Spirit and practice are inseparable (Berry)

August 5th, 2008  |  Published in Philosophy, Quotes, Religion, Work

For human beings the spiritual and the practical are, and should be, inseparable. Alone, practicality becomes dangerous; spirituality, alone, becomes feeble and pointless. Alone, either becomes dull. Each is the other’s discipline, in a sense, and in good work the two are joined.

—Wendell Berry, “Preserving Wilderness” in Home Economics (1986), p. 145.

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