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Любовь к людям дает истинное, неотъемлемое внутреннее благо, соединяя человека с другими людьми и с богом.
Love for people gives a true, inalienable inward good, uniting us with other people and with God.
1. Никто не может помешать духовному развитию человека, кроме его самого. Ни физическая слабость, ни умственная неспособность не могут быть препятствием к развитию духовной природы, ибо развитие духовной природы — только в увеличении любви, а ничто не может препятствовать этому увеличению.
1. No one can hinder a man’s spiritual development except himself. Neither physical weakness nor mental incapacity can be an obstacle to the development of the spiritual nature, for the development of the spiritual nature lies only in the increase of love, and nothing can hinder this increase.
From The World's Advance-Thought and the Universal Republic · reworded by Tolstoy .
What changedLove that transforms sickness and poverty becomes love whose increase nothing can hinder; the claim that they persist where love is lacking is left out.
Lucy Mallory’s own wordsThere is no one stands in the way of each individual's spiritual unfoldment but himself. Physical sickness, mental disability and poverty are no barriers to the development of the spiritual nature, for these are all transformed by the expansion of love in the soul, and if they persist with any one, it is because he or she lacks love.--L. A. M.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. The World's Advance-Thought and the Universal Republic (Lucy A. Mallory’s journal), editorial paragraph signed 'L. A. M.' (Portland, Oregon), vol. XI, no. 4, June-July 1897, Among the editor's paragraphs, after the notice of Paul Tyner's magazine The Temple.
The first sentence is close. The second is changed: of 'physical sickness, mental disability and poverty' Tolstoy keeps the first two ('physical weakness', 'mental incapacity'), and Mallory's reason, 'for these are all transformed by the expansion of love in the soul, and if they persist with any one, it is because he or she lacks love', becomes 'for the development of the spiritual nature lies only in the increase of love, and nothing can hinder that increase'. Tolstoy leaves out the claim that sickness persists where love is lacking. 'L. A. M.' is Mallory's signature in her journal.
2. Разумный человек любит не потому, что это ему выгодно, а потому, что он в самой любви находит благо.
2. Reasonable people love not because it is to their advantage, but because they find the good in love itself.
Translation note. The Jubilee text breaks the italics at the comma Russian requires before «что»; the English sets the line as one.
3. Не сожалейте о прошлом, какая польза в сожалении? Ложь говорит: сокрушайся; правда говорит: только люби. Удали от себя все воспоминания. Не говори о прошедшем; живи в свете любви, и пусть проходит всё остальное.
3. Do not regret the past: what use is there in regret? Falsehood says: Grieve; truth says: Only love. Put all memories away from you. Do not speak of what is past; live in the light of love, and let all the rest pass by.
From Moncure D. Conway, The Sacred Anthology · shortened by Tolstoy .
Persian wisdom’s own wordsYe pious ! tell me not of love's repentance.
… good is there in mourning ? Falsehood says, ' Eepent ; ' Truth says only, ' Love !' That which is away from God remaineth not : put away from thee all remem brance of it.
… journeyest, speak not of the past, but only of the future ; recall not even tears of blood if thou hast shed them …
Abide in Love's shadow ; let all else pass on.
Kassim-ol-Enwar. d. A.C. 1431.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Moncure D. Conway, The Sacred Anthology (London, Trübner, 1874), no. LXXIV 'Love without Repentance', Conway pp. 47-48; margin 'd. 1431', the date Conway's chronological notes give for Kassim-ol-Enwar.
Taken from Conway in order and shortened: 'tell me not of love's repentance; what good is there in mourning? Falsehood says, Repent; Truth says only, Love! That which is away from God remaineth not: put away from thee all remembrance of it ... speak not of the past ... Abide in Love's shadow; let all else pass on.' Tolstoy makes 'love's repentance' 'regret for the past', 'Repent' 'grieve', and 'Love's shadow' 'the light of love'; he drops the opening (the soul greeted by a friend), the way to harmony, 'only of the future', the tears of blood, and the warning against fleeing the world. The section is marked 'd. 1431'; Conway's notes give that year for Kassim-ol-Enwar alone among his Persian poets.
