Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything around them. The imagination is a discovering faculty, a faculty for seeing relationships, for seeing meanings that are special and even quite new.


Angelic Mistakes: The Art of Thomas Merton (ed. New Seeds Books, 2006) - ISBN: 9781590303139


Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything...

Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything...

Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything...

Imagination has the creative task of making symbols, joining things together in such a way that they throw new light on each other and on everything...