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[Alexandr Korol]

but for others. For example, there’s my friend Maxim. Suddenly, he worries about what his classmates, his coursemates, will think of him, and he adjusts to them. I say to him, “Maxim, are they God? What does it matter if they don’t like something and make comments? Listen to your heart, be yourself. If you like skis, then ski. Why choose snowboarding? Just because they laughed? And who are they?” But Maxim, like them, gets his hair cut like them, listens to the same music, starts snowboarding, giving up everything he originally enjoyed, to fit in with a society of lost people. And he becomes a “lost one”, starts feeling emptiness in his soul, losing interest in life because they too have no interest. Why? Because they turned away from God, from the heart. Should I be thinking about how to write my book, how to make videos, what books to post on social media, how I should look, how to set the lighting? Who am I doing this for? Who? If I suddenly want to make beaded bracelets, but it’s not fashionable or relevant, and people laugh at me, saying a man over 30 shouldn’t be doing this, I don’t care: who are they to say that? And I’ve never succumbed to this pressure and manipulation from society. They all adjust to one another, and then these greedy, hungry thoughts arise: “I want this for myself, I want that,” this judgment: “He has this, but I don’t.” I don’t have such thoughts. I don’t have these worries that now every other person has, who sits in social networks, because that’s what gets broadcast from there. I don’t have that judgmental reaction, that negative feeling in my soul that I don’t have the right appearance, or enough cars, or don’t own an apartment, or something else is missing. I don’t have that evaluation. But people now go through this, they suffer, because they turned away from their hearts and fell into this trap. So regarding the “no” — any “lost” person, someone immersed in society, if they were in my place, what do you think they would be doing? Would they be sitting humbly and writing books? No! They’d already have a villa somewhere in the Maldives. They’d go to Japan to make videos, showing everywhere they visit. They’d buy the most expensive car. And they would use all my knowledge for what? For sins, to manipulate everyone. They’d use it for some kind of schemes, advertising, and so on. And that’s the “no.” There’s nothing you can’t do. Everything I know and can do, I can only write about in my books. I’ve never used my knowledge for my own benefit. Only tolerance, humility, which I still cultivate within myself — that’s what I apply in society. In society, the most important thing is probably to understand