It’s entirely conceivable that life’s splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness,
accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible, far away. But there it lies, not hostile,
not reluctant, not deaf. If we call it by the right word, by the right name, then it comes.
This is the essence of magic, which doesn’t create but calls.
―Franz Kafka, from his diaries, cited in Roberto Calasso’s “K,” translated by Geoffrey Brock
This quote was posted on Parabola Magazine‘s Facebook Page a couple of days ago and I have not been able to shake it. To me, this is what religion is, what our spiritual practice is.
The Christian story, my Christian practice is what calls the splendor of life in all its fullness to me.