"I say we need to discover this second wing [responsibility], and how to use the first [our freedom], in order to be content as human beings. To discover the beauty in our nature…unique in each individual, but created whole and beautiful. Then our souls will soar effortlessly above the sufferings and harshness of our material world. Then our souls will rest close to the heart of God, Who made us to soar above the peaks of the mountains and the crests of the clouds, in the heights of the sky. It is then that we will discover what it means to be fully human, and to rejoice in the beauty of human nature."
-- "My Soul Cries Out With Longing: Philosophical Reflection on Beauty" in The Imaginative Conservative
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