Etty Hillesum Quote

I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep oneself humbly available, to allow oneself to be a battlefield. After all, the problems must be accommodated, have somewhere to struggle and come to rest and we, poor little humans, must put our inner space at their service and not run away.

An interrupted life: the diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943 (ed. 1983)

I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep...

I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep...

I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep...

I feel like a small battlefield in which the problems, or some of the problems, of our time are being fought out. All one can hope to do is keep...