All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the "bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions. (Leo Tolstoy)

All our problems are caused by forgetting what lives within us, and we sell our souls for the "bowl of stew” of bodily satisfactions.

Leo Tolstoy

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