“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 Hillesum, An Interrupted Life
Etty lived lived in the Netherlands in the 1940’s, down the street from Anne Frank, and died at the age of 29 in a Nazi concentration camp. She kept a diary of her inner life during those days, which was published after her death.
