The nature of joy.JOY IS NOT A CONSTANT CONDITION. Most people manage a settled cheerfulness, but this, however admirable, has nothing to do with joy, which flashes suddenly upon our darkness. Like the lightning in El Greco's View of Toledo View of Toledo, sometimes called Toledo in a Storm, is one of the two surviving landscapes painted by El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos). The other, called View and Plan of Toledo lies at Museo Del Greco, Toledo, Spain. , joy does not merely illuminate our interior landscape, it transforms it. The world becomes different, marvelous, and unique. By SISTER WENDY BECKETT of Norfolk, England, well-known for her BBC BBC in full British Broadcasting Corp. Publicly financed broadcasting system in Britain. A private company at its founding in 1922, it was replaced by a public corporation under royal charter in 1927. and PBS PBS in full Public Broadcasting Service Private, nonprofit U.S. corporation of public television stations. PBS provides its member stations, which are supported by public funds and private contributions rather than by commercials, with educational, cultural, television art series and her popular art books. Reprinted with permission from: Sister Wendy's Book of Meditations (DK Publishing, 1998; 888-342-5357). Painting: View of Toledo, 1600, El Greco, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . |
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