Nobel Peace Prize winner, Elie Wiesel, a teacher, a writer and a survivor. In his memoir Night, chronicling his time in Nazi concentration camps.
Mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. On e does not study calculus before doing the arithmetic. This is not instant coffee, and no instant mysticism.
Moses, the Bible hero, was the greatest legislator and the commander in the chief of perhaps the first liberation army. God’s representative to the people and people representative to the God. Never had a good day in life. Either people were against him, to God was against him. Modern leaders should learn humility from Moses because they have powers. Humility, conscience, and the use of power. Human cannot alter in one generation. We should start to fight with hatred. There should be a Biblical commandment: Thou(you) Shalt (shall) not hate. Everyone fall into this trap. It is so easy to enter into indifference and stay there. An indifference person remains indifference unless shaken up. He likes to teach and read Albert Camus, a depressing writer as ppl see him. If you read the plague, there is a doctor who does everything he can save. In the midst of death, there is a human who sacrifices his days and nights, and maybe risk his life, to save someone never met. Camus said, “where there is no hope, one must invent hope.” It is pessimistic if you stop with the first half of the sentence and just say, “there is no hope.” Like Camus, even when it seems hopeless, I invent reasons to hope.