"Modern discourse is not really comfortable with the word "soul," and in my opinion the loss of the word has been disabling, not only to religion but to literature and political thought and to every humane pursuit. In contemporary religious circles, souls, if they are mentioned at all, tend to be spoken of as saved or lost, having answered some set of divine expectations or failed to answer them, having arrived at some crucial realization or failed to arrive at it. So the soul, the masterpiece of creation, is more or less reduced to a token signifying cosmic acceptance or rejection, having little or nothing to do with that miraculous thing, the felt experience of life, except insofar as life offers distractions or temptations." — Marilynne Robinson
“I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments
that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.” — Rebecca West
-
It’s her birthday today. It is hard to talk about her without referencing
the generations of writers she inspired, all of whom admit their debt.
Robert Kap...
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment