2/02/2011

...this suffering world


"What shall I do in this suffering world? Suffer. But is that enough to satisfy the big moral feeling that I have? Why should I have a moral feeling on that scale? I am not God. If I were offered the power of a miracle, could I yet alleviate the vast organic suffering, without disrupting some inner working of God's purpose in it all?
Jack Kerouac -- Journal, 1947