"I just thought about something very important for me: I still want, I don't know if it's from old habit or from the nature of the human soul, I want to pray, to address Someone, God. Lately, trying to define my God, I came to recognize the impossibility of a relationship with Him, to deny Him for reason, but the need is alive. Lord, You, You are everything and I am your cloudy manifestation in the body, in the body separated from All, You - All, in Your complete perfection, help me. I say this and I feel better. I don't know who it is that I am asking to help me, but I know that He exists, the more, more sincerely, more fervently I beg Him to help me, the more I feel this help. Yes. Help me to free myself from the body, to merge with You, and I feel that You are already helping me, and I would like to say that I love You, but "I love" is not the right word. My feeling towards You is neither so hot as love, nor so narrow, carnal. It's not love. In love there is the desire for good, and here there is only the desire for union.
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I just thought about something very important for me: I still want, I don't know if it's from old habit or from the nature of the human soul, I want to pray, to address Someone, God. Lately, trying to define my God, I came to recognize the impossibility of a relationship with Him, to deny Him for reason, but the need is alive. Lord, You, You are everything and I am your cloudy manifestation in the body, in the body separated from All, You - All, in Your complete perfection, help me. I say this and I feel better. I don't know who it is that I am asking to help me, but I know that He exists, the more, more sincerely, more fervently I beg Him to help me, the more I feel this help. Yes. Help me to free myself from the body, to merge with You, and I feel that You are already helping me, and I would like to say that I love You, but "I love" is not the right word. My feeling towards You is neither so hot as love, nor so narrow, carnal. It's not love. In love there is the desire for good, and here there is only the desire for union.
""Tocmai m-am gândit la ceva foarte important pentru mine: tot vreau, nu știu dacă din vechea obișnuință sau din firea sufletului omenesc, vreau să mă rog, să mă adresez Cuiva, lui Dumnezeu. În ultimul timp, străduindu-mă să mi-l definesc pe Dumnezeu, am ajuns să recunosc imposibilitatea relației cu El, să-l neg pentru rațiune, dar nevoia e vie. Doamne, Tu, Tu ești tot iar eu sunt manifestarea ta tulbure în trup, în trupul separat de Tot, Tu - Totul, în desăvârșirea Ta deplină, ajută-mă. Spun asta și mi-e mai bine. Nu știu cine este Acela pe care îl rog să mă ajute, dar îmi ajunge să știu că El există, cu cât îl implor mai mult, mai sincer, mai fierbinte să mă ajute, cu atât simt mai mult acest ajutor. Da. Ajută-mă să mă eliberez de trup, să mă contopesc cu Tine, și simt că deja mă ajuți și aș vrea să spun ca Te iubesc, dar „iubesc“ nu e cuvântul potrivit. Sentimentul meu față de Tine nu e nici atât de fierbinte ca iubirea, nici atât de îngust, trupesc. Nu e iubire. În iubire există dorința binelui, iar aici există numai dorința de unire."