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appreciate yourselfIf you wish you be like someone else, you waste the person you are. (C)  αγάπη like a bliss of life…
Not all people know that the usual word "love" that is used in the Bible doesn't really mean the affection between a man and a woman. In Biblical Greek language there exist 3 words that are usually translated like "love", these are έρως– sensual love, φιλια - amateurishness, αγάπη – spiritual love. Sometimes people try to identify the term of fleshly love (έρως) with a divine love (αγάπη), this being very erroneous. The Bible talks about love like a way of living - being glad of living each moment, being friendly even to the enemies, helping one's neighbour and obeying the Scripture…Such love is described in Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians.
*ENGLISH* The Bible, Paul's First Epistle to the Corinthians, Chapter 13:
1 If I speak in the languages of humans and angels but have no love, I have become a reverberating gong or a clashing cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can understand all secrets and every form of knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains but have no love, I am nothing. 3 Even if I give away everything that I have and sacrifice myself, but have no love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is always patient; love is always kind; love is never envious or arrogant with pride. Nor is she conceited, 5 and she is never rude; she never thinks just of herself or ever get annoyed. She never is resentful; 6 is never glad with sin, but always glad to side with truth, whene'er the truth should win. 7 She bears up under everything, believes the best in all, there is no limit to her hope, and she will never fall. 8 Love never fails. Now if there are prophecies, they will be done away with. If there are languages, they will cease. If there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For what we know is incomplete and what we prophesy is incomplete. 10 But when what is complete comes, then what is incomplete will be done away with. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways. 12 Now we see only an indistinct image in a mirror, but then we will be face to face. Now what I know is incomplete, but then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 Right now three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.
*RUSSIAN*
Библия, Послания Павла: 1-е Коринфянам, глава 13:
1 Если я говорю языками человеческими и ангельскими, а любви не имею, то я - медь звенящая или кимвал звучащий.
2 Если имею дар пророчества, и знаю все тайны, и имею всякое познание и всю веру, так что могу и горы переставлять, а не имею любви, - то я ничто.
3 И если я раздам все имение мое и отдам тело мое на сожжение, а любви не имею, нет мне в том никакой пользы.
4 Любовь долготерпит, милосердствует, любовь не завидует, любовь не превозносится, не гордится,
5 не бесчинствует, не ищет своего, не раздражается, не мыслит зла,
6 не радуется неправде, а сорадуется истине;
7 все покрывает, всему верит, всего надеется, все переносит.
8 Любовь никогда не перестает, хотя и пророчества прекратятся, и языки умолкнут, и знание упразднится.
9 Ибо мы отчасти знаем, и отчасти пророчествуем;
10 когда же настанет совершенное, тогда то, что отчасти, прекратится.
11 Когда я был младенцем, то по-младенчески говорил, по-младенчески мыслил, по-младенчески рассуждал; а как стал мужем, то оставил младенческое.
12 Теперь мы видим как бы сквозь тусклое стекло, гадательно, тогда же лицем к лицу; теперь знаю я отчасти, а тогда познаю, подобно как я познан.
13 А теперь пребывают сии три: вера, надежда, любовь; но любовь из них больше. Leo TolstojEveryone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
faint hopeI try to remember my childhood not frequently, it was difficult times when Ukraine just got independence and everything was crushed, my parents could hardly earn money for the food and I never dreamt of a new skirt or a pair of jeans – I often had to wear clothes after my older sister who was much taller than me and clothes never fitted. I had one friend out of classmates who often laughed at my old and shabby rucksack. I remember her words when I refused to go to the theatre because of the lack of money “Just don’t tell me rubbish, the cost is smallness, anyone can afford it”. But not me...Can I describe the pain of a little girl that absorbs the offense and rebels against the whole world? I never managed to receive affection from my parents because they were stressed by the economical questions and quarrels. When I had 10 years old I decided that I have to learn well, to become intelligent and then I will surely find a well-paid job. That was my dream and the plan of saving my future life from poverty. And I studied only with that thought, but the “elixir” of happiness vanished when I started to work…I understood that no one gives a chance to young and inexperienced people, everyone wants to spare by underpaying and everyone thinks only about his own problems and business. So there is no opportunity for a young person to provide a normal life. Nowadays in Kiev an apartment with 1 room costs at least 120.000 dollars, and a salary that it considered to be medium – 500 dollars. So if I eat nothing and spend nothing, in 20 years I will have a place to live in…And in Ukraine such questions don’t worry any politician…we have political chaos now…because we haven’t still decided whether to be a friend of Russia, Europe or USA? WHO CARES? People just want a normal life… And our people have one peculiarity – they don’t sit and wait for the better times but search for them…statistics say that about 3,6 million of ukrainian people are working abroad now…and a lot of young girls who married the foreigners and immigrated. Some people call them mercantile and traitors. But what is a national dignity when you exist like an animal and your children grow the moral cripples? The conclusion that I made – it is no use believing in pink reality and no use to expect something from the government…Almost every politician promises great life and no one really ensure it. Where people should take optimism to continue to struggle? I don't want to dramatize the situation...I believe that miracles happen...Everyone of us just should know the value of what we already have and what life gives to us... vital carnival...Our masks may alter but our eyes never lie...
(c) Picture by Stephanie Shimerdla All the world's a stage (from Shakespeare's "As You Like It")All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant,
Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon,
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side,
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
As William Shakespeare wrote, our life is like a stage and we always assume different roles. And each human life has the same phases…still we have different parents, different surroundings, amount of money, characters…and so our lives different…we have different welfare conditions…someone has everything by doing nothing (children of rich parents), someone has everything by doing everything (rich workaholics), someone has nothing by doing everything (Chinese communist workaholic population) and someone has nothing by doing nothing (lazybones)…we also have different happiness…someone has 5 children and dote them upon…someone – great husband/wife and that is all that she/he desires…someone has a liberty of traveling and feels free like an eagle in the sky…For each of us happiness has its own and particular meaning…
And what is happiness for me at the present time? Maybe…observing my dreams being realized by my own efforts…perfection of myself…changing the world into better one…making people feel affection to our complicated and chaotic life and universe…feeling that at least one person is in need of me and knowing that my life has a purport ... 13 Phrases About Life (by Gabriel Garcia Marquez)1. I love you not for who you are, but for who I am when I am with you. 2. Noone deserves your tears and those that do won’t make you cry. 3. A real friend is the one that’s going to hold your hand, while feeling your heart. 4. Simply because someone doesn’t love you the way you want to be loved, doesn’t mean that they don’t love you wholeheartedly. 5. The worst way to miss someone is to be with them and understand that they’ll never be yours 6. Never stop smiling even when you’re sad. Someone may fall in love with your smile. 7. It’s possible that in this world you are just a person, but for someone you’re the whole world. 8. Don’t waste your time on those that don’t try to spend it with you. 9. It’s possible that God wants us to meet the wrong people before we meet that One person so that when that happens we are grateful. 10. Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened. 11. There will always be people that will hurt you. You have to keep on trusting people, just be a bit more careful. 12. Become better and understand who you are before you meet a new person and hope that they will understand you. 13. Don’t make such an effort, the best things in life happen unexpectedly. Beatles "All You Need Is Love"Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.Salute!This blog will be dedicated to the thing that can change the human being into better one...some kind of philosophical contents...I hope I will have enough time to write here! So...wellcome to my new blog! |
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