"For the first time I had the consciousness of my spirituality with an unusual and fresh clarity. I don't feel well, I feel the weakness of the body and I imagine so simply, clearly, easily liberation from the body, not death, but liberation from the body. So clear has it become that the true "I" is indestructible, that only it, the "I", really exists, and if it exists it cannot be destroyed, while the body does not really exist. And everything became firmness, joy! The fragility, the illusory body, which only appears to be, became so clear. Is this new state of mind a step towards liberation? I think so, because I called Ivan and I felt something joyful, close, in the conversation with him. God bless, God bless. As if I felt the release of that one thing: LOVE. Oh, that it would remain so until death, and that it would pass on to men, my brothers!
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Leo TolstoyAll Translations
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For the first time I had the consciousness of my spirituality with an unusual and fresh clarity. I don't feel well, I feel the weakness of the body and I imagine so simply, clearly, easily liberation from the body, not death, but liberation from the body. So clear has it become that the true "I" is indestructible, that only it, the "I", really exists, and if it exists it cannot be destroyed, while the body does not really exist. And everything became firmness, joy! The fragility, the illusory body, which only appears to be, became so clear. Is this new state of mind a step towards liberation? I think so, because I called Ivan and I felt something joyful, close, in the conversation with him. God bless, God bless. As if I felt the release of that one thing: LOVE. Oh, that it would remain so until death, and that it would pass on to men, my brothers!
""Pentru prima oară am avut conștiința spiritualității mele, cu o limpezime neobișnuită și proaspătă. Nu mi-e bine, simt slăbiciunea trupului și-mi închipui atât de simplu, de clar, de ușor eliberarea de trup, nu moartea, ci eliberarea de trup. Atât de limpede a devenit faptul că adevăratul „eu“ e indestructibil, ca numai el, „eul“, există cu adevărat, iar dacă exista nu poate fi distrus, în timp ce trupul nu există cu adevărat. Și totul a devenit fermitate, bucurie! Fragilitatea, iluzoriul trupului, care doar pare a fi, au devenit atât de limpezi. Oare aceasta noua stare sufletească e un pas spre eliberare? Cred că da, pentru că l-am chemat pe Ivan și am simțit ceva plin de bucurie, de apropiere, în conversația cu el. Să dea Dumnezeu, să dea Dumnezeu. De parcă am simțit eliberarea acelui unic lucru: IUBIREA. Ah, de-ar rămâne așa până la moarte și de s-ar transmite oamenilor, fraților mei!"