Quotes
"The sky is not black at night. Only dark blue. Among the colours of the rainbow there is no black. Black is an earthly colour. In the hand of hatred is crap. In the hand of love is a gold-painting tool."
"Most people think of death as annihilation because they see that everything that lives in nature dies: the grass, the tree, the beetle, the animal. - But you only see the body die, man!"
"The prison is actually an animal taming institute."
"But there is no such thing as a life that is completely wrong. Everyone brings with him the powers acquired in previous bodily lives. It is in the little apple seed whether it will be a Szercsika or a Sikulai or a King of the Pippins. Even if we are not aware of it, we develop according to our predispositions, and only when we are mature do we realise what powers we had in our childhood. It is also a failure of life if all our work and all our thought is the acquisition of wealth. We save first to prepare for the seven lean years. We save then to live in abundance, then so that our children will not have to work, and even then we save because we have become accustomed to it, because we have forgotten the purpose. We no longer collect to live, but live to collect. And we collect, we collect: we have no thought, no desire, no action, only collection, the multiplication of money. Finally, death pulls our hands off the money bag. - Has such a man lived rightly? Life is work, but man is not a hamster. The purpose of life is progress towards perfection. Work is only a stepping stone. The church is higher up. He who walks blindly and aimlessly up the stairs, hits a wall. And do our feet walk the path of our child? As one of the tasks of our life has been work, so will the next generation after us. Are we doing their work? Shall we hang the apple on the seedling's head, and say to him: - "Never trouble yourself with the fruit, my soul, for we have already borne fruit for you. What shall he do now? A man either builds or destroys, but he must act. If our offspring lives for his offspring, he also will waste his life. If he does not live for his descendants, he will destroy: he will be a waster, a gambler, a gambler, a horse-runner, a gun-carrier, a xenophobe, a brawler, in short: - a man of distinction. Rarely do such people find a new space for action. So you work: plough, sow, reap. But it would be a sin for you to gather so much seed that your descendants need neither plough nor sow! As soon as you have insurance against scarcity, turn your attention to the development of your spiritual life. Your emblem should not be the golden calf, but the captive stork, the wing-barred angel chained to the earth, brooding upwards."
"Every married man should frame this saying of Jesus: Blessed are the peacemakers. Of course it should be in the woman's room!"
"We don't even need to be gardeners, we know that rose seeds grow into roses, melon seeds into melons, it's just a matter of choosing the right soil. Can not souls waiting to be reborn in the next world tell the future of our children, if they will? He who needs the degree to become a priest will not incarnate in a family whose children inherit a business. And he, for example, who has lived a slothful life, will need a busy life in the future to perfect himself, will not be born into a family in which it is said, 'Well, if we have a son, we will raise him to be a priest. He who has been haughty will seek a place where he is forced to humility. He who has been brutally humble will go to a family of archdukes. He who has been quarrelsome, will undertake endurance and suffering. He who was voracious will dress himself in rags. He who was a fornicator will take a vow of chastity. Every soul will find a place and a family suited to its development and qualities. Every soul chooses the soil where it can grow from the influences of childhood and youth into a new tree, rich in leaves. Climbing mountains seems a physical folly. Yet our life is always a climb. Jesus is still standing on the mountain today. Jesus is perfection. Everyone can know what level of perfection he or she or someone else is at. The more you understand Jesus, the more perfect you are. In the beginning, everyone is blind to him. All of a sudden his eyes become clear. Suddenly he stares. Once you start following him. We are all around the mountain. We all have to get up the mountain at some point."
"The universe. It's like the crypto-letter. He who does not know the key says: - What a jumble of letters! What nonsense! This word is the key to the secret writing of everything: - God."
