Leo Tolstoy

• Temporal life is food for the true life.
• Therefore the true life is independent of time: it is in the present.
• Time is an illusion of life; life in the past and in the future conceals from men the true life of the present.
• Therefore man should strive to destroy the illusion of the temporal life of the past and future.
• True life is life in the present, common to all men and manifesting itself in love.
• Therefore, he who lives by love in the present, through the common life of all men, unites with the Father, the source and foundation of life.

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Originally published by Christian Classics Ethereal Library. Republished here with thanks.