"The ultimate spiritual good (or the ultimate spiritual delight), I would even say refined, is love towards the one who hates, towards the one who wants to harm me. Amazingly, the greater the river is for bodily life, the greater the good for spiritual life, in love. How not to live life in love, not to educate yourself to live this life? It is possible, I see it in myself with amazing clarity.
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Leo TolstoyAll Translations
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The ultimate spiritual good (or the ultimate spiritual delight), I would even say refined, is love towards the one who hates, towards the one who wants to harm me. Amazingly, the greater the river is for bodily life, the greater the good for spiritual life, in love. How not to live life in love, not to educate yourself to live this life? It is possible, I see it in myself with amazing clarity.
""Binele spiritual suprem (sau desfătarea spirituală supremă), aș fi vrut să spun chiar rafinat, este iubirea față de cel care urăște, față de cel care vrea să-mi facă rău. Uimitor lucru, cu cât e mai mare râul pentru viața trupească, cu atât e mai mare binele pentru viața spirituală, în iubire. Cum să nu trăiești viața în iubire, să nu te educi pentru a trăi această viață? E cu putință, văd asta în mine cu uimitoare limpezime."