Lover and object grow together…
“The life of the will consists of love in so far as love, being a delight in that which is objectively good and beautiful, binds the lover to this object, steeping him in it and moulding him into it. Love so penetrates and fills the lover with the object of his love that lover and object as it were grow together, and the objectively good and beautiful is like a principle immanent in the lover himself, impelling him to act and strive and making him overflow with joy and bliss.”
—Matthias Joseph Scheeben, quoted in von Balthasar, Seeing the Form, p. 112.
14 January 2007 |
tags: Aesthetics
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