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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
English (Source)
There is Something imperishable, unchanging, in short: nonspatial, timeless, and not in part, but whole. I know it exists, I feel part of it, but I see myself limited by my body in space and movement in time. I see how a thousand ages ago there were my human ancestors, and before them were the animal-ancestors and animal-ancestors, all this was and will be endlessly in time. I also see that I, too, occupy a place in infinite space with my body, and I am aware of the fact that all these were and will be, but all of them, both in infinite space and in infinite time, are all me. This explanation, which seems strange at first, but is essentially the simplest, is the way man understands his life: I am the manifestation of the Whole in space and time. All that is, all that is me, only I am limited by space and time. What we call love is only the manifestation of this consciousness. Manifestation is, of course, more alive in relation to beings closer in space and time.