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Every change that humans make to their environment, to animals and plants, is not without consequences for humans themselves - and these are often serious, manifesting themselves in an increase in diseases and a decimation of life in fields and forests, which in turn has repercussions for humans. A holistic approach to the world is therefore becoming increasingly necessary, a meta-perspective on all life - both human and animal. The book offers a look at the development of humans and their living and eating habits, coupled with practical tips, such as a series of recipes to help people find a healthy and conscious eating style - all of which is told in a way that is adapted to the course of the year.
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Introduction
The new year ...
and this year we want to do everything well for ourselves and our environment, that is, for the environment in general and especially for what feeds and nourishes us, i.e. the fields and the animals, and we want to put our inner selves in order.
And that's the idea: if you read and think about just one topic every day, you can implement it slowly, and some things just take time and it's not always easy and we can all make a small contribution.
We want to live healthy and well and avoid anything that causes harm. You can only become a better person overall if you make a healthy contribution.
May good thoughts accompany you through the year and the awareness that we are not alone in the world. Everyone lives in such a way that it is still possible for others to live, that everyone has their own space and that the natural habitats are preserved. And natural habitats are not just words, they are the most important thing in the world, because could we live if there were no more natural habitats? On the one hand, this means natural, i.e. grown, where the right adapted life can develop and should be preserved - these are the animals and plants. And habitats also mean a certain size that should be preserved. Or could we live without a habitat, without something natural? If it weren't for the habitat and not the natural, where would we be?
We have succumbed to the progress of the entire technological development and this is often possible in a small space, the devices have become so small and handy that you can hardly see them and can only operate them if you have really good eyes. The spaces available to us are full of everything there is, and we always want to be even more, even more modern and advanced, to the point where the devices can almost think for themselves and speak for themselves, we can talk to them and they give us instructions and information on how to operate everything correctly, we switch them on and follow the announcements and they point out our mistakes and so we can work our way through the tangle of wires and cables in a purely technical way until we are set up correctly.
We can't say that we won't invent anything new anymore, because thinking always produces something and every invention changes behavior in terms of application and dissemination, marketing and the pursuit of profit and competition, with all the intended and unintended consequences. And every invention adapts to the times in which we live with the available raw materials - are we really better off as a result? The more there is, the more susceptible we can become and the higher the likelihood of intolerance and illness.
JANUARY
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Today is the first day and everything starts anew from one year to the next, without interruption, imperceptibly, only we know that it is so, because today in the age of technical achievements it is possible to have an exact minutely comprehensible time orientation, what was celebrated yesterday with great fireworks, the old year, has come to an end and now there is only smoke and an indefinite inexplicable silence in the air, everything was shot into the sky in the colors and shapes of the fireworks ignition and bizarre formations brightly illuminated the night-blue sky for the last time in the old year and as if everything had ended, and yet everything starts all over again and as if it were a day of rest that makes us think, and it continues fluently with ... all the best in the New Year, and that it will be even better ...
Now everything seems to change and yet it's just a few minutes or hours later, a continuation of the past, we remember what was yesterday and that we were celebrating. Not everyone likes the smoke and the tinder and the millions of money that have virtually dissolved into nothingness in the air to welcome in the new year - it shouldn't be like that, it's like a coin with two sides where you make a wish.
The time, the times have passed where explosives determine the turning point, which can be an end or a new beginning, it can be a victory or a defeat.
We only want to see the beginning, where we wish for something, where we perhaps left a good or bad year with the last celebration and some sadness and now want to be even happier, because what we have planned should come true.
Let's have good thoughts and put them into practice and everything that helps me or us, and therefore can also help others, many things can also be improved, we see it in an improvement of conditions, because it is always something positive, it is a change, it is about creating a pleasant state, a sense of well-being in all situations.
We try to preserve what is good, because we know what we have and we have to hold on to it and work on it.
The day, the new day of rest and recuperation, ushers in the year with a good contribution to help order, to find inner calm and peace in a challenging time, where we are sometimes torn and disoriented, that we find solutions for an uplifting path through the whole year with God and the world.
In this, our world.
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And this is the way things are and if the first day is a good day, let us be cheerful and accept everything that comes so that we can make it bearable, because yesterday was a good day and today is a good day and only good things should continue to come. And if we still look out and see a blue sky and a rising sun in the morning, it will be a better time. The times of the long, cold, harsh winters will soon be over and so many things will be easier, indeed, we will be almost buoyant, cheerful and cheerful and hurry to work with good aspirations and with our goals and ideas for this year. We think and hope, indeed we assume, that we will stay healthy and achieve everything well on the straight and narrow.
We hope that the weather, which can change daily, won't create too many winter hurdles for us and that we won't be surprised by so much unforeseen chaos.
We simply assume that everything will turn out the way we plan and how we think it will, but sometimes it doesn't always work out that way and so we have to submit to it, either accept it, come to terms with it or look for a new possibility, that's how much room for maneuver people have for themselves, or ultimately the optimal solution is the task in every life, each for himself.
Let us always recognize the most important thing in life that guides us and our inner being, that we go through life well with our fellow human beings, with everything that lives, that we integrate ourselves into our environment and make it bearable and in turn give us the strength to bring good and helpful things into the world, and that is not always easy and not always possible, but we always strive for it anyway.
