to beloved artists of good will I will give this essay , the author
Stanisław Barszczak, Autumn of the hero.
– (world-famous chess player) I’m not able to fall asleep. I’ll tell you something. We are a miniature of the human race. However the world is eternal, nothing is true in this crisis of uncertainty. How dearly it cost us this shabbier independence! Look around, fewer face acquaintances. I do not have a friend anymore. A month ago, I met him, rode a bicycle. He honestly told me: I do not have a mother anymore. And you see, they found him in the bushes of the chasm with the wounds caused by the golden flowers of agave, more alive than us, dear professor. He did not survive long, he soon said goodbye to his relatives in the hospital.
– (freshly made professor)
There is no glory greater than death for his homeland, he answered him, smiling indulgently, do not be a dumb man, his homeland means to live. Patriotism is to choose life. The longest and most useful life was enough to learn to live. The most dangerous enemy is in the man himself, in a too trusting heart … When we talk about the “European river” we think about a river that at most as the Danube counts 2,790 kilometers. A European would have a hard time imagining an Amazon of 5500 kilometers. At the height of Belén del Para you can not see the other side of the river; it is wider here than the Baltic Sea. When we say “storm”, for the European it usually means lightning and thunders. In the Andes, according to the description made by the French man, there are storms lasting sometime five months. Whoever has not seen these storms can not imagine the violence with which they develop. For hours it flashes continuously and as strongly as if the blood spurts, and the air trembles from the long rumble of thunder, the echoes of which are on the sky beyond the mountains. A detailed description could frighten the largest European doubter. Our heroes
they are together fifty years old, sitting in a comfortable compartment of the international Vienna-Warsaw train. Flowery curtains and colorful bedding of couches. ‘Table’ richly covered. After ten years of being unseen, they are both overgrown, with lush brown hair, one with curly hair, with health-conscious faces, unshaven, they occupy space next to the window. John had a nice, sheeplike face. He ate as he lived: slow and very refined. Alexander was a scientist, an inch taller, but slimmer. The face of the Roman tribune. Dressed freely. They did not belong to the people from whom information should be extracted. They gushed out of them. Over the years, I thought John was a classic case of a character seeking an author whom we writers are waiting for all his life, and if I never let him find me, it was only because the ending of his story seemed unimaginable to me. The infinite distance that separates me from him seems to be bigger every moment. It’s a pity. I think it must be so. Aleksander graduated only from elementary school but universal inclinations enabled him to get an education thanks to the passionate reading of every print he had just met and taking all the benefits from the films he watched. A quarter of an hour ago, the storm was outside. They, however, enjoy temporary happiness, and their emotions give joy.
– (chess player) We are so perverse that our worst government turns out to be the worst. You see, they’re going to divide everything between priests, sportsmen and rich people, and of course the button for the poor, because they’ll always dig that day, when the shit will get the value, the poor will be born without you, you’ll see. It would not live to decipher the mysteries of this world built on the art of avarice. You have to do different things and sell them to the rich before they die for good. They are all sick and ‘outwit’. Look, from the seven continents of the Earth globe, South America has finally made the biggest career.
– (professor) I’m old, but I try not to think about it. You have to experience a lot to get to know the true nature of a man, the professor continued. You see, men, when it comes to women, are dumb. Escaping a mysterious meeting, in the evening and without an escort, is a mistake; it was not only unnecessary risk, but also, from a historical point of view, stupidity, I think. Although there has never been anything more tempting for you than the riddle of a beautiful woman, then you value your own life and the cause you are fighting for.
– (chess player) A few years ago you took second place in a big tournament in Sochi, compatriots are saying to me. Now I am beginning to believe that in the face of the cruelty of the day, my promise that I am surrounded by the hatred and stubbornness of the band of offended people will be of no avail.
– (professor) If someone does not love you as you would, it does not mean that he does not love you with all his heart and over his life. Perhaps for the world you are only human, but for some people you are the whole world.
