Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. Helen Keller Fundamentalism , whether cultural, political or religious, through its focus on differences and particulars, will divide, separate and create conflict. True ecumenism , through its focus on acceptance, commonality, tolerance and mutual learning, will foster peace, justice, harmony and wholeness. She is not a particularly religious person, but we often have conversations about faith, the transcendental and one's concept of God. I love this poem's expression of mortality and immortality.
Nothing's a gift, it's all on loan.
I'm drowning in debts up to my ears. I'll have to pay for myself with my self, give up my life for my life. Too late to tear up the terms, my debts will be repaid, and I'll be fleeced, or, more precisely, flayed. I move about the planet in a crush of other debtors. Others must, willy-nilly, account for every leaf.