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The artist, the musician, or the writer who uses his art as a spiritual path must one day come to the point where he finds that it is no longer sufficient--that he must go beyond it, or rather, transcend it and find entirely within himself and without this outside means the uplift and the exaltation that he formerly got during the minutes of composition or creation. In the end, we have to look within because there alone is the real being, the soul. Art can lead us to its very border but art is still something that works upon the senses, and these senses have to be transcended, the senses of the body, the five senses.

-- Notebooks Category 14: The Arts in Culture > Chapter 3 : Art Experience and Mysticism > # 13