– (chess player) I will never forget the mood of these chess games. There was gymnastics for body and mind. Imagine the human body is not made for years that a person could live through. But what would I do without the december short days that are shivering through the broken windows, how I could live without the green lighthouse, I left my fog plate, mortally sick with fever and got caught up in the technological age, and do not think that I did it from patriotism, as the encyclopedia says, or the lust for adventures, or something like that, because I did not care about the democratic principles that God would take care of in my holy kingdom; no, my beloved professor, I did all this to get to know the sea … Until finally, after so many years of barren illusions – I began to feel that a man is dead, fucking, only experiencing others that he is too late to learn that the longest and the most useful life is enough for you to learn to live; I got to know my inability to love the riddle of the line of my silent hands and in invisible numbers of cards, and I tried to reward this nefarious destiny with a burning cult of lonely addiction, I became victim of
own sect to lay down in the flames of this endless burnt offering (…) as with the passage of my countless years I discovered that lying is more convenient than doubt, more useful than love, more durable than the truth, I came to a disgraceful fiction without wondering, in which it rules without power.
– (professor pulling in the smoke of nicotine) Leaking memory from the life cistern… I am also getting old. Mom loved me with friendship, I think now. Because the parents love the children not because they are children, but because of the friendship that accompanies their upbringing. Imagine wisdom comes when it’s useless anymore. You see, I am constantly carrying the burden of the greatest misfortune that can come upon a human being (…) I stopped believing! Unbelief can survive more than faith, because it feeds on the senses.
– (chess) Good Christians are more than we think. It is not important, then, whether you believe, but whether God still believes in you. No madman is crazy if we accept his reasons. You never lose faith completely, there are always doubts. You imagine love is a feeling against nature, it condemns two strangers to unhappiness and unhealthy addiction, the more volatile, the more intense. I have begotten for you that I owe you my life that I would give my life for you, so I die because of you.
– (professor) As you remember the holiday, our ferry got stuck in the ground. I visited the captain, also officers on the first floor. I lived terrified that I was alive. And it was good for me because I knew I was dying. Anyway, ‘punishment’ was written to me before I came into the world, and it was hidden, held back, hampered. There is a moment when you do not feel pain anymore. Sensitivity disappears, and reason is dulled until the sense of time and place is lost. Some people tell me that this whole story is my invention. I ask them then: So what have I been doing at sea for nine days?
– (chess player) You see, sometime
locusts have been taught impatience and disbelief both in the past and in the future. She was taught to believe only in the present moment and in satisfying her insatiable appetites. Everyone is secured in some way, professor.
If we take a risk, we know what we are exposed to. When it fails, it is because we have not foreseen something that was beyond our capabilities. Our deeds are directed by a higher power, against which nothing would rebel.
– (professor) The crisis in Poland caused a wave of violent movement in Europe. I had a great opportunity to join the galaxy of prominent and well-known intellectuals and artists who signed up for the show in honor of the heroic Polish nation organized in the Paris Opera under the patronage of the French Ministry of Culture. There is no longer any solidarity there. Another century is to begin. And yet our time lasts and I am convinced that the most you will feel the lack of a person when you are sitting next to her (when she is still present) and you will know that she will never be yours. Do not run too fast through life because the best things happen to us when we least expect them. I do not love you for who you are, but for how you are when I’m with you.
– (chess player) What are they doing on this train? (…) A real house of madmen. Sportsman said about the noise that could be heard from the corridor.
– (professor) So sit back and relax, think … use the little gray cells of your brain … and soon you will know everything. Fortuna favors me in my work. I have enough money to satisfy not only my needs, but even my whims. Therefore, now, I accept only those matters that interest me. The young people of my generation, having ravenously vomited life, have forgotten the living stone of the hopes of the future, until reality has convinced them that the future is not what they dreamed of, and then they discovered nostalgia. See you, John. Tell them that the train of the Vienna-Warsaw route has passed me, this poor antique scrap, which even time is not able to kill. That’s how I got the fame, those like that thick dame, who does not sleep with us, but when you wake up, no one else, and she always which does not sleep with us, but when you wake up, no one else, and she always stands by the bed and looks at us closely.
