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“Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.”
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“Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them. ”
― An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43
― An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum 1941-43
“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.”
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