title: Etty Hillesum: Essential Writings (Modern Spiritual Masters)
author:  Etty Hillesum 
description: A marvelous book full of praise and power, song and light, of a profound, strong love that overcame all hatred. This is the story of a truly modern soul that can inspire, affirm, and transform one from within.--Ursula King, author, Spirit of Fire: Teilhard de Chardin --Publisher<br /><br />This is a remarkable collection garnered from the writings of a saintly, human and indomitably good woman who lived against the shadowed curtain of unspeakable inhumanity. . . a book to read in small doses, repeatedly.--Megan McKenna, author, Not Counting Women and Children --Publisher<br /><br />It is amazing how very relevant and inspiring Etty Hillesum's words are to our times. . . a helpful guide to those who search for spiritual growth and inner balance.--Denise de Costa, author, Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum --Publisher
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  This book made available by the Internet Archive.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Acknowledgments
  
  
  My debts are manifold and various:
  
  
  First, Stanford University
  
  
  Where, with progressively precarious
  
  
  Nurture, my tardy Ph.D.
  
  
  Has waxed, and waxes, lax and sickly.
  
  
  Second, to friends who've read this, quickly
  
  
  Advised me to desist and cease,
  
  
  Or burbled, "What a masterpiece!"
  
  
  Or smoothed my steps with sage suggestion.
  
  
  Third, to John and Susan Hughes
  
  
  For refuge, friendship, ears, and views.
  
  
  And, fourth, to you, who did not question
  
  
  The crude credentials of this verse
  
  
  But backed your brashness with your purse.
  
  
  
  
  
  Dedication
  
  
  So here they are, the chapters ready,
  
  
  And, half against my will, I'm free
  
  
  Of this warm enterprise, this heady
  
  
  Labor that h