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What is Willa reading?

I am a book worm and I'm usually making my way through three or four books at a time, depending on my family, work, and other commitments.  I love libraries and I especially enjoy old books.  For my lectures and for my own personal illumination, I continue to research various subjects with gusto.  There is so much to learn!

Reading is a such big part of my life that I decided it would fun to share with you what I am reading, from time to time.  Perhaps you will have read the same book.  Or perhaps you will be inspired to read something.  Maybe it will be the Spiritual Food you've been looking for.  So feel free to comment below.

Book One:
I just finished reading... "The Art Spirit" by Robert Henri.  My artist mother recommended the book and it covers a lot of techiques about portrait painting, however Henri also shares at length his observations of life, people, and philosophy.  For those of you who are unfamiliar with Robert Henri... he was an American painter and teacher (1865-1929). He was a leading figure of the Ashcan School in art and had quite a following in the art world.  He actually knew Whistler and his mother (by all accounts a truly wonderful woman), and therefore knew what an outstanding piece of work Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1 (a.k.a. Whistler's Mother) was.  Here is one of my favorite Henri quotes from the book:

“There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual - become clairvoyant. We reach then into reality. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. It is in the nature of all people to have these experiences; but in our time and under the conditions of our lives, it is only a rare few who are able to continue in the experience and find expression for it.”       ― Robert Henri, The Art Spirit
Book Two:
I am about halfway through "Spark Your Dream" by Candelaria and Herman Zapp.  It is the true story of a couple who travels all the way from Argentina to Alaska in a 1928 Graham Paige automobile.  Their incredible journey is awe-inspiring and full of synchronicities.  In fact, they are excellent examples of Spiritual Natural Law and pure manifesting power.  Their dream of accomplishing the long journey in an antique car inspires everyone the meet along the way.  If you need some Food for your Soul, this is it!

Book Three:
I have just begun Thomas Merton's "No Man is an Island".  Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk and a student of comparative religion, especially Christianisty and Buddhism.  Here's a quote from his book:
“In order to find God in ourselves, we must stop looking at ourselves, stop checking and verifying ourselves in the mirror of our own futility, and be content to be in Him and to do whatever He wills, according to our limitations, judging our acts not in the light of our own illusions, but in the light of His reality which is all around us in the things and people we live with.”  ―Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island
This book is a collection of 16 essays in which Merton explores aspects of human spirituality.  Merton is considered an important 20th century Catholic mystic and thinker.  And I plan I making my way through a few more of Merton's other books (he wrote over 70 books, but I don't think I'll make it through them all) to understand his perspectives.

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