Literature…
The great Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy was born Sep. 8, 1828 (d. 1910). Works include War and Peace and Anna Karenina as well as numerous other novels and novellas…
As the following quotes illustrate Tolstoy was a pacifist, a nearly full-blown hippie and a new age prophet well ahead of time:
“Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.”
“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.”
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.”
Photo of Tolstoy in amazing colour by by Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii, a pioneer of color photography - 1908!!