Let us see the world as a whole in all things, the world as a creation that lives and wants to live, and life is to be protected, the earth and nature are to be preserved and cared for, everything that lives, and we as life in an ever-functioning cycle, where we move as we want, in which a certain order prevails, just as it was created.
We will learn to recognize the laws of nature, to respect the will of creation and the rules and recommendations made by humans, and this will result in order.
No year will be easier or simpler than the previous one and so we take a lot with us and yet it is good when everything has been properly processed and we have learned from it. We will start each day anew and free ourselves from the old. We ourselves create the burden that can be so hopeless and yet can make us happy again when explosive and tense situations ease and our own burdened lives become lighter.
Everything is getting better today - and so is time.
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It is still winter for quite some time, more or less cold, harsh and cloudy, sometimes it is green, but then again white with a lot or even a lot of snow, which is given to us, and then you are somewhat or quite limited in your freedom of movement, although in our time these hurdles are less and less common, and yet the winter calm brings with it that with increasing darkness the light intensity also changes, the entire metabolism adapts, some withdraw and are sometimes sad and can easily become depressed for various reasons. We simply withdraw because winter can be hostile to life, and we have no shortage in this day and age where we are all networked and can communicate with the whole world. We don't have to go anywhere anymore and we can do everything from home, we can read and write good things and we can shop and spend money from home.
We live with our almost irreplaceable devices, with all the advanced technology and can thus infiltrate networks, completely isolated and anonymous, we have to live with the developments of this time, whether we like it or not, everything is getting better, easier and everything is faster and perhaps this is an opportunity for many to connect to the global entertainment system - the time of highly developed technology that works with thinking alone, a technology that thinks with us. We can make ourselves so independent or even dependent that we are shielded and isolated and already personify the technology, all the devices - because they are almost that intelligent - where is this going to lead? -
We are so far advanced that we can no longer function properly without them, we can't even imagine life without them. In the last 25-30 years or so, the age of this technology, the computer that everyone has, everything has changed so quickly. During this time, not only has the whole world of work changed, but also the whole climate worldwide, it quickly became warmer, within a short space of time the temperature rose by around 1.5 degrees on average, which means that winters are shorter and milder, that not as much snow falls or that it quickly dissolves into water again. And so the high snow mountains are decreasing year by year, the glaciers are melting and massive streams of water are rushing into the valleys, the snow and ice continents are becoming measurably smaller, so a lot of habitat is being lost and we are wondering how this can continue.
As winter recedes, there are fewer and fewer ski resorts and these will have to be made with artificial snow in future. These are serious changes with consequences that are slowly and imperceptibly approaching us.
The future.
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Who thinks about the future?
Everyone is happy when they are doing well and when they have everything they need, when they can go wherever they want to go and when they can do whatever they like - and as long as they are able, in a physical and mental sense - they want to enjoy everything that is possible and what they like. What do we need to think about tomorrow or the future?
We know what happened yesterday and the day before. We may or may not remember what we didn't do quite right yesterday or the day before, because sometimes the consequences only become apparent later, and then we may ask why and why not?
We just want to live and achieve everything, live in the flow of time, go with the currents, think individually and collectively, join communities or set out alone in search of something definite or indefinite, everything is possible, and even if many do the same, it is different for everyone. Time often shows its rough face and sometimes the inner movements of people when they express themselves, it is actually a dark time and sometimes it is a dark time, impenetrable it becomes, sometimes frightening to face the end. And yet we inevitably make our way towards our own destination, inexorably.
Perhaps we are subject to all those eternally cold frosty times that come from the depths of the past or that are given to us by universal influences or that are changed by people and are new, by these newly created periods of time that can be very powerful and sometimes terrifying. The definition of frostiness, coldness and roughness, darkness and gloominess creates figures that emerge from the inner conscious or unconscious levels of man and express themselves, express themselves in forms and colors, in words and deeds, which sometimes testify to their own ego or a wishful or delusional idea or identify themselves in oversize.
Dark times and light times do not only move people through a lack of daylight and perhaps it is precisely this that produces such contradictions, because only these are triggering moments of disagreement and difference, and we do not want to give space to these tendencies.
May we ponder in dark, gloomy hours and become even more overcast, or in an occasionally joyful hour, when imaginative ideas inspire us. We are at our own mercy and so dependent on everything, even if we are independent. And sometimes the weather determines our mood.
Who are we?
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Not so long ago, people would sit by the crackling fire and candlelight, warming themselves and telling stories about their lives and their ancestors, about local events and sometimes even fairy tales. They took the nature of the cold, harsh and merciless winter for granted and were glad to have enough provisions at home for the winter. There were times when the large rivers and lakes were regularly frozen over, in 1949 and in the many years that followed until around 1980, the ice-water winters were long-lasting, the snow was meters high and there were many places that were simply inaccessible, people were isolated and deadly icy, Siberian cold storms swept through the country and froze everything. Slowly a climatic and political change set in, the times of cold and the Cold War were over and from now on the seasons became milder, more relaxed, more pleasant and safer and people no longer had to fear the winter dead so much, only from afar did the wolf howl from time to time and people locked their doors and no longer went outside in the dark. It's good that at this time of year you can still be comforted by the pleasant warmth and cozy atmosphere of the post-Christmas period and make the long winter days as pleasant as possible with a glass of mulled wine and the remaining gingerbread. However, we take in gruesome reports of the dead who have perished in the ice and snow at Christmas time and who have not returned home in all possible and impossible ways, perhaps it is because people suffer even more than usual in this joyful, saving time, when the millennia-old original thought of the birth of Jesus is still in many people's minds. This may be because a religion is anchored in every human being, it is supposed to be an orientation and therefore appeals to the innermost feelings, to those of humanity, especially at this time.
