Anna M. (ILI) - On Development and Temporary Nature of Life

To live, one must develop. Everything has its beginning and its end—every phenomenon and every person. This is something you can feel. But you don’t always understand when the end is coming, and that’s why you want to know in advance. Every person’s life has a beginning, a peak, and a completion. This is an objective reality. Nothing is infinite. Everything has a beginning and an end. It was a great revelation for me to learn that our universe will disappear. And humanity will disappear too. But then you realize that it transforms into some other quality.

We will all die—we will move into another quality. All processes have both a beginning and an end—this is something I feel very clearly.

The sense that a certain process is coming to completion comes from within: that’s it, now it will end, it’s finishing now.

Development is life, and life is development. If I am not developing, I am not living. Moreover, it’s as if fate itself pushes me to develop. Sometimes everything seems fine—work suits me, everything is good at home: a state of bliss, of pleasure—wonderful. And suddenly fate starts arranging some troubles—something happens at work that pushes you, or some problems arise at home—and then I know that I have stopped developing. That’s it, it means I need to do something; I’ve noticed this about myself. And my inner state is such that I want peace and calm. But peace leads to death—I understood that very clearly.

And when troubles happen in my life, I understand that I have stopped developing. When you live in a state of pleasure, it seems that everything is fine, but in reality, stopping is death.