What Matters: Spiritual Nourishment for Head and Heart
After his nearly 100 years of seeking, Franck’s reflections on what really matters will help you to savor what truly matters in your own life.
"Could the meaning of being born human be, to become Human?"
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 contemplations reveal Franck’s lifelong confrontation with the human in himself and others.
Originally jotted down as reflections for himself and close friends, Franck’s insights will challenge you to consider new ways of experiencing your spiritual path and to savor what truly matters.
Previously published as A Little Compendium on That Which Matters by St. Martin’s Press
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Book details
- Author
- Frederick Franck
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Pages
- 94
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Spirituality
Mind, Body, Spirit › Inspiration & Personal Growth - Topics
- spirituality · personal transformation · contemplative reflections · meaning of life · wisdom and aging · personal growth
- ISBN-13
- 9781683364825 (Paperback)9781683364832 (Hardcover)
About the author
FREDERICK FRANCK was a Dutch-American painter, sculptor, and author who wrote over 35 books on life, art, and transreligious thought, including his best-known work, The Zen of Seeing.
Franck was the only artist to record all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council. His drawings and paintings entered the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Fogg Art Museum, and the Tokyo National Museum.
Trained as a dental surgeon, Franck worked with Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Africa from 1958 to 1961. With his wife Claske, he created Pacem in Terris, a sculpture garden in Warwick, New York.
Franck was born in Maastricht, The Netherlands, on April 12, 1909, became a United States citizen in 1945, and died in Warwick, New York, in 2006.