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By Tolstoy Submitted by B.K. Date: 2015 Jun 03 Comment on this Work [[2015.06.03.21.46.3680]] |
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The longer I live especially now when I clearly feel the approach of death the more I feel moved to express what I feel more strongly than anything else, and what in my opinion is of immense importance, namely, what we call the renunciation of all opposition by force, which really simply means the doctrine of the law of love unperverted by sophistries. Love, or in other words the striving of mens souls towards unity and the submissive behavior to one another that results therefrom, represents the highest and indeed the only law of life, as every man knows and feels in the depths of his heart (and as we see most clearly in children), and knows until he becomes involved in the lying net of worldly thoughts Any employment of force is incompatible with love. http://www.brainpickings.org/2014/08/21/leo-tolstoy-gandhi-letter-to-a-hindu/ |