4. У китайского мудреца спросили: «В чем наука?» Он сказал: «В том, чтобы знать людей». У него спросили: «В чем добродетель?» Он сказал: «В том, чтобы любить людей».
4. A Chinese sage was asked: “In what does learning consist?” He said: “In knowing people.” He was asked: “In what does virtue consist?” He said: “In loving people.”
Translation note. The exchange is Confucius’s, Analects XII.22, where the two questions come in the other order.
5. Человек не может достигнуть счастья, потому что чем выше его стремления к мирскому счастью, тем менее они осуществимы. Исполнение долга тоже не может дать счастья. Исполнение это дает мир, а не счастие.
Только божественная, святая любовь и слияние с богом дают истинное благо, потому что если жертва стала радостью, постоянной, растущей, ненарушимой радостью, то душа обеспечена неперестающим благом.
5. Man cannot attain happiness, because the higher his aspirations to worldly happiness, the less they can be realized. Nor can the fulfillment of duty give happiness. This fulfillment gives peace, and not happiness.
Only divine, holy love and union with God give the true good, because if sacrifice has become a joy, a constant, growing, inviolable joy, then the soul is assured of an unceasing good.
From Fragments d'un journal intime · reworded by Tolstoy .
What changedThe “highest aspirations” that keep us from being happy become “aspirations to worldly happiness,” the less realizable the higher they are.
Original · FrenchDu point de vue du bonheur, la question de la vie est insoluble, car ce sont nos plus hautes aspirations qui nous empêchent d'être heureux. Du point de vue du devoir, même difficulté, car le devoir accompli donne la paix, non le bonheur. C'est l'amour divin, le saint amour, la possession de Dieu par la foi qui résout la difficulté ; car si le sacrifice est devenu lui-même une joie, joie permanente, croissante et indéfectible, alors l'âme a un aliment suffisant et indéfini.
Source text: archive.orgIn English · Mrs. Humphry Ward, 1885From the point of view of happiness, the problem of life is insoluble, for it is our highest aspirations which prevent us from being happy. From the point of view of duty, there is the same difficulty, for the fulfillment of duty brings peace, not happiness.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Fragments d'un journal intime, Journal, under 27 juillet 1855 (7th ed., tome I, p. 103); Ward's translation, under September 4, 1855.
The whole paragraph. The second half is close ('duty fulfilled gives peace, not happiness'; 'if sacrifice has become a joy, permanent, growing, unfailing'). The first sentence changes: Amiel's 'it is our highest aspirations that keep us from being happy' becomes 'the higher a man's aspirations to worldly happiness, the less they can be realized'. 'The possession of God by faith' becomes 'union with God', and 'sufficient and boundless nourishment' 'unceasing good'. The 7th French edition prints the paragraph after the entry of 27 July 1855; Ward places it under September 4, 1855.
6. Постарайся полюбить того, кого ты не любил, осуждал, кто оскорбил тебя. И если тебе удастся это сделать, то ты испытаешь совершенно новое и удивительное чувство радости. Ты сразу увидишь в этом человеке того же бога, который живет в тебе. И как свет ярче светит после темноты, так и в тебе, когда ты освободишься от нелюбви, сильнее и радостнее разгорится свет любви божеской.
6. Try to love someone you did not love, whom you condemned, who offended you. And if you succeed in doing so, you will experience an entirely new and wonderful feeling of joy. You will see at once in that person the same God who lives in you. And as light shines brighter after darkness, so in you too, when you have freed yourself from dislike, the light of divine love will blaze up more strongly and more joyfully.
Translation note. «Нелюбовь», literally “unlove”, the absence of love; rendered “dislike”.
7. Я сознаю в себе силу, которая со временем преобразит мир. Она не толкает и не давит, но я чувствую, как она понемногу и неудержимо влечет меня. И я вижу, что меня что-то притягивает, так же как я бессознательно притягиваю других. Я увлекаю их, и они увлекают меня, и мы сознаем стремление к новому соединению.
