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To: Volsi Mimir who wrote (3068)	3/20/1999 3:33:00 PM
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But this; bright power, dark peace; Fierce consciousness joined with final Disinterestedness; - - - - - - - - - Hope is proportionate to detachment. It brings our souls into the state of most perfect detachment. In doing so, it restores all values by setting them in their right order. Hope empties our hands in order that we may work with them. It shows us we have something to work for, and teaches us how to work for it. ...there is another spiritual activity that develops and liberates its hidden powers of action: the perception of beauty...We ought to be alive enough to reality to see beauty all around us. Beauty is simply reality itself, perceived in a special way...the beginnings of an interior life, the ability to respond to reality, to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things, to come alive to the splendour that is all around us... Before we can begin to be ascetics, we must first learn to see life aas if it were something more than a hypnotizing telecast [RJ and Una sure did!]. Thomas Merton. [there was a Monterey-Carmel salon, around Mary S ???, Ambrose Bierce was a part of...Jeffers probably too self contained to be a part. You know everything! Who was Mary S?]