‘It could be that God has not absconded but spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand and subtle, so powerful in a new way, that we can only feel blindly of its hem.’
Annie Dillard via Katherine May
‘It could be that God has not absconded but spread, to a fabric of spirit and sense so grand and subtle, so powerful in a new way, that we can only feel blindly of its hem.’
Annie Dillard via Katherine May
You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.
“Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
— Dante Alighieri
Seen at the Substack of Philosophors. Though I have long known these lines, I think I have just found the most informative explanation in Prue Shaw's Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity.
Franz Kafka via jillian Hess and Austin KleonAn advantage of keeping a diary consists in the fact that one becomes aware with reassuring clarity of the transformations one incessantly undergoes…In the diary one finds proof that, even in conditions that today seem unbearable, one lived, looked around and wrote down observations, that this right hand thus moved as it does today…
