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진리의 빛 The Light of Truth I did not know the light and had thought there was no light of truth to be found in life, but having convinced myself that men live by that light alone, I began to look for its source and found it in the Gospels, despite the false Church interpretations. And on reaching that source of light I was dazzled by it, and found full replies to my questions as to the meaning of my ow..
서문 What I Believe This volume contains three of Tolstoy's most remarkable works. Between the completion of Anna Karenina, early in 1877, and the resumption of his literary activity in the year 1885, with his popular Tales, Tolstoy devoted himself to religious reflection and to a close study of the Gospels and of dogmatic theology, although the latter subject repelled him. Apart from the full retra..
1 I     I was baptized and brought up in the Orthodox Christian faith. I was taught it in childhood and throughout my boyhood and youth. But when I abandoned the second course of the university at the age of eighteen I no longer believed any of the things I had been taught. 나는 정통교회의 신앙아래서 세례를 받고 양육되었다. 나는 유년기에 그리고 소년기와 청..
2 II     Some day I will narrate the touching and instructive history of my life during those ten years of my youth. I think very many people have had a like experience. With all my soul I wished to be good, but I was young, passionate and alone, completely alone when I sought goodness. Every time I tried to express my most sincere desire, which was to be morally good, I met with contempt and..
3 III     So I lived, abandoning myself to this insanity for another six years, till my marriage. During that time I went abroad. Life in Europe and my acquaintance with leading and learned Europeans* confirmed me yet more in the faith of striving after perfection in which I believed, for I found the same faith among them. That faith took with me the common form it assumes with the majority o..
4~5 IV      My life came to a standstill. I could breathe, eat, drink, and sleep, and I could not help doing these things; but there was no life, for there were no wishes the fulfillment of which I could consider reasonable. If I desired anything, I knew in advance that whether I satisfied my desire or not, nothing would come of it. Had a fairy come and offered to fulfil my desires I should n..
6 VI     In my search for answers to life's questions I experienced just what is felt by a man lost in a forest. 인생의 문제의 대답을 위한 탐구에서 나는 숲 속에서 길을 잃은 사람이 느끼는 바로 그것을 경험하였다. He reaches a glade, climbs a tree, and clearly sees the limitless distance, but sees that his home is not and cannot be there; then he goes int..
7 VI     In my search for answers to life's questions I experienced just what is felt by a man lost in a forest. 인생의 문제의 대답을 위한 탐구에서 나는 숲 속에서 길을 잃은 사람이 느끼는 바로 그것을 경험하였다. He reaches a glade, climbs a tree, and clearly sees the limitless distance, but sees that his home is not and cannot be there; then he goes int..