"Two men who wanted to see the sunrise would be very foolish to argue about the place where it will appear and their means of looking at it, then to let their argument degenerate into a quarrel, from that to come to blows, and in the heat of the conflict to gouge each other's eyes out. There would be no longer any question about contemplating the dawn...
Let us who wish to contemplate God purify our hearts by faith and heal them by means of peace; for the effort we make to love one another is already a gift from him to whom we raise our eyes."
- Augustine of Hippo, Sermons, as quoted in The Roots of Christian Mysticism (Olivier Clement)
Wonderful wisdom! If only everyone could see it that way!
ReplyDeleteRain, it really put things in perspective for me. Arguing about where to view a sunrise ending up with being unable to view the sunrise - yet how many of us (I include myself here) do this sort of thing every day?
DeleteGood food for thought. Thank you, TB.
ReplyDeleteYou all be safe and God bless.
Wonder if ST. Augustine would have had fun with a Muslim on a very cloudy day though :)
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