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The Intellectual Life

January 18th, 2008 | Category: Writing

I’ve just started The Intellectual Life by A. G. Sertillanges

I’m finding deep resonance in it’s call for a life of quiet reflection… even in the midst of family life.

It’s a practical, useful work that calls us to sit still and listen for the eternal that suffuses all we see and hear.

This combined with the film Into Great Silence leads me to think I may have a monastic streak in me somewhere… of course, the soon-to-be-three children pretty much preclude that.

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