Yes, many people always want a white splendor, which they associate with Christmas, although at that time it was actually green at Christmas, maybe it was a little colder and cold like this still lasts and since my childhood it was often the case that we had an almost continuous, closed snow cover on the streets until March and April, It became a hard-packed surface and it wasn't until spring that the thaw started and the water first rushed under the snow ruts that had formed on the uneven road along the sidewalk, and with the thaw huge areas of water formed everywhere because the ground was frozen and the surface water that had melted couldn't seep away and couldn't drain off.
We sing songs from the soul.
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People are always happy when it gets better and when winter passes or is over, and with the audible sometimes loud gurgling noise on the streets, the expectant thoughts now arise of hoping for an end soon or knowing that it is far from over, it can last until spring, the recurring dreary gray snowy days, which are only associated with a lot of work, now one has adjusted to it. As long as the warming times of Christmas are still lived, the heart and soul are also warmed, because the time and the subsequent times from December 24th have hardly changed until today, let us linger in this thought ... the child is born ... and it is so to see what has become of it, something fundamental, directional, orienting, a new zeitgeist gives the course of history a new thinking, a new religion is coming, which has spread and stabilized.
It is something constructive, aspiring, developing over two thousand years, the path of redemption is something we can detach ourselves from and through which we can reorient ourselves, from this time on there can no longer be any doubt about God, the Almighty, who sent his Son to earth, to save us, and so we can also understand this, we want to save ourselves from that which persecutes and harms us, and we find our salvation, which can be a development of a life, so we want to see and accept that our life from birth to death is a life of probation. We learn to improve ourselves where we have made mistakes, we learn to understand people and to see ourselves as individuals who should or can seek the way to God, and you may understand the words.
Now three kings come from the East and bring the gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh and want an interpretation that perhaps goes like this: rich shall be your life so that you can help many poor people, frankincense shall open your senses to reach the gate of wisdom, and myrrh shall heal illnesses and protect us from harm that may come our way. And with this in mind, the three kings go from house to house across the country, inscribing them with their initials.
One may wonder how it was possible that they followed a star from far away that brought them to the stable and why? They did not return to King Herod, who wanted to know where he was, perhaps this may sometimes stimulate our dubious thoughts.
Good gifts.
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Have we done something good today or recently? We want to let our lives be guided by good influences, what is good for ourselves, and sometimes do something for others, help and support, make a contribution where appropriate, of course good words can also help, understandable ones that get you back on track, and we should also provide financial help from time to time, which the churches can sometimes call for, because there are many people in need in the world, and if you know someone, perhaps in the immediate vicinity, you can be a little generous there too. When you give something, it is a good idea to take a closer look at where the money is going and whether it is actually going where you are giving it, because, as everywhere, there are not only reputable organizations, and most of the money disappears into dark, untraceable networks.
In the church, the intended allocation is often communicated and sometimes it is also urgently needed for the restoration of the buildings.
Doing something good in social and voluntary areas, in charity or in animal and environmental protection, it does us good when we are committed, and we also sometimes experience a sense of joy when we give. Let's keep it that way this year. Of course, taking is easier than giving, but this is a human attitude towards life, the world and God.
Those who help can also be helped. After all, who knows whether you yourself will ever find yourself in need or in an unavoidable situation, so good deeds may always help you. There are many social institutions and food banks that have been organized and continue to be run by volunteers, and it is hard to believe that even before Christ, the poor in the city of Rome were being fed. Grain was regularly imported from the Mediterranean countries because it did not grow in sufficient quantities in and around Rome. This was a state institution set up by Caesar and continued by Octavian, and over 200,000 people received their food free of charge.
We can be happy if we are in a secure position in life, that we can give something rather than being dependent on circumstances, on the gifts or donations of others, so we consider ourselves happy and "rich" enough to have everything we need for our existence, and are even happier if it is a little more.
Even the safest path and condition can change from one day to the next. Of course, we can't all be millionaires, but they could give a little more.
Giving, helping and supporting should be a part of life, for people and animals and for the "earth".
The world thrives on giving.
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We were richly endowed at Christmas with the many gifts, the food was rich and one can become rich not only with inner values, the soul and the spirit and so with the inclusion in the Christian tradition of the feast of the three kings who brought these gifts, gold, frankincense and myrrh, and so we want to continue to live in this spirit and do the right thing so that we too are endowed with the gifts and our life becomes a rich one. Their journey was long and arduous, they followed a star for a long time that brought them to Bethlehem, and we too now follow this star through the millennia and sometimes our journey is also difficult and arduous, as it is also called the path of the Savior and Redeemer. We have had to go through all the difficult times and even in these days there are many who live on the edge of subsistence, and yet we all hope for better times and better weather, that we will get through the winter alive and well and with the spring revival we will rise again to new horizons, that a door will open and we will have a new uplifting perspective. It is good to be secure even in our bad, difficult times, so that we don't always have to worry, we want to live our lives and do our work in a life-affirming and goal-oriented way and thus find inner peace.
