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It turns out to be for me as I once told her it would be for her daughter. And so even in the gnashing of my teeth, I acknowledge my conversion. One of the things that’s in whale’s milk is the promise of pain and death.Īnd so? Admitting what is so obvious, what then? Would I wipe Marion Catlin out of my unperfected consciousness if I could? Would I forgo the pleasure of her company to escape the bleakness of her loss? Would I go back to my own formula, which was twilight sleep, to evade the pain she brought with her? Think of the force of life, yes, but think of the component of darkness in it. She never persuaded me to ignore, or look upon as merely hard pleasures, the evil that I felt in every blight and smut and pest in my garden- that I felt, for that matter, squatting like a toad on my own heart. Think how endless and dubious is the progress from weed to flower.Įven alive, she never convinced me with her advocacy of biological perfectionism. Think how often beauty and delicacy and grace are choked out by weeds. And think how random and indiscriminate it is, think how helplessly we must submit, think how impossible it is to control or direct it. Think of the force down there, just telling things to get born, just to be!” She said, “You wondered what was in whale’s milk. She taught me the stupidity of the attempt to withdraw and be free of trouble and harm. God is kind? Life is good? Nature never did betray the heart that loved her? Why the reward she received for living intensely and generously and trying to die with dignity? Why the horror at the bridge her last clear sight of earth?.I do not accept, I am not reconciled.
What we call evil is only a groping towards good, part of the trial and error by which we move toward the perfected consciousness…
Love even the threat and the pain, feel yourself fully alive, cast a bold shadow, accept, accept.
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