People with great willpower. Ryazan disabled children: “We saw people with great willpower, and we don’t need to become sour. Matt Frazier: the seal man whose illness did not stop him from achieving success in show business
The amazing artist Olesya Matyash lives in the small town of Svobodny in the Amur Region. She paints pictures, despite the fact that as a child, as a result of an accident, she lost both hands. 
To live a full life is the credo of this strong and beautiful 32-year-old woman. Her story is well known in her hometown, and many still remember that terrible accident twenty years ago, due to which Olesya lost both hands. The fact that she paints pictures today, visits the gym and looks like a photo model is tantamount to a real miracle. Olesya received two higher educations - a psychologist and a teacher of fine arts and tries to earn a living on her own. The city authorities helped her with an apartment - they provided housing out of turn. 
- People don't know how to live! I am often asked strange, incorrect questions. Many look like an alien, they don’t understand why I don’t sit in a closed space and don’t feel sorry for myself, as a lot of people do, even those who have no problem. I try to move through life on my own. Don't be a burden to anyone. Now I am not married, I am raising a daughter, my parents are helping. Although I also try not to ask them for anything, they are already aged, but I am very grateful to them that they are always there and support. 
Even with such restrictions, Olesya does not consider herself a helpless person. Even in everyday life, she does almost everything herself. She cooks, for example, in special gloves, which she ordered in China. In her home there are a lot of devices that help her do without outside help. 
- People with whom fate brings me help me a lot. There is a familiar engineer-aviator, he is also a prosthetist, we met in social networks. He lives in the West. I saw my paintings, got to know each other, and he just offered to help me. Periodically sends various devices that make my life much easier. He designs everything, right down to the hair ties that I can put on myself. Made an easel convenient for me. He then patents his inventions. And I am acting here as an experimental rabbit, but in the best sense of this expression. I then tell him whether it is convenient for me, whether something needs to be improved and how. For me, his support is very important. 
Olesya says that she does not sit at home and sometimes travels to sketches even in other regions. Recently, with their daughter, they visited the Black Sea coast in Sochi. Daughter Sophia also became interested in drawing and tries to copy some of her mother's paintings. In Sochi, she was even offered to earn extra money on the boulevard of sketchbooks. But, as Olesya says, unhealthy attention was paid to her there. 
Each painting takes the artist several weeks to complete. Unfortunately, as Olesya says, her paintings are not particularly in demand in Russia. But buyers for her canvases are in France, and in Germany, and in Switzerland. Olesya is painting another picture for a customer from New York. The method of creation gives such paintings exclusivity, and this is very much appreciated in Europe and the USA. 
- You can live fully, rejoice and give this joy to others. But not all of this can be learned by yourself, it is important to push, help get out of a closed space, find a purpose in life. I have acquaintances with problems similar to mine. I share with them my knowledge, skills, explain how to improve the quality of life. How difficult it is for many! Pity for yourself and the opinion of the people around you is the first "stop" on the path to freedom. The main thing is only to overcome the psychological barrier. I did it. Even for pybezh one flew and was not afraid! All problems are in our heads, I am convinced. 
Everyone in life has moments when difficulties are overcome, and hands seem to be about to drop ... The stories of these amazingly strong-willed people will help many of us understand that you can cope with any situation and under any life circumstances, the main thing is to believe in yourself and to your strength!
1. Nick Vuychich: a man without arms and legs, was able to stand up himself and teaches others
Born in Melbourne, Australia, Nick was born with a rare condition: he was missing both arms to shoulder level, and a tiny foot with two toes protruded straight from his left thigh. Despite the lack of limbs, he surfs and swims, plays golf and football. Nick graduated from college with a double degree in accounting and financial planning. Today, anyone can come to his lectures, where Nick motivates people (especially teenagers) to never give up and believe in themselves, proving by example that even the impossible is possible.
