This is a surprising tale about three hermits discovered on a remote island and what it reveals about genuine spirituality, told by the master of the genre, Leo Tolstoy.
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@terryl8588 ай бұрын
Just wonderful thanking Tolstoy
@teachertalkwithpaulandjay7 ай бұрын
This is one of the most amazing short stories. It cuts right through appearance and reality, religion and the knowledge of God, and it does so with mystery and something near to horror. Don't read it if you don't want to stay up most of the night thinking.
@RynoLeGrange7 ай бұрын
Nothing will keep me up thinking
@Nversetapha5 ай бұрын
😂@@RynoLeGrange
@Nversetapha5 ай бұрын
@@RynoLeGrange I might stay up for a few days lol
@harcourtharcourt6 ай бұрын
A tale like a clear spring, simple yet beautiful.
@marynalatocha28098 ай бұрын
A lesson in humility. 💙
@CorePathway3 ай бұрын
I too was pleased that his “Grace” (a title I shall never use to address another man, for I have no such humility) had sense enough to know his station of worldly hierarchy was actually nothing at all.
@Bill-xx2yh8 ай бұрын
I love this story, I heard a "version" (of this story) exactly like it, but it was an "OLD ISLAMIC, SUFI" story. About a wise and proud Sufi, trying to teach a "hermit" on a island in a large river. He tried to help the "ignorant" hermit how to pray correctly. When he had done his best he left and the hermit ran after him on the water, asking again, "what were those words". It is a WONDERFUL STORY. Did not know of this version. THANK YOU!!!
@falconbritt54617 ай бұрын
Interesting! The story is so basic and teaches such an important lesson that it might well exist in other cultures too. Humility is needed worldwide, after all.
@Bill-xx2yh7 ай бұрын
@@falconbritt5461 To me it’s wonderful, makes the truth’s of the story more wonderful.
@scottc31657 ай бұрын
I read this as a child decades ago and forgotten who wrote it. Glad to have found it again after all these years thinking about it. Thank you!
@lyngruen86077 ай бұрын
Excellent story. 1 John 2:26-27 says "ye need not that any man teach you".... wow! I'm once again amazed .... I continue to pray for wisdom, discernment, strength and courage to endure 🙏 💖 Texas Nana
@marlenemulrenin85526 ай бұрын
Beautiful! From Michigan Nana ❤
@katedevoy6 ай бұрын
Wow...What a wonderful story! Thankyou so much for this it is balm for one's soul. I wonder if you realise how much this is appreciated...This is God speaking, helping you to introduce the west to a world which Tolstoy inhabited and which he loved. For those interested, find the film made with Tolstoy's young sister about her life with her parents. It is marvellous, and enriches one's understanding of this truly great writer, this man of God. ☦☦
@JohnBurman-l2l8 ай бұрын
Heard this story decades ago...never forgot it.
@craigculwell91778 ай бұрын
Me too..... 😌 ☦️ ♥️
@solowu8 ай бұрын
Just a story, piecing together a place and time we know - this 'place" the origin of the deep human longings? (purpose,belonging,love...) a place we all have been? And for now we're in human form, temporarily displaced until death, like a layover of sorts ( in most cases like mine more like prison sentence) lol only to keep from crying lol. Anyway, I think this story - his thoughts - and other "stories" attempting to explain life are fragmented memories of a past experience we may have had and they are pieces of a puzzle a memory..... you get my drift...I promise to try to be kind, love others and myself - to find peace and joy in what I have, to be my best, and trust my intuition BEST REGARDS TO YOU ALL!
@terrywestbrook-lienert22967 ай бұрын
One of my favorite Tolstoy short stories. I ❤ it.
@RandyWinn426 ай бұрын
This is a very wise story!
@JimmyJamesJimbo7 ай бұрын
Everyone’s relationship with god is a personal one. That is what I took away as the moral of this story ❤
@RossMurphyrev5 ай бұрын
There is some truth in that, and yet God calls us into community..
@michaelwargo57026 ай бұрын
Im not religious, but , this is an awesome story ...THANK YOU
@jackieharris10515 ай бұрын
It’s not about religion, dear man. Religion is man made. It’s about knowing the Lord Jesus Christ who is God in human flesh. He loves you and died for all of us sinners. Read about Him in the Bible. 🙏❤️
@Nversetapha5 ай бұрын
How about knowing Lord Vishnu and his avatar... and the epic journey of a prince who wants to find the meaning of life. Actually, you don't have to know anything other than what you know and being whole heartedly with it!