– (chess switching off saving light)
My goal from the first second of life was God and his rights. Since the basic law of the whole bourgeois order is the obedience of power (government without God is, at best, a well-organized band of thieves); how much more should be served to God, the Lord of his creation, without hesitation in all his commandments. Everything that happens against faith or conscience is sin. And there are different sins. Sins against the sixth commandment are by no means the worst, but the most sticky. There is repentance for sin. The fire of a cleansing place is more painful than the agony of martyrs. First things first. In peace! Again alone! Lonely as always. Youth passes away in this long loneliness. My heart is heavy and confused in my mind, I am sitting in a golden cage. You see, a German soldier stands on the banks of the Volga, guarding his homeland. He looks alone and far into the dark night, the moon is not shining, not one star. The immobile steppe is silent, and he draws the tear of his eyes: And he feels him eating and biting in his heart, a man is abandoned. He complains and asks: – (Lord) Did you forget about me there high? My heart also wants love. You have many angels in heaven! Send me one … Darkness is only a creature if it comes from nowhere. But if it has a beginning in God, it is part of its image. God will not forget anything that has spilled out of itself to think of something else. God, turn away from you, fall. Turning to you means getting up. Staying with you means having safe help. God should be afraid in such a way that we would escape him to him. Let me say: I am constantly learning that every time people try to live according to the Gospel as Jesus taught us, everything begins to change … all aggression, all fear and sadness give way to peace and joy. Dear God, turn away from you, fall. Turning to you means getting up. Staying with you means having safe help. God should be afraid in such a way that we would escape him to him. Let me say: I am constantly learning that every time people try to live according to the gospel as Jesus taught us, everything begins to change … all aggression, all fear and sadness give way to peace and joy. Dear Professor! I intended to change ‘civilizational slavery’, transform it into ‘eternal’ slavery! This is to be a happy path to heaven for us.
This is my contemporary patriotism, summa contra Gentiles. I meet mostly women. I would like all of them to be a image of Mary and in the likeness of God, always happy and joyful … generous Alexander! My alogistic, no one seems to be traveling to the modern world, I would like to describe them as best as I can. How much unnecessary hardships. Although there are oases of last happiness, more humanly judging the waste of the layers of human nobility.
People can not express themselves in their native language, using English, even in Hungary – what times. O tempora, o mores. I have recently been on a farm in Crete, on a campsite in the mountains, 21 kilometers from Heraklion. Here, I feel great, if I was in the middle of a Napoleonic battle or watched the ‘Racławice panorama’, a beautiful image of the Polish insurrection. Nature gives me a picture that is the least similar to the battle of Austerlitz near Brno, which ran under the dictation of the Janusian face of Napoleon. This time, my stay here finalized based on the financial record online (see http://www.airbnb), is not a game of sun in the sky, I ponder. Everything took place so quickly and effectively. I like traveling, especially – visiting the cathedrals. Christian faith is like a magnificent cathedral with magnificent colorful windows. Whoever stands outside can not see it. But for everyone who enters it, every ray of light becomes indescribable. You who do not see God, you should come to see Him through love of your neighbor. If you do not love your brother whom you mean, you can not love God you do not see. Christmas is always there; it is not only the feast of the donor, but also those who have nothing to give or anyone to give something to. A bit of the road is behind you, another piece is still in front of you. If you stay, it is only to strengthen yourself, but not to give up. Only then will I no longer love the dark when I look at the sun. There are no good deeds except those made by faith and love. There are two ways to do good: giving and forgiving.
This is a great beginning in knowing God, if before we find out who he is, we begin to realize who he is not. Thus, after a difficult beginning (my journey is to begin into the heat, strangers around are watching me), I found myself back in my mother’s home in Ząbkowice village, where I experienced my proud and upstairs childhood, I did some cleaning in the attic. In fact, thanks to the mass media, I was inside the civilizational volcano of everyday events, including the football world championships Russia of today. And around the fabulous landscape … As I said, the path of my life does not always wind up. It happens that it returns to the youth, at the same time ‘keys’, mostly lowland streets of gray towns. However, I still meet myself on the way of today, although usually it is only in the evening of the active day. After moments of ecstasy in a beautiful conversation, I am forced to reach for my mother’s phone. In answer, I listen to the sentence and I adopt it more carefully, namely: in Barcelona, be careful that they do not rob you … and I am like a talker in the company of a fair girls, over time succumb I to a bored silence and no heroic silence.