2. Nando Parrado: Survived after a plane crash, 72 days waiting for help
Nando and other passengers suffered 72 days of cold captivity, miraculously surviving a terrible plane crash. Before flying over the mountains (which, ironically, fell on Friday the 13th), the young people who boarded the charter plane joked about the unlucky date, but they did not expect that on this day they would really be in trouble.It so happened that the wing of the plane caught on the side of the mountain and, having lost balance, fell down like a stone. Upon impact with the ground, 13 passengers immediately crashed to death, but 32 people survived, having received severe injuries. The survivors found themselves in conditions of extremely low temperatures, lack of water and food. They drank the melted snow and slept side by side to keep warm. There was so little food that everyone did everything to find at least some living creatures for a common dinner.
After 9 days of such survival in conditions of severe cold and hunger, the victims of the disaster decided on extreme measures: in order to survive, they began to use the corpses of their comrades as food. So the group held out for another 2 weeks, at the end of which the hope of being rescued completely melted, and the radio transistor (sending signals for help) turned out to be faulty.
On the 60th day after the accident, Nando and two of his friends decided to go through the icy desert for help. By the time they left, the crash site looked terrible - piss-soaked and death-smelling, littered with human bones and cartilage. Putting on 3 pairs of pants and jackets, he and a couple of friends overcame huge distances. Their little rescue team knew they were the last hope for everyone who was still alive. The men steadfastly survived the exhaustion and cold that followed them on their heels. On the 10th day of wandering, they still found their way to the foot of the mountain. There they finally met a Chilean farmer, the first person in all this time who immediately called the police for help. Parrado led the rescue team by helicopter and found the crash site. As a result, on December 22, 1972 (after 72 days of a brutal struggle with death), only 8 passengers survived.
After the plane crash, Nando lost half of his family, and during the crash he lost more than 40 kg of weight. Now he, like the previous hero of this article, is lecturing on the power of motivation in life to achieve goals.
3. Jessica Cox: the first pilot without arms
Jessica Cox suffers from a rare birth defect and was born without arms. None of the tests (which her mother took during pregnancy) showed that something was wrong with the girl. Despite her rare disease, the girl has tremendous willpower. Today, as a young woman, Jessica can write, drive, comb her hair and talk on the phone. She does all this with her feet. She also graduated from the Faculty of Psychology, studied dancing and is the owner of a double black belt in taekwondo. In addition to all this, Jessica has a driver's license, she flies a plane and can type 25 words per minute.The plane that the girl flies is called "Ercoupe". This is one of the few models not equipped with pedals. Instead of the usual six-month course, Jessica took a three-year course in aircraft driving, during which she was taught by three highly qualified instructors. Now Jessica has more than 89 hours of flight experience and became the first pilot in world history without arms.
4. Sean Schwarner: Overcame lung cancer and climbed the 7 highest peaks on 7 continents
Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth, is known for its dangerous climbing conditions, including strong gusts of wind, lack of oxygen, blizzards and deadly avalanches. Anyone who decides to conquer Everest faces incredible dangers along the way. But for Sean Schwarner, as practice shows, there are simply no obstacles.Sean at one time was not only healed of cancer, his case is truly considered a medical miracle. He is the only person in the world, survivors of the diagnosis of Hodgkin's disease and Askin's tumor. He was diagnosed with cancer of the fourth and last stage at the age of thirteen, and according to the forecasts of doctors, he was not supposed to live even three months. However, Sean miraculously overcame his illness, which soon returned when doctors re-discovered a golf ball-sized tumor in his right lung. After the second operation to remove the tumor, the doctors decided that the patient would last no more than two weeks ... However, ten years later, Sean (whose lungs are only partially functioning) became known to the whole world as the first cancer survivor to climb Mount Everest.
After conquering the highest point on the planet, Sean is full of desire and strength to move on and inspire people all over the world to fight the disease with his example. You can learn about this and his other climbs in the mountains, personal experience and ways to overcome the disease in his book "Continuing to grow: How I beat cancer and conquered all the peaks of the world."
