: Daily Thoughts to Nourish the Soul, translated by Peter Sekirin Despite my love for the great Russian author, until recently I had heard very little about by Leo Tolstoy. This was Tolstoy's last published work, and the book that he considered to be his most important contribution to humanity. A Calendar of Wisdom was widely read in pre-revolutionary Russia, banned and forgotten under Communism, and has only recently gained recognition once more. I've decided that a blog named Tolstoy Therapy must do its best to raise the awareness of this superb text and guide to living. As you may expect from the classification in its title as a 'calendar', each page of the non-fiction book is dedicated to a particular day of the year.

Moreover, the quotes for each day are grouped under a certain theme, be it God, intellect, law, love, faith, temptations, work, or something entirely different. The original idea for this work appeared to come to Tolstoy in the mid-1880s: in 1884 he wrote about, 'a wise thought for every day of the year, from the greatest philosophers of all times and all people'. In his diary on March 15 of that year, he added, I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. Acer 3g Connection Manager Windows 7 Download. This is also necessary for all people. In 1885, he wrote in a letter to his assistant, I know that it gives one great inner force, calmness, and happiness to communicate with such great thinkers as Socrates, Epictetus, Arnold, Parker. Natural Reader Install Voices Of Frozen here.

They tell us what is most important for humanity, about the meaning of life and about virtue. I would like to create a book. In which I could tell a person about his life, and about the Good Way of Life. Each page of the text is dedicated to a single day of the year, and deals with a certain theme (e.g. Tolstoy spent fifteen years collecting these thoughts, piecing together quotes that represented a wide variety of philosophical views, cultural backgrounds, and historical periods. Through completing the book, Tolstoy fulfilled a dream he had nourished for many years: that of 'collecting the wisdom of the centuries in one book'.