04 May 2008

Hey diddle-diddle...

"Thomas Merton wrote: "There is always the temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues." There is always an enormous temptation in all life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. It is so self-conscious, so apparently moral, simply to step aside from the gaps where the creeks and winds pour down saying, I never merited the grace, quite rightly, and then to sulk along the rest of your days...

... We are raising tomatoes when we should be raising Lazarus!"

Annie Dillard "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek"

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