It may be, then, that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. 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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. . . And we pray, not for new
earth or heaven, but to be quiet
in heart, and in eye, clear.
What we need is here.
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Wendell Berry
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