5. Randy Pausch and his last lecture
Frederick Randolph or Randy Pausch (October 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) was an American professor in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In September 2006, Pausch learned that he had pancreatic cancer and that his illness was incurable. On September 18, 2007, he prepared and gave a very optimistic (for his condition) lecture called "The Last Lecture: Achieving your childhood dreams" at his native university, which soon became very popular on YouTube, and many well-known media invited the professors to their broadcasts .In that famous speech, he talked about the desires of his childhood and explained how he achieved each of them. Among his desires were: to experience weightlessness; participate in a National Football League game; write an article for the Book World encyclopedia; become one of those guys "who wins the biggest plush toy in the amusement park"; work as a designer-ideologist for the Disney company. He even managed to co-author a book called "The Last Lecture" (on the same topic), which soon became a bestseller. Although after a terrible diagnosis he was prophesied only three months, he lived for another 3 years. Pausch died on July 25, 2008 after complications from cancer.
6 Ben Underwood: The Boy Who "Saw" With His Ears
Ben Underwood was an ordinary mobile teenager from California, just like his peers, he loved to ride a skateboard and bike, play football and basketball. For the most part, the 14-year-old boy was the same as all children of his age. What makes Underwood's story unique is that the boy, leading a normal life for his age, was completely blind. At the age of two, Underwood was diagnosed with retinal cancer and had both eyes removed. To the surprise of most people who knew the teenager, he had absolutely no worries about his blindness, contrary to popular stereotypes of blindness as the "end of life."So, how did he manage to move like the sighted guys? The answer is simple: it's all about echolocation, a technique commonly used by bats, dolphins, and some other mammals and birds. When moving, Underwood usually made clicking sounds with his tongue, and these sounds were reflected from surfaces, "showing" him the nearest objects. He could make out a fire hydrant and a trash can, and literally "saw" the difference between parked cars and trucks. Coming into the house (where he had never been before), Ben could tell which corner was the kitchen and which was the staircase. An unwavering believer in God, the boy and his mother fought to the last for his life, but the cancer soon spread to Ben's brain and spine, and he died in January 2009 at the age of 16.
7. Liz Murray: From the slums to Harvard
Elizabeth Murray was born September 23, 1980 in the Bronx, in a family of HIV-infected parents, in a New York area inhabited only by the poor and drug addicts. She became homeless when she was only 15, after her mother's death and after her father was taken to a beggar's shelter. Whatever the girl had to go through during this time, but one day Murray's life changed dramatically, namely after she began attending a humanitarian course at the Preparatory Academy in Chelsea, in Manhattan. And although the girl went to high school later than her peers (without a permanent home and taking care of herself and her sister), Murray graduated from them in just two years ( note: in the US, the high school program is designed for 4 years). She was then awarded a scholarship for needy students by the New York Times and admitted to Harvard University in the fall of 2000. Liz was forced to interrupt her studies at the university in order to care for her sick father. Continuing her studies at Columbia University, where she was closer to him and stayed with him until the end, until he died of AIDS. In May 2008, she returned to Harvard and received higher education in the field of psychology.Subsequently, her biography, full of tragedy and faith, became the basis for the film, which was released in 2003. Today, Liz works as a professional speaker representing Washington Speakers. During each lecture for students and groups of business audiences, she tries to instill in the audience her strength of mind and will, which pulled her out of the slums as a teenager and set her on the right path.
Source 8Patrick Henry Hughes
Patrick is a unique young man, born without eyes and unable to fully straighten his arms and legs, making it impossible for him to move. In addition, two steel rods were surgically attached to his spine to correct his scoliosis. Despite all these circumstances, he overcame his many physical problems and excelled as a student and musician. Patrick learned to play the piano and trumpet, and also began to sing. With the help of his father, he took part in the marching band concerts at the University of Louisville School of Music.A virtuoso piano player, vocalist and trumpeter, Patrick has won numerous competitions and received awards for his strength of will and spirit, because what did it cost a young man to achieve all this. Many publications and television channels wrote and spoke about him, because such a huge willpower cannot go unnoticed.
