Barack seeks the Stillness

(Obama minutes before the first Presidential debate)

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. Eliot, East Coker, No.2 of 'Four Quartets'