Envy, lust and honor drive a man from the world (Rabbi Elazar HaKapor)

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Envy, lust and honor drive a man from the world

So love, inner freedom and modesty give a man to the world.

Do you feed your envy or let you persecute her her dark road?
Are you indulging in lust or do you send her away?
Are you clinging to what others say about you or are you indifferent for the opinion of your fellowmen?

And thus

Do you cherish the love in your heart?
Do you guard your inner peace?
Do you feed you modesty and do you give God all the glory?
There is nothing more to say about it.
May Rabbi Elazar HaKapor be blessed.

My blessings to you all

Nr. 310

Following Jesus' life as example

My God, I would like to say something?

In this Christmas season in which commercialism has taken over humanity I would like to reflect on Jesus' life, on his example as a human being.

This Christmas season may have a pagan background and actually be a celebration of the birth of the light. The Christmas tree may be pagan. The date of the birth of Christ may be wrong. What does it matter?
Actually only one thing seems to be important, Jesus was our example.
A man of love, a man of wisdom, a courageous person breaking conventions. Someone who was always willing to go to his Father for support and consultation, for trust and silence, for prayer and rest.

What would we quarrel if he is a creator of a cosmos, or son of God. If he is one of the great prophets or the Prophet. Will he ever box our’s ears that we did not know or did not believe him, did not acknowledge or understand him? He will only want to know if we tried to follow his example? Only tried so?

I am fed up with those religious conflicts, and that bickering, and whining about what to believe. I am really fed up with it. I do understand the atheists, who do not want have anything to do with religious fanatics who box each other's ears with their full or half-truths. Well, probably You will understand what I am getting at.

My son, it’s really something you are saying.

Jesus was a true man, a clear thinker, a true worshiper of God, a man of courage, a champion of justice. He was averse to hypocrisies and untruthfulness. He loved everybody being vulnerable, young or old, poor or sick, ugly or criminal. He knew in every person the promise of God to every man, to be allowed once to join the celestial meadows. And for this he served two goals on earth: to glorify God and to bring man closer to God.

And do not blame mankind, My son, she's just on the road.

And rest assured, mankind still has to go a long way, from animal to spirit, from struggle to surrender, from the outer to the inner, from earth to heaven.

God is man nearby on his path. Every person, at every step.

Jesus made great strides, but slowed his pace to join every human being.
In that sense he is Godlike.
For God slows It’s pace to bring along every human being.
For God knows man is pursuing only ONE course.
ONE course, ONE goal, ONE path, ONE promise.

My blessings to you all

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I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me

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When Jesus said he was the way, the truth and the life, and that no one would come to the Father but through Him he meant this.

I will show you my life, that is one with the Truth.

If you follow my example, you will go the right way.
If you follow my example, you will live in truth.
If you do what I do, you'll walk a holy path.
If you do so, you will reach the Father.

Jesus did not say:

Pursue your fellow men when they do not believe in me.
If you believe in me, you are having the monopoly on truth.
Box your fellow men their ears with threats after my death.
Only people who believe in me, have the monopoly on truth.
This is what is created by fanatics s and shortsighted and insecure people.

Jesus said:

Be a man of love.

Know that God is Our Father.
Know that your fellowman is your brother and sister.
Know that all people are children of God.
Know that every human being, living God on earth, is a Son or Daughter from God.
Follow my example, for I show you how a man may live.

And know that the life of Jesus only has to be your example.

Therefore all those people following are living:

"I am the way, the truth and the life"

• a loving Muslim
• An open-minded Hindu
• a sincere Buddhist
• a truthful Jew
• a serious humanist
• an atheistic protector of nature
• a sincere politician
• a charitable agnostic
• an enthusiastic musician
• a cured felon, whore, addict.
• And finally, a hearty Christian.

My blessings to you all

Painting of Jesus , see: https://www.akiane.com

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A spiritual chapel is built in a Bulgarian orthodox mass

I visit the Bulgarian Orthodox Church "Archangels Michael and Gabriel in The Hague."
A friend of mine is having her icons blessed, which she painted for herself. *. Students of her painting class have displayed together over 40 icons, the one even more beautiful than the other.

