Echoes in a Hollow Space

Random quote of the day:

“We are all drawn toward the same craters of the spirit—to know what we are and what we are for, to know our purpose, to seek grace.”

—Saul Bellow, Dangling Man



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Random quote of the day:

“A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else. They become a pretty little convenience, like a guest towel.”

—John D. Macdonald, The Deep Blue Good-by



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Random quote of the day:

“A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

—Francis Bacon, “Of Revenge”



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In the birthplace of light the shadowmongers slink into the cracks in the stones, always waiting to seep back out. They know night is inevitable, even in that hallowed space.

Yet the light does not despair because the shadowmongers must return again to the chinks and cracks and crevices when the light comes back, cresting the eastern horizon, sometimes dimmed by clouds and storm, but always there.

Neither side ever wins completely, as neither side is defeated forever. Those caught in the war between them must always remember that and take nothing for granted. The fight is eternal.

Nothing is permanent. Everything changes. The eternal verities cannot be counted on. There is no Golden Rule unless we make it in our hearts. Many would rather forget this.

They sit in their huts shivering, even on warm days, even with a fire roaring in the hearth, those who would rather forget the nourishing of their souls. They want a paint-by-number theology that does not require deep reflection. And so the mirrors of their souls show nothing at all.

Their lives are a hollow pit, but the Fog of Reckoning creeps beneath the door and down the chimney, reminding them of what they do not want to see, turning soul’s blood to ice.

The Universe is always in balance, wheeling one way then the other until something crashes, something slips, something falls. Then patiently, the Universe rises again, back on the balance beam, struggling once more to recover.

We are here, on the edge of forever, waiting to see which way we will slip. But the light shines on, never more than a temporary prisoner of the night. The light shines on.

Eternal.

Random quote of the day:

“Memories of traumatic experiences are a curious thing. Some are vivid; some are pale; pretty much all of them have been emended in some way, great or small. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to our curated reels. We remember the trivial and forget the exceptional. Our minds truly have minds of their own.”

—Jennifer Senior, “What Bobby Mcilvaine Left Behind,” The Atlantic, September 2021



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Random quote of the day:

“The longer you live, the harder it becomes. To grab them. Each little moment as it arrives. To be living in something other than the past or the future. To be actually here.”

—Matt Haig, How to Stop Time



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Random quote of the day:

“Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”

—Sherry Thomas, A Conspiracy in Belgravia



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Random quote of the day:

“The ripples of geography continue to be traced on our inner surfaces, even if our experience there was fleeting and seemed like nothing to us at the time. No matter how long ago the experience was, its power, its healing, sits in wait, sometimes very deep, other times just waiting to be called back from within.”

—Kerri ní Dochartaigh, Thin Places



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Random quote of the day:

“There doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.”

—Robert Brault, “Thoughts By the Sea,” The New Robert Brault Reader



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Random quote of the day:

“For one human being to love another, that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (tr. D. Herter Norton)



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