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A Calendar of Wisdom

On May 14, 2020 in bookshelf • 2 minutes read

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Daily Notes
  • 2020
    • May 14th - London, 0109am
    • May 15th - London, LATE
    • May 23rd - London, 1647pm
    • May 24rd - London, 2302pm

DAILY THOUGHTS TO NOURISH THE SOUL

WRITTEN AND SELECTED FROM THE WORLD’S SACRED TEXTS BY LEO TOLSTOY

TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN BY PETER SEKIRIN

Read it at https://calendarwisdom.com/

Note to Reader: In all of the book’s original Russian-language editions, Tolstoy highlighted on each page the one quote that most succinctly expressed the day’s theme. These quotes have been italicized in this edition - Peter Sekirin

Introduction

This was Leo Tolstoy’s last major work. With it, he fulfilled a dream he had nourished for almost fifteen years, that of “collecting the wisdom of the centuries in one book” meant for a general audience. Tolstoy put a huge amount of effort into its creation, preparing three revised editions between 1904 and 1910. It was his own favorite everyday reading, a book he would turn to regularly for the rest of his life.

The process of collecting these thoughts took over fifteen years. Tolstoy began writing between December 1902 and January 1903. Then in his late seventies, he had fallen seriously ill; while meditating about the meaning of life and death, he was inspired to begin compiling what he then called A Wise Thought for Every Day.

Tolstoy added about eight hundred of his own thoughts, written during his many years of meditation, or taken from previous diary entries. He generally started each day with an opening thought of his own, added quotes by other sources, and finished each day with a closing thought of his own.

Additionally, he wrote a short story, or vignette, three to ten pages in length for the end of every week. Each story corresponded to that week’s moral, philosophical, or religious topic; he prepared fifty-two stories in all and called them The Sunday Reading Stories. The majority of these fifty-two stories were written by Tolstoy especially for this work; the rest were selected and adapted from writings by Plato, Buddha, Dostoyevski, Pascal, Leskov, Chekhov, and others.

Daily Notes

2020

May 14th - London, 0109am

Topic: Soul

Hold on tight, do not be afraid. Your soul is both center and power.

Hold your Colour - Pendulum

May 15th - London, LATE

Topic: Truth

But what is truth? And how do you know if you’re on the right path?

“Let be what will be,” said the gunslinger, as his own mother had once told him. “Let be what will be, and hush, and let ka work.” - The Dark Tower VII

I need to paint my walls (Original Mix) · A L E X

May 23rd - London, 1647pm

Topic: Needs

Non e’ ricco chi ha molti soldi, e’ ricco chi ha pochi bisogni - Mio padre.

Pizza - Statistix

May 24rd - London, 2302pm

Topic: Love

Being together, just like this.

forder - delayd