Thursday, January 12, 2012

The Spiritual Understanding - Rather Than Grasping - is Itself Grasped by Wisdom


"By the natural understanding the soul grasps the object which it penetrates; but by the spiritual understanding, instead of grasping, it is itself grasped."

William of St. Thierry, 12th century Cistercian monk

Photo: Last light penetrates a hillside in the Medicine Bow Mountains, CO, January 6, 2012

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