Page 530
Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2026 8:52 am
And they say to you: “No, no, no, what’s with you? Don’t you love your mom, then?
Come on, eat one more little spoon for Mom.” And because you’re the Spirit, you
can’t be in conflict and argue, you’re altogether gentle and fluffy. And if you eat
it, then the Spirit will leave you. And what’s the moral of this fable? That it’s not
about sin. As many think — that only because of an evil, dark deed can you lose
the Spirit. It can even be something good. Because there it’s all not by the rules
of what’s good and what’s bad, but there it’s by the rule: is it by feeling for you or
not. If your feeling responds, it’s by the Spirit for you, you do it. If it’s not by the
Spirit, something inside you clenches — you mustn’t do it. And never mind what
it is — helping a kitty, some orphanage, or something else. You mustn’t, if the
Spirit says “you mustn’t.” And the point is that it’s so unusual to be in the world of
the Spirit, the way everything’s arranged there, that it doesn’t yield at all to logic
and to human rules of morality, ethics, decency, and the mind. It doesn’t yield.
That’s why no one can do this artificially, be in the Spirit artificially. There
are no rules about what to eat, what to watch, what to read, what to put on, in
order to be in the Spirit. You acquire a feeling, and this feeling moves you, and
this is the Will of God, and you feel it. If you feel, when you’re in the Spirit,
that you want to paint pictures until four or five in the morning, you paint
them. And the Spirit can be stronger and weaker. If your Spirit weakens, then
in that moment thoughts can already slip in… Or people from the outside,
who talk your ear off, who whisper and say: “It’d be better tomorrow morning!
You’ll ruin your eyes now, your eyesight, it’s dark, better get your sleep! You
haven’t slept!” And the more you listen to this from the outside — no matter who
it is, it can be anyone. But it doesn’t mean that if this person is good, then you
need to listen to him. And it doesn’t mean that if he advises something good,
then it’s a plus for the Spirit — it can be a minus, if it doesn’t resonate with the
Spirit, you see? I’ve only to begin heeding it, and that’s it, I’ll lose the Spirit, I’ll
go against the Spirit. I even wrote before, in my most magical little book, which
is called “Three Paradoxes of a Creative Person,” which I wrote over thirteen
years in the form of notes, when I was in these various states, worlds… I wrote
there about how, when you’re in this world, the unusual, magical one — back
then I didn’t know it was the Spirit — when you live by this feeling, then if
you feel that you shouldn’t eat, you don’t eat. You can go a day without eating.
Come on, eat one more little spoon for Mom.” And because you’re the Spirit, you
can’t be in conflict and argue, you’re altogether gentle and fluffy. And if you eat
it, then the Spirit will leave you. And what’s the moral of this fable? That it’s not
about sin. As many think — that only because of an evil, dark deed can you lose
the Spirit. It can even be something good. Because there it’s all not by the rules
of what’s good and what’s bad, but there it’s by the rule: is it by feeling for you or
not. If your feeling responds, it’s by the Spirit for you, you do it. If it’s not by the
Spirit, something inside you clenches — you mustn’t do it. And never mind what
it is — helping a kitty, some orphanage, or something else. You mustn’t, if the
Spirit says “you mustn’t.” And the point is that it’s so unusual to be in the world of
the Spirit, the way everything’s arranged there, that it doesn’t yield at all to logic
and to human rules of morality, ethics, decency, and the mind. It doesn’t yield.
That’s why no one can do this artificially, be in the Spirit artificially. There
are no rules about what to eat, what to watch, what to read, what to put on, in
order to be in the Spirit. You acquire a feeling, and this feeling moves you, and
this is the Will of God, and you feel it. If you feel, when you’re in the Spirit,
that you want to paint pictures until four or five in the morning, you paint
them. And the Spirit can be stronger and weaker. If your Spirit weakens, then
in that moment thoughts can already slip in… Or people from the outside,
who talk your ear off, who whisper and say: “It’d be better tomorrow morning!
You’ll ruin your eyes now, your eyesight, it’s dark, better get your sleep! You
haven’t slept!” And the more you listen to this from the outside — no matter who
it is, it can be anyone. But it doesn’t mean that if this person is good, then you
need to listen to him. And it doesn’t mean that if he advises something good,
then it’s a plus for the Spirit — it can be a minus, if it doesn’t resonate with the
Spirit, you see? I’ve only to begin heeding it, and that’s it, I’ll lose the Spirit, I’ll
go against the Spirit. I even wrote before, in my most magical little book, which
is called “Three Paradoxes of a Creative Person,” which I wrote over thirteen
years in the form of notes, when I was in these various states, worlds… I wrote
there about how, when you’re in this world, the unusual, magical one — back
then I didn’t know it was the Spirit — when you live by this feeling, then if
you feel that you shouldn’t eat, you don’t eat. You can go a day without eating.