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I love the idea of dancing through the o in God.

I am reading J. Ruth Gendler's book, Notes on the Need for Beauty.

Gendler writes:

Walt Whitman wrote:

Was somebody asking to see the soul?
See your own shape and countenance, persons, substances, beasts,
the trees, the running rivers, the rocks and sands.

The double gaze opens out into the world, into the self. Moment to moment we are looking out, looking in, breathing out, breathing in. Our task becomes simultaneously to attend more to the inner world and to find ourselves in the world around us, like our ancestors, who knew that memory is stored not only in our brains but in our landscapes. Often we speak of inner life as the life of dreams and yearnings, intuitions and emotions, the world of the spirit in contrast to the outer world of time and taxes, deadlines and dishes. Inner life also suggests the inner life of the body - muscle and bone marrow, vertebra and capillary, nerve cell and lung tissue.