from War and Peace
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Yes, love (he
thought again with perfect distinctness), but not
that love that loves for something, to gain
something, or because of something, but that love
that I felt for the first time, when dying, I saw my
enemy and yet loved him. I knew that feeling of love
which is the very essence of the soul, for which no
object is needed. And I know that blissful feeling
now too. To love one's neighbours; to love one's
enemies. To love everything- to love God in all His
manifestations. Someone dear to one can be loved with
human love; but an enemy can only be loved with
divine love. And that was why I felt such joy when I
felt that I loved that man. What happened to him? Is
he still a live?... Loving with human love, one may
pass from love to hatred; but divine love cannot
change. nothing, not even death, nothing can shatter
it. It is the very nature of the soul....
Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because I love. All is, all exists only because I love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God, and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.
from War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy
Love is life. All, all that I understand, I understand only because I love. All is, all exists only because I love. All is bound up in love alone. Love is God, and dying means for me a particle of love, to go back to the universal and eternal source of love.
from War and Peace
Leo Tolstoy