– (animated professor)
I also gathered experiences. Because I have to ask: Is there a Satan? It seems to be like a ‘beaten force’ in the world. Though not only. And so someone expressed themselves in this way:
The pope puts himself in the place of Christ. That’s probably good answer. In Islam, the devil controls, although it does not affect the world. So as if we are caught up in something … I like arguments, someone said: Is not it time to opt for the Church’s evolutionism? Time to show the image of the most readable human now. Hence why not allow the image of the resurrection as a clear image of the Christ century. We say: ‘Corragio’ – let us become courageous in allowing all legible images from our age, I think. For a world that is so modernized to become an open village, if not everyone, then each one separately. It’s not about individuality, it’s about never-ending human brotherhood. Today, the development of embryology, children are born outside the womb of the mother. At the same time, the practice of ‘abuse’, or the practice of abuse of human feelings and emotions, continues. It may well be that we go beyond objective reality. But let us notice, we take a lot of initiatives, it is
a lot of work – but not very obvious
patterns! As it used to be such a model of the era, Moses, then Jesus, and now seems to have such an obvious record, Richard Dawkins. I would ask a question here: Are the evident patterns of the era a devil? Do obviousness, such patterns, do not weaken religion? For I am still learning at a crossroads. Although we have perfect living conditions, supernatural experiences are constantly exposed to us. Fashion for exorcisms. We remember that Jesus also cast out demons. Today we do not know each other in the blockhouses. In the same cage, the neighbors and the family live for a kiss. But also Judas believed that Jesus would not die on the cross, that he would come down from the cross. Si (see, Judas by Amos Oz). We say, ‘God is victorious,’ who is characterized by constancy and omnipotence. And what is religion? Someone asked the question: Licheń, business or religion? Religion – it is ‘doing God’ still (German: Schuld, guilt). In turn what is the truth. This latter is – when you live with love (set to free).
– (chess while eating pork chop) We have now put many paths to God. Multitudes in India do not mean faith in different gods. But it is faith in many ways to unite with God. And God is inexhaustible, never infinite in giving. Though ‘no God in God’ yet. And creation comes only from infinite power. “We have not yet revealed what we are going to be,” we read in the Bible. Love fate, because this is the way of God through your soul. Let us notice the current spiritual progress of humanity present. On one hand, huge technology, new technologies still, and on the other, the drifting of the ship with people on the ground. There is no shortage of daredevils of the era, at the same time I personally settle for only the highest cliff shore (which we have ‘for the Pier’ in Międzyzdroje) – I once said about my style of writing essays on the sermon – and I have never dared to sail to the center of the ocean in order to express the last human being he is “pushing” and expressing the fullness of humanity.
I do not have Conrad’s talents, this one’s by Melville or Böll. I could not probably write a ‘maritime’ or other film scenario. Agnieszka Holland is an ‘unattainable role model’ of a director’s work in film. And the world is like the sea that breaks and foams. If you love God, then you will walk on the waves and flood under your feet. Certainly huge and not gained
the foundations of humanity are still ahead of us, I think, and not only in writing. This is ultimately the only human knowledge about God: to know that we do not know God. The revelation of God shows us more what He is not than what He is as I said- that He does not exist, rather than that He exists. However, the story of my life tells the world about a loving God who leads everything better and better, for good. And also about the fact that there is no recipe for a happy, functioning marriage. It’s just love that is first, that’s what my few parishioners have told me. Love is the pleasure of good; good is the only reason for love. To love means to do good to someone.
O Lord, take this heart of stone and give me a heart of flesh and blood; a heart that loves and worships you, the heart rejoices in you, imitating you and satisfying you, that I may always want Christ. Man fell, but God raised him high. Man is unhappy, but God has descended with compassion. Man fell because of pride, for God came in grace. The greatest benefit you can give a person is that you lead her from error to truth. The highest perfection of human life is that the human dimension of meaning unites man with God. The order of the planets of the universe results from the order of the entire universe directed to God. When it comes to man, every creature that strives for its own perfection, strives to be similar to God. Because everyone loves God more than himself.
There is a threefold need to heal a man: to know what he believes, to know what he wants and to know what he has to do, he has been given to us by Thomas Aquinas.
So, pray as if everything depended on God. And act as if everything depended on you.
God has given us Heaven – to see it all the time! There we will celebrate and look, see and love, love and praise. In the end it will be so endless. Everything that should happen in the future has already become God.
So all God’s commandments are fulfilled when what is not fulfilled is forgiven. The desire for happiness and immortality has fallen into our essence. Imagine:
Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore, do not try to understand, to believe, but to believe, to understand. The reward for our faith will be that we will look at what we believe,
Aurelius Augustinus, Augustine of Hippo said. Man is not judged by what he knows, but by what he loves. Cling to God, it’s my power. Resurrection is our faith, connecting our hope, remembering our love. Only the blessed man who created himself in God makes humanity happy. God always forgives you. The one who created you knows what he wants to do with you. But he who created you without your help does not give you justification without your help. Death, which people fear, is the separation of the soul from the body. But death, which people are not afraid of, is a separation from God. Man is the longing of God. People complain that times are bad. Stop complaining. Improve yourself. Because times are not bad, but our actions. The soul has the color of your thoughts. The soul feeds on what it rejoices. God loves each of us, as if there was no one but us who could give him his love. And therefore, if there is an opportunity to talk to a modern man even at the end of the world, and there are enough priests in his homeland, I will go with him to an adventure wherever it is possible. Man can not buy himself alone. Salvation is the work of God. It is completely finished. A single person must accept this. This is the deepest sense of all hospitality that one man gives the other a rest in a long journey to an eternal home. In the end, like a long and wide world, what the earth was eternally, if not a place inhabited by people whose hearts are full of longing for impossible dreams, dreams which, in defiance of laws of logic, the principles of probability and even the passage of time, become eternal and durable like marble.
