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I love how art can challenge us. way to listen and to get the best leap you can.

I love how art can challenge us.

Sometimes as a commentary on culture, sometimes simply through colors and shapes that make us see the world anew.

Perhaps artists just see the world differently.

Or maybe they open themselves up enough to let new ways of seeing flow through.

As William Blake suggested, I think art can be a pathway to spiritual truths.

