When we humans dare to approach the deepest and most holy experiences of our lives, all language becomes metaphor. Pat Schneider, How the Light Gets In
Dear Richard, this seems beautifully and profoundly obvious to me. Yet I find a lot of what I read, in the online UCC Observer, appears to use language as descriptive of "truth" rather than as a metaphors pointing to a deeply experienced, inexpressible truth. To my untrained non-Canadian eyes it seems similar to attempting to describe 'beauty' when, in our hearts, we know we can only point to it and hope others share what we see. Am I missing something there?
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Dear Richard, this seems beautifully and profoundly obvious to me. Yet I find a lot of what I read, in the online UCC Observer, appears to use language as descriptive of "truth" rather than as a metaphors pointing to a deeply experienced, inexpressible truth. To my untrained non-Canadian eyes it seems similar to attempting to describe 'beauty' when, in our hearts, we know we can only point to it and hope others share what we see.
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