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You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for the dead tyrants_ murders and you alone cannot stop living tyrants. As Martin Buber saw it, the world of ordinary days __ffords_ us that precise association with god that redeems both us and our speck of world. God entrusts and allots to everyone an area to redeem: this creased and feeble life, __he world in which you live, just as it is, and not otherwise._ __nsofar as he cultivates and enjoys them in holiness, he frees their souls_he who prays and sings in holiness, eats and speaks in holiness_through him the sparks which have fallen will be uplifted, and the worlds which have fallen will be delivered and renewed.
Annie Dillard For the Time Being
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You cannot mend the chromosome, quell the earthquake, or stanch the flood. You cannot atone for the dead tyrants_ murders and you alone cannot stop living tyrants. As Martin Buber saw it, the world of ordinary days __ffords_ us that precise association with god that redeems both us and our speck of world. God entrusts and allots to everyone an area to redeem: this creased and feeble life, __he world in which you live, just as it is, and not otherwise._ __nsofar as he cultivates and enjoys them in holiness, he frees their souls_he who prays and sings in holiness, eats and speaks in holiness_through him the sparks which have fallen will be uplifted, and the worlds which have fallen will be delivered and renewed.
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