Well, times and the climate are changing rapidly and from the year 2000 there was hardly any winter and the snow line increased from year to year and you can now bet on whether it will be a green or white Christmas winter season, and whoever bets on green always wins the bet. For the past 20-25 years, the disappearance of winter has meant that we have had to cope with extreme weather conditions caused by the seasonal influence of the cold, which no longer comes as snow but now falls more as rain, and the arrival of warmer air means that there is often a lot of turbulence worldwide, causing extreme storms on a huge and unexpected scale.
What might drive winter out of the country?
Or is it just shifting?
We don't know whether it will be a permanent development from now on or just a temporary one.
There is a clear trend towards global warming, but it remains to be seen how long and to what extent everything will actually warm up. This situation can also change again quickly and go in the other direction.
Perhaps even more people will notice that "cold" things dissolve and you feel better overall.
People are like the weather.
Good times.
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The winter sky is consistently gray in gray to white, it seems impenetrable, dull and without sunlight, pale are the colors that are lost in the gray and black. Everything that has to do with the engaging winter is gloomy and so are the clothes, all in dark colors, so people quickly scurry off somewhere and wonder why they look so ashen and sometimes pale as death. The grey and the horror of winter will still lie over us for a while, in the fields and forests, in the soil and in the universe, in people's houses and dwellings, in their minds, in their souls, and sometimes it is still the horrors of the past that can sometimes come to light when certain constellations arise, so you often recognize the true face of some people and some figures that you would not have expected, and sometimes the whole life can change, change from this. Time seems to have two faces, like a day and a night, and the tendency to live it out is conditioned by the shortness of the day and the prolonged darkness. Everything that has been lies hidden in our unconscious and anyone can live through anything, it is inevitable, it's just a good thing that we don't know what was before us, before our lives. And if we don't feel like we are being addressed, we read the past and evoke our own ego.
Since the last ice age 25,000-30,000 years ago, humans have only had winters where they persevered in the freezing cold and died out.
Now came the new man, who was born in the times of receding ice and the snow borders retreated, it became milder and more and more grassland emerged, through the more pleasant living possible zones man could develop and spread well. Homo sapiens first managed to roam around in search of food like his ancestors, until he began to abandon the nomadic life and settled first as a gatherer and then as a hunter in caves or in self-built dwellings. These people often left behind the changes of that time in rock caves, where they painted the animals and various things they saw.
They painted pictures of the soul and many things we cannot understand, they were creative and full of ideas, their pictures were expressive and colorful and even in subtleties they conveyed their information. Who did they paint for?
The beginnings of her changes and her spiritual conquests tell us her life and whether it really applies to tradition, we do not know.
What they really thought, felt and experienced remains hidden in the dark.
And they paint - figures and colors.
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The day is gray when you look out of the window in the morning, and it is unchanged all day long, the fields are silent, sometimes invisibly shrouded in mist, and the forests are bare, ghostly like brown tangles visible from afar, the lake is still and calm, where the mist rises, and on some days everything is changed, from invisible to dense, impenetrable white clouds on the ground, which give you the impression of being able to grasp them, they remain long and heavy and you don't know whether they come from the sky or rise from the ground.
No one speaks to you and you look out alone for a long time into the eternal winter landscape, which seems as if it will never end. This gray-white density covers the whole day and you can barely see whether it's getting dark again or whether it's still daytime.
The infinite expanse of nothingness wherever you look, a veiled, uncertain area where anything can happen to you, you walk, enter and disappear into an inexplicable something that comes and goes and sometimes dissolves into nothingness. There are places that are always a little cloudy, that are surrounded by strangeness, that seem isolated from this world, that are surrounded by a permanent aura, and if you enter, you are swallowed up. These are mysterious places and strange people who can or want to move only in the twilight, probably to remain unrecognized. And isn't it the case for many people that they are tired of winter and think to themselves, the surroundings create thoughts and you allow yourself to be captured and absorbed, whether you like it or not, in these irritating circumstances, but when the winters are long and the weather forces you to stay indoors, where you see nothing and hear nothing, you start to brood. It is easy to go astray, to go astray, to find yourself on this tightrope walk, to doubt everything or many things and perhaps to quarrel with yourself and fate, to seem confronted, and when you want to change it, you feel challenged and recognize your own powerlessness.
There are days when nothing works in life, every day seems to be like the last.
There is hardly any comfort and you can hardly break through these clouds and the day seems endless, the winter endless and the perceived cold inescapable.
Waiting for better times and the end of the day can become an ordeal and the mind is gloomy and the burden of the soul is heavy, one is burdened and always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Let the gray impenetrable fog and thoughts take away from us, even if it is winter, the day can be bright.
And tomorrow is a new day.
