I used to think I was smart. Thank G-d those days are past.
Now if I get through the day physically intact and know where my next meal is coming from, then I’ve achieved something.
I once walked through Cologne Cathedral and looked at the stained glass windows and thought, “it’s people who built this cathedral who make me realize how little I’ve accomplished.”
No, G-d just gave to them greater gifts, that’s all. He didn’t make me very intelligent and that’s a relief.
If asked how much I know, I respond, “enough to know I don’t know it all”.
I once walked through Cologne Cathedral and looked at the stained glass windows and thought, “it’s people who built this cathedral who make me realize how little I’ve accomplished.”
they were places little people could go to escape their poor lives for a bit of time by becoming enthralled in the beauty and believing in an afterlife that was as beautiful as the cathedral.
not to diminish the majesty of the cathedral don’t forget the future generations of the people that built the cathedral brought us WW1, WW2,and the holocaust.