He immediately wrote a letter to his brother: “And only then did I know how much I loved you my dear brother!” All the small questions that used to concern him fell away. “When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul—then my heart bleeds.” His life, he felt, would begin again. “Never has there seethed in me such an abundant and healthy kind of spiritual life as now….Now my life will change, I shall be born
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