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For many, everyday life has caught up with them again and they rush to their daily work in the morning regardless of the wind and weather, it's winter, the temperature is white and harsh, now you are well advised to wear your winter gear, it's always been like that, but in recent years you no longer even need to get up early in the morning to clear the snow, The day is like any other, it can be long and exhausting or relaxing and stimulating, varied and entertaining, most people are satisfied with themselves and their work, with their work and their environment, and they earn enough to live on, or considerably more.
The children are busy for quite some time with the new toys from the party, which are curiously examined and used, some are stable and last a long time, others are quite short-lived and are soon sorted out, the joy usually lasts until Easter, because then there is something else again.
Most people come home in the evening after a long day at work and then the leisure activities begin, which may be work on or around the house or sporting activities individually or somewhere in communal entertainment, and so it is day after day, week after week, for months and years, without thinking about anything, a habit, an orderly daily rhythm.
The vast majority of people have a full day from early in the morning until late at night and no time to think or muse, some may read a book or take an interest in current affairs as long as it doesn't affect them.
Everyone follows the path they have started from the beginning to the end, may it be straightforward and comfortable and may you achieve your goals in life and be lucky. If it is not so straightforward, it is difficult or harder and you are weighed down by the burden of everyday life and take it in your stride, perhaps you have not done something quite right or life does not mean well. But you can still live, even if you are sometimes plagued by suffering and pain. Of course, it's easy to say you're content when you have nothing to worry about. It is often difficult to help those affected if you don't know the causes, and yet it is possible that the burden can be lifted, from one day to the next you are and feel liberated, it may also be that you have to make a certain mental contribution to recognize the causes of the complaints, only in this way can they be relieved.
May we find the strength to make life easier.
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We walk through the streets of the city and see thousands of faces, some of which are covered with hats and scarves at this time of year, people are dressed in warm coats and not too much of the face is visible, some show the colors of winter, pale and ashen, others seem to look the same in their colorful scarves as their clothes. And if it is particularly windy, the nose and mouth are often still covered and we only see eyes, the dark and deep, the dull and sad, the expressionless frozen ones, those marked by fate, searching and desperate, the strenuous ones that can be slow and yet hurried, wintry visible eyes that mostly look straight ahead because everyone has something to do in the city, and before it gets dark, you want to be home again, reassuring and safe.
City day is sometimes scary, because people rush wordlessly in all directions, everyone has something to do, something to attend to, everything is important and you don't look left or right, but sometimes you do, because you are distracted by a shop window attraction, almost drawn to it, and then it goes on smoothly and without further interruption until the evening, until everything is done. Regardless of this, we are now laden down again with countless heavy bags and sacks, whether everything is really important, at least it was when we saw it, and we are a little happy for the time being.
Many thousands of faces speak one language, thousands of faces tell their lives, most of them carry it around with them wordlessly, bear it with composure, endure it without thinking, you come to terms with the given, created conditions and you don't even think about how much longer. Just like the season, it is difficult to break out of your situation, sometimes, indeed most of the time, you have to manage it on your own and sometimes a helping hand comes along, you meet someone by chance or become aware of something that helps you, you may see something written that can be like a triggering moment to find a way out of a previously seemingly unsolvable situation, and you can now change everything, you can change, you now become open and more relaxed and see and find the way out, life changes and you don't even know why you didn't think of it earlier.
How long have you been walking the same path and nothing has changed, over and over again, and you see something that was certainly there before, only you didn't pay attention to it yourself, overlooked it in your haste, or you take a different path today of all days, for whatever reason, and discover the triggering moment here and so you think: "But it's good that I went there today." The heaviness of winter and the effort to look for solutions weighs people down and everyone rushes past.
Seek and ye shall find.
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Aren't people always on the lookout?
If it is conscious, then something is missing, you are looking for something that you have lost or misplaced until you find it. You are looking for a new job, for a better apartment, you are looking for people with whom you can communicate or want to do a certain activity, you are looking to set up your life with the best possible conditions.
This search usually requires a previous idea, i.e. an objective, something concrete that you want to work towards and that you are intensively involved with, and you will usually succeed in achieving all of this. Sometimes you find everything within a short period of time, but it can also take years and you are still happy when you find something that you have set out to do, when you have achieved it, even if it takes effort.
This is a right, good, human action, it is basically the path of life that you take, you have found the path that you were looking for. And that is usually a good thing, because you have chosen it yourself. It can be a successful, fulfilling life and that's how it should be. It's good when you can say at the end ... it was a good thing ... it was worth it.
Maybe the possibility ... I could have done something better and that would have been achievable, but the most important thing is that you are satisfied.
However, if the search is somewhat undefined, i.e. you are looking for something you don't know, then at first you go through the day, through life, undefined and aimlessly, hoping to find something by chance that will change your life ... leave life to chance and yet be carried by the thought that at some point, somewhere, the right thing will come along, simply be open to everything, see things correctly and understand everything and move correctly. Those who search must move in a smaller or larger radius, must move in their thinking in order to recognize the undefined things they might be looking for. Leaving life to chance is perhaps also a statement for the indeterminate, because no one knows when, where and how something will happen to them, because everyone who searches can find something else that can change their life decisively. Searching - this often has something to do with the purpose of life, with the innermost imbalance, the imbalance and the inner conviction that life perhaps doesn't mean so well after all, it is often a search for ways out of going it alone, that one is unclear about oneself and one's inner self, that one is uncertain about one's environment, about one's surroundings, and this is perhaps where the incomprehensibility lies.
