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Quote by Leo Tolstoy
English (Source)
It is clear to me that neither my walking, nor my bodily movement, nor my thoughts represent life. What is life? I know only one answer: life is the liberation of the spiritual principle of the soul from the body that confines it. And that is why it is clear that those conditions that we consider catastrophes, misfortunes about which we say: this is not life (as I used to say and believed about my situation), they are precisely life or, in the last instance, its possibility. Only in those situations that we call catastrophes and in which the struggle between soul and body begins, only then does real life, life itself, become possible, if we struggle being aware of it, i.e. the soul conquers the body.