DAY 54

The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri · 1320
La Divina Commedia
📌 ONE QUESTION FROM THE BOOK

When wandering through the dark wood of my life, who is the guide that leads me?

📝ONGO's Reflection

Dante's opening line—that at thirty-five, about halfway through life, he lost his way in a dark wood—stirs a thrill in me no matter how often I read it. This grand journey, from Hell all the way to Heaven, is in the end a fierce record of how a man fallen into the abyss claws his way back up toward the light. It calls to mind a teacher like Virgil to lead me when I am lost, and a presence of love like Beatrice. If you long to forge hope at the very end of despair, you must open the first page of this epic.

— ONGO · Curator
"Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost."
Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
"우리 인생길의 반환점에서, 나는 올바른 길을 잃고 어두운 숲속을 헤매고 있었다."

🌱Apply It Today

Write down the inner hell (the problem) you fear most right now, and find the courage to face it.

Threads woven through this book

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

無爲而化
Flow in the Quiet
무위이화 · effortless flow
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