To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
~ Wendell Berry, "To Know the Dark" in THE SELECTED POEMS OF WENDELL BERRY
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My arms are open. Come my Beloved And rest upon my heart. It beats for You And sings in joyous welcome. What am I Except your resting place and your repose?
Your rest is mine. Without You I am lost In senseless wanderings that have no end, No goal, no meaning, on a road that goes In twisted byways down to nothingness.
Come now, my Love and save me from despair. The Way, the Truth, the Life are with me then. The journey is forgotten in the joy Of endless quiet and your kiss of peace.