripple in certain places of the gray bark. This causes a partial awakening of the conscious self. A dream comes true. At the same time, the dream is sorted, but only into lower esplanades. At the same time, the activity of the gray bark reflects the awareness that we dreamed. We must not think that everything we dreamed of is accepted from reality or that it will happen. The soul, which is still active during the dream, can stage the whole story from any accepted impression. This is led to her by innate qualities: tirelessness and activity. The soul cannot be brought to complete peace as a matter. Sometimes it seems to us that we observe thoughtlessness in ourselves when we are tired. However, this is not peace, the inactivity of the soul, but the brain matter’s exhaustion, in which activity cans no longer be reflected.

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Fast and wedding

A wedding is a time of joy when two people, a man, and a woman, decide to unite their lives before God and before the Church’s representative. It’s a time of enthusiasm. I mutual joy of each other is also transmitted to their surroundings and subjugates. It’s a time when people are kind of closer to each other and know how to forgive everything. They enjoy the present tense and try to use it to the fullest and with gusto.
Disappointed people came to Jesus and asked him why he was not fasting and why he does not lead his disciples who follow him. Jesus tells them: “Can wedding guests fast while the groom is with them? As long as they have, they cannot fast for each other. But the days will come when the bridegroom will be taken away from them; then on that day, they will fast ”(Mk 2: 19-20).
Jesus accepts fasting as such. He had a deep in the Jewish nation tradition and a clear reason. By fasting, the Jews expressed their state of mourning as it was, e.g., in David’s case, when he learned of Saul and Jonathan’s deaths and the slaughter of all his people, he rent his clothes, and likewise all that were with him. They wept, wept, and fasted until evening (cf. 2 Sam 1: 11n). This is how fasting became an expression of sorrow over the misfortune that had happened.
However, fasting also expressed regret for the evil deeds that man committed in the hope that God will hold back the misfortune that man deserved for his sin. Yes, this was the Ninevites’ case, who obeyed Jonah, who exhorted them to turn. Fasting has always been present in the Jewish people’s lives; that is, Jesus the attitude did not happen to arouse questions and misunderstanding in them.
What is our attitude to fasting, and what does this term actually mean for us? It is just something unpleasant, something that tries to forbid us something, limiting us in something that robs us of what we would like or what we want. To understand fasting, we must know what it is for us in the first place, happy to help. The fasting that is fasting only for its own sake does not make sense.

It is a unique way to deepen my relationship with God. I suppress the fasting of my body’s sins; I elevate the spirit; it gives us the strength to overcome what humbles us and pushes us to the ground. Fasting hardens our will, which is then stronger and can say not bad. Sin has hurt our ability to do good, and it is closer to us to do bad, then we don’t have to beat ourselves, but in the case of good, it’s sometimes impossible or tough. When I fast, I don’t walk sad and gloomy; it is something that I decided for myself and of my own free will because I know what to do with it, what I want to achieve, and what it encourages me to do. It is a conscious denial of something for something higher.
Surely each of us has been to a wedding, and we know it’s not just that common an event in our lives. It involves many events that must be secured upfront and the wedding day is only the highlight when the preparations are visible present. The main preparation is getting to know two people, the groom and brides; they decided they wanted to live together, and for a lifetime, that’s great, all just by expression. Imagine inviting someone you know to a wedding, and he would invite her to a wedding. He came just like that, not properly ceremoniously dressed, he would already be there. He wouldn’t want to with anything to offer, nor to drink, nor anything to eat. The bride would invite him to dance, and he would smile that somehow he doesn’t feel like it now and the reason for it all his behavior would be that he wants to fast. At the wedding, it simply does not belong to fast, because it is a state of joy.

As the bride and groom, Jesus considered his presence here on earth as a reason for joy, a reason for attending, and enthusiasm. The prophets foretold the Messiah for many years before he came, and many did not even realize that he was in the community and even wanted to fast with it. Jesus’ presence is the reason for joy and not fasting. Not every day is a day of joy; not every day is a wedding. There are days of joy and pain, feasting and fasting, enthusiasm, and reflection on our lives. Let us rejoice that Jesus is still with us and wants us to live our lives in peace and love. We pray to God to help us remove the obstacles that prevent us from advancing in interpersonal relationships and to keep our love for God. She was sincere.

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The righteous and the sinner

Which do I belong to today?
Jesus was heard today but mainly seen together with the toll booths and sinners. This group of people, the Pharisees, were considered unworthy of God of the Kingdom. They had their own idea of ​how people should behave, what to observe, to achieve salvation. Of course, it wasn’t bad because the Pharisees had the closest to Jesus. Jesus had a closer relationship with them than with the other Jews groups. He also knew that what they were doing, they were acting out of pure intent to Yahweh, unlike Sadducee, Zealots, and other Jewish groups. It was often in the Pharisees that there was an exaggerated view of the law that was becoming increasingly slavish. By excluding sinners from among themselves, that was it time normally, because not only a sin but also the sinner as such was condemned.

Here we see a complete revolution on the part of Jesus, which points to sin but not to sin, the sinner. A fundamental difference in the law’s perception, which does not destroy man, but he constantly protects. Therefore, Jesus is not afraid to dine with many sinners and the torments who followed him. Every openness to these people was for many a suspicion but also an encouragement. These people found it too life has value in the eyes of the righteous. We can even say that.
Jesus feels so relaxed with these people. He knows these people don’t have to do anything in front of him. On the contrary, they trust him completely. They know very well that Jesus will not be on to point them out to the damned. We see the beautiful pedagogy of Jesus, his immediate access to people. No one could get any closer at that time
to sinners like him.

In the gospel, we often read how the apostles themselves have problems accepting and addressing such people. The law was clear to everyone, and this resulted in practical use. “As he walked around, he saw the toll booth, and Levi the son of Alphaeus sat down, and said unto him, follow me. And he arose and went behind him ”(Mk 2:14).
How simple and yet very deep. Jesus did not need it at that moment, no law, because he saw deep into the heart of Levi. He knew what this man did; he needs to achieve happiness. Jesus acts like one who has power. He calls whom he wills and not according to the deeds he has done. Let’s ask ourselves a question right now.

How we react, including me, to the surrounding people. It’s not just a priority for us like are taking place and are currently behaving. We do not often speak to others, and accordingly, we judge. Jesus did not do so because he knew all about the man. He knew best what is in man.
Let’s try to consider how to improve our relationships when we think about everything. We know of others, true, but many times also false. We could then accept such a person even with those mistakes which seem to be connected with him. This task is difficult for everyone. But we know that is why we are Christians to learn to accept people with mistakes, and so they loved them. This lifelong struggle can only happen together with Jesus. Otherwise, it will be beyond our power. We would stay put, and our Christianity would be in us gradually stunted. Sinners need healing. This is more important than the peace of those whose lives are in order.

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