“I
think that if we examine our lives, we will find that the most good has
come to us from the few loyalties, and a few discoveries made many generations
before we were born, which must always be made anew. These too may sometimes
appear to come by chance, but in the infinite web of things and events
chance must be something different from what we think it to be. To comprehend
that is not given to us, and to think of it is to recognize a mystery,
and to acknowledge the necessity of faith. As I look back on the part
of the mystery which is my own life, my own fable, what I am most aware
of is that we receive more than we can ever give....”
Edwin Muir, An
Autobiography |
