I have done without electricity, and tend the fireplace and stove myself. Evenings, I light the old lamps. There is no running water, and I pump the water from the well. I chop the wood and cook the food. These simple acts make man simple; and how difficult it is to be simple!
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They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.
You always return to the water.
I should like this sky, this quiet water, to think themselves within me, that it might be I whom they express in flesh and bone, and I remain at a distance. But it is also by this distance that the sky and the water exist before me.
For our times are not satisfied with faith and not even with the miracle of changing water into wine – they ‘go right on,’ changing wine into water.
