"never be frightened at your own faint-heartedness in attaining love.don't be frightened overmuch even at your evil actions. i am sorry i can say
nothing more consoling to you, for love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing
compared with love in dreams. love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly
performed and in the sight of all. men will even give their lives if only the ordeal does not
last long but is soon over, with all looking on and applauding as though on the stage. but
active love is labour and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete
science. but i predict that just when you see with horror that in spite of
all your efforts you are getting farther from your goal instead of
nearer to it-at that very moment i predict that you will
reach it and behold clearly the miraculous power
of the Lord who has been all the time loving
and mysteriously guiding
you.
-father zossima
brothers K.
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