...Thomas Merton.
The soul that picks and pries at itself in the isolation of its own dull self-analysis arrives at a self-consciousness that is a torment and a disfigurement of our whole personality. But the spirit that finds itself above itself in the intensity and cleanness of its reaction to a work of art is 'self-conscious' in a way that is productive as well as sublime. Such a one finds in himself totally new capacities for thought and vision and moral action.
No Man is an Island, chapter 3,7 para.1
Friday, May 29, 2009
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