Pius XI drafted the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge (“With Deep Anxiety”). It was the first major church document to criticize Nazism. Smuggled into Germany, it was read on Palm Sunday from every Catholic pulpit—before a single copy had fallen into Nazi hands. As Richard Pierard explains, the encyclical protested the oppression of the church and called on Catholics to resist the idolatrous cult of race and state, to stand against the perversion of Christian doctrines and morality, and to maintain their loyalty to Christ, his church, and Rome. Hitler reacted furiously at first, but then decided to avoid a break with Rome by treating the encyclical with silence. Knowing that he had the support of the German Catholic laypeople, Hitler simply stepped up the pressure on the churches to eliminate the possibility of organized resistance.
Love means knowing when to let go
"Hepimiz çok fena çabalıyoruz, yanlış yöne gidiyoruz. Tüm çabalarımız boşuna, Kazumi. Hiçbir şeye varmıyorlar! Sevincimiz, üzüntümüz, öfkemiz—hepsi bir tayfun, bir sağanak veya kiraz çiçekleri gibi geliyor ve gidiyor. Hepimiz küçük duygularımız tarafından itiliyoruz ve aynı yere sürükleniyoruz. Hiçbirimiz buna direnemeyiz. İdealist olduğunu düşündüğün her neyse onu yap? Ama değil. Sadece zavallıca! Sonunda sadece çabalarımızın boşuna olduğunu bilmekle kalıyoruz!"
“We’re all struggling so hard, heading in the wrong direction. All our efforts are in vain, Kazumi. They come to nothing! Our pleasure, our sorrow, our anger—it all comes and goes like a typhoon or a squall or cherry blossoms. We are all being pushed by our petty feelings and carried away to the same place. None of us can resist it. Do whatever you think is idealistic? But it’s not. It’s just petty! We only end up knowing that our efforts were in vain!”
Knowing what to do without panic is a quality emergency staff rely on.
I must not shrink from the clear white light, for if I do, I will once more re-enter the cycle of birth and death, never knowing freedom, never obtaining release.
Because the real problem with a knowledge-based economy is knowing that, no matter how hard you try, most of the information in the universe has already dissolved into entropy before you even evolved.