Source 9Mat Frazier
The Englishman Mat was born with a serious illness - phocomelia of both hands (underdevelopment or absence of limbs). The reason for this was the side effects of the drug "Thalidomide", prescribed by his mother during pregnancy. Unfortunately, this is far from the only case when the imperfection of medicine and professional mistakes of doctors can break life.Although Matt's hands grow directly from the torso, and the shoulders and forearms are absent, the physical handicap did not prevent him from becoming a completely successful person. Fraser is not at all shy about his appearance, moreover, he often shocks the audience by performing naked. Mat is not only a rock musician, but also a fairly well-known actor, whose fame was brought by the role of Seal in the sensational TV series American Horror Story: Freak Circus. By the way, Fraser is far from the only actor in the series whose unusual appearance is not created using makeup or computer graphics. Probably, it was phocomelia that helped Matt Fraser to play a character suffering from the injustice of nature so believably.
Fraser proved to many that for success in show business it is not at all necessary to run to plastic surgeons, shredding your body for the sake of fashion trends. The main thing: to have willpower, diligence and talent!
10. Andrea Bocelli: the blind singer who won the hearts of millions with his voice
Andrea Bocelli is a world famous singer from Italy. The rarest musical abilities woke up in Andrea back in early childhood when he learned to play the keyboard, saxophone and flute. Unfortunately, the boy developed glaucoma and almost three dozen operations did not give the desired result. As you know, the Italians are one of the nations that love football. It was this hobby that forever deprived the boy of his sight when (during the game) a soccer ball hit him in the head.Blindness did not prevent Andrea from studying: having received a law degree, he continued his musical education with Franco Corelli, one of the best opera singers in Italy. A talented young man attracted attention and he was invited to various performances. Soon the career of the young singer rapidly went up the hill. Andrea became a popularizer of opera music, successfully combining it with modern pop style. An angelic voice helped him achieve success and world fame.
11 Gillian Mercado
Few people can boast of meeting the strictest requirements of the fashion world. In an effort to get into the ranks of models, girls exhaust themselves with diets and exercise. However, Gillian Mercado proved that you can love your body even when it is far from modern ideals of beauty. In early childhood, Mercado was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy, a terrible disease that left Gillian confined to a wheelchair. It would seem that the dreams of the world of high fashion were not destined to come true. Nevertheless, our heroine managed to attract the attention of the founders of the Diesel brand. In 2015, she was offered a lucrative contract and often began to invite her to various photo shoots. In 2016, she was invited to participate in a campaign for Beyoncé's official website.Of course, no one will envy the fate of Gillian, because she is forced to overcome every second of pain. However, the popularity of Mercado helps girls accept themselves as nature created them. Thanks to such strong-willed personalities, you begin to thank life for the gifts that we so often take for granted.
12. Esther Werger: multiple champion with paralyzed legs
Esther was born in the Netherlands in 1981. Since childhood, she was fond of sports, actively going in for swimming. However, during physical exertion, the girl often became ill. Despite numerous tests, doctors for a long time could not make an accurate diagnosis for Esther. After several brain hemorrhages, doctors finally identified Esther's problem - vascular myelopathy. At the age of 9, the girl underwent a complex operation that lasted about 10 hours. Unfortunately, the surgery further worsened the condition of the baby, who was paralyzed in both legs.The wheelchair did not stop Esther from continuing to play sports. She quite successfully played basketball and volleyball, but tennis brought her worldwide fame. Verger has won 42 Grand Slam titles. Esther's hundreds of victories have become a source of inspiration for people with disabilities who dream of a sports career.
Although in 2013 the girl finally left professional sports, she continues to achieve success. Trained in sports management, Verger is now Director of the International Wheelchair Tennis Tournament, consultant and lecturer for the Dutch Paralympic Team. In addition, she founded a charitable foundation to help sick children play their favorite sport.
