What does a person need to live?Follow your body and develop the spiritual.What is more important from this?On this question, each responsible for its lifestyle.Someone there just to create around him comfort in the form of things and delicious food, and someone does not pay particular attention to material wealth, preferring to develop inner peace, guided by the rule: not by bread alone.
History and Importance
expression "Do not live by bread alone" came to us from the Bible.In the Old Testament, in Deuteronomy, when Moses spoke to his people, exhausted from the long-term return of Egypt, first heard these words.He said that the tests were given in vain, that all the while eating manna from heaven, and the word of the Lord, people now just know that not by bread alone man should live.These same words repeated and Jesus (New Testament, Matthew), passing the test in the desert, in response to a suggestion of the tempter to turn stones into bread, to prove their strength.And since then, in a rare classic work can not be found in varying interpretations of these words of wisdom: "Not by bread alone."The value of this expression is clear for everybody: the man to be a man must eat spiritual food.But follow that not everyone can.
poor in spirit
What kind of food is such, without which can not do a man's soul?It is the soul, not the mind.This search for meaning in life and its purpose, this understanding and the pursuit of higher justice it fit.This is an ongoing spiritual hunger.If we recall the words of Jesus that only the poor in spirit worthy of the kingdom of heaven, it is worth considering that the "poor" in this case are not the ones who do not have (or has little) spirit, and those who do little.Hungry for knowledge and understanding, discovering all the great spiritual spaces, and understand their immensity, and as long as poor (little known) themselves.Such "poor" definitely do not live by bread alone.
Word and Deed
can assume that everyone agrees that it is not by bread alone man should live.All agree, but if you look around, it seems to be the reverse.Is it because it is so that in the words and deeds of living expenses?Why is broken logical chain: the thought - word - is it?In practice, it turns out that people think one thing, say another and do the third.Hence all contradictions: having vast knowledge, including the spiritual, humanity prefers wealth.If the nutrition of human nature has created all necessary, then the person for profit has created even more harmful, artificial but beautiful food.If the preservation of health in the body requires a minimum of money and effort, the first person is doing it to lose health since childhood, and then (again, in order to enrich) sells it in the form of medicines and various paid services.If everyone understands that the beauty of a man - this is the beauty of the soul, why so much attention to clothes and all sorts of jewelry?If everything in words respect and appreciate the classics (literature, music, painting ...), why all the media people and plant a very different "food"?These "ifs" and "whys" can be listed indefinitely.Everything will change only when the foreground are sincere, spiritual values, and when they do not speak and do not live by bread alone.
