Strange is the blindness of the intellect which does not consider that which it sees before all others and without which it can recognize nothing. But just as the eye, intent on the various differences of color, does not see the light through which it sees other things, or if it does see, does not notice it, so our mind's eye, intent on particular and universal beings, does not notice that being which is beyond all categories, even though it comes first to the mind, and through it, all other things.
St. Bonaventure
Itinerarium Mentis in Deum
Of course! lol
ReplyDeleteJust commenting on the fact that, at first brush, that quote is very confusing (at least to me)