<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"Even when I thought, with most other well-informed, though unscholarly, people, that Buddhism and Christianity were alike, there was one thing about them that always perplexed me; I mean the startling difference in their type of religious art... No two ideals could be more opposite than a Christian saint in a Gothic cathedral and a Buddhist saint in a Chinese temple. The opposition exists at every point; but perhaps the shortest statement of it is that the Buddhist saint always has his eyes shut, while the Christian saint always has them very wide open. The Buddhist saint has a sleek and harmonious body, but his eyes are heavy and sealed with sleep. <b>The medieval saint's body is wasted to its crazy bones, but his eyes are frightfully alive. </b>There cannot be any real community of spirit between forces that produced symbols so different than that."
- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, "The Romance of Orthodoxy"
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- G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy, "The Romance of Orthodoxy"
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