I decided that I would make my life my argument.

Albert Schweitzer
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I decided that I would make my life my argument.
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Late on the third day, at the very moment when, at sunset, ..., there flashed upon my mind, unforeseen and unsought, the phrase “Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben” (“reverence for life”). ✨ Albert Schweitzer&# … ▶
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins. ✨ Albert Schweitzer (1966). The Teaching of Reverence for Life
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. ✨ … ▶
Your soul suffers if you live superficially. ✨ Albert Schweitzer (1979). Reverence for Life, p.80, Ardent Media

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