Be detached from desire your whole life long.Miyamoto Musashi
“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”
“Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths.”
— ETTY HILLESUM
Dutch diarist · 1914 – 1943
Etty Hillesum was a Dutch Jewish diarist and letter-writer whose writings from Amsterdam and the Westerbork transit camp became a moving record of spiritual life under Nazi occupation. She was murdered at Auschwitz in 1943.
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