The Chapel at the Community of St Francis, Compton Durville, where I stayed on retreat last week.
"You are not here to verify
Instruct yourself or inform curiosity
or carry report. You are here to kneel
Where prayer has been valid
And prayer is more
Than an order of words, the conscious occupation
Of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying."
T S Eliot: Four Quartets - Little Gidding
Or to put it more prosaically, "Poetry and Hums aren't things which you get, they're things that get you. All you can do is to go where they can find you." No prizes for guessing who said this!
Wow, I love that quote! How many times have we been 'grabbed' by the words of a song, an image, or a line from a book or movie? I know I have...
Posted by: Beautiful Dreamer | November 18, 2009 at 12:12 AM