We're early, and four hours later, we are leaving!

I've been too busy the past week, and I am having too many appointments this weekend. I'm a little bit tired and not very focused. And I am not at all into this endless religious stuff, not yet.

But gradually I get more and more impressed by the appearance of the church, the atmosphere, the beautiful icons throughout the whole church. I read somewhere "As the truth of faith is revealed to the ears, so she reveals herself to the eye via the icon" (Holy Basil, a church father from the 4th century). All those images and icons do have such a strong appearance!

The wonderful casual and unpretentious attitude of the pretty young priest making jokes in between and not performing holy-like at all, but in fact being very humble, is very special.

There is a lot of singing, by a small choir of men and women, and the priest for himself is doing a lot of singing as well.
And it seems as if the power of this little church is gradually growing.
Would You like to comment on what is happening spiritually?

What you have experienced is the building of a powerful spiritual chapel, touching all those present and in the wide surroundings with the energy of humility, devotion and trust. And know that the number of spiritual beings in the chapel, allowed to quench themselves, is many times bigger!

Because these churchgoers together are taking the time and because there was much singing, and because the priest was extensively taking the time to perform a large number of rituals, the spiritual world is able to continuously build the spiritual chapel.

After all, the more time and attention one spends, the more likely God has the possibility to reach you. And the rituals and all the stuff and all the walking and the opening and closing of the doors and curtains separating the altar from the people, alas, that’s what churchgoers need, We don’t. It's okay with Us. It is all about the time and attention and the dedication and the surrender of the people who call Us.

In this Bulgarian Orthodox Church, one allows one selves the time for it.

Isn’t this necessary for everything?
Does a good conversation not request time?
Should one not take extendedly the time for a big job as well?
Requires a subtle job not time and attention and concentration as well?

And that's what you are experiencing.

You are too tired and bring a lot of worrying and worldly problems with you, but even you have to surrender at some point. Everything is thoroughly and completely washed away and you too can physically and emotionally experience what God and Its helpers can do for mankind on earth.

And the atmosphere of the Orthodox Christian churches testifies like those in the Islamic mosques a great devotion and humility. That’s what God really likes.
The Bulgarian church in the Netherlands is blessed.
All the even recently painted icons are blessed.

My blessings to you all

 See http://www.bgorthodoxekerk.nl/

* The icon displayed in this blog is painted by a female friend. It’s showing Mary Magdalene         and the archangels Michael and Gabriel.

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Why choosing for the restriction, if the big picture is available?

People see God every day. They just don’t recognize him (Pearl Bailey)

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How true is this.

This is our hidden deep sorrow.

You are living day and night in everything in, from and through God.

And you don’t see it hardly.
People do see the Truth sometimes and feel and experience it.
But they are an exception.
And from the world of flora and fauna we can stand it. They know the experience to live in God, but they cannot give it a name.
Man can give it a name and does not want it or is not up to it.

But can the spiritual world be really sad about this, is this not a silly human thinking?

Doesn’t the spiritual world see man is becoming, man is not capable of seeing God in everything, man is not capable of living in Truth?
Of course the spiritual world is seeing this. There is sufficient knowledge and understanding Here Above. We know what We are doing.
Still, the spiritual world is sad about something.
And that I will explain.

We are not referring to the people who God cannot see yet, because they still have a long way to go.

We are referring to people, who have experienced God, who have seen God, who have heard God, and knew at that moment It was really God.
But have forgotten it again.
Because the world has absorbed them back into her seeming importance and endless distractions.
That saddens us.

Not because We feel ignored, how could that be? We are love and tolerance and comprehensive understanding and We have no ego.

But because those who have seen God and then have forgotten God again, are missing out on so many opportunities and insights and beauty and development and progress. Because they are prolonging their path unnecessarily and because they are increasing their suffering in this manner unnecessarily.

For having seen God and having experienced God and having felt God and then subsequently having acknowledged God, is the most attractive door opening, is the most beautiful window, is the best access and the fastest way to the Kingdom of God on earth.

And our sorrow consists of this, that these people remain in the dark swampy basement of their existence, while the bright, colourful garden of God is awaiting them.
These people are very much blessed.

My blessings to you all

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