13. Peter Dinklage: Became a screen star despite his unorthodox appearance
Peter is a prime example of people who can succeed against all odds in life. Dinklage was born with achondroplasia, a rare hereditary disorder that interferes with the development of long bones. According to doctors, the cause of achondroplasia lies in mutations in the growth gene, which leads to dwarfism. The income of the boy's family was rather meager: his mother taught music, and his father (once an insurance agent) became unemployed. Far from being the most rosy childhood, performances in front of the public with his older brother, a talented violinist, brightened up.Usually fame comes to actors quite early, but a lucky star lit up for Peter only in 2003 (when Peter was already 34 years old) after the release of the film The Station Agent. Not too rich track record in the early years of his career is due to the reluctance of the actor to act in roles that usually involve dwarfs. Peter flatly refused to play gnomes or leprechauns. From 2011 to this day, Dinklage plays the role of Tyrion Lannister, one of the key characters in the most successful TV series of our time. Actor's talent brought Peter many honorary awards, and not so long ago, a wax figure of Dinklage appeared in Madame Tussauds in San Francisco.
14. Michael J Fox
Canadian by birth, Michael from a young age gained fame in Hollywood. He was remembered by the audience thanks to the role of Marty McFly in the cult series of films about time travel. The worldwide love of fans, an impressive fortune (which totals several tens of millions of dollars) - many will envy this. That's just the life of Mackle only seems cloudless. The actor was no more than 30 years old when he began to develop symptoms of Parkinson's disease, although this disease usually occurs in old age. For a long time, Michael did not want to put up with the diagnosis: the furious denial of the disease almost became the cause of a new problem - alcoholism. Fortunately, the support of loved ones helped Fox come to his senses in time.Fox (despite all the physical difficulties generated by the tremor) continues to act in films to this day, striking us with acting talent. It is worth noting his participation in the TV series Boston Lawyers, where Michael played Daniel Post, a rich man who broke the law in an effort to maintain his health. Now Michael (in addition to his career in film and writing) is actively involved in supporting people suffering from Parkinson's disease. In the late 90s, he founded a public organization to study aspects of the disease and how to deal with it.
15. Stephen Hawking: the paralyzed genius who inspires millions to study science
Speaking of people who have done the impossible, one cannot fail to mention the luminary of modern science - Stephen Hawking. Stephen was born in 1942 in Oxford, a British city known throughout the world for one of the oldest universities. It is there that our genius will later learn. The craving for science was probably inherited from his parents, who worked in the medical center.During training (when Stephen was no more than 20 years old), he began to show serious health problems due to the development of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. This disease causes damage to the central nervous system and leads to muscle atrophy, and subsequently can cause complete paralysis. Unfortunately, existing medications only slow down the disease, but do not cure it. Hawking, despite the attempts of doctors, slowly lost the ability to control his own body and now he is barely able to move only one finger of his right hand. Luckily for Stephen, meeting talented scientists has paid off: thanks to the achievements of friends, Hawking can move around and communicate using an advanced wheelchair and a speech synthesizer.
For many people, a wheelchair becomes a curse that completely destroys the personality and the desire to do what they love. However, Hawking clearly demonstrates to us that even a completely paralyzed person is able to earn impressive amounts, flicker in the media headlines and build successful relationships on the personal front. Stephen's main achievement was his colossal contribution to modern physics and the advancement of science to the masses. Serious health problems did not deprive Stephen Hawking of a sense of humor: he loves to make comic scientific bets and even appeared in the comedy series Theory big bang, playing the role of himself.
These amazing personalities proved by their example that unlimited power lies in people. Man is able to survive in the most severe conditions. Will and perseverance help to fight the disease and achieve success. Science, sports, cinema, music, the world of fashion - any field of activity remains accessible under any circumstances. Do not curse fate for all the hardships. Find an incentive to win and don't give up. And maybe one day your path to success will motivate others!
Lack of purpose and ideal is a big problem for modern man. Aimlessness and the absence of an ideal paralyzed his will, man ceased to develop. For the sake of demonstrating his willpower, he began to destroy everything around and behave like an anarchist and nihilist. When he calms down and comes to his senses, he begins to be tormented by remorse. And when its energy grows, it destroys everything, all values, faith, religion, morality and justice. Alas, problems arise when he withdraws into himself, and do not disappear when he enters the social environment.