И я спросил ту силу, которая была во мне: кто ты?
И она отвечала: я — любовь, владыка неба, и хочу быть владыкой земли.
Я — могущественнейшая из всех сил небесных, и я пришла, чтобы образовать общество будущего.
7. I am conscious within me of a power that will in time transform the world. It does not push or press, but I feel it drawing me, little by little and irresistibly. And I see that something attracts me, just as I unconsciously attract others. I carry them along, and they carry me along, and we are conscious of a striving toward a new union.
And I asked the power that was in me: Who are you?
And it answered: I am love, the ruler of heaven, and I want to be the ruler of the earth.
I am the mightiest of all the powers of heaven, and I have come to form the society of the future.
From Plain Talk in Psalm and Parable · shortened by Tolstoy .
Crosby’s own wordsI feel the force stirring within me which in time will re-form the world. It does not push or obtrude, but I am conscious of it drawing gently and irresistibly at my vitals. And I see that as I am attracted, so I begin unaccountably to attract others. I draw them and they in turn draw me, and we recognise a tendency to group ourselves anew.
Get in touch with the great central magnet, and you will yourself become a magnet; …
And I asked the force within my soul, …
Who art thou?
And it answered and said, …
I am Love, the Lord of Heaven, and I would be called Love, the Lord of Earth. I am the mightiest of all the heavenly hosts, and I am come to create the State that is to be.
Source text: archive.orgTolstoy’s own version · «Одумайтесь!»Стань в прикосновение с центральным магнитом, и ты сам станешь магнитом; …
Я — могущественнейшая из всех сил небесных, и я пришла, чтобы образовать государство будущего».
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Plain Talk in Psalm and Parable (Boston, Small, Maynard, 1899), 'The State', part III, pp. 185-187.
Shortened from Tolstoy's own earlier Russian. In «Одумайтесь!» (1904) he translated the whole of part III as an epigraph; for the Circle he leaves out the middle ('Get in touch with the great central magnet...' to 'human laws shrivel and dry up before us'), and Crosby's last words, 'to create the State that is to be', which were «государство будущего» (the state of the future) in 1904, become «общество будущего» (the society of the future). 'Which in time will re-form the world' becomes 'which in time will transform the world', and 'I would be called Love, the Lord of Earth' becomes 'I wish to be lord of the earth'.
8. Как мать, рискуя своей жизнью, воспитывает и оберегает свое детище, свое единственное детище, так пусть каждый человек воспитывает и оберегает в себе дружелюбное чувство ко всему живущему.
8. As a mother, at the risk of her life, nurtures and protects her child, her only child, so let every man nurture and protect within himself a friendly feeling toward all that lives.
From Sutta Nipata I.8, Mettasutta · close to the original .
Original · PaliMātā yathā niyaṁ puttam …
Āyusā ekaputtamanurakkhe; …
Evampi sabbabhūtesu, …
Mānasaṁ bhāvaye aparimāṇaṁ.
Source text: raw.githubusercontent.comIn English · V. Fausböll (SBE 10, part 2), 18817. As a mother at the risk of her life watches over her own child, her only child, so also let every one cultivate a boundless (friendly) mind towards all beings.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Sutta Nipata I.8, Mettasutta (also Khuddakapatha 9), v. 7 (Fausböll's no. 148).
Fausböll's verse, faithfully: 'watches over' becomes 'nurtures and guards', and 'cultivate a boundless (friendly) mind' becomes 'nurture and guard in himself a friendly feeling'; 'boundless' is dropped. The Pali has 'as a mother would guard with her life her own son, her only son, so toward all beings let one cultivate a boundless mind'.
Бесстрашие, спокойствие, радость, которые дает любовь, так велики, что блага мирские, даваемые любовью (любовь людей), незаметны для человека, познавшего внутреннее благо любви.
The fearlessness, calm, and joy that love gives are so great that the worldly goods given by love (people’s love) go unnoticed by anyone who has come to know the inward good of love.
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