With apologies to our non-Christian friends, I am posting The Imitation of Christ (or De imitatione Christi), by Thomas à Kempis. It's a widely read Christian spiritual book. It was first published anonymously, in Latin, ca. 1418; several other authors have been proposed, but Kempis's authorship is now generally accepted.
The work is a manual of devotion intended to assist the soul with its pursuit of holiness and communion with God. Its sentences are statements, not arguments, and are pitched in the highest key of Christian experience. It was meant for monastics and ascetics. (info from Wikipedia).
I hope this book doesn't offend anyone. It really helped me through some bad times in the past. I prefer the more modern translation, but this was the only translation that I could find that was public domain.
I didn't paint the cover this time--it's a photograph that I took with intent to paint later. But I thought it was kinda nice as is. Enjoy!
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