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The Arts Do as much as possible to encourage artists and to help your child if he or she is attracted by the arts. Art is one of the things which best enables you to harmonize with infinity. Consider every natural thing an art, and every art a natural thing. Surround yourself with artistic things, whether they appeal to your ears, your eyes, your sense of touch, smell or taste. Everything, which appeals to the senses, is artistic. There is more than just music, painting, sculpture and all the officially recognized arts. Gastronomy is also an art, as well as perfume making, since they both appeal to the senses. Standing above all finally, love is an art. All art makes use of harmony, and therefore allows those who appreciate it to be taken over by something harmonious. This consequently produces the right conditions for placing oneself in harmony with infinity. Literature is particularly important because it contributes to opening people's minds by showing them new horizons. But literature for literature’s sake is just prattle: what counts is not writing beautiful sentences, but the transmission of new ideas to others through reading. Audiovisual means are even more important, for they appeal to our senses of sight and hearing at the same time. They could well replace literature, since they are more complete. Meanwhile, literature is useful for the time being. If you want to reach a high level of harmony with infinity, arrange a place of sensual meditation for yourself. Place in it works of art, paintings, reproductions, tapestries, posters, sculptures, drawings, 201 THE Keys - THE ARTS Sensual Meditation