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4.22 AVERAGE
4.22 AVERAGE
challenging
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
10/10 [even though I hated The letter from a young worker]
"If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and a little beyond the outworks of our intuitions, perhaps we should then bear ous sadnesses with greater assurance than our joys."
"Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling, all pain, all depression of spirit, when you don't know what work it is these states are performing within you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where it all comes from and where it is leading? You well know you are in a period of transition and want nothing more than to be transformed."
"If it were possible for us to see further than our knowledge reaches, and a little beyond the outworks of our intuitions, perhaps we should then bear ous sadnesses with greater assurance than our joys."
"Why should you want to exclude from your life all unsettling, all pain, all depression of spirit, when you don't know what work it is these states are performing within you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where it all comes from and where it is leading? You well know you are in a period of transition and want nothing more than to be transformed."
challenging
inspiring
fast-paced
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
fast-paced
THIS is the cure to male lonliness
Some lines are so good, an anxiety instantly arises in me that I might forget them.
emotional
quotes i’m saving to reference later:
“It is clear that we must hold to what is difficult, everything alive holds to it, everything in nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristic out of itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must hold to what is difficult is a certainty that will not forsake us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is hard must be a reason the more for us to do it.”
“And your doubt may be a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become critical. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will perhaps find it perplexed and embarrassed, or perhaps up in arms. But don’t give in, insist on arguments and act this way, watchful and consistent, every single time, and the day will arrive when from a destroyer it will become one of your best workers — perhaps the cleverest of all that are building at your life.”
“I am glad, in a word, that you have surmounted the danger of falling into this sort of thing and are somewhere in a rough reality being solitary and courageous.”
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
“What happens in your innermost being is worthy of your whole love; you must somehow keep working at it and not lose too much time and too much courage in explaining your position to people.”
“What keeps you from projecting His north into coming ages and living your life like a painful and beautiful day in the history of a great gestation? [...] Is there anything that can take from you the hope of this someday being in Him, the farthest, the ultimate?”
“It is clear that we must hold to what is difficult, everything alive holds to it, everything in nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristic out of itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must hold to what is difficult is a certainty that will not forsake us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is hard must be a reason the more for us to do it.”
“And your doubt may be a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become critical. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will perhaps find it perplexed and embarrassed, or perhaps up in arms. But don’t give in, insist on arguments and act this way, watchful and consistent, every single time, and the day will arrive when from a destroyer it will become one of your best workers — perhaps the cleverest of all that are building at your life.”
“I am glad, in a word, that you have surmounted the danger of falling into this sort of thing and are somewhere in a rough reality being solitary and courageous.”
“Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.”
“What happens in your innermost being is worthy of your whole love; you must somehow keep working at it and not lose too much time and too much courage in explaining your position to people.”
“What keeps you from projecting His north into coming ages and living your life like a painful and beautiful day in the history of a great gestation? [...] Is there anything that can take from you the hope of this someday being in Him, the farthest, the ultimate?”
emotional
hopeful
inspiring
fast-paced
This book felt like having a conversation with a mentor that I’ve never had. Deeply inspiring and comforting. It made me smile , cry and most of all it made me feel understood. I loved it. Just from reading this I could tell that the author was an empathetic person.
hopeful
inspiring
lighthearted