"Whether or not we subscribe to any definite religious creed, growing old makes it impossible any more for us to turn away from seeking out some support of this nature. What was immediate is now less significant than formerly, while by contrast, what was far away and indefinite has become close and increasingly real. The focus of our souls, like the focus of our eyes, changes as we age, and we change with it.
So we who are ageing can never know, any of us, what is coming next, though we must wonder more and more. The kind of unquestioning certainty which they had in the Middle Ages about heaven and hell is forever lost to us, and surely that is on the whole a very good thing. But we can have intimations, flashes of seeing in a dark wood. For me only two things now seem sure. One is that time must have a stop, and the other is that whatever lies over and around mortal time is not to be feared. With that, I shall have to be content."
~ Norma Jacob
More at http://www.pendlehill.org/images/pamphlets/php239.pdf
Artwork from Howard Phipps
http://www.birchamgallery.co.uk/catalogue/artist/Howard:Phipps/biography/?category=prints
So we who are ageing can never know, any of us, what is coming next, though we must wonder more and more. The kind of unquestioning certainty which they had in the Middle Ages about heaven and hell is forever lost to us, and surely that is on the whole a very good thing. But we can have intimations, flashes of seeing in a dark wood. For me only two things now seem sure. One is that time must have a stop, and the other is that whatever lies over and around mortal time is not to be feared. With that, I shall have to be content."
~ Norma Jacob
More at http://www.pendlehill.org/images/pamphlets/php239.pdf
Artwork from Howard Phipps
http://www.birchamgallery.co.uk/catalogue/artist/Howard:Phipps/biography/?category=prints
The contents have it! Or so I would say.
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