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Leo Tolstoy
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January 24 - January 25, 2021
We are amazed at the size of a big mountain, the sun, or the stars in the universe. But these great things are nothing compared to our souls — the most powerful thing in the world.
If people could understand that they do not live individual lives but that their lives and souls are linked to others’, then they would know that in doing good deeds for others, they do good for themselves.
Unification in Spirit
Every person has two masters: the body and the soul. When the body rules, one struggles and experiences
However, the more one grows in spiritual understanding, the more one’s internal power transfers to the soul — to the spirit that seeks unification with the souls of others.
You become what you love. If you love earthly things, you will become earth. If
you love God, then you will become part of God.
It is all right when people praise you for your work. But it is wrong to do your
work in order to be praised by others.
The best solution is to be kind and good
while ignoring the opinions of others.
Nourish your soul, not your fame or popularity.
One who lives a true life does not need praise or fame.
You must remember that life is a lesson. This lesson is about how to nourish your soul, and those who, instead of nourishing their soul, dedicate their lives to acquiring wealth are mistaken.
It is easier to get along with people when you treat them as if they are better than you, as
Yet knowing a lot is not as important as knowing a few of the most necessary things.
Socrates said that being foolish does not mean knowing a little but rather pretending to know what is not known.
improve humanity, one must find the answers to those questions that really matter in this life. Discovering such truths is possible.
Indeed, the more energy one puts into pleasing the body, the less energy one will have to invest in a spiritual life.
One of the most precious things a person can do while on this earth is to experience rage without behaving as such.
That is his or her choice; but my choice is to do what is good.”
Yet, in order to do so, a person must live for his or her soul and be ready for the considerable effort this requires.
truth requires one to make an effort if one is to be freed from misconceptions and lies. You make an effort
make an effort to wake up in life and move from your animal self to your spiritual self.
Our real lives unfold when we are alone, when we are one-on-one with our thoughts.
this reason, be very careful with your words.
People learn how and what to speak, but there is a much more important science: how and when to keep silent. A kind word is a key to a person’s heart.
However, a truth you discover for yourself is like a part of your own body. It belongs to you.
All temptation comes from pride. To save yourself from temptation, be humble.
The major task in every person’s life is to become a kinder and better person.
Humility offers a kind of joy that cannot be achieved by a selfish and proud person.
perfection of the soul in loving other people.
We can talk through love. If we love others with our actions and deeds— this will be our help from God, this is our greatest blessing.
bird were to swim or a fish were to fly. The greatest way to improve each other’s lives is not through money, gifts, good advice, or even work, but through love. Every person’s responsibility is to nurture love and bring it into this world.
Love is the most important thing of all. But one cannot love in the past or the future. One can love only now, at the present time and in the present moment.
Yet there is only one thing that is always complete — our love toward other people here, in the present moment.
Death is the breaking of the vessel in which our spirit was enclosed. You should not confuse the vessel with what is inside it.
when it appears, does not come from nothing, but rather from God. And when death takes us, it does not take us to nothing; it takes us to God.
We often neglect the joy of this life, expecting that someday, somewhere, we can secure a better blessing. But there can be no better one than this — here, in your everyday life.
your life does not seem like a limitless blessing and a limitless joy, then it is moving in the wrong direction. Try to live your life in such a way that if it should end soon, the time left would be an unexpected gift.
The first rule of wisdom is to know thyself.
Live for others, and then you will find true happiness.
but happiness is to be found inside you. If it is not within, then it is nowhere else. Happiness is in your ability to love others.
Love without stopping, and then you will have constant blessings and happiness.
soon as you concentrate your life in the unification of love with all living creatures and with God, then your life will change at once from tortures and suffering to happiness and blessings.
There are two paths in life: one is to live for the body, the other for the spirit. If
If you live for the spirit, on the other hand, the joys of life will multiply with time, and
you live for the spirit, on the other hand, the joys of life will multiply with time, and death will no longer be something to fear.
As soon as you understand that your inner “me” is the spirit enclosed in your body, the puzzle disappears, and the world becomes easy to comprehend.
If we compare our physical force with the forces of nature — we are nothing. If we look at our spirit, which is part of the divine spirit, we understand that we are something above the rest of this world.
