JUNE] The Journal of Leo Tolstoi
do nothing else but send it to them through the post. 382 Kolichka is with me helping me in the work.
I continue to write out from my note-book :
14) Nearing the place of destination, one thinks more and more often of that place to which one is nearing. Thus also while nearing death, the change of destination.
15) Only always to remember that there is no other meaning in life, no other way of finding the joy of life, but through fulfilling His will. And how peacefully and joyously one could live !
1 6) In time of illness, to fulfil His will by pre- paring oneself for the going over into another form.
17) It seems to us that the real labour is the labour on something external: to make, to collect something; property, houses, cattle, fruit; but to labour on one's own soul that is just phantasy. And yet every other labour except on one's own soul, the enlarging of the habits of good, every other labour is a bagatelle.
1 8) They do not obey God, but adore Him. It is better not to adore, but to obey.
19) No matter what the work you are doing, be always ready to drop it. And plan it, so as to be able to leave it.
20) The machine ... is a terrible machine.
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