"There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.
A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough.
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more.
The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.
Who would call a day spent reading a good day?
But a life spent reading- that is a good life.
A day that closely resembles every other day of the past ten or twenty years
does not suggest itself as a good one.
But who would not call Pasteur's life a good one, or Thomas Mann's?"
-Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
A life of good days lived in the senses is not enough.
The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more.
The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and its passage sweet.
Who would call a day spent reading a good day?
But a life spent reading- that is a good life.
A day that closely resembles every other day of the past ten or twenty years
does not suggest itself as a good one.
But who would not call Pasteur's life a good one, or Thomas Mann's?"
-Annie Dillard, The Writing Life
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Jesus needs neither books nor Doctors of Divinity in order to instruct souls; He, the Doctor of Doctors, He teaches without noise of words.
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