Annie Dillard - Holy the Firm (1977)

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We are most deeply asleep at the switch when we fancy we control any switches at all.

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There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times.

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I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.

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You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

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Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time.

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The universe is illusion merely, not one speck of it real, and we are not only its victims, falling always into or smashed by a planet slung by the sun-but also its captives, bound by the mineral-made ropes of our senses.

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