'Sometimes I experience God like this Beautiful Nothing,' he said. 'And it seems then as though the whole point in life is just to rest in it. To contemplate it and love it and eventually disappear into it. And then other times it's just the opposite. God feels like a presence that engages everything. I come out here and it seems the divine is running rampant. That the marsh, the whole of creation is some dance God is doing, and we're meant to step into it, that's all. Do you know what I mean?'

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