Guilty of the Good We Did Not Do A reflection on Voltaire, omission, and the courage to loveEvery day holds a quiet moment — a nudge, a passing thought about someone you haven't called, a feeling that maybe you should reach out. Most of us let it pass. Voltaire called that a kind of guilt. Not the guilt of what we did, but the weight of what we chose to leave undone. The good we never got around to doing.
“Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.” — Voltaire A Brother Worth Knowing Voltaire — the sharp pen of the French Enlightenment — was no stranger to controversy, to exile, or to the long uncomfortable work of speaking truth against comfortable power. He was also a Fellow Craftsman, a Mason, initiated in the last years of his life at the Lodge of the Nine Sisters in Paris. Whether he…
