The easiest purification of the soul comes through people; it humiliates the soul and the spirit and is the least unpleasant and the least painful. Purification through diseases is much more painful. The soul suffers less, but the body begins to disintegrate. If we cannot accept the purification of the soul from God through people, we are given diseases. If we do not accept these diseases, we are given death.

Source:
S N Lazarev
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