Annie Dillard - Total Eclipse

"In the deeps are the violence and terror of which psychology has warned us.  But if you ride these monsters deeper down, if you drop with them over the world's rim, you find what our sciences cannot locate or name, the substrate, the ocean or matrix or ether that buoys the rest, that gives  goodness its power for evil, the unified field: our complex and inexplicable caring for each other, and for our life together here.  This is given.  It is not learned."