@Nversetapha5 ай бұрын
🙏❤️
@Anabsurdsuggestion8 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@janevessey72338 ай бұрын
Beautiful story❤
@andrearenee78458 ай бұрын
Beautiful.
@finiankimutai76407 ай бұрын
I want to make vedios like this. You have opened my mind thank you. Great story
@mokshajetley92448 ай бұрын
Very beautiful. Lord Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on us.
@michaelwilliams79078 ай бұрын
Why. What have we ever done for him but bastardize his teachings ???
@nitabarrowzimmerman66997 ай бұрын
Yes
@georgeburns72517 ай бұрын
Ha ha, smoking dope again?
@Adrian_Estando7 ай бұрын
@@michaelwilliams7907 - Who is this "we" you speak of grasshopper?😂
@boxfox29457 ай бұрын
Fake jinn' puppet. Hebrews' didn't have the " J " sound. Ya'u'sh'u boltzmann brain's az' glove. Behold' the kingdom is in u. Energy controls energy. U' are nothing' but electric thought' between synapse.
@markmaxwell10132 ай бұрын
Great reading!
@DeborahSimpson-g1t8 ай бұрын
Wonderful. Thank you for sharing
@lilianmcguigan92408 ай бұрын
We worship in Spirit.
@craigculwell91778 ай бұрын
..... and in Truth 📖 🔔🕯️⛲
@andrewthompson57288 ай бұрын
Does anyone know the name of the painting?
@seanwaston38927 ай бұрын
The Three Hermits ~ By Raphael Sazio
@JasmineDaisy1113 ай бұрын
Its beautiful
@MGTOW2228 ай бұрын
Excellent! now how about reading War and Peace for us simple souls?
@craigculwell91778 ай бұрын
"but how do ye pray to God?"🤔 ☦️ ⛪⛲ 🔔 The Bishop tried 🐏🐑 to pastor the three, but their humility and simplicity 🌐⚓✨🌊🌙 out shown the knowledge 😌 and wisdom❤️🔥 of his zeal.... ....pray for us sinners. 🇷🇺 🕊️ ☀️ (Three are One) 📖 📿🕯️
@HughesMath16 ай бұрын
Oh Lord, The hermits are running after us on the water as though it were dry land.
@shadcrow5228 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for your work in putting all this wonderful stuff together.
@Ligthningpeace6 ай бұрын
Bless you
@jimsmith15498 ай бұрын
beautiful
@jfriar7 ай бұрын
The world is mostly water and that water is not carbonated ergo its flat.
@WalkingMoments2 ай бұрын
Yep, been to the island.
@HughesMath17 ай бұрын
So beautiful
@redguitar697 ай бұрын
Epic...
@jackjones836324 күн бұрын
I think this would work much better if you used just the first voice for this story. One of the regular voices gets histrionic for no reason, which I find highly off putting... but apart from that, thank you for making these stories available....
@samuelmansour-hi5mqАй бұрын
❤😊
@jjcm31357 ай бұрын
A holy story.
@HA-in1me6 ай бұрын
Ma sha ALLAH!
@tmDavidHall7 ай бұрын
wow that's a great story - i feel like I've read a similar one that's asian, maybe chinese, but this one is def more well written
@victormeza78597 ай бұрын
🔥 FIAT VOLUNTA TUA. SICUT IN. CAELO. ET IN TERRA 🌎 A.M.D.G. FOR. THE GREATER GLORY OF GOD 🔥. JESUS, I. TRUST IN YOU 🔥
@LaurenaLaCroix7 ай бұрын
ears 2 hear
@dawn-mariestyles36663 ай бұрын
I prefer just the one voice. Yours, Neuralsurfer 😊
@timothy45577 ай бұрын
I don't get it.
@samus5986 ай бұрын
The hermits don't remember the "correct" prayer and yet they seem to have super Jesus powers. Aka, the words are not important. The bishop was arrogant, believing he knew God better than the hermits because of his fancy bishop hat.
@auniversalwoman5 ай бұрын
Me either.
@kalaimani29255 ай бұрын
You are blessed then as the story also try to teach the same My real self in me is silent and the acquired one is talkative. It is strange people love my talkative self than real one. - Khalil Jibran
@1allstarman8 ай бұрын
Sort of a well desreved diss on organized religion .
