Thinking gets you nowhere. It may be a fine and noble aid in academic studies, but you can't think your way out of emotional difficulties. That takes something altogether different. You have to make yourself passive then, and just listen. Re-establish contact with a slice of eternity.
Etty HillesumAnd I believe that I will never be able to hate any human being for his so-called 'wickedness,' that I shall only hate the evil that is within me, though hate is perhaps putting it too strongly even then. In any case, we cannot be lax enough in what we demand of others and strict enough in what we demand of ourselves.
Etty HillesumHow rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.
Etty HillesumWe have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
Etty Hillesum