Belmont Abbey College - Spire Yearbook (Belmont, NC)

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Mi Mr am WE LEARN THAT SELF-ACTUALIZATION . . . KNOW THYSELF . . . INVOLVES ANOTHER KIND OF KNOWLEDGE . . . THE KNOWLEDGE PROCLAIMED TO US IN THE LESSONS OF GOD ' S OWN WORD . . . THE REALIZATION OF THIS WORD AS WE RECEIVE THE WORD MADE FLESH . . . CONSCIOUS OF THE COLLEGIUM AS IT BECOMES THE CHRISTIAN AS- SEMBLY . . . THE PEOPLE OF GOD ... IN THE LITURGY . . . THE KNOWLEDGE THAT COMES IN MOMENTS OF SILENT COMMUNION . . OR. . .

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YES . . . THERE ARE MOMENTS OF PLEASURE ... OF REST . . . EDUCATION STILL PERSISTS ... IN FLIGHTS OF FANTASY . . . ESCAPE? . . . NOT ESCAPE, FOR IN THESE TIMES WHEN RELATIONSHIPS DEEPEN THE STUDENT GROWS . . . AND THE TENSIONS THAT OF- TEN ACCOMPANY BRAINRACKING ARE FOR THE WHILE SLOUGHED OFF . . . LIKE FOAM . . . LIKE HER SMILE. WHO IS THE STUDENT THAT DOESN ' T NEED THE OCCASIONAL AIRING-OUT ? . . . AND THE COL- LEGIUM SWINGS . . . TWISTS . . . FRUGS . . . AND DOES THE DUCK . . .

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FROM ONE OF GOD ' S MINISTERS . . . UNDER THE PROTECTIVE STAFF OF BENEDICT AND HIS SONS ... WE KNOW ... WE MOVE . . . AND EVEN HERE THE PROCESS PINCHES AND SQUEEZES . . . FOR ... WE ARE ONLY BEGINNING THE PROCESS OF EXPANSION . . . THAT ENLARGEMENT OF PERSONALITY THAT SEEKS TO ADMIT GOD INTO THE NAR- ROW CONFINES OR OUR OWN SELF NO . . . GOD IS NOT DEAD . . . BUT LIVES . . . LIVES IN US . . . FOR THIS PURPOSE HE BECAME ONE ON US . . .