A Catholic mystic, Caryll Houselander, writes beautifully about emptiness. Not the cold, lonely emptiness of disappointment, but the warm, expectant full emptiness that awaits God. She contemplates how different kinds of emptiness are shaped and cultivated through their materials and considers three symbols– the chalice (cup), a nest, and a reed pipe. She asks.. [...]
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The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise." - F. Scott Fitzgerald, "The Crack-Up"…and
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