Crossing the Narrow Bridge
All the world is a narrow bridge, Rebbe Nachman said, a narrow bridge between the nothingness at the beginning and the nothingness at the end. We spend our whole lives on this precarious span, unaware that we are even on it. Then one day we wake up and see it, and we feel terror. We say to ourselves, My God, what have I been doing with my life?
Alan Lew • This Is Real and You Are Completely Unprepared: The Days of Awe as a Journey of Transformation
“There is a Hebrew prayer that dates back to the early 1800s: the world is a
narrow bridge, and the important thing is not to be afraid." From courage is calling by Ryan Holiday
There is no one in the world who does not suffer in one way or another. People have all kinds of hardships and difficulties. It may be the problems of making a living, their health or domestic troubles with their wife and children and the other members of the household. Nobody can escape a certain amount of pain and hardship, because “man was born
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