Posted at Hartmann Report on Dec. 18, 2022
Threshold: The Crisis of Western Culture
Sunday book excerpt: Table of Contents & Preface.
"Be not like the lintel, which no hand can reach, but like the threshold, trodden by all. When the building falls, the threshold remains."
—Eleazar HaKappar, Abot de R. Nathan, 26.
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the “Universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955)