“It may be that when we no longer know what to do,
we have come to our real work
and when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
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we have come to our real work
and when we no longer know which way to go,
we have begun our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.”
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“And the world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, no matter how long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of one inch, very arduous and humbling and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our own feet, and learn to be at home.”
― The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky's Red River Gorge
― The Unforeseen Wilderness: Kentucky's Red River Gorge
“I take literally the statement in the Gospel of John that God loves the world. I believe that the world was created and approved by love, that it subsists, coheres, and endures by love, and that, insofar as it is redeemable, it can be redeemed only by love. I believe that divine love, incarnate and indwelling in the world, summons the world always toward wholeness, which ultimately is reconciliation and atonement with God.”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
“A corporation, essentially, is a pile of money to which a number of persons have sold their moral allegiance.”
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“Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
(pg.99, "The Body and the Earth")”
― The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays
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