"One of the main causes of suicides in the European world is the false Christian doctrine of the church about heaven and hell. The world does not believe in heaven and hell, but meanwhile the idea that life must be heaven or hell has been so strongly imprinted on its mind that it does not accept the rational understanding of life as it is, not as heaven or hell, but as struggle, unceasing struggle, unceasing because life means precisely struggle, but not the struggle of the Darwinist theory between beings, between individuals and beings, between individuals, but the struggle of spiritual forces with their bodily limits. Life is the battle between soul and body. Understanding life in this way, suicide is impossible, useless, absurd. The good is only in life. I look for the good. How to leave life to find the good? I'm looking for mushrooms. Mushrooms only grow in the forest. How to get out of the forest to find mushrooms?
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Leo TolstoyAll Translations
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One of the main causes of suicides in the European world is the false Christian doctrine of the church about heaven and hell. The world does not believe in heaven and hell, but meanwhile the idea that life must be heaven or hell has been so strongly imprinted on its mind that it does not accept the rational understanding of life as it is, not as heaven or hell, but as struggle, unceasing struggle, unceasing because life means precisely struggle, but not the struggle of the Darwinist theory between beings, between individuals and beings, between individuals, but the struggle of spiritual forces with their bodily limits. Life is the battle between soul and body. Understanding life in this way, suicide is impossible, useless, absurd. The good is only in life. I look for the good. How to leave life to find the good? I'm looking for mushrooms. Mushrooms only grow in the forest. How to get out of the forest to find mushrooms?
""Una dintre principalele cauze ale sinuciderilor în lumea europeană e falsa doctrina creștină a bisericii despre rai și iad. Lumea nu crede în rai și iad, dar între timp ideea ca viața trebuie să fie rai sau iad i s-a întipărit atât de tare în minte încât nu acceptă înțelegerea rațională a vieții așa cum este ea, nu ca rai sau iad, ci ca luptă, luptă neîntreruptă, neîntreruptă fiindcă viața înseamnă tocmai luptă, dar nu lupta teoriei darwiniste dintre ființe, dintre indivizi și ființe, dintre indivizi, ci lupta forțelor spirituale cu limitele lor trupești. Viața este lupta dintre suflet și trup. Înțelegând astfel viața, sinuciderea e imposibila, inutilă, absurdă. Binele se afla numai în viața. Eu caut binele. Cum să plec din viața pentru a găsi binele? Caut ciuperci. Ciupercile cresc numai în pădure. Cum să ies din pădure ca să găsesc ciuperci?"