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From Forests Dark to Stars of Light: How Beatrice’s Eyes and Aristotle’s Wisdom Reveal the Path to True Happiness

From Forests Dark to Stars of Light: How Beatrice’s Eyes and Aristotle’s Wisdom Reveal the Path to True Happiness

All upward movement begins with an intrusion of beauty into our lives.

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“A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God… A saint is a person who has lived their own life, not someone else’s or a projection of what others think a life should be.” Thomas Merton

How do you live your own life?

Aristotle defined happiness as “the performance of the activities inherent in our being.” (Eudem…

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