Lectio: Humble And Loving Receptivity

“It is only through the mood of humble and loving receptivity in which the artist perceives beauty, that the human spirit can apprehend a reality which is greater than itself. The many declarations about noughting, poverty, and ‘holy nothingness’ refer to this. The meek and poor of spirit really are the inheritors of Eternity.”

~Evelyn Underhill


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