@marlenemulrenin85526 ай бұрын
🙏💙🙏
@LeoWilliams-kf5qz5 ай бұрын
I wish I'd "found" Leo Tolstoy 40+ years ago. Reading his works make me feel proud to be masculine. I'll bet the feminist education systems currently operating in the West don't approve of Tolstoy.
@Yoduh14 ай бұрын
What a tool.
@uiPublic8 ай бұрын
Leo towards end of life never wanted offend other religions to the point Christ no atavists yet wanted parting messages greatly impressed on him like real life Parables about nearby neighbors eventually Philip did spend whole life in fellowships ...
@uiPublic8 ай бұрын
It might be that Christ's superb humanity ain't be equated fully lest only Crazy can act in parts yet it's sole way understand it?!
@uiPublic8 ай бұрын
So outwardly be one Ebionite if possible outraged a Samaritan.
@LostArchivist8 ай бұрын
Your syntax is a bit garbled, would you mind clarifying your words?
@TheMidnightcup7 ай бұрын
The sound effects, ambient music, the old men changing over the reader. These took away from the story for me😊
@nak3dxsnake7 ай бұрын
So the hermits are forgetful sorcerers?
@Johnwilliams-l6p8 ай бұрын
???WHAT???
@acswu26178 ай бұрын
這故事告訴我們甚麽?
@fast1nakus6 ай бұрын
Lew, not Leo.
@bigbrother4ever6 ай бұрын
I think most English translations use Leo. I have heard of Lev and I thought that was the Russian original😂
@henih8647 ай бұрын
The fisherman is Polish😂
@Tengooda7 ай бұрын
A disappointing ending, appealing only to those similarly deluded.
@taitsmith85217 ай бұрын
Easy to understand. Lesson : self appointed people are full of shit, and titles do not equal merit.
@georgeduncan89468 ай бұрын
Unworthiness.... interesting 😔😑😑🤔
@niallwildwoode73738 ай бұрын
Well that's 15 minutes I'll never get back....
@taitsmith85217 ай бұрын
That story went over your head ? Really ? I think a six year old could grasp the lesson.
@georgeburns72517 ай бұрын
15 minutes …. I cut it off early. The artwork was nice
@Adrian_Estando7 ай бұрын
"The Trinity" is neither Holy nor scriptural. It is a pagan teaching that sprang up during the Great Apostasy that Christ foretold before he left the earth. Neither Jehovah, nor Christ nor the prophets nor the apostles ever believed it.
@auniversalwoman5 ай бұрын
The Trinity, all three Persons, are in the Holy Bible.
@dsiepiela64498 ай бұрын
I’m so sick of being saturated with the Christian mythology and hypocrisy
@mattropolis998 ай бұрын
Tell me - where do you find a place free of hypocrisy?Your politicians? History? Movie or Streaming Stars? Athletes? One should expect to find sick people in a hospital-and any real Christian will at least tell you they are sick but trying to get better.
@LostArchivist8 ай бұрын
If we were not in utter desperation and helplessness to fix our mess, God would not have had to come Himself to fix it. Where there are sinners there is sin as where there are the sick there is disease and injury. Are you not sick as the rest of us? Closely examine your life and tell yourself honestly if you really are or not? Christianity is about Christ, not Christians themselves. We expect we shall fail and falter and like the Lord Christianity is abused and misunderstood by many. Such is the way of we who grope in the dark, until we find the Light of Lights.
@dsiepiela64498 ай бұрын
@@LostArchivist If God actually fixed something. I want to see pictures.
@dsiepiela64498 ай бұрын
@@mattropolis99 Politicians, absolutely!! Lots of hypocrisy in the religious salesmen that are on every corner. And don’t forget the televangelist! Talk about greedy con artists!! Christian merchandising is big business. Your bibles have been edited to fit the agendas of kings, popes and scribes and are so poorly translated that they are to the point of contradictory gobbledygook. What is actually as rare as hen’s teeth are real spiritual teachers.
