Annie Dillard is a wonderful writer whose prose has a great poetic quality. Her words ask me to find quiet and solitude provided on the Sabbath. In that quiet, I go deeper and seek peace among the turmoil.
“In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us. But if we ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop them further over the world’s rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether which buoys the test, which gives goodness its power for good, and evil its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here. It is given. It is not learned.”
Take care and see you Monday.
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One of my favourite writers – I have all her books and they are falling to pieces with re-reading! that is a lovely quote, thank you Ivon
Valerie, I am just digging into her work. Parker Palmer, one of my favourite authors, cites her frequently in his books and in the work he does. Her prose is so poetic.
Yes, and her mystical insights blow me away. I am always awed by her writing and observations… lovely to share other writers, isn’t it!
It is.
A new ‘writer’ & ‘poem’ to me- will look her up!