"Better this immersion than to live untouched." - Lynda Hull This is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing is to be pure. What you get is to be changed. - Jorie Graham Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate exercise....You may want to be sure. Look down on that feeling. We’ve got to learn to live with a full measure of uncertainty. There is no last word. That’s the silence under the chatter of our time. — John Patrick Shanley (Doubt: A Parable) Between the idea and the reality, the motion and the act, falls the shadow. ~ T.S. Eliot To say one needs art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguities and contradictions is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might [stop?] one being so utterly convinced of ... Read >

"Better this immersion than to live untouched." - Lynda Hull This is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing is to be pure. What you get is to be changed. - Jorie Graham Doubt requires more courage than conviction does, and more energy; because conviction is a resting place and doubt is infinite – it is a passionate exercise....You may want to be sure. Look down on that feeling. We’ve got to learn to live with a full measure of uncertainty. There is no last word. That’s the silence under the chatter of our time. — John Patrick Shanley (Doubt: A Parable) Between the idea and the reality, the motion and the act, falls the shadow. ~ T.S. Eliot To say one needs art, or politics, that incorporate ambiguities and contradictions is not to say that one then stops recognizing and condemning things as evil. However, it might [stop?] one being so utterly convinced of the certainty of one's own solutions. There needs to be a strong understanding of fallibility and how the very act of certainty or authoritativeness can bring disaster.--William Kentridge Show Less <