"Immersion in the life of the world, a willingness to be inhabited by and to speak for others, including those beyond the realm of the human, these are the practices not just of the bodhisattva but of the writer." --Jane Hirshfield

Friday, April 11, 2008

In the Beginning was the Word,


the word was, in time, written down in books. Which are now being sold in churches, or at least one former church in the Netherlands.
Popular books are kept on lower shelves, while academic, esoteric and theological works are kept closer to heaven. These are reached by stairs within the sleek, well-made bookstack, although there is also a lift.

At the Guardian.

2 comments:

RZStoryLove said...

I saw this earlier this week and I wish I could visit this bookstore. It looks absolutely beautiful.

Zen of Writing said...

It's gorgeous. It looks so right as a bookstore.