| Author Quoted | Plato |
| Title Quoted | Symposium |
| Date (Year/Month/Day) | 1965/10/14 |
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| Quotation | "When he comes toward the end he will suddenly perceive a beauty of wondrous natur"¦not fair in the likeness of face or hands or any other part of the bodily fram"¦but beauty absolute, separate, simple and everlasting"¦are you not certain that it will then be given him to become a friend of God?" Plato-Symposium. How little we think of the beauty of the Divine Light-and how drab life is in consequence. We do not let the beauty of earth remind us where we are to go. As a consequence, not even the earth is beautiful to us, or as beautiful as it might be. |
| Quotation Source | Dancing in the Water of Life: Seeking Peace in the Hermitage. The Journals of Thomas Merton, Volume 5, 1963-1965.; Edited by Robert E. Daggy. / San Francisco : Harper Collins. 1997, p. 303 |
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