The Pathway to LifeCosimo, Inc., 1 nov. 2006 - 303 pages He is considered one of the greatest novelists in any language in all of human history, but Leo Tolstoy was also an influential social reformer, peace advocate, and spiritual philosopher. Here, he collects pearls of wisdom from the sacred treasuries of cultures around the globe-lofty thoughts about religious aspirations, temporal life, and moral conduct-interspersed with his own philosophies on matters such as the soul, sin, lust, anger, vanity, false religion, false science, and more. First published posthumously in 1919, this remains an inspirational work... and one that illuminates the mind of one of our most esteemed writers.Russian writer COUNT LEV ("LEO") NIKOLAYEVICH TOLSTOY (1828-1910) is best known for his novels War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877).ALSO FROM COSIMO: Tolstoy's The Kingdom of God Is Within You, Hadji Murad, and The Cossacks |
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... dwells within us right now , in this life , and that we attain eternal life when we become one with God , the Spirit in whom all things move and have their being . We can attain this eternal life through love alone . IV . Faith Guides ...
... dwells within us right now , in this life , and that we attain eternal life when we become one with God , the Spirit in whom all things move and have their being . We can attain this eternal life through love alone . IV . Faith Guides ...
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... dwells in the souls of men , and he who unites with it is happy . 3. If you serve God for the sake of bliss everlasting , you do not serve God , but serve your own ends . 4. The principal difference between true and false faith is this ...
... dwells in the souls of men , and he who unites with it is happy . 3. If you serve God for the sake of bliss everlasting , you do not serve God , but serve your own ends . 4. The principal difference between true and false faith is this ...
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... dwells in heaven . It is also said that He dwells in man . Both statements are true : He is in heaven , that is , in the limitless universe , and He is also in the soul of man . 2. Sensing the existence within his own individual body of ...
... dwells in heaven . It is also said that He dwells in man . Both statements are true : He is in heaven , that is , in the limitless universe , and He is also in the soul of man . 2. Sensing the existence within his own individual body of ...
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... dwells in all men , but not all men are aware of this . Happy is the life of him who knows this , and unhappy his life who does not know it . Brahminic wisdom . III . The Soul and the Material World 1. We have measured the earth , the ...
... dwells in all men , but not all men are aware of this . Happy is the life of him who knows this , and unhappy his life who does not know it . Brahminic wisdom . III . The Soul and the Material World 1. We have measured the earth , the ...
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... dwells within us . If we knew and remembered what dwells within us , our lives would be altogether different . Scovoroda . 2. All that is material in this world , we can not know the true nature thereof . Only the spiritual that is ...
... dwells within us . If we knew and remembered what dwells within us , our lives would be altogether different . Scovoroda . 2. All that is material in this world , we can not know the true nature thereof . Only the spiritual that is ...
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The Pathway to Life: Teaching Love and Wisdom Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy,Leo Tolstoy Aperçu limité - 2008 |
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Page 238 - When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers ? hath no man condemned thee ? She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee : go, and sin no more.
Page 53 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God: and they that hear shall live.
Page 128 - He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord: but he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.
Page 90 - He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now. He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.
Page 238 - This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not. 7 So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
Page 263 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Page 57 - I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true ; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
Page 246 - Then came Peter to him, and said, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him ? till seven times ? ~ Jesus saith unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times : but, Until seventy times seven.
Page 273 - Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts ; 47 Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
Page 170 - But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him? My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.