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E-mailTrue spirituality does not vest in any one religion or form of piety, it is to be found in the least expected of places. This is what the editors of this volume believe and their argument is pretty interesting.
to see the conclusion ...
“I was suddenly, almost forcibly, jerked clean out of the habitual, half-tied vision of things, and an inner clearness, clarity, as if exploding from the rocks themselves, became evident and obvious,” he wrote. So why was this Christian monk so lifted out of himself by these representations of the Buddha? Talking of the awesome silence and calm of the statues, Merton wrote that the Buddhas stood for a way of life “that needs nothing and can therefore afford to be silent, unnoticed, undiscovered”. He writes that they have “seen through every question without trying to discredit anyone or anything — without refutation — without establishing some other argument ... For the doctrinaire such silence can be frightening”.
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``I dream of a quiet man
who explains nothing and defends
nothing, but only knows
where the rarest wild flowers
are blooming, and who goes
where they are and stands still
and finds that he is smiling
and not by his own will...”
True spirituality does not vest in any one religion or form of piety, it is to be found in the least expected of places. This is what the editors of this volume believe and their argument is pretty seductive. Writes Andre Dubus III in his introduction: ”Great soul is found in art and all of its concrete, specific, and sensual particulars ... It seems no writing can approach the truly spiritual until it seeks to evoke the lowly terrain of the soul and the body that holds it”. This is precisely what Philip Zaluski has been doing with this anthology since its inception in 1998 when he wrote in that first preface, ”I take the best spiritual writing to be prose or poetry that addresses, in a manner both profound and beautiful, the workings of the soul”.