Those who never find anything in an exhausting life of searching remain sad and hopeless.
Where we come from.
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Maybe it's like this ...
that deep inside our being, deeply hidden in the unconscious, lies the ground of the soul, which is our life, deep and unfathomable is human existence from the inside of its being to all the visible expressions and the eternal inner struggles with itself, so this concerns the gravity of life, until perhaps we advance from the unconscious to the conscious, which can only become conscious as we ascend, which reaches our thinking, and we can combine and define what our past is, in the universal sense, and what shaped the soul, and this is what we need to learn in order to understand life with all its ups and downs, which we must live and experience as long as we continue to evolve.
We learn to accept life and we can think about everything that may come, and so we come to terms with the circumstances of life, which can be on the outside and on the inside, both are a discovery of oneself, if life is led in such a way that one improves oneself. So this may be a task for everyone in life, to always find the best in all things, to always bring about an understanding between people so that they too have the opportunity to develop, to express themselves, to prove themselves, and may every situation always be resolved so that everyone can continue on their path, that is an improvement.
But often we have to persevere in our burdened lives for as long as time allows, we have to endure all the things that come our way and we cherish the day when the heaviness eases a little.
The heaviness of life may have many causes and it is often difficult to penetrate so far to those times where heaviness has arisen. And so we carry the weight of the world with us, or so it seems at times, and ask ourselves inside why?
Why does life have to be like this?
Have you not done something right in life?
And can you still change it yourself?
Has mankind harmed the environment or life?
Is this how you have to survive internal trench warfare?
Do you have an affirmative attitude towards creation?
Everyone must decide for themselves whether an improvement in attitude is possible.
If the questions about the origin of human existence are answered correctly, if we know where we come from, then improvement in life is possible.
If you've had a life full of fate, you may often close yourself off and not want to answer some questions because you haven't had a very good experience and because many things are very different from what you've carried inside you all your life.
May life turn back in my favor.
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Tell me, you human being in the eternal vastness of the universe, where else do you want to go?
Have you not set out to find something that is not possible?
Have you crossed the boundaries of the impossible and do you find yourself in the confusion of the impossible?
How far have you already gone and for how long?
Have you escaped from earthly life and entered spheres where only the invisible fights?
Have you ascended to stand above it all, or have you descended into the realm of the dead who call you?
Tell me, man, have you ventured out and can't find your way back?
Have you taken it upon yourself to show things and people a direction?
Have you made the invisible things work in your favor?
Are you not following a wrong opinion?
Are you perhaps already a little irritated to give things the right meaning?
Did you consciously and by yourself swing yourself up or were you pulled in?
And do you want to free yourself from this almost impossible solo effort and free yourself from evil people?
Will that still be possible?
And the person who has the spirit ...
This person may be able to detach himself again, free himself, come back, rediscover earthly life, find his way again. The way out is long and long and you have to go back! It is difficult to want to detach yourself from your efforts, to rise above everything and to be above it all. Those who have climbed so high must have plenty of time to regain their innate place in life.
And here it is a tightrope walk, the path where good and evil separate and thus divide the world.
Everyone has to answer these questions for themselves.
If you are someone who lives alone in the world and subordinates the world to yourself, you do not need to answer this question. All those who find themselves on stray paths where it is possible to turn back and who say yes to improvement will also receive help in this way, which they experience in their thinking, and they must muster the inner strength to no longer deviate from improvement, because they are so vulnerable and open to attack.
The year has now just begun and what we have planned will turn out well.
If you have a good mind, things and life must turn in your favor.
How is that possible?
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It is usually around this time that the Christmas accessories start to be put up and taken down, the wonderfully green decorated trees begin to show signs of drying, the first needles fall to the ground in the warm room and it is no longer worth putting up new candles, as the tree, now easily ignited, is nearing its end. Putting it away again seems to be more of a "chore" than a joy, but slowly you start to put the boxes away and you can dispose of what you no longer like. And yet one last time we hear the sounds of the Christmas orchestra and the old Christmas carols, the ones we sang ourselves as children, the ones with tradition and church character, and we can actually sing along again now, even if our voices sometimes fail us a little, who likes to sing alone?
For the last time, we think it was a nice celebration, despite all the work and preparations, it was a beautiful Christmas service, it was a particularly good and successful meal, there was entertainment and lots of presents, actually a thoughtful celebration and it still has a meaning. It was like every year, we don't really remember what it was like last year or the year before, the only thing we know is that it's work and you have a few days off work, which are used sensibly with family and friends.
Whether this is true or not, we do not know exactly what has been handed down, but telling the Christmas story alone has a spiritual content, and if we only take a few passages from the Holy Scriptures to heart, we have already achieved a great deal. The fact is, since that time we have a new religion that didn't exist before, that gives us orientation and support, we were born into this faith and we are rooted in it, we stand firm in life and sometimes we remember what is taught in school or what the Holy Scriptures really want to tell us. We can also reconnect to the origin, which is the meaning of a religion, i.e. God has given, God has created and then we also know where we come from and perhaps where we are going.
