I loved this book.
Proverbs 24: 3
By wisdom a house is built,
and through understanding it is established;
4 through knowledge its rooms are filled
with rare and beautiful treasures.
(Knowledge as housekeeping)
p. 104 "There is something grounding about fixing a toilet or scrubbing floors. The activities create an attachment to your immediate environment, a way to cultivate the sacred in the ordinary by tending thoughtfully to your holy space."
P. 14 "At the very beginning, while morning stars and angels are rejoicing in respectable ways, wisdom is turning cartwheels." (Prov. 8:22-31)
<purpose of artistry> "...to link God with people and draw them closer together."
p. 28 inspiration - the drawing of air into the lungs
p. 56 "But the creative personality isn't shrouded in black and combing the moors any more than it is housed in the right side of the brain only. Wisdom is playful, not burdensome, she does not drive to madness those she endows, as if that were the exchange rate for genius, like some soul-pact with the devil."
p. 97 "In the Hebrew language the word delight doesn't just translate into pleasure of joy; it connotes a stong positive attraction for something... [It] emphasizes subjective involvement; feeling welling up from within. It even has a kinesthetic dimension...no wonder the old guests gamboled, Aleck springs to his feet and wisdom turned a cartwheel."
p. 110 "Nothing in all creation is so like God as stillness" wrote Meister Eckhart, so that drawing close to God means being still. Being still is...an active posture of mindful reflection, contemplation, and prayer."
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