Guest guest Posted March 16, 2001 Report Share Posted March 16, 2001 Jill, I too have great admiration for these authors, also for Dostoyevsky. Your email has caused me to start re-reading Anna Karenina - thanks for the inspiration! As for the "spinning, brilliant, chaotic transitions between the material and the transcendent", I think you might also enjoy "Auto-Da-Fe", by Elias Canetti, and "The Man Who Was Thursday", by Chesterton. Though the two books are very different in many respects, both authors masterfully play with the perceived realities of this mayic world only to dissolve them layer by layer until Nothing remains. Michael -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Jill Eggers [eggersj] Gesendet: Monday, March 12, 2001 00:16 An: MikeSuesserott; Betreff: Re: AW: () Re: () Hi Mike, Thanks for the note. I love Tolstoy and will check you the links you sent. I have not read "Ressurection" but I will do so. My favorite of his works is Anna Karenina, which I have read many times. I understand there is a new English translation just out which is supposed to be quite an improvement over the existing ones. The heart of that novel for me is the inner life and spiritual search of Levin. I agree with your reading of Tolstoy as carrying a great spiritual force. Did you know Tolstoy had a correspondence with Gandhi? I am somewhat obsessed with 19th and some 20th century Russian literature, in part for its spiritual nature, for the spinning, brilliant, chaotic transitions between the material and the transcendent. Besides thre graet genius Tolstoy, my other favorites are Gogol, Chekov, and Nabokov. Nabokov writes some wonderful interpretations of the others in his book, _Lectures on Russian Literature_. I am glad to find another Tolstoy fan. I could talk about him all day. "MikeSuesserott" wrote: > Hi Jill, > > thanks for your message. In case you'd like to read some of Tolstoy's great > masterpieces online, here is a link: > http://www.underthesun.cc/Classics/Tolstoy > There is in his writings, IMHO, an undercurrent of great spiritual force; one > can't read Tolstoy without wanting to become a better human being. My favorite > among his novels is "Resurrection". > > Michael > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Jill Eggers [eggersj] > Gesendet: Friday, March 09, 2001 18:56 > An: LC > Cc: > Betreff: Re: () > > Hi Michael and Linda, > > Thank you both for these stories. Michael, I was thinking of the Tolstoy story > while I was out running this morning. Tolstoy's irony is so heartbreakingly sad > and funny. I was thinking about my own preoccupation with kundalini processes > -(why am i sad? why can't I have some more of those blinding ecstatic states? > Why does this process bring ongoing trouble?, and on in this pathetically > self-absorbed vein) and the Tolstoy story gave me a fresh laugh and step out of > myself. > > Jill > > /join > </join> > > All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, > perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back > into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, > all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does > not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. > Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee > relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into > It Self. Welcome all to a. > > To from this list, go to the ONElist web site, at > www., and select the User Center link from the > menu bar > on the left. This menu will also let you change your > subscription > between digest and normal mode. > > > <> Terms of Service. > > Sponsor > > <http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/a/ya/_domain/batch3/top41.gif> > > <http://us.a1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/space.gif> Register > > <http://us.adserver./l?M=176325.1353867.2942945.1252795/D=egroupmai l/S= > 1700060955:N/A=602140/rand=661235059> > > /join > </join> > > All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. Paths, places, sights, > perceptions, and indeed all experiences arise from and exist in and subside back > into the Space of Awareness. Like waves rising are not different than the ocean, > all things arising from Awareness are of the nature of Awareness. Awareness does > not come and go but is always Present. It is Home. Home is where the Heart Is. > Jnanis know the Heart to be the Finality of Eternal Being. A true devotee > relishes in the Truth of Self-Knowledge, spontaneously arising from within into > It Self. Welcome all to a. > > To from this list, go to the ONElist web site, at > www., and select the User Center link from the > menu bar > on the left. This menu will also let you change your > subscription > between digest and normal mode. > > Terms of Service > <> . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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