So for this year we have survived this once again and we will certainly be back in life until the next festival.
Now everything is neatly packed and stowed away, counted and labeled and the boxes and crates are tediously stowed away somewhere in the attic. Maybe we can listen to the songs again, otherwise they will be packed away with us.
Will we bring all this out again next Christmas? But that's what we say every year.
It's the same for everyone.
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... And like every year, we've baked too many cookies and bought too many gingerbread cookies and we can eat them all now, because they won't taste good until Easter. On top of all the abundance of food and drink that we've enjoyed in abundance recently, you start to wonder why your clothes no longer fit properly, and so you're faced with the question "Do I want to lose some weight now?" because you're too overweight anyway, or do you buy a new wardrobe now, of course you can do both, because who doesn't want to have the latest thing in their wardrobe as soon as spring arrives, in different colors, and reducing your weight isn't wrong either. Either you stay at home and sit in the warmth of winter comfort and don't get much exercise, or you go to work every day and the weight doesn't reduce by itself. We can put up with it and wait until our clothes fit again, because we don't eat quite so much every day anymore.
It's best to keep calm at first, because the weight didn't come overnight either, and you might even come to terms with it.
Of course we could walk a few kilometers in the early morning dew before work, but that's too strenuous, and it's pitch dark at this time of year and the road conditions aren't safe either.
So the simplest thing will be: People need new clothes. And it's the same in the evening, the working day is long and exhausting and you don't want to do anything else, you want to be comfortable and carefree when you come home tired and exhausted, you don't want to worry about anything else except sitting comfortably in the TV armchair and munching on your Chio chips. This is the daily routine for most people and why should you change anything? ... eat and drink and be comfortable and pleasant, warm and cozy and just buy new clothes if you need to or if you like it that way.
We actually have a good life and millions of people in the country do the same. We are happy about this daily routine and if you don't like it, you can change.
The best thing is not to think about anything, the same thing day in, day out. Sometimes we still notice that everything is still Christmasy in public, and every now and then a wistful thought comes to mind and we don't know why, maybe it has something to do with the festivities or it really comes from within ourselves, because it also has many sad aspects or it is a deep unconscious dramatic memory that is written on our soul but we can no longer know it, but only experience the indefinable emotions, being sad for no recognizable reason.
When is the next festival?
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People in our country have it good.
We have the freedom to do whatever we want in life, to shape our own lives and to be responsible for them; we can decide for ourselves independently.
Our country is not only beautiful in everything, varied landscapes with mountains, lakes, rivers, valleys and the sea, a good infrastructure and the best social services and care, we have a good upwardly mobile economy so that everyone can find work, a high level of education and presentable research, a stable currency offers security and well-being, good income is prosperity, simply everything that makes it a very good place to live.
Many people are involved in associations and communities, there are volunteers and charitable people who are active in many areas and thus contribute to many things to make various things possible. This commitment is not limited to leisure activities and festivities; many are active in social areas and in environmental and animal protection.
Our country not only consists of an almost endless network of roads and modern buildings, we also have forests and parks and nature reserves that need to be protected, cared for and preserved so that we can go for a walk in the countryside in our free time, of which there is unfortunately still too little.
As cities get bigger and bigger, a lot of green and surrounding land is lost and greenery is reduced to individual trees or traffic circles of flowers. It is simply not possible for everyone to have a house with a garden in the countryside to enjoy nature, which always has a higher recreational value, while those in the city get used to a greenless stone and concrete landscape.
Of course, we can also travel somewhere else, wander off into the distance and then, when we come back, we realize that we have it best at home, so we already have the freedom to move anywhere. And that's not a given everywhere, so we're happy about this situation.
Since industrialization, a great deal has been done for citizens in our country, especially in the social sector, which means that people are somewhat protected in the event of illness or loss of employment.
Peace, prosperity and freedom are the pillars of our country and the inscription on the coins that made the country what it is today until the year 2000, and we hope that this will continue for a long time to come.
Our attitude contributes to the fact that we are democratic and socially minded, protect our environment and do everything we can for the animals.
That's how you become a good and honest person.
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Freedom I mean ...
This freedom is not a matter of course, there are some countries where people are not so free, freedom that is given to us, that is, we do not live under a yoke of authority or in slavery or in servitude and we are also not dependent on or restricted to a certain area.
Of course, these people are even freer than those who are in prison, but there are other reasons for this.
Now being unfree can also be like an invisible prison, a space that can hardly be moved far and is controlled by third parties can be worse than being imprisoned, because life is uncertain, dangerous and unpredictable, you live under constant threat and even escape is no longer possible. Of course, humans are not so free that they can fly or escape, they haven't grown wings yet.
There are people who, for all their freedom, are nevertheless unfree because external influences, as if from an invisible hand, do not allow them to move too much, they perhaps force themselves to submit or take the wrong path and thus create inexplicable inner dependencies that seem almost impossible to resolve.
All those dependencies, be they financial restrictions, illnesses or even the spatial limitations of being locked up for inexplicable reasons and unable to move around. Every dependency diminishes freedom.
