Man’s freedom is expressed mostly in freedom from death. If man were immortal, that would significantly alter his attitude to himself, to the world, to life. Then we would not call this reality – “life”…

Our regular life, with its earthly concerns such as work, society, family and responsibilities with regard to those things; this is the main thing for us today. And somewhere, just a little bit, there exists something which is sort-of our hobby, something we are studying or in some way are partial to; that is, the spiritual. And then, the opposite happens: we begin to increase this spiritual realm inside of ourselves and we begin to live in it. In this case, everything else, or the earthly things, exists only out of necessity. That is, only as something that accompanies the spiritual part of us and something that supports us while we live in the spiritual.