Obligation and Intention
Hudson River, at the Piermont Pier, dawn, Aug. 2019
I cannot deny that pain is a grace that‘s sent to help me.
If I don’t have a set of obligations that I impose upon myself, I have no intention.
The word obligation comes from Latin obligare, which means to bind towards. To go towards something and bind yourself to it.
This is closely related to the word a…
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