Alexandr Korol

Because when you believe in, say, a medallion passed down from your grandfather, or you believe in a lucky pendant your girlfriend gave you, or you believe in certain numbers... It doesn’t matter — say you saw the number 16:16 and think, “Now the situation is on my side.” Even if someone has such inklings of belief — see, not religious faith, but this small kind, a small amount of belief — then that’s already good. Because there are people who don’t believe in anything: not in themselves, not in others, not in signs — nothing. It’s like they have a stone instead of a soul. That, of course, is unfortunate. But again, from which perspective do you view it? If you look from God’s perspective, then it’s normal — it has to be that way. People are at different stages; some are at low stages, some at high. Everyone has to go through those steps. There are people at the stage where they have faith, and they begin to explore it and uncover even more. There are people who lose faith. There are people who have never yet found faith and will only discover it in the future, and have no idea what faith even is. I’ve written this more than once already. I remember someone once was surprised when I said — during a conversation with someone I knew — that faith is when you... Well, you live your life every day. And if you truly have faith, then there isn’t a single day when you forget who you are, where you live, and that there is someone above. If there’s even one day when you don’t think about that, then tsk-tsk — that’s already not true faith. And the point is, for me, there is not a single day... You see, the reason I’m so confident in this — not exaggerating — I’m one hundred percent sure that there isn’t a single day. Why? Because I don’t do it intentionally, with my mind. It’s like it’s inevitable. You know, imagine something terrible happens, and now 24 hours a day, it’s always in your head, you can’t get it out, right? Well, faith is the same thing — just in the opposite direction. That’s actually a good example, because for people who’ve never experienced faith but have gone through a lot of problems — how do you explain to them what faith is? It’s exactly like that, just in reverse. For example, when you have a heavy burden on your mind — like you lost someone, or you committed a crime, or someone hurt you, or someone owes you something, or you owe someone — and you just can’t get it out of your head, it becomes like an obsessive thought, and it makes you feel sick and heavy. Well, faith is the same thing, only the other way around. And instead of feeling sick or heavy from it, on the contrary, it gives you incredible strength. That’s what real faith is like.