It is Jewish practice to fast on Yom Kippur, to not eat on this High Holy Day. Many see the physical discipline of fasting as a part of the internal discipline of teschuva, of turning toward a more ethical and compassionate life.
What physical practice informs your moral or spiritual life?
“Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.”
― George Bernard Shaw
When have you asked too much of someone else because you asked too much of yourself?
“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”
― Thomas Merton
What have you sacrificed to create peace?
“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.
How have you creatively transformed a time of suffering?
Time is a precious, irreplaceable commodity that we cannot help but spend. Sometimes we sacrifice how we want to spend our time for how we should spend it. Sometimes we unthinkingly let our time spill out without really choosing where to spend it.
What feels like the most valuable use of your time?
