What Matters

by Franck, Frederick

• ISBN13: 9781594730139
• ISBN10: 159473013X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Skylight Paths Pub

Summary

This elegantly simple book of reflections presents the rich harvest of a lifetime of thinking, feeling, and seeing by an artist whose vital spirituality has inspired hundreds of thousands of readers and students through his art, books, and workshops. The pithy, sometimes humorous, always wise and deep contemplations reveal Franck's lifelong confrontation wiht the human in oneself and others. At the age of ninety-four, Franck still writes about "that something of unfathomable depth: that specifically Human, that divine spark, known in the East as Buddha Nature, in the West as the Spirit of Christ." Franck's own sensitive line drawings and witty ornaments enhance the pages of this lovely book. (Previously published as A Little Compendium on That which Matters by St. Martin's Press.) Frederick Franck served as a doctor on Albert Schweitzer's staff in Africa. He is the author of the bestseller My Days with Albert Schweitzer, the classic The Zen of Seeing, and Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing. The only official artist for Vatican II, his drawings and paintings are in the collections of a score of museums including MOMA and the Whitney, and his sculptures are installed in religious and secular institutions around the world. He lives in Warwick, New York, where he has converted an eighteenth-century mill ruin into a transreligious sanctuary called Pacem in Terris.