Archives for 2016

The foundation in every building is not only the foundation upon which the whole building is based, but it is what’s built first, at the beginning.

And it’s not just that. Because the foundation determines the shape and size of the building, its uniqueness and its non-substitution are obvious. When someone starts a building, they can clearly change the shape and color of the doors and windows, change the position of the furniture and the decorations, but in no case can they turn back, remove the foundation that has already been built and build again a new foundation.

Such a move is obviously stupid, but beyond that, it is obvious that the building which is already built will be immediately broken down. This simple everyday and intimate truth is used by the writer of the Sacred Texts to bring us to the reality of life and to move us away from dreams.

In the personal building of living faith, you can change a lot, but not the foundation of your building. If you ignore this truth, collapse and destruction are certain.

“Emporakos” is a word in greek that describes a small merchant, a type of person who is active in the field of buying and selling. He buys and sells, and from this activity he earns his livelihood, but also gains capital and gold for the person who gave him not only the first capital for his business, but supported him in all his activities as well.

The good person who gave him his first venture capital does not control him daily, because he is long-suffering, knows how to wait, does not expect to see the result on the evening of the first appearance of the merchant in the market, but to realize how successful will the future be. In the end, if the merchant is clever and hard-working he will increase the capital that his master has lent to him.

But if the merchant who took the capital was wasting it into everyday nonsense, he would have nothing to give as interest to his master, but he is even in danger of starvation for lack of his daily food. The death of the merchant who did not honor the capital that the good gentleman entrusted him is absolutely certain, even if his shop was in St. Mark’s Square of the prosperous Venice.

With this unpredictable title for the series of messages about the relationship with our Creator, I want to direct our thinking not to the perfect appearance of an expensive car, but into the world of commercial values ​​that modern objects have.

Although the commercial values ​​of modern objects and treasures are not affected by our Great Master himself, however, he has changed the viewpoint of approaching the will of our Creator. The new perspective is not only the discovery and acquisition of treasures, but it is mainly the commercial profit that results from the trade of our treasures.

The trader does not win when he buys, because at that moment he takes money out of his wallet. He wins and has the profit when he sells the existing stocks of the items he trades. And to make a profit, hard work is required from the merchant, hard programming, and excellent knowledge of the market -the place where the traders gather, where there is fierce competition, where someone will present their merchandise and someone else will buy it.

The trader is not acting alone. He is not locked in his rich tower. He buys and sells, he gains from buying and selling, because if he stops doing this activity he will lose the tower and he himself will be destroyed.

In a theoretical approach, knowledge seems to be of no practical interest, since even with the few things I know I can manage in my life. But if we look for the real dimensions of knowledge in our everyday life then it turns out that no one can live without knowledge.

And not only that; The better one knows something, the better they can manage it, whether it concerns people’s relationships or technical skills, or a more general knowledge and perception of things. There is innate knowledge and abilities, but there is also acquired knowledge and abilities and these are not only more in number but also more essential for our practical life.

The innate knowledge and momentum has been placed by the Creator within us, without our own personal involvement. However, the acquired knowledge, that with which we manage our everyday matters, is our personal affair and the acquisition and cultivation of it depends to a great extent on our individual effort.

Because knowledge leads to awareness and awareness leads to the understanding and effectiveness of my actions.

Perfection is the dream of every human being. For life, for beauty, for profession, for everything, the goal is perfection, and to achieve it we spend time, money, activity. But for every case there are analogies about what perfection is.

What it actually means, however, is something that has a beginning and an ending and it does not conceal a vanishing intent in the blank or the unknown. Perfect is what has a beginning, a duration, but it also has a brilliant end, and that’s what we all appreciate as perfection. And because there is no perfect thing on earth, as we all know from our personal experience, it is obvious that what we all seek is the path to perfection;  a path that brings the best result in all areas of our everyday life.

And that’s what Christ promised to people; the path to perfection, the way to the best result, the knowledge and the personal experience that leads from little to a lot and from good to better and to maturity, elements that form the trunk of all our efforts.