Wrote this several years ago and was reminded of it today:
Existential Alphabet
Wrote this several years ago and was reminded of it today:
Existential Alphabet
My 2019 journal begins with this quotation by Karl Jaspers:
The truly real takes place almost unnoticed, and is, to begin with, lonely and dispersed. . . . Those among our young people who, thirty years hence, will do the things that matter, are, in all probability, now quietly biding their time; and yet, unseen by others, they are already establishing their existences by means of an unrestricted spiritual discipline.
“We have come to accept compulsory military service in peacetime for the sake of national security. Am I too bold in suggesting the idea of compulsory adult education in leisure time for the sake of spiritual security?” — Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel
How do you spend your leisure?
I love this question. Continue reading