When people hear about the achievements of other people, many have a feeling of envy.
But some people have “black” envy, which strangles them from within and poisons their lives. It whispers to them that they are losers. Then, in their justification, they begin to look for shortcomings in the objects of their envy and with joyful relief find them …
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When you read many books about spirituality and accept them, you penetrate these ideas, you begin to grow spiritually.
But sometimes this spirituality does not extend to your daily life, does not reach small everyday things.
Today, when I returned to my car in the parking lot of the shopping center, I found that the owner of the next car …
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Knowledge has one drawback which is about its impossibility to get rid of them.
If you once found out that the Earth is round, you can torture or even burn, you can refuse or pretend, but somewhere deep down you will still know that “and yet it spins.”
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It seems to me that sane religious people in the 21st century tolerate such “sacred phenomena” as “self-igniting” fire in a lamp, “myrrh-streaming” icons, “holy” water, etc.
They understand that all these phenomena have a prosaic explanation, not without human touch behind the scenes. But they look at it with a wise smile, as if …
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When you carry one stone at a time to one place every day, no one notices it.
But then comes the day when you are at the top of the mountain of your stones.
Everyone envies you and wants to get on your place.
But few people want to carry one stone at a time every day.
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To make sure that you are doing what you love, imagine that you are paid the same salary, but you are allowed not to go to work.
Would you then go to work?
If yes, then congratulations! You do what you love.…
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Probably, each of us had to face a dilemma in life: on whose side to stand in a dispute or conflict – on his side or on the side of the right (after all, it does not always turn out to be right).
For example, your son in the yard beat a neighbor’s boy. His father …
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We all admire strong people. We enthusiastically look at their photos on the covers of magazines, with interest read about them in the news. And sometimes we do not suspect that real heroes quietly live among us.
Is the waitress, who is a single mother with two children, serves the visitors from morning till night, and …
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They say that a complete coincidence in views with another person is just as unlikely as finding your complete double.
But still. Respond me if you exist, my mental double, respond!
Here are my signs, by which you will recognize me:
1. I am a liberal-democrat.
I am for the freedom of the individual in society, for the freedom of …
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There are people who seek excuses, and those who seek opportunities.
The first do not enter the university, because they believe that the teachers are corrupted, and they don’t need knowledge, but bribes. The second learn subjects by heart, they take exams on their own, if they do not pass from the first time, they try …
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