“Life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself, it is infinitely beyond your or my obtuse theories about it.”
― Boris Pasternak
How have recent events upended your theories about life?
The most important phase of building isn’t building at all—it’s the unglamorous work of preparing a firm foundation. Without the mess of digging down to solid footings, the fanciest building is likely to crumble.
What unglamorous work are you doing to lay a firm foundation for what will come later?
The story of Passover includes not only the dramatic escape from slavery in Egypt, but also a really, really long time wandering in the desert before the Hebrew people finally reach the Promised Land. Liberation, it turns out, is not quick.
What helps you to find patience to continue on?
Sometimes life gives us no choice but to prove how strong we are. But other times we deliberately seek out challenge, proving to ourselves and others that we are tougher and more capable than we could have known otherwise.
How do you choose to challenge yourself?
“As wave is driven by wave
And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead,
So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows,
Always, forever and new. What was before
Is left behind; what never was is now;
And every passing moment is renewed.”
― Ovid
What are you glad to have left behind you?
