A quotation from Nachman of Breslov

All the world is a very narrow bridge, and the most important thing is not to be overwhelmed by fear.

[כל העולם כולו גשר צר מאוד, והעיקר – לא לפחד כלל.]

Nachman of Breslov (1772-1810) Ukrainian Jewish Hasidic leader, rabbi, kabbalist [רַבִּי נַחְמָן מִבְּרֶסְלֶב; of Bratslav; of Bracław]
(Paraphrase)

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(Paraphrase) - Nachman of Breslov | WIST Quotations

All the world is a very narrow bridge, and the most important thing is not to be overwhelmed by fear. כל העולם כולו גשר צר מאוד, והעיקר - לא לפחד כלל. The original of this passage, in Nachman's Likutey Moharan, Part 2, 48:2, is: [וְדַע, שֶׁהָאָדָם...

A quotation by Tolkien, J.R.R.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) English writer, fabulist, philologist, academic [John Ronald Reuel Tolkien]

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2, ch. 6 “Lothlórien” [Haldir] (1954)

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WIST - Tolkien, J.R.R. | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Book 2, ch. 6 "Lothlórien" [Haldir] (1954)

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

Never made it to the last Woodward book (among so many that I did read, from Cohen to Mary Trump & others)...

But this already promises to be pure motherlode of facts and interaction of the moving pieces of the #TrumpVirus "method" & "thinking". And times two - with the formidable journalist Robert Costa leaving PBS to collaborate on this with legendary Woodward.

Woodward/Costa book: Worried Trump could 'go rogue,' Milley took secret action to protect nuclear weapons

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Woodward/Costa book: Worried Trump could 'go rogue,' Milley took secret action to protect nuclear weapons

Two days after the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, President Donald Trump's top military adviser, Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, single-handedly took secret action to limit Trump from potentially ordering a dangerous military strike...