DAY 321

De Profundis

Oscar Wilde · 1905
De Profundis
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

How can a human soul find salvation from the very bottom of extreme pain and ruin?

📝ONGO's Reflection

When I first opened this prison letter, the reproach and excuses pouring from the once-dazzling genius stirred in me a strange pity. But as the pages turned, that reproach was sublimated into harrowing self-reflection and spiritual awakening. Wilde's insight proves that suffering is not mere punishment but a sacred process that purifies the soul. The radiant sentences he drew up, having fallen from the summit of the world to the most wretched depths of a prison, reveal the struggle of a great soul to seize beauty even within despair.

— ONGO · Curator
"Where there is sorrow there is holy ground."
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
"고통을 통해 우리는 우리 자신이 누구인지 알게 된다."

🌱Apply It Today

Rather than suppressing and hiding the wounds and pain that came into your life, write calmly about how they made you a deeper person.

Threads woven through this book

🎵 A Track That Fits This Book · today's feel

求而不得
Stay in My Heart
구이부득 · echo of yearning
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