Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. The mind that responds to the intellectual and spiritual values that lie hidden in a poem, a painting, or a piece of music, discovers a spiritual vitality that lifts it above itself, takes it out of itself, and makes it present to itself on a level of being that it did not know it could ever achieve.
— Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island
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Thanks for your rec on this book before. Have gotten a copy and will likely use as a book study in our School for Contemplative Living in the not too distant future.
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I’ll be eager to hear what you think of it. There are very few pages in my copy that don’t have something underlined or asterisked. Grace and peace to you…
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