Learn, think and create: On the meaning of life in 5 points from Peter Mamonov

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Brawler and provocateur in the past, the founder of one of the best rock bands in the USSR has changed a lot - he lives in a remote village, came to faith, began to lead a healthy lifestyle.

I don’t remember yesterday and I don’t want to remember. I am directed forward. I have eternity ahead of me. Throughout life, we make good and bad. All my vices, sorrows, joys are written on my face. Both our faces and our bodies are all in our life.

The meaning of life in 5 points

1. Every person on the way is an angel

He is your helper and did not meet for nothing. He either tests you or loves you. No other is given.

I had a case when I was young. We drank with a friend, we parted late. In the morning I call to find out how I got there, and they tell me: he fell under the train, cut off both legs. The trouble is unbearable, isn't it? I went to his hospital, he said: "You feel good, but here I am …" - and opened the blanket, and there … horror! He was a proud man. And he became the most modest, cheerful.

Put on prostheses, a wife, four children, a children's writer, filled with happiness up to his ears. This is how the Lord heals souls with physical diseases! Perhaps, if grief had not happened to the man, he would have been proud further - and dried up like a stale crust.

This is the difficult to bear, but the closest way to spiritual purification. You need to learn every minute, think every minute what to say. And create, create, create.

Life strikes at times, but these strikes are medicine. "Punishment" - from the word "order". And the mandate is a lesson, a teaching.

The Lord teaches us as a caring father. He puts his little son in a corner so that he doesn't do bad things next time. The child is torn, and the father holds his hand so that he does not fall under the tram. So is God.

Temptation is an exam. And why the exam? To pass it. In these tests, we become purer and purer.

They burn the gold in the fire to make it pure. So are our souls. We must endure sorrow meekly, without asking "why?" This is our path.

2. The true meaning of life is to love

Why do we live? For many years I did not answer this question in any way - I ran by. I was high, drank, fought, kept repeating: "I am in charge." And the real meaning of life is to love.

It means donating, and donating is giving. The scheme is very simple.

This does not mean going to church, lighting candles and praying. Look: Chechnya, 2002, eight soldiers are standing, one at a grenade accidentally pulled the pin, and now it is spinning. The lieutenant colonel, 55 years old, never went to church, did not light a single candle, a nonbeliever, a communist, four children … threw himself on a grenade with his belly, it into pieces, the soldiers are all alive, and the commander - a bullet to heaven. This is a sacrifice. Higher than giving your life for another, there is nothing in the world.

In war, everything manifests itself. Everything is compressed there.

And in everyday life it is blurry. We think: there is still tomorrow for good deeds, the day after tomorrow … And if you die already tonight? What will you do on Thursday if you die on Wednesday?

It seems that only yesterday Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky was sitting next to him, here is his jacket, here is the pipe. Where is Oleg Ivanovich now? We became friends on the set of the film "Tsar". We talked a lot about life. I talk to him after his death. I pray: "Lord, have mercy and save his soul!"

That's what goes there - prayer. Therefore, when I die, I do not need luxurious oak coffins and flowers. Pray, guys, for me, because I have lived a very different life.

Prayer is also important in life. The word "thank you" - "God save" is already a prayer. Sometimes, I can't find glasses, I ask the Creator of the Universe: "Help, Lord!" - and I find it. The Heavenly Father loves us, you can always turn to him for help.

Do you know what a miracle it is ?! We are sitting here with you, such worms, and we can directly say: "Lord, have mercy!" Even a small request is a request to the Universe. Here's a cool guy! No heroin was lying around!

The Lord is not an evil guy with a stick who, sitting on a cloud, considers our actions, no! He loves us more than mom, than all of them put together. And if it gives some sorrowful circumstances, it means that our soul needs it. Remember your life in moments when it was hard, difficult - that's the thrill, that's where it's cool! I wrote this little thing: the worse the conditions, the better the cats. Like this…

3. Love is to wash the dishes out of turn

Seeing the good, clinging to it, is the only productive way. The other person can do a lot wrong, but he is necessarily good at something. It is for this thread that you have to pull, and ignore the rubbish.

Love is not a feeling, but an action. There is no need to burn with African feelings for the old woman, giving her a place in the subway. Your act is also love.

Love is to wash the dishes out of turn.

4. Save yourself - and that's enough for you

You can't tell about the taste of pineapple if you don't taste it. You can't talk about what Christianity is without trying.

Try to give in, call Lyudka, whom you haven't spoken to for five years, and say: "People, let's finish this whole story: I said something wrong, you said … Let's go to the cinema." You will see how good the night will be!

Everything returns a hundredfold to you, beloved, but not with rags, but with a state of mind. Here is real happiness!

But in order to achieve it, every minute you have to think, what to say, what to do. All this is creation.

Look what is going on around: how many good people, clean, amazing, funny faces. If we see filth, it means that it is in us. Like connects with like. If I say: here is a thief, it means that I myself stole, if not a thousand dollars, then a nail. Don't judge people, take a look at yourself.

Save yourself - and that's enough for you. Bring God back into yourself, turn your gaze, your eyes, not outside, but inside. Love yourself, and then turn your pride into love for your neighbor - this is the norm.

We are all perverts. Instead of being generous, we are greedy. We live on the contrary, we walk on our heads. To get on your feet is to give. But if you gave ten thousand dollars, and then regretted it, thought that it was necessary to give five, - your good deed, count it and no.

5. I lived through today - did anyone feel good about it?

Every night you need to ask yourself a simple question: I have lived today - did anyone feel good about it?

Here I am, a famous cool artist, rock 'n' roll player - I can talk to you in such a way that you will keep pace. But would it be any better for me? Or you?

One of the names of the devil is "separating". The inner devil inspires: you are right, old man, let's build everyone! I try not to be like that. I advance in my mental work every day. Mosquito steps.

I do not want to be proud of anything: neither my role in the film "The Island", nor my poems, nor my songs - I want to look at all this from the edge. It's a miracle for me - every day, every day I have a different sky.

And one day is different. Happiness that I began to notice it. I missed a lot, I'm sorry. I cry about this, internally, of course. Everything could be cleaner and better.

One person said: you wrote such songs because you drank vodka. But I wrote them not thanks to vodka, but in spite of it.

From the height of my 60 years, I say: you can't waste a minute in this life, time is short, life is short, and every moment can be beautiful in it. It is important to get up in the morning and clean up around.

If I woke up in a bad mood, I do not drink port, but say: “Lord, something is bad for me. I hope for you, nothing works for me. This movement is the most important.