Three Hermits. A Short Story by Leo Tolstoy

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5 ай бұрын

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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@katedevoy 2 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. ☦☦

@JimmyJamesJimbo 3 ай бұрын

Everyone’s relationship with god is a personal one. That is what I took away as the moral of this story ❤

@RossMurphyrev 2 ай бұрын

There is some truth in that, and yet God calls us into community..

@susanarupolo2212 5 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.

@sarahpassell226 5 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.

@hartfully 5 ай бұрын

@@sarahpassell226 Remember St. Paul and St. Augustine?

@celiagois5036 4 ай бұрын

Where can i find a book with the short storys? Thank you

@auniversalwoman 2 ай бұрын

How was he a saint? 🤔

@NaturesEyesAndMouth 27 күн бұрын

@@sarahpassell226Look at saint Moses the black

@shadcrow522 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for your work in putting all this wonderful stuff together.

@marynalatocha2809 5 ай бұрын

A lesson in humility. 💙

@shipreck22 27 күн 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 KZfaq 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.)

@NaturesEyesAndMouth 27 күн 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.

@terryl858 5 ай бұрын

Just wonderful thanking Tolstoy

@harcourtharcourt 3 ай бұрын

A tale like a clear spring, simple yet beautiful.

@lilianmcguigan9240 5 ай бұрын

We worship in Spirit.

@craigculwell9177 5 ай бұрын

..... and in Truth 📖 🔔🕯️⛲

@TheBestRussianLiterature 4 ай бұрын

Thank you for translating the book

@marlenemulrenin8552 3 ай бұрын

Those with ears, let them hear 🙏

@scottc3165 4 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!

@teachertalkwithpaulandjay 4 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.

@RynoLeGrange 3 ай бұрын

Nothing will keep me up thinking

@Nversetapha 2 ай бұрын

😂@@RynoLeGrange

@Nversetapha 2 ай бұрын

@@RynoLeGrange I might stay up for a few days lol

@user-nb4ex5zk3w 5 ай бұрын

Heard this story decades ago...never forgot it.

@craigculwell9177 5 ай бұрын

Me too..... 😌 ☦️ ♥️

@Bill-xx2yh 4 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!!!

@falconbritt5461 4 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-xx2yh 4 ай бұрын

@@falconbritt5461 To me it’s wonderful, makes the truth’s of the story more wonderful.

@victormeza7859 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.

@terrywestbrook-lienert2296 4 ай бұрын

One of my favorite Tolstoy short stories. I ❤ it.

@solowu 5 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!

@user-rn2wf1dt2s 5 ай бұрын

Wonderful. Thank you for sharing

@RandyWinn42 2 ай бұрын

This is a very wise story!

@andrearenee7845 4 ай бұрын

Beautiful.

@lyngruen8607 4 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

@marlenemulrenin8552 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful! From Michigan Nana ❤

@Anabsurdsuggestion 5 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@janevessey7233 5 ай бұрын

Beautiful story❤

@shashikalak1693 4 ай бұрын

I have listened to this many times it is mesmerizing.

@finiankimutai7640 4 ай бұрын

I want to make vedios like this. You have opened my mind thank you. Great story

@Isak-Troskie 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful story🤗🙏👍

@markwood1668 3 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!

@jimsmith1549 5 ай бұрын

beautiful

@ritaplantamura6027 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing

@matthewhall-637 3 ай бұрын

Bless you

@serenastewart1123 4 ай бұрын

Thank You.

@1rocknroy 5 ай бұрын

Good job. Thanks. Reminds me of LIFE AND TEACHINGS OF THE MASTERS OF THE FAR EAST

@kaoskronostyche9939 4 ай бұрын

Likewise. Great Fiction.

@1rocknroy 4 ай бұрын

@@kaoskronostyche9939 Or not.

@HughesMath1 3 ай бұрын

So beautiful

@craigculwell9177 5 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) 📖 📿🕯️

@mokshajetley9244 5 ай бұрын

Very beautiful. Lord Jesus, Son of God, have mercy on us.

@michaelwilliams7907 5 ай бұрын

Why. What have we ever done for him but bastardize his teachings ???

@nitabarrowzimmerman6699 4 ай бұрын

Yes

@georgeburns7251 4 ай бұрын

Ha ha, smoking dope again?

@Adrian_Estando 4 ай бұрын

@@michaelwilliams7907 - Who is this "we" you speak of grasshopper?😂

@boxfox2945 3 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.

@nicolasuribestanko 5 ай бұрын

Orthodox Christianity! I love it.

@mikehess4494 3 ай бұрын

Interesting...TY

@redguitar69 3 ай бұрын

Epic...

@jfriar 4 ай бұрын

The world is mostly water and that water is not carbonated ergo its flat.

@michaelwargo5702 3 ай бұрын

Im not religious, but , this is an awesome story ...THANK YOU

@jackieharris1051 2 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. 🙏❤️

@Nversetapha 2 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!

@Nversetapha 2 ай бұрын

🙏❤️

@MGTOW222 5 ай бұрын

Excellent! now how about reading War and Peace for us simple souls?

@jjcm3135 3 ай бұрын

A holy story.

@andrewthompson5728 4 ай бұрын

Does anyone know the name of the painting?

@seanwaston3892 4 ай бұрын

The Three Hermits ~ By Raphael Sazio

@JasmineDaisy111 20 күн бұрын

Its beautiful

@HA-in1me 3 ай бұрын

Ma sha ALLAH!

@felixloveseat 4 ай бұрын

Yes. That's a good one alrighty

@ChrisGBaker 3 ай бұрын

10!!

@JaefarSABNW 5 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.

@knowbuddee 4 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

@JaefarSABNW 4 ай бұрын

@@knowbuddee Saying the names with meaning evokes of those qualities in ourselves.

