Generally something mystical is seen in our view of
life and death. But there is nothing of the kind.
I like my garden, I like to read a book, I like to pet
my children. Dying, I am deprived of all this, and so I
do not want to die, and I am afraid of death.
It may happen that my whole life is composed of such
temporal, worldly desires and their gratification. If so, I
cannot help but fear that my desires will come to an end.
But if these desires and their gratification have been
changed in me, giving way to other desires,—to fulfil
God's will, to surrender myself to Him in the form in
which I am now and in all the possible forms in which I
may be, then, the more my desires have changed, the less
death is, not only terrible to me, but the less even does it
exist for me.
But if my desires will be completely changed, there is
nothing but life, and there is no death.
To exchange the worldly, the temporal, for the eternal,
this is the path of life, and we must walk on it.
Each of us knows how this is in his soul.
LEO TOLSTOY
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