when we have been disciples and friends with our innermost feelings— then it is a bitter and terrible moment
when the realization is suddenly brought home to us that the guiding current of our life is bearing us away from those we love.
Then every thought of ours which rejects our friend and teacher enters our own heart like a poisoned sting,
every blow of self-defense strikes back into our own face.
Then he who felt that the dictates of his own conscience were an authentic guide reproaches himself with the terms "faithlessness" and "ingratitude."
Then the terrified heart flees anxiously back to the valleys of childhood virtues,
and cannot believe that the rupture must take place, that another bond must be severed.
In the course of time a feeling had slowly developed in me which refused to recognize my friend Pistorius unconditionally as my guide.
What I experienced in the most important moments of my youth was my friendship with him, his counsel, his consolation, his proximity.
God had spoken to me through him. Through him my dreams returned to me, from his mouth came their explanation, from him I learned their significance.
He had given me the courage to realize myself. And now, alas, I felt a growing opposition against him.
In his conversation he evinced too clearly a desire to instruct me. I felt it was only one side of my nature that he thoroughly understood.
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