"We want to be happy. That's all we strive for. But what is happiness? For the carnal man, carnal pleasures: a heaped bowl, a filled jug, a bed, killing animals, playing cards, and the money that provides the non-stop supply of these. The spiritual man already knows that these are fleeting goods; there are better, more lasting things than these. He is already striving for the good that is without form, for goods that leave no bitter taste in the mouth, that are not followed by a feeling of dejection, sorrow, emptiness. The spiritual man seeks, searches, equips himself with knowledge, and ponders: - Who am I? - What am I? - Where am I? - Why am I alive? - How long do I live? - Where is the real good? - What is it? He seeks happiness through intellectual paths."
"He who wants to succeed in married life should always accept what the woman wants, but always do what he himself wants. The wife always accepts the explanation, because the main thing is that the husband does not contradict her, and even honours her by justifying and explaining why it could not have been otherwise."
"Two statements. - Wow! life is good! - Wow! life is hateful! Not a declaration of two different souls, but of two different digestions."
"When I speak of the Bible, I speak more of the New Testament. In the Old Testament, only the first four chapters, Psalms, Book of Job, PROVERBS are the ones we can read once every ten years. But the NEW TESTAMENT can be read every day. The New Testament is the starry heavens in book form. It is mysterious and inextricable. Its radiant thoughts linger in the shadows of infinity, and behind them God hovers. Just don't read it as a novel. The legends of the Bible must be understood. What value is there in Ezopus if we read only the animal stories? Let us remove the animal mask, there is man underneath, and there are human truths. Remove the human mask from the legend, and we find the divine truths. Let the biblical sayings, and especially the words of Jesus, be the first things we read with attention. Mark such sayings with coloured pencil. The very first one you mark should be this saying of JESUS: Blessed are the pure in heart."
"Whatever we do for others, we are still only doing it for ourselves."
"Three things you should never do in a hurry: 1. eating fish; 2. shaving; 3. getting married."
"He who has spent his whole life in carnal thoughts cannot understand the vision of spiritual men. He is like the peasant who digs a well and has never seen an artesian well, and speaks like one: - It cannot be true! Because I have dug three hundred wells, and not one of them has produced hot water. We must drill deep in our thinking, then we shall find the water of life."
"World creation. One of the amazing creations of human ingenuity is the cogwheel: that one wheel drives three, ten, fifteen, and all drive each other. Nature, life, the world are all such cogs. Only it is not three, not ten, not fifteen, but an infinite series, an infinite totality. Take a speck of dust, or a plant, or the water circulation of the earth, or the human blood circulation, the human heart, - whatever you look at carefully, you will find what I am saying."
"?Who has to suffer more: The one who is ready to put up with everything? Or the one who cannot tolerate anything?"
"You will know people who live alone. Most of these have a reputation for being man-haters. But this is not always true. A misanthrope is always a bad man, and although he hates people, he lives among them. Perhaps he hates them because he lives among them. But he needs hatred, just as the poison in the belladona is one of the constituents of its life."
"It is interesting that Jesus calls the corporeal man dead. One of his disciples asks: - Let me go and bury my father. Jesus replies: - Follow me. Let the dead bury the dead. Jesus is not even understood by the bodily man. The gospels are just stories to them, or gibberish. But do not the child and the astronomer look at the sky with different eyes? The spiritual man understands the words of Jesus, and he understands the cry of his audience: - No man ever spoke like this!"
"What left-wing thinking: in a funeral oration, to make an effort to heap praise on the dead. I have never read a funeral oration that is in its entirety a farewell. What a soaring of thoughts is occasioned when prisoners bid farewell to those who are going to freedom! When those who remain in darkness bid farewell to those who go to God! How one can connect the ideas radiating into infinity with the pettiness of this earthly life. Such talk is both comforting and true."
"The story of the individual is simply the story of humanity. As soon as his mind is enlightened, his will will peer into the obscurity. Sin is always a fall. It is a departure from God. But behind all sin lurks the stern-faced penance. Sooner or later it reaches the sinner and strikes him. But out of suffering springs a heavenly flower: love. This flower absorbs the human soul and bends. And God finally reaches for it and lifts it back to Himself in the Light."