Such a modern man - a kind of bodily being with a huge thirst for consumption, an inert brain, constantly violent feelings and ignorant of his heart - does not have a single stable side, thought, action and plan that can invigorate his spirit and direct him to the future, and nothing else, apart from everyday gossip. When he is weak, he silently dismisses everything, and when he feels strength in himself, he expresses himself in the most destructive ways. From time to time, strong gusts of wind push it from side to side like autumn leaves, and sometimes they step on it, like an autumn leaf, where it is stuck and cannot move, and pass on without even looking back, all and sundry.
There were times when such a phenomenon almost became second nature to our people. From the day when the thinking and ideals of the people narrowed, his feelings withered, and he himself agreed to step under a glass cap, he either developed an inferiority complex, or began to carry complete nonsense, but in both cases he fought only with the national character. Unfortunately, now this struggle continues in another dimension. Imagine the picture: the whole world is building a new era, quickly switching from one grandiose project to another, and we are still in an unceasing crisis of a vicious circle. Our thoughts are scattered, we ourselves are excited, we are not consistent in actions, and not a drop of compassion remains in our hearts. The masses have become playthings in fits of nonsense, society is looking for a new niche of worship, guides wander in ignorance. Wherever you look, wherever you go, you will see a seething and seething that will make you wince. You are no longer able to look at intellectual life or morality, culture, art, politics, economics and law without sadness and shudder.
Now some of our neighboring peoples and societies with whom we once shared the same fate have endured the same sufferings, endured the same hardships, as if they take an example from us and compete with us in all sins. It can even be said that they succeeded in this field and left even us far behind. Sometimes it seems that the fate of this vast world is only endless strife, conflicts and wars, the dominance of brute force over justice and blind imitation. And what else can you expect from sparrows in a fight in which even eagles have fallen?! For the repair of the ship and its preparation for the release to the open sea of the people, who are worried about constant internal upheavals, every day more and more pulling it to the bottom, good fellows with high ideals, strong faith, stamina, determination and hope are needed. We need heroes who are able to sacrifice their feelings of material and spiritual exaltation and who have conditioned their lives on the lives of other people.
Yes, we need people with unshakable willpower, able to break and disperse the centuries-old heavy oppression that enveloped the earth and forced everyone, or we need heroes who at least softened and eased this oppression. Thanks to such high ideals as “seeing one’s salvation in the salvation of others”, “sacrifice one’s well-being and future for the happiness and well-being of others”, “pouring like air into the essence of every person and new blood into the blood circulation of every organism”, “seething over longing and thirst, like water, breathing life into all created things", "to subordinate one's actions to responsibility, elevated to an ideal in the depths of one's soul", "to help people find their lost spirit and meaning with a will of compassion that transcends the boundaries of personal responsibility, and tenderness that can embrace everything humanity”, and “to remind people of humanity in them”, humanity will breathe freely, the centuries-old suffering of the long-suffering will end, and perhaps the world will once again return to its axis. At the same time, of course, these ideals will serve as an example to all the idle souls that exist on earth without an ideal.
In addition, the universal destiny carries a program that does not allow them to live apart. Even if we close our eyes and ears, events in every possible way will emphasize the points of contact between people, distract from personal feelings, draw into the atmosphere of common experiences and remind conscience of the social side of a person. After all, every step of a person, one way or another, interests others, just like any event that happened in a far corner of the globe concerns us. Such a commonality stems from the essence of a person, his feelings, thoughts and the general effect of all events taking place in the immediate vicinity or far away, the predestination to live and share joys and hardships together. In fact, if a person could understand the mystery of the predestination “to live together”, then, relying on the fulfillment of the predestined, he could act much faster. If, by his own will and desire, he plunges into this natural flow, he will thereby complement the naturalness of the flow with intellectual, deliberate and strong-willed depth. Thus, he will not only express his essence as the essence of man, but also receive a reward for prayer and good intention and turn his will into a key that opens the gate to his ideal of eternity. Therefore, everyone who thinks about eternal life must necessarily be guided by the ideal of saving others so that on the way to eternity they could be embraced by all those whom they saved. And selfish, predatory and merciless souls, who break other lives for their salvation, have never loved and have not been loved and have always been rejected by all sections of society. In addition, the benefit of a useful person, first of all, finds him himself, and the harm of a harmful person comes, first of all, to himself. Wherever a person, whose essence is to bring good and benefit, shows his nature and character, expressing himself in the language of the heart, many ruthless souls softened and began to bring benefit themselves.
