
- Kazuko Okakura
The Book of Tea
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![]() He entered the realm of art when he discovered the subtle use of the useless. - Kazuko Okakura The Book of Tea
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We who draw do so not only to make something observed visible to others, but also to accompany something invisible to its incalculable destination.
(C)ontemplation is . . . awakening, enlightenment, and the amazing intuitive grasp by which love gains certitude of God’s creative and dynamic intervention in our daily life. . . contemplation is a sudden gift of awareness, an awakening to the Real within all that is real. A vivid awareness of infinite Being at the roots of our own limited being. An awareness of our contingent reality as received, as a present from God, as free gift of love.
—Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation Until art is allowed its full and proper place in spiritual meditation, meditation itself will remain elitist, a complex and convoluted exercise for an elite minority of professional pray-ers… Matthew Fox
Antoine de Saint-Exupery. "More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use."
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