@LostArchivist8 ай бұрын
@@dsiepiela6449 And what exactly do you mean by that? How do you actually know God does not fix anything or prevent evils? God is not going to prevent or stop all the consequences of our actions because, we have free will and if our choices are to mean anything, they must have the dignity of affecting the world. God madevus stewards of the Earth and it is our own actions that cause the majority of our problems Another aspect is that God cares about our eternal fate, as that will last forever and anything in this life besides is liminal and so passing. That is not to say it does not matter, but it is secondary by a long way to our final state. God has also tasked us with being the light and salt of the earth. We need to do all we can to improve the lives of our fellow human beings out of sacrifical love for one another and so die to ourselves, become one and imitate Christ Who.in dying made eternal life in beatitude in participation of the Divine Life of God in Christ Human being's evil actions are the problem and so it makes sense for God to work through humanity to fix humanity's problems.
@JoeBamaSmokesCrack8 ай бұрын
The Earth is Flat.
@waynesmith37678 ай бұрын
Many have fallen off; beware lest it happen to you.
@michaelwilliams79078 ай бұрын
ONLY ON ONE SIDE.
@mattropolis998 ай бұрын
If the earth was flat - there would be nothing on earth. Cats would have had millions of years to push everything off the edge.
@LostArchivist8 ай бұрын
The earth is fat.
@norryce8708 ай бұрын
Some can prove that
@TheBestRussianLiterature7 ай бұрын
Thank you for translating the book
@chaddixon57254 ай бұрын
I don't get it.
@victormeza78594 ай бұрын
HEAR IT AGAIN. LORD HAVE MERCY CHRIST HAVE MERCY ON ME A SINNER. WITH EVERY HEART BEAT. VOCAL OR SILENT. FOCUS ON GOD
@susanarupolo22128 ай бұрын
From the moment I have read the short stories of Tolstoy (I already have read the big novels) I feel he was a saint .Thank you for sharing this.
@sarahpassell2268 ай бұрын
Nah. He was awful to his wife. Perhaps you confuse a great writer, one of the greatest storytellers who has ever lived, and who understands the human heart, with saintliness.
@hartfully8 ай бұрын
@@sarahpassell226 Remember St. Paul and St. Augustine?
@celiagois50368 ай бұрын
Where can i find a book with the short storys? Thank you
@auniversalwoman5 ай бұрын
How was he a saint? 🤔
@NaturesEyesAndMouth4 ай бұрын
@@sarahpassell226Look at saint Moses the black
@marlenemulrenin85526 ай бұрын
Those with ears, let them hear 🙏
@ruth_southernstar19 күн бұрын
Humbling story, thank you x
@hermionegardener37968 ай бұрын
If they live together on the island, are they really hermits?
@panatypical8 ай бұрын
A hermit is someone who lives separated from the society at large. It can be done with any number of like-minded individuals. By trying to find a weak spot in the hermits, you have only created one in yourself.
@billpetersen2988 ай бұрын
@@panatypicalIt was just asking to clarify, if hermit means singular or can be plural? No need, to take offence.
@solowu8 ай бұрын
@@panatypicaldiminished not but thus - see we in three - bill, you & me.
@solowu8 ай бұрын
@@billpetersen298 vision - it is in the question left unasked left blind
@billpetersen2988 ай бұрын
@@solowu Exactly, blindly follow a faith, see a narrow view.
@friendofmine-k5f8 күн бұрын
Thank you for your transformation of this story. It was well done. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@shipreck224 ай бұрын
For some reason we always tend to associate talent and success with virtues and morality. The more money and talents ones possess the more we admire and justify admirations with praises, oh such a good person. Each of the qualities stand alone individual characteristics of each person. A horrible person could be quite talented and vice versa. Sainthood is beyond thought and expression. Sainthood is a life of action. I love these Tolstoy shorts probably one of my most favorite things on KZbin right now. In my opinion, Tolstoy is one of history’s greatest story tellers, philosophers, and educators. I don’t know his personal life I don’t care to know it. I’m afraid to judge him. His talents were special to helping humans understand earth other on deeper levels. As far as sainthood, let us encourage each other towards the goal of living lives that honor God. Let our shortcomings show the transformative power of surrendering to the will. I have no point to make just rambling encouragements. If I have any highlights it’s let’s separate the material from the spiritual with respecting each. The human powers of the elites and Godly powers of saints. The idolatry of human spirit brings glory to the nature of the being itself. The sweet surrender of saints recognizes all glory belongs to God in miraculous ways. I can say this Tolstoy has helped me understand my neighbors, myself, and God. For this I am thankful. (Please forgive me if I spoken out of turn sharing opinions on matters that don’t really concern me.)
@NaturesEyesAndMouth4 ай бұрын
I've grown a habit to subscribe to channels that comment like you do with wisdom. I hope one day we all can come together and sing praise and glory in God's kingdom.
