Second, thinking is rarely a matter of cold, heartless, calculating logic. Thinking feels. Sometimes when I am reading—and thinking while reading—my mind becomes so hot, so affected by the implications of the ideas, that I stop to cool off. John Henry Newman talks about the mind enraptured by the “music of the spheres.” A. G. Sertillanges speaks of being lifted on the downy wings of truth. There is indeed a unity between thinking and feeling. Unity, in fact, stands behind all aspects of our human
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