Source: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Daniel Steele, Boston, March, 1888 in Forty Witnesses (1888) edited by S. Olin Garrison
“Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.”
"No Religion is an Island", p. 264
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
Context: Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy. And yet being alive is no answer to the problems of living. To be or not to be is not the question. The vital question is: how to be and how not to be?
The tendency to forget this vital question is the tragic disease of contemporary man, a disease that may prove fatal, that may end in disaster. To pray is to recollect passionately the perpetual urgency of this vital question.
“For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.”
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Retrospect. Philadelphia: China Inland Mission, n.d., 35).
“Every living thing is a masterpiece, written by nature and edited by evolution.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 621.
A Great Procession of Priests and Laymen http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=87&cat=1
Collected Poems (1992)
“All life, every living thing is a word for God in His mystery.”
All Will be Well (2004)
“All the concentrated agony of the Universe bursts out in every living thing.”
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: The wife of my God is matter; they wrestle with each other, they laugh and weep, they cry out in the nuptial bed of flesh.
They spawn and are dismembered. They fill sea, land, and air with species of plants, animals, men, and spirits. This primordial pair embraces, is dismembered, and multiplies in every living creature.
All the concentrated agony of the Universe bursts out in every living thing. God is imperiled in the sweet ecstasy and bitterness of flesh.
But he shakes himself free, he leaps out of brains and loins, then clings to new brains and new loins until the struggle for liberation again breaks out from the beginning.
“Holy flying fuck, that thing took off!”
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