The Darkness Shall Be the Light: T S Eliot’s Journey to Faith

Loneliness is one of the modern diseases we find. We run from it but it never goes away. We seek distraction and when that doesn’t work “distractions from distraction” (Eliot). Yet the teaching of the Spiritual masters is that we shouldn’t flee – we should stay with our loneliness. Our tears express our loneliness and in the midst of tears we encounter a loving Presence. In this work we follow T. S. Eliot’s poetic journey from The Waste Land to the Four Quartets and meditate on the themes he introduces to us. In this way we allow our loneliness become a solitude where we encounter God and find new life in him. The fire of love burns in us. “We only live, only suspire. Consumed by either fire or fire.” (Four Quartets)