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People like Fjodor Dostojevski, Gerard Reve, Søren Kierkegaard suffered gigantic spiritual struggles in their lives. They have been ‘at the shores of the inner lake’ as Dag Hammerskjöld puts it. It is a mistake though to think that those people were exceptions. “What they experienced one also finds in the streets of Tegelen “, Beurskens says because he encounters it in his daily practice. Writers like Thomas Merton and Lev Tolstoy are lights for our times, because they traveled the road in a recognizable way and wrote it down in words of beauty. The texts of Søren Kierkegaard are a consolation because they make us see that we are not alone as we suffer. And that is why they are language of faith and hope.