T.S. Eliot has been my favorite poet for 48 years. I did a biographical study of his long poem, “The Four Quartets“ as part of an honors project in English during my college days so long ago. One of the lines from “The Four Quartets” keeps going through my mind during the past week, “So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness, the dancing. “
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What a wonderful resonance, Nancy, and how timely for this moment we are living! At The Center we use the TS Eliot lines to close group time. We love this passage which has its roots for us in the BodySoul work of Marion Woodman which we continue in our current BodySoul Expressions work. Here is the stanza that we use from The Four Quartets.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. And wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.