"What is the binder that holds my tongue, my heel, my lungs together to make up my body? It is not the degree of closeness: the excrement is closer to me than the skin, and they do not belong to me, while the skin, the ear, the heel, the cells of the body are mine. Their binder is my conscience. Can the universes be connected through consciousness? Perhaps Earth, Mars, the Sun, and many others are united by consciousness, even though to me, with my limited imagination of time and space, it does not seem to me that they can be part of a whole.
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Leo TolstoyAll Translations
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What is the binder that holds my tongue, my heel, my lungs together to make up my body? It is not the degree of closeness: the excrement is closer to me than the skin, and they do not belong to me, while the skin, the ear, the heel, the cells of the body are mine. Their binder is my conscience. Can the universes be connected through consciousness? Perhaps Earth, Mars, the Sun, and many others are united by consciousness, even though to me, with my limited imagination of time and space, it does not seem to me that they can be part of a whole.
""Care este liantul care ține împreună limba, călcâiul, plămânii mei pentru a-mi alcătui trupul? Nu este gradul de apropiere: excrementele îmi sunt mai aproape decat pielea, iar ele nu-mi aparțin, pe când pielea, urechea, călcâiul, celulele organismului sunt ale mele. Liantul lor este conștiința mea. Oare universurile pot fi legate prin conștiința? Poate că Pământul, Marte, Soarele și multe altele sunt unite prin conștiința, chiar dacă mie, cu închipuirea mea limitata de timp și spațiu nu mi se pare că pot fi parte a unui întreg."