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This page contains selections of Fyodor Dostoevsky's theme of tears of joy in The Brother's Karamazov. This theme is referenced by Osho in Notes of a Madman, in which Osho exclaims that he has reached the heights of Dostoevsky's rapturous ecstasy.

"But here is one from afar." He pointed to a woman by no means old but very thin and wasted, with a face not merely sunburnt but almost blackened by exposure. She was kneeling and gazing with a fixed stare at the elder; there was something almost frenzied

(h) Can a Man judge his Fellow Creatures? Faith to the End. Remember particularly that you cannot be a judge of anyone. For no one can judge a criminal until he recognises that he is just such a criminal as the man standing before him, and that he perhaps is

[Fiction] (b) Of the Holy Scriptures in the Life of Father Zossima. I was left alone with my mother. Her friends began advising her to send me to Petersburg as other parents did. "You have only one son now," they said, "and have a fair income, and