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Dillard, Annie - Teaching a stone to talk - Love for its own sake, lacking an object, begins
Identifier
023494
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
A description of the experience
Annie Dillard – Teaching a stone to talk
The light on the far side of the blizzard lures you. You walk, and one day you enter the spread heart of silence, where lands dissolve and seas become vapour and ices sublime under unknown stars. This is the end of the Via Negativa, the lightless edge where the slopes of knowledge dwindle, and love for its own sake, lacking an object, begins.
The source of the experience
Dillard, AnnieConcepts, symbols and science items
Concepts
Symbols
Science Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Believing in the spiritual worldReducing desires
Squash the big I am
Suppressing memory