– (professor) As I understood, we can open our hearts to God, but not without God’s help.
God does not require that we become weak, but that we always start from good will. I found something, here you can to write: Whoever does not fight, has already lost. But none of mortals is so great that they can not be included in prayer. Love is the desire to give something that you will not get. People complain that times are bad. Stop complaining. Improve yourself. Because times are not bad, but our actions and we are time. I always receive favors from your hand. This is my truth and my joy. Your eyes are still watching me, and I live from your eyes, you, my Creator and my salvation. Teach me, in the silence of your presence, to understand the mystery I am. And that I am through you and in front of you and for you.
– (chess player) When Jesus came to this world, peace was declared. When he left this world, he gave us a peace… I am too small to describe the life and deeds of the great saints skillfully enough. God, every morning and evening your cares are a blessing and multiplied. And misfortune denied by your own works and deeds.
– (professor) And do you know, Bohdan Khmelnytsky is a hero of Ukraine. He was close to the Polish King Jan Kazimierz, and gave him his life. At the meeting with the Polish nobility, he danced on the table. And when the best royal wine was served to him, the nobleman knocked him away and a wine-cup threw from his hand … It was a sign of his separation to King Kazimierz and Poland.
Because the king sent money to Khan, Khmelnytsky announced that he would fight against Poland and “go” to Lviv and Przemyśl… Jesus promised his disciples three things that he would experience total fearlessness, absurd happiness and constant suffering. The Bible commands us to love our neighbors and to love enemies; probably because they are usually the same people. Man is ready to die for any idea, provided the idea is not clear to him. But I can not deny: God seems to me the greatest adventure in the history of the world. (If there is) His smallest reality is greater than our wildest illusions.
– (chess player) You see, when people stop believing in God, they do not believe in anything but everything. This is the chance of the prophets – and they come in crowds. How many times do we mean that the difficulty of contact lies with others, then the Lord reveals this with a gentle hand that the difficulties are within us. Oh, let me wake up, wake up, wake up, you hard world, before the terrible shock will attack you quickly and suddenly. Everything was lost, but God stands without hesitation; his thoughts, his word and his will have an eternal reason. Too poor and too rich are not good, both, like our souls, fall into the realm of sin. And you must not be afraid of your sins. No, Jesus wants to cover them with his love and grace. God is in your regiment, and everything goes well! God, your spirit sustains our faith when the whole world stands against it with a storm and many other weapons. You must trust the Lord if you want everything to go well; You must look at his work if your work is to last. With regret, sadness and self-proclaimed pain, God will not take anything, you have to ask for it. Whoever gave you life will also provide for maintenance. He has a hand full of all the gifts from which they feast, and the sea and the earth. You are the life of my life; now I can probably make an appointment with you. You fill your life with eternal life and bring us into the heavenly home when the earth escapes us. In the end, you take our guilt and throw it into the sea. You, Lord, have a whole wide world in your hands, you can turn human hearts as you like. But I hope that you will not fail me, my Savior, that I would like to carry for me, in me and with me. He gives us a happy heart, refreshing the mind, throwing in all fear, worry and pain in the depths of the sea.
He is your beloved, your heir and part, your glory and the light of joy, your umbrella and shield, your help and salvation, seek advice and do not leave you. He is in the middle and soon he will hear this poor request. He takes what we have done on earth and becomes our Lamb for us. We are not going to sleep anymore, you can see the lights of Warsaw. That’s a good sign for us. We met the station building in Katowice, certainly the platform will connect us forever. “John, some of my former supporters will become the presidents after me: usurp the right to the honors we did not deserve, associated with an office that we can not do. Some chase only for power … – Happy journey, beloved professor. (Fin)