Overly ambitious people who are selfish, selfish, vengeful and ruthless in their actions, for the sake of their own survival, always try to be around the ruins like bats. They have chained themselves forever in the dungeons of their own worlds and will never hear of the breadth of the common world. In their narrow dark world they will never find peace. Their hearts and consciences are restless, they are always and everywhere a loser, because they have killed human values and their hearts in themselves.
Such people, who think only of themselves, are never open to other people and are examples of laziness. They are the living dead and will never feel the brightness and joy of life for the sake of the life of others.
Real life is a life that is planned with the people of today and tomorrow in mind and endowed with the ideal of living for them. Such consciousness, understanding, feeling, which dominates at every stage of a person's life, represents a complete picture of the true character of a person and is a comprehensive definition. This is such a picture, where every penetrating person can easily see the whole existence behind it in a very deep and warm light. There, a person looks at himself and others with the eyes of his heart and evaluates what he sees with the gratitude of his conscience. Thanks to this point of view, a person better contemplates his inner world and through the same prism gets to know his surroundings better. He understands that everything around and all people are softer and warmer, but such an inner depth is not achieved quickly. This is a manifestation of compassion that appears after a long period of maturation in the depths of our conscience. This is a human call in the language of the soul, which springs from the conscience of a kind person, paints everything around in its own shades and eventually makes everyone speak their own language. It comes directly from the heart, so it is never influenced by evil from the outside and evil spirits that pollute the air around.
There is no doubt that one day all spiritual beings will rush to this call - to a cordial meeting in heaven and on earth, for it is based on faith and has a depth of divine grace; the gates of heaven will open before him, and divine favor and approval will pour on him. That's when all hearts will beat in compassion, think with compassion, talk with compassion, treat with compassion, and embrace all beings with compassion. And the day the earth turns into a bright mirror of such compassion, we will love life with renewed vigor and encourage others to love it. At the same time, we will not forget to completely shake off the heaviness of our own nature in order to suggest to others the ways of gaining the eternity of the spirit and, from the horizon of contemplation of conscience, take a fresh look at ourselves and at others. We will not confine ourselves to the idea of goodness and beauty, which we can do, but we will try to reach the top in the matter of goodness and beauty, which we cannot, and constantly dream of unattainable peaks. When inaccessible peaks are reached, we will be filled with a feeling of gratitude for the Creator's mercies, we will testify and proclaim His mercies. And in front of high ideals that force us to be constantly at the limit, we will be in active expectation, inspiring our breath with hope with faith.
Such a spiritual level, which in any state encourages a person to do good, is the deepest side of a person. With such depth and aspiration, he reaches the highest levels, both in the eyes of the Creator and in human hearts. His creation in the best form, structure and character, i.e. man, due to his such depth. Attitude towards all people on such high level, as a result of a good relationship with the Creator, is a personal ideal of a person. Such a thought as "let me fall a martyr, but my people prosper" is the high ideal of the nation. Such nobility as "if the faith of my people is saved, I am ready to burn in the flames of hell" is a transcendental ideal. And the universal compassion expressed by the words “O Lord! Forgive my people, they don't know me!” is an all-encompassing ideal based on responsibility and a depth of mercy.
Summarizing, we can say that today humanity needs heroes of the ideal of a global scale, heroes who will extend a hand of compassion not only to their own people, but to all of humanity, heroes who pray for the well-being of others every time they raise their hands to the Almighty. This is such a big responsibility for every person. And no one, except themselves, will voice what is in their souls, and will not satisfy their needs.
M. Fethullah Gülen
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