It is more painful to lose for the one who cannot receive the new. The less we aspire to Divine love, the more unbearable and torturous the sufferings are for us. As the proportions of human happiness increase with the development of mankind, the aspiration to God must become ever stronger and more conscious. Therefore, deliverance from suffering consists not so much in giving up life and pleasures, but in the possibility of loving and living through love. The purity of the soul is determined by the correlation between the love for God and the love of life and its manifestations.

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S N Lazarev
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