Pico Iyer Quote
One of the strange laws of the contemplative life, Thomas Merton, one of its sovereign explorers, pointed out, is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you. Or, as Annie Dillard, who sat still for a long time at Tinker Creek—and in many other places—has it, I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend.
Pico Iyer
One of the strange laws of the contemplative life, Thomas Merton, one of its sovereign explorers, pointed out, is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you. Or, as Annie Dillard, who sat still for a long time at Tinker Creek—and in many other places—has it, I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as with a dying friend.
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