"You have to have no answers and also be in joy. You have to be ready to dance when your heart is hemorrhaging; and you have to be ready to sing a dirge when things -- for ONCE! -- are going okay for you, and every last one of your friends is in crisis. To hold the tension between the light and the darkness; pain and joy; life that we love so much and the fact that we all must die is the intersection of the cross."
[Heather King, "Spirituality: 'We played the flute for you, and you did not dance...."]
notes from the underground: my attempt to keep the things I read in my brain
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