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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
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I understand more and more clearly that dreaming and waking, which seemed to me similar to life and death, are more than similar. Just as, waking up, I come to have a clearer, more real consciousness, through what was shown to me in my sleep, the same happens in the case of birth. And just as I remember only a little of what was (?) before birth, so in the waking state I rarely remember what was shown to me in a dream. Just as by falling asleep each day I lose touch with consciousness, so does dying. (The analogy stops at the point where we observe that in sleep we have a lower consciousness, which cannot be true in the case of death.) I lose contact with consciousness, and this loss is not only not a bad thing, but even desirable. Because this loss is rest and preparation for a better life.