Rhema

“What is education? I should suppose that education was the curriculum one had to run through in order to catch up with oneself,”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Kierkegaard Collection

“I understand then why the doctrines that explain everything to me also debilitate me at the same time. They relieve me of the weight of my own life, and yet I must carry it alone.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

“Quiet the noise and tune in, recognize the heartbeat that pounds away at your chest. This is life. A precious gift we receive from our ancestors; a mercy that leads us to days forward. Your existence was not by coincidence but by calculated orchestration.”
― Ehime Ora, Spirits Come from Water: An Introduction to Ancestral Veneration and Reclaiming African Spiritual Practices

“One must lie low, no matter how much it went against the grain, and try to understand that this great organization remained, so to speak, in a state of delicate balance, and that if someone took it upon himself to alter the dispositions of things around him, he ran the risk of losing his footing and falling to destruction, while the organization would simply right itself by some compensating reaction in another part of its machinery – since everything interlocked – and remain unchanged, unless, indeed, which was very probable, it became still more rigid, more vigilant, severer, and more ruthless.”
― Franz Kafka, The Trial