The Stillness

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.

Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

~T.S. Elliot