8 June 1943, p. 602
Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
Source: Redemption in Indigo (2010), Chapter 15 “A Lesson on Chances and Choices” (p. 114)
“The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.”
Source: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 1 (p. 11)
Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 6 (p. 60)
Diamonds, Unapologetic (2012). Cowritten with Benjamin Levin, Mikkel Eriksen and Tor Hermansen.
Songs
“So now we're cruisin' down this shuddering highway with the dead sun shining on my back. ~ Myrrh”
Lyrics
“Mass-murderers are simply people who have had ENOUGH.”
Source: The Naked Civil Servant (1968), Ch. 29
Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980)
Context: The notion that all these fragments are separately existent is evidently an illusion, and this illusion cannot do other than lead to endless conflict and confusion. Indeed, the attempt to live according to the notion that the fragments are really separate is, in essence, what has led to the growing series of extremely urgent crises that is confronting us today. Thus, as is now well known, this way of life has brought about pollution, destruction of the balance of nature, over-population, world-wide economic and political disorder and the creation of an overall environment that is neither physically nor mentally healthy for most of the people who live in it. Individually there has developed a widespread feeling of helplessness and despair, in the face of what seems to be an overwhelming mass of disparate social forces, going beyond the control and even the comprehension of the human beings who are caught up in it.
“The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day.”
Source: The Cat in the Hat (1957)
“My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes.”
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The Gardener http://www.spiritualbee.com/love-poems-by-tagore/ (1915)