We have freedom in mental thinking, because our thoughts are unrestricted, I think for myself or process what I see, hear and speak and form my own thoughts, or make associations that tend to form, or think up an objective. Of course, you also have the freedom to digress with your thoughts and penetrate unfree spaces, in which you in turn limit yourself, because in everything that comes from these areas, there are actually mental barriers somewhere or boundaries that our spiritual consciousness cannot cross, because then incomprehension, confusion occurs, irritations and changes are then the consequences, there are universal laws that are not understandable, not comprehensible, and so you create your own lack of freedom.
Being born in freedom is a prerequisite for healthy, upward development; being born unfree is more of a standstill, it can also be a step backwards because you cannot adapt to the given circumstances.
Freedom can of course also be a subjective feeling, perhaps if one does not interpret this term correctly according to its definition.
We live in a free country where anything is possible.
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Yes, we want to be free ...
live free and be as free as the wind and that we can go wherever we want, and why don't we?
Who could have changed this freedom?
Aren't humans and animals born free, in freedom, which is what that means. As the word implies, they were and are placed into the world outside in the open air and the life they were given works, it finds its way.
The weather, wind and clouds of gray prehistoric times do no harm to all life on earth, the being of life instinctively seeks something protective, a rock, a hollow in the earth, a thicket or foliage until the weather subsides.
Food grows everywhere and instinctively every life finds the right thing in its form, color and taste and above all in its compatibility, so the essence of life has been consciously made to adapt to food, so that the brain recognizes it when it sees it, because how should a non-thinking being without a language know what is edible and what is not?
Animals have been around for millions of years and all of them know worldwide what is right to eat. For millions of years, around 2.5-3 million, there has been life or the human being, who instinctively ate what he saw, no more and no less, he thought - and all of them were without language.
This life lives freely from the first day of creation to the present day and they eat or devour what they see, instinctively the right or thinking the changed.
Free and carefree when you don't have to think about what tomorrow will bring, and so you don't create any mental burdens for yourself.
The being lives with the universal currents, with the life-building influences in such a way that the continuation and reproduction of the species is guaranteed, and there is nothing that can harm it. We do not know what could exist and what does not yet exist.
Life has developed freely and completely unencumbered over millions of years and no species takes over, everything is regulated and determined, the number of a herd or individual and the age and everything is an orderly, constructive system, everything is a structured order.
Humans developed in small groups and spread northwards.
And the creatures humans and animals came into being, evolved and some also died out again.
And new ones have emerged and you think it is a continuation of what is no longer.
All is still well and everyone is still living in freedom.
Free as the wind ...
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Life is wonderful on earth, in the land there are different species that have evolved, reproduced and adapted to the land's climate and food. But in the course of millions of years, many species have evolved on the ground, in the air and in the sea, some lived for a short time and some have survived for millions of years until today. There are inexplicable reasons and also the definition of "climate change", there were meteorite impacts or very strong volcanic activities that drastically changed the climate on the whole earth, and this has happened several times, the last major events of a meteorite 75,000 years ago and 63,000 years ago almost all life was completely wiped out, this caused an arctic winter by the impact on Yukon (Mexico).
What survived recovered and new species also emerged. Sometimes life is extinguished by catastrophic events and you can't ask or say whether this makes sense or not, perhaps the time of the species has ended, because it will be the case that everything has a certain time of life, just like the age of life, there is probably also an age of species. We can either explain this with a catastrophe that cannot be influenced or due to coincidence or also with the fact that there are other comprehensible reasons, or we can assign it to what is an earth karma, with what and who created it, and think of our life in such a way that everything is put in the right place, which includes the whole of life and thus lives in God's will. God, that is the creator of all things and there is nothing else that makes such a diverse, complicated life possible and can create this order, which strengthens and pursues this stability and consistency and claims a certain living space. That a species is formed, that it multiplies again and again in its external appearance and yet each individual is so different, can be so different. People look like people all over the world and yet there are many species, not only according to nationality and color, everyone is different in their inner being, in their thinking, in their emotions and feelings, in their expressions.
And yet, they are all people or all animals.
And yet man also finds an explanation in the scientific sense, by trying to put everything into a formula, understandable and just as difficult and complicated to understand the whole world and to come close to creation, undreamt-of calculations arise, even forms and shapes are provided with signs and one wonders about all that has been created and there is no combination for it.
A fascinating marvel, the earth and the whole universe and everything that lives, and man with his numbers and formulas.
Who counts the millions and billions of lives?
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We can leave that or our lives and everything to chance and then at some point say: "... I was lucky ...", or we are always in the wrong place on the wrong day, so we are not lucky. Let's assume that the vast majority of people fit smoothly into the universal currents and manage their everyday lives with the daily events and interpretations that need to be learned or worked through, i.e. to shape life to the best of their ability in all things, to live together with people and to have a healthy and life-enhancing attitude towards nature and everything that lives in this world, to see the world of animals as a living cycle and to preserve each one in its place, the plants and all the vegetation, that which feeds us all in its created form, we protect the water, the air and use all resources more or less well and everything we do should be done with the least damage, in fact no damage should be done at all when dealing with life, with life and to preserve all life is our duty.