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Все внешние изменения нашей жизни ничтожны в сравнении с теми изменениями, которые совершаются в наших мыслях.
All the outward changes in our life are insignificant compared with the changes that take place in our thoughts.
1. Для того, чтобы могла произойти перемена в чувствах и поступках человека, должна произойти прежде всего перемена в его мыслях. Для того же, чтобы могла произойти перемена в мыслях, человеку необходимо сосредоточиться в сознании своей духовной природы и ее требований.
1. For a change to take place in our feelings and actions, a change must first of all take place in our thoughts. And for a change to take place in our thoughts, we must center ourselves in the consciousness of our spiritual nature and its demands.
2. Эпохи нашей жизни определяются не заметными нам, совершаемыми по нашей воле поступками: браком, получением места и т. п., но мыслями, которые приходят во время прогулки, среди ночи, за едою, в особенности теми мыслями, которые, охватывая всё наше прошедшее, говорят нам: ты поступил так, но лучше было бы поступить иначе. И все наши дальнейшие поступки, как рабы, служат этим мыслям: исполняют их волю.
2. The epochs of our life are determined not by the actions that we notice and perform by our own will — marriage, obtaining a position, and the like — but by the thoughts that come to us on a walk, in the middle of the night, at a meal, and especially by those thoughts which, taking in all our past, say to us: You acted in this way, but it would have been better to act otherwise. And all our later actions, like slaves, serve these thoughts: they carry out their will.
From Spiritual Laws, in Essays, First Series · reworded by Tolstoy .
What changed“A silent thought by the way-side as we walk” becomes thoughts that come “on a walk, in the middle of the night, at a meal,” “our choice of a calling” drops out of the visible facts, and “a thought which revises our entire manner of life” becomes thoughts “taking in all our past.”
What Tolstoy read · The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures, gathered by Stanton Coit… in a thought which revises our entire manner of lite, and says: "Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus ". And all our after-years like menials serve and wait on this and execute its will.
Source text: archive.orgThoreau’s own wordsBut real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the way-side as we walk; …
… in a thought which revises our entire manner of life and says,—‘Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus.’
And all our after years, like menials, serve and wait on this, and according to their ability execute its will.
Source text: gutenberg.orgRelated · Every Day with Thoreau, a calendar in The Coming DayOur thoughts are the epochs in our lives ; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blew while we were here.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Spiritual Laws, in Essays, First Series (1841), Near the end of the essay, after 'We adore an institution, and do not see that it is founded on a thought which we have'.
The words are Emerson's, from 'Spiritual Laws', and Tolstoy signs them Thoreau; the attribution is wrong. Thoreau has a sentence on the same theme, 'Our thoughts are the epochs in our lives' (letter to Harrison Blake, Concord, 9 August 1850), printed in the calendar 'Every Day with Thoreau' (The Coming Day, August 1898) that the Jubilee list names among Tolstoy's sources (Related); a confusion of the two may explain the signature, but nothing found shows how it arose. Coit's The Message of Man (1902) prints Emerson's passage under Emerson's name, without 'according to their ability', as Tolstoy has it (What Tolstoy read). Tolstoy changes it: 'the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office' becomes 'the acts we notice, done by our will: marriage, getting a position, and so on' (the calling dropped); 'a silent thought by the way-side as we walk' becomes 'thoughts that come during a walk, in the middle of the night, at a meal' (среди ночи, за едою, not in Emerson or Coit); 'a thought which revises our entire manner of life' becomes 'those thoughts which, taking in all our past'; 'Thus hast thou done, but it were better thus' becomes 'you acted so, but it would have been better to act otherwise'; and 'all our after years, like menials' becomes 'all our later acts, like slaves'.
3. Каждая мысль, на которой останавливается человек, всё равно, выражает он ее или нет, непременно или вредит, или помогает его жизни.
3. Every thought a man dwells on, whether he expresses it or not, inevitably either harms his life or helps it.
Source not found yet .
Related · The World's Advance-Thought and the Universal RepublicMan builds up the creatures of his own imagination, which take form, and aid or hinder, build up or destroy him; for each thought is a form in its germinal state, which, by repetition, becomes an entity.
Thus we see that it is the power of our own thoughts that blesses or mars our life.
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The English was not found. The nearest found is a paragraph in the run signed 'L. A. M.' in June–July 1903 (Related): the thoughts a man builds up 'aid or hinder, build up or destroy him', and 'it is the power of our own thoughts that blesses or mars our life'. It shares Tolstoy's either-helps-or-harms and has nothing of 'whether he expresses it or not' (всё равно, выражает он ее или нет). Issues of the journal from late 1892 to early 1897, from late 1899 to early 1901, and many after are not online.
Searched: The text layers of IAPSOP's PDFs of the 60 issues online from March 1897 to June 1906, and archive.org's scans of vols. II no. 1, III–VI, XIV–XVI, and XIX–XXII (1887–1909), saved, for 'whether expressed', 'whether he/we/you express', 'expressed or not', 'expressed or unexpressed', 'spoken or unspoken', 'utter it or not', 'dwell(s) upon', 'thought on which', 'entertain', 'harbor', 'help(s) or hinder(s)', 'help or harm', 'benefit or detriment', 'blesses or mars', and 'every thought'; archive.org full text for 'whether he expresses it or not'; Jubilee vols. 37, 40, 43 and 45.
