Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things to…

Thomas Merton
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Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new. ✨ Thomas Merton (1998). Contemplation in a World of Action: Second Edition, Restored and Corrected, p.178, University of Notre Dame Pess
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