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We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us.

Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: April 30
Author
Essayist
Novelist
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University Teacher
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
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What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of anything that isn't us? What is the difference between a cathedral and a physics lab? Are not they both saying: Hello? We spy on whales and on interstellar radio objects we starve ourselves and pray till we're blue.
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I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.
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When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.
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At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
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The silence is all there is. It is the alpha and the omega, it is God's brooding over the face of the waters it is the blinded note of the ten thousand things, the whine of wings. You take a step in the right direction to pray to this silence, and even to address the prayer to World. Distinctions blur. Quit your tents. Pray without ceasing.
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The irrational haunts the metaphysical.
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Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
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