4 Quotes by Tzvi Freeman

What is it that the child has to teach?The child naively believes that everything should be fairand everyone should be honest,that only good should prevail,that everybody should have what they wantand there should be no pain or sadness.The child believes the world should be perfectand is outraged to discover it is not.And the child is right.

The world is absurd. Ugly absurd. To repair ugly absurdity, you can’t just be normal. You need an alternative absurdity. A beautiful absurdity. We call it ‘divine madness’.

All that can be cherished from this world, all that makes life worth living is that which is mined from its bowels through your own toil, fashioned from its clay by your own craft, fired in the kiln of your heart. Oh, how precious, how delightful a feast, the life that has been forged by its own master!

163. Prisoners We are all prisoners. But we sit on the keys. Finitude is our cell. The universe is our prison. Our jail keeper is the Act of Being. The keys to liberation are clenched tightly in the fists of our own egos.