4. Чтобы избегать грехов и побеждать их, прежде всего надо признать то, что корень каждого греха — в дурных мыслях.
Мы все — только последствия того, что мы думаем.
4. To avoid sins and overcome them, one must first of all recognize that the root of every sin lies in evil thoughts.
We are all only the consequences of what we think.
From Dhammapada · reworded by Tolstoy .
What changedAdds a first sentence found in neither the Dhammapada nor Conway, “one must first of all recognize that the root of every sin lies in evil thoughts,” and “All that we are is the result of what we have thought” becomes “We are all only the consequences of what we think.”
Original · PaliManopubbaṅgamā dhammā, …
… manoseṭṭhā manomayā; …
Source text: raw.githubusercontent.comIn English · F. Max Müller, 18811. All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.
Source text: gutenberg.orgTolstoy’s own version · Мысли мудрых людей на каждый деньНаша жизнь — следствие наших мыслей: она рождается в нашем сердце, она исходит из наших мыслей.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Dhammapada, v. 1 (Yamakavagga), its opening.
The second sentence is the opening of the Dhammapada in Max Müller's English: 'All that we are is the result of what we have thought' becomes «Мы все — только последствия того, что мы думаем» (we are all only the consequences of what we think). The Pali says 'mind goes before all states; mind is their chief; they are made of mind.' The first sentence, «Чтобы избегать грехов и побеждать их, прежде всего надо признать то, что корень каждого греха — в дурных мыслях» (to avoid sins and overcome them, one must first recognize that the root of every sin lies in bad thoughts), was found neither in the Dhammapada nor in Conway, and reads as Tolstoy's own lead-in. Thoughts of Wise Men (1903), 20 January, gives the whole verse in other words («Наша жизнь — следствие наших мыслей»).
Translation note. The Russian italic is broken only at the commas and dashes; each paragraph is set here as one span.
5. Определяет судьбу человека то, как он понимает себя.
5. What determines a man’s fate is how he understands himself.
From Walden · shortened by Tolstoy .
What Tolstoy read · Every Day with Thoreau, a calendar in The Coming DayPublic opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinions. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Source text: archive.orgThoreau’s own wordsWhat a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Walden (1854), ch. I, Economy, Early in the chapter, after 'Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion'.
Thoreau's sentence with 'or rather indicates' left out, so that Tolstoy says outright what Thoreau corrected himself on: what a man thinks of himself determines his fate. 'Thinks of himself' becomes 'understands himself' (понимает себя). Tolstoy found it in the calendar 'Every Day with Thoreau' (The Coming Day, April 1898), the sheets the Jubilee list names among his sources, which prints it twice, on 1 and 23 April, both times with 'or rather indicates' (What Tolstoy read); the entry for 2 April is the source of 6-8.6. No printable, for the words left out.
6. Беспорядочная мысль делает с нашим умом то же, что сделал бы с нашим домом беспорядочный человек, приглашенный нами пожить у нас.
6. A disorderly thought does to our mind what a disorderly man would do to our house if we invited him to stay with us.
From The World's Advance-Thought and the Universal Republic · close to the original .
Lucy Mallory’s own wordsA disorderly thought in the mind does in our being what a disorderly person would do in our house, if we invited him or her to come in and live with us.
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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, Portland, Oregon), vol. XII, no. 11, September 1899, p. 164, 'Key Thoughts', a column signed 'Lucy A. Mallory' at its end.
Close. One change: 'A disorderly thought in the mind does in our being what…' becomes 'A disorderly thought does with our mind what…' (Беспорядочная мысль делает с нашим умом то же, что…): the thought acts on 'our mind', where Mallory has it act 'in our being', and 'in the mind' is left out. 'What a disorderly person would do in our house, if we invited him or her to come in and live with us' becomes 'what a disorderly person invited by us to stay with us would do with our house' (что сделал бы с нашим домом беспорядочный человек, приглашенный нами пожить у нас). No printable, because 'in our being' becomes 'our mind'; the sense is unchanged, and a reviewer may judge the change too small to keep Tolstoy's version.
7. Мы ясно видим изменения, совершающиеся в области вещественной жизни: ездили и возили гужом, — теперь паром, жгли лучину, сало, — теперь газ, электричество; но мы не видим таких же изменений в духовном мире людей. А эти изменения — самые важные.
7. We clearly see the changes taking place in the realm of material life: people used to travel and haul goods by horse — now by steam; they burned splinters of wood and tallow — now gas and electricity; but we do not see changes of the same kind in the spiritual world of people. And these changes are the most important.
Translation note. «Лучина» is a thin splinter of wood, burned for light in peasant houses.
Мы жалеем о потерянном кошельке с деньгами, но добрую мысль, которая пришла нам или которую мы услыхали или прочли, — мысль, которая, если бы мы запомнили ее, приложили к жизни, могла бы сделать много добра, — мы теряем, забывая, и не жалеем о том, чтò дороже миллионов.
We regret a lost purse with money in it, but a good thought that came to us, or that we heard or read — a thought that, had we remembered it and applied it to life, could have done much good — we lose through forgetting, and we do not regret what is worth more than millions.
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