The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back parts of God; they are fissures between mountains and cells the wind lances through, the icy narrowing fiords splitting the cliffs of mystery. Go up into the gaps. If you can find them; they shift and vanish too. Stalk the gaps. Squeak into a gap in the soil, turn, and unlock-more than a maple-universe.
We live in all we seek. - Annie Dillard
We live in all we seek.
- Annie Dillard
You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself. - Annie Dillard
You do what you do out of your private love of the thing itself.
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you. - Annie Dillard
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. - Annie Dillard
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mou… - Annie Dillard
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mou…
Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can. - Annie Dillard
Make connections; let rip; and dance where you can.
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery. - Annie Dillard
Our life is a faint tracing on the surface of mystery.
How you spend your days is how you spend your life. - Annie Dillard
How you spend your days is how you spend your life.
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land. - Annie Dillard
No one escapes the wilderness on the way to the promised land.
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