Forgetting suffering, learning to just be
Such words as 'God' and 'Death' and 'Suffering' and 'Eternity' are best forgotten. We have to become as simple and as wordless as the growing wheat or the falling rain. We must just be."
- Source : An Interrupted Life: The Diaries and Letters of Etty Hillesum 1941-1943
- Publication date : 1983)
HILLESUM Etty (Esther)
Young Jewish thinker and writer who searched for the spiritual sense of life despite the inhumanity during the Nazi occupation.