"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." ― Thomas Merton Topic(s): Art Tags: enables More From Thomas Merton "Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience." "We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have – for their usefulness." "Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward." More In Art "If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world."― Sri Chinmoy "To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."― Herman Melville "I grew up in an artists’ community in New York, in a building that was government-subsidised for artists. No one made any money, but they made art for the sake of art."― Vin Diesel