@jackieharris1051 2 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. 😊🙏

@HughesMath1 3 ай бұрын

Oh Lord, The hermits are running after us on the water as though it were dry land.

@FreeThaSpeech 3 ай бұрын

Moral of the story, never trust a priest around a child. That’s what I got out of it anyway

@OutWestRedDirt 3 ай бұрын

Well the local idiot has spoken.

@bernardliu8526 5 ай бұрын

Who created earthquakes, tempests, tsuinamis, volcanoes, plagues, et al., and why ?

@martinDS533 5 ай бұрын

The answer is found in Gods word. Search it for yourself as my telling you will likely fall on deaf ears.

@billpetersen298 5 ай бұрын

@@martinDS533And on you, as well.

@solowu 5 ай бұрын

no not deafness, muted knowledge in thee, spiked tongue for all to see

@billpetersen298 5 ай бұрын

@@martinDS533 You have ears too. Bernard is looking from more than one perspective, perhaps?

@michaelofsydney6128 4 ай бұрын

The CIA

@victormeza7859 4 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 🔥

@hermionegardener3796 5 ай бұрын

If they live together on the island, are they really hermits?

@panatypical 5 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.

@billpetersen298 5 ай бұрын

@@panatypicalIt was just asking to clarify, if hermit means singular or can be plural? No need, to take offence.

@solowu 5 ай бұрын

@@panatypicaldiminished not but thus - see we in three - bill, you & me.

@solowu 5 ай бұрын

@@billpetersen298 vision - it is in the question left unasked left blind

@billpetersen298 5 ай бұрын

@@solowu Exactly, blindly follow a faith, see a narrow view.

@tmDavidHall 4 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

@user-wy9xc6mi6q 4 ай бұрын

ears 2 hear

@marlenemulrenin8552 3 ай бұрын

🙏💙🙏

@jfriar 4 ай бұрын

The world spins and bulges around the equator somewhat flattening the globe. Ergo the world is flat.

@ekurisona663 3 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

@dawn-mariestyles3666 7 күн бұрын

I prefer just the one voice. Yours, Neuralsurfer 😊

@HughesMath1 3 ай бұрын

Different voices nice

@acswu2617 5 ай бұрын

這故事告訴我們甚麽?

@nonosays 3 ай бұрын

Pray unceasingly. Don't worry about the words.

@uiPublic 5 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 ...

@uiPublic 5 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?!

@uiPublic 5 ай бұрын

So outwardly be one Ebionite if possible outraged a Samaritan.

@LostArchivist 5 ай бұрын

Your syntax is a bit garbled, would you mind clarifying your words?

@TheMidnightcup 4 ай бұрын

The sound effects, ambient music, the old men changing over the reader. These took away from the story for me😊

@user-ng2nz8fb5j 5 ай бұрын

???WHAT???

@qimmu11 5 ай бұрын

Nice reading but do you need to give your background (a beginning) musician and vocalist credit?

@ladduram-gj8xz 4 ай бұрын

Wonderful story, but could have been reduced to perhaps 7 minutes.

@JohnCBurzynski 4 ай бұрын

Hmmm.

@nak3dxsnake 4 ай бұрын

So the hermits are forgetful sorcerers?

@timothy4557 4 ай бұрын

I don't get it.

@samus598 3 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.

@auniversalwoman 2 ай бұрын

Me either.

@kalaimani2925 2 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

@LeoWilliams-kf5qz 2 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.

@Yoduh1 Ай бұрын

What a tool.

@judeirwin2222 5 ай бұрын

You obscured the narration with weird wailing singers. Why?

@henih864 3 ай бұрын

The fisherman is Polish😂

@WOLFROY47 3 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

@1allstarman 4 ай бұрын

Sort of a well desreved diss on organized religion .

@fast1nakus 3 ай бұрын

Lew, not Leo.

@afrivox 3 ай бұрын

I think most English translations use Leo. I have heard of Lev and I thought that was the Russian original😂

@Tengooda 4 ай бұрын

A disappointing ending, appealing only to those similarly deluded.

@taitsmith8521 4 ай бұрын

Easy to understand. Lesson : self appointed people are full of shit, and titles do not equal merit.

@georgeduncan8946 5 ай бұрын

Unworthiness.... interesting 😔😑😑🤔

@niallwildwoode7373 5 ай бұрын

Well that's 15 minutes I'll never get back....

@taitsmith8521 4 ай бұрын

That story went over your head ? Really ? I think a six year old could grasp the lesson.

@georgeburns7251 4 ай бұрын

15 minutes …. I cut it off early. The artwork was nice

@brunocurti2810 4 ай бұрын

Forgive me . I was not impressed by the story.

@auniversalwoman 2 ай бұрын

Same

@maxwirz8049 4 ай бұрын

Fuck that was a waste of time

@Adrian_Estando 4 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.

@auniversalwoman 2 ай бұрын

The Trinity, all three Persons, are in the Holy Bible.

@JoeBamaSmokesCrack 5 ай бұрын

The Earth is Flat.

@waynesmith3767 5 ай бұрын

Many have fallen off; beware lest it happen to you.

@michaelwilliams7907 5 ай бұрын

ONLY ON ONE SIDE.

@mattropolis99 5 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.

@LostArchivist 5 ай бұрын

The earth is fat.

@norryce870 5 ай бұрын

Some can prove that

@Not00 3 ай бұрын

What a load of rubbish.

@dsiepiela6449 5 ай бұрын

I’m so sick of being saturated with the Christian mythology and hypocrisy

@mattropolis99 5 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.

@LostArchivist 5 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.

@dsiepiela6449 5 ай бұрын

@@LostArchivist If God actually fixed something. I want to see pictures.

@dsiepiela6449 5 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.

@LostArchivist 5 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.