Väga tark vaimulik sõnum.Tõeliselt Jumalakartliku ,ülla inimese sõnum. Ilusam ja südamesse minev ,kui kirikutes kuuldav.Tõline PÜHA VAIMU meistriteos. AU ISSANDALE ja tänu Arvo Pärdile.
Thought fragments from Arvo Pärt’s musings at the seminar entitled „Arvo Pärt and theologians“ which took place at Tartu University 1. We have inherited our capacity to create from God, who created the human being after his own image. Scientists and artists nourish themselves with crumbs from God’s bountiful table. Let us allow Bach or El Greco to have their faith; then, in response, we can admire their art with a cleaner heart. If we look - catholic, orthodox, protestant - these different confessions are like different fractions. In order for one to orient oneself in this chaos, it is necessary to find a common denominator. Probably all parties must traverse a painful road and lose everything, as far as the world is concerned, in order to then win everything. The way Christ, losing everything, won everything. This is the common denominator: this is the love of God. Love which unites everyone. Even when we don’t notice it ourselves. 2. The greatest victim is love. At the same time, love cancels the concept of „victim“. The „victim“ becomes love. And if we don’t yet know how, are not able to love him - God - then maybe we could still be helped by knowing that he loved us first. Lord Jesus Christ - love me in such a way, that I could know how, be able to love you. 3. None of us knows how long we will be given to live, and that’s why I am talking precisely about this most important subject. If you look at all questions and problems as though immediately before your death, you get clear, concise and correct answers. This is the shortest path to truth. Theoretically, the clock of life always reads five minutes to midnight. 4. We are all playthings of earth’s gravity; this gravity formula has an author, of whom we are blood relatives. Regardless of how far away God is, we can align ourselves in his direction in the straightest and most direct way, and he himself comes to meet us on this road, because we are his creation. We don’t have to invent him; he invented us. Yes - he comes himself to meet us. Maybe he is waiting for us to thank him, if just a little bit. If just for the fact that we exist at all. 5. The composer is an instrument, and in order for the instrument to sound correctly, it has to be in order. One should start with this, not with music. By means of music a composer can as if check whether or not he or she as an instrument is on key, and on what key. Every kind of creative work, also composing, should contain by turns also brief physical work and prayer. Something like rondo form - a-b-a-c-a-d-a. 6. The price of quality is willingness to sacrifice. The price of willingness to sacrifice is love. Only comprehending this can improve the quality of a person’s soul. Willingness to sacrifice - this is readiness to let go, and it starts with small things. Like a sprout of love which stretches towards light, cleanness and truth - actually, toward God. Nothing big and true can happen in the heart or on the staff paper, if you are not ready to pay the price of letting go of [some of] your daily bustlings. God knits a person in their mother’s womb over a long stretch of time, and wisely. Art should also be born this way. 7. When you have confessed your soul clean, a different spirit appears among the two-three sounds you have written. Confess your heart clean and your creation has a different flight. It is so simple, you know, so simple. If you want to be free, then the first step is to liberate yourself in confession from this burden. One must learn this art, too. Ask, ask, and scour yourself. Ask the cat, even: admire with what great care it does this. 8. Silence judges our every word. It should be taken seriously. One should speak about silence not with words, but with deeds. Silence is wisdom. 9. Living according to God’s commandments is literally a creative activity. I am not telling you this as though I myself might have accomplished something here. But I am completely persuaded that every step is then a discovery, through tears and sweat, of course: a chain of losses and findings, of self-transcendence, of falling and getting up again. 10. Where is our home? How far we fall from there every day, innumerable times, without asking why this happened, and without drawing any conclusions. Even regret is of little avail, if it remains only on the level of the intellect; if so, then the first adjustment should begin here. 11. Life is a school of humility, where plagiarism has no place; only in such a case can it be a school. We cannot manage here with our own strength. With God’s help, though, yes indeed - magnificently, even. For this to happen, one must come to know the beauty of the will of God and want oneself to live according to it. 12. Our consciousness - not to speak of our own face - is like a dirty mirror, which doesn’t even reflect the sunlight. Humanity is a suffering garbage dump where nothing changes, without a single regret. I believe this, but I myself do not learn from it. I believe this, that all people must repent, the whole world. Every manifestation of lack of cleanliness of soul, that is to say sin, stands in the way of us moving forward in our creation. We get bogged down at every word and sound as if trying to hide something, without understanding that the key to the next step is in repentance. That is why everything in our life is angular, doesn’t flow. The part in us which is eternal has to become clean. So what must we do? Where to begin? Maybe it would be more correct to ask, for a start, what we mustn’t do in order that our conscience might awake, because it doesn’t even occur to one, that everything that is wrong in the world is also one’s own fault. 13. Every good deed remains in the world - like every bad deed does. Even what has been done in secret, maybe initially in invisible form; but everything which is unconfessed and un-repented, we bequeath to our descendants. 14. Everything changes here in the world. Big, powerful nations disappear suddenly. Continents sink forever into the depths of the sea. Whole civilizations disappear, disappear like idols. But our spirit, a truth-seeking spirit, longs for such a conception which would be more enduring than a hundred or a thousand years. In the end, the point does not have to do with hundreds and thousands of years. We have to be cognizant of the truth now, still being here. This is the way.
+theofilimonahi Thank you for the text! Although it is a bliss just to hear Arvo speaking, to follow his thought in words and not just in music is a great blessing.
Thank you for this post. I am Estonian, born and raised in Canada. Though I speak everyday Estonian with ease, there were many words I was wondering about and only sensing their meaning from context. I saw your post and am very grateful that I was able to listen in Estonian while reading your post and getting the words I was unfamiliar with. Listening in my mother tongue made this all come alive. God bless you for this.
Meie president kogu aeg nutab,et eesti rahval on vaja tarkust ja tarkust.Selle ta jätab ütlemata kust ja Kelle käest me selle tarkuse saame.Aga Arvo Pärt annab meile väga täpse vastuse.Ta on meie rahva prohvet.Tänu Talle selle Sõna seest
