“Make your soul a seeker of the arts and your environment a holy site that rejects the tawdry, the artificial, and the vulgar.
If the question is whether it is possible to have a real spiritual life without a sense of beauty, the answer of an ancient and anonymous poet is a simple one: “When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one and a lily with the other.””
–Joan Chittister, The Monastic Heart, p. 50
