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Empty Quotes by Annie Dillard
- Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
- We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we…
- You empty yourself and wait, listening. After a time you hear it: There is nothing there...You feel the world's word as a tension, a hum,…
- We are here to abet creation and to witness to it, to notice each other's beautiful face and complex nature so that creation need not…
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