Eros and this Cave, our Bodies and this Darkness

Susan Griffin's Woman and Nature (2000) and The Eros of Everyday Life (1995)

The shape of this cave, our bodies, this darkness. This darkness which sits so close to us we cannot see, so close that we move away in fear. We turn into ourselves. But here we find the same darkness, we find we are shaped around emptiness, that we are a void we do not know. (2000, 161)

Human consciousness can be rejoined not only with the human body but with the body of earth. Indeed, what seems incipient in the reunion is the recovery of meaning within existence that will infuse every kind of meeting between self and the universe, even in the most daily acts with an Eros; a palpable love, that is also sacred. (1995, 9)