@1rocknroy8 ай бұрын
Good job. Thanks. Reminds me of LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF THE MASTERS OF THE FAR EAST
@kaoskronostyche99397 ай бұрын
Likewise. Great Fiction.
@1rocknroy7 ай бұрын
@@kaoskronostyche9939 Or not.
@markwood16686 ай бұрын
Amazing story where Tolstoy found faith in God on his own and not through the rituals and dogmas of the Russian Orthodox Church!
@SparksWisdom-zw6kd2 ай бұрын
Very short story 😂, but i watched it full and liked it😅, but you know what i posted a story video on anger and it even changed me😅 thats kinda absurd😂
@victormeza78594 ай бұрын
My Grandma could not read or write. Yet her prayers could move Mountains. When pray from the.❤ Faith tells us, IT IS DONE. A.M.D.G.
@bernardliu85268 ай бұрын
Who created earthquakes, tempests, tsuinamis, volcanoes, plagues, et al., and why ?
@martinDS5338 ай бұрын
The answer is found in Gods word. Search it for yourself as my telling you will likely fall on deaf ears.
@billpetersen2988 ай бұрын
@@martinDS533And on you, as well.
@solowu8 ай бұрын
no not deafness, muted knowledge in thee, spiked tongue for all to see
@billpetersen2988 ай бұрын
@@martinDS533 You have ears too. Bernard is looking from more than one perspective, perhaps?
@michaelofsydney61287 ай бұрын
The CIA
@nicolasuribestanko8 ай бұрын
Orthodox Christianity! I love it.
@maxwirz80497 ай бұрын
Fuck that was a waste of time
@jfriar7 ай бұрын
The world spins and bulges around the equator somewhat flattening the globe. Ergo the world is flat.
@FreeThaSpeech7 ай бұрын
Moral of the story, never trust a priest around a child. That’s what I got out of it anyway
@OutWestRedDirt7 ай бұрын
Well the local idiot has spoken.
@JaefarSABNW8 ай бұрын
Just like not saying a divine name in vain, which literally means secularly, no vain repetitions doesn't mean to not become adept in or perform ritual prayer, but to not treat it as something you just have to go through to placate the spiritual worlds. It is important to worship as revealed and inspired, but we need to do as we can and make it personal.
@knowbuddee7 ай бұрын
"Remember the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves." Marcus Aurelius
@JaefarSABNW7 ай бұрын
@@knowbuddee Saying the names with meaning evokes of those qualities in ourselves.
@jackieharris10515 ай бұрын
Yes, the prayer our Lord Jesus taught the disciples was a model for prayer. Praying is to come from a heart that loves Him. 😊🙏
@Isak-Troskie7 ай бұрын
Wonderful story🤗🙏👍
@brunocurti28108 ай бұрын
Forgive me . I was not impressed by the story.
@auniversalwoman5 ай бұрын
Same
@Not006 ай бұрын
What a load of rubbish.
@WOLFROY476 ай бұрын
if you want a real mystery, answer this, has god got a god ? my understanding, of what people call god, is, that god is an entity, that provides us, with our life force, and nature, is, another entity, that provides us with our physical self ? the yin and yang of balance, but nothing, created by people, can be perfect, hence, the black and white dots of the symbol
@ekurisona6636 ай бұрын
I know you weren't asking for feedback and I don't want to come across as disrespectful I just wanted to share that I would much rather just listen to the narrator read the story then have the voices edited in - ty
@ladduram-gj8xz7 ай бұрын
Wonderful story, but could have been reduced to perhaps 7 minutes.
@HughesMath17 ай бұрын
Different voices nice
@judeirwin22228 ай бұрын
You obscured the narration with weird wailing singers. Why?
@Crazyjournaling7 ай бұрын
I have listened to this many times it is mesmerizing.
@felixloveseat7 ай бұрын
Yes. That's a good one alrighty
@ritaplantamura60276 ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing
@mikehess44946 ай бұрын
Interesting...TY
@serenastewart11237 ай бұрын
Thank You.
@JohnCBurzynski7 ай бұрын
Hmmm.
@ChrisGBaker6 ай бұрын
10!!
@nonosays6 ай бұрын
Pray unceasingly. Don't worry about the words.
@qimmu118 ай бұрын
Nice reading but do you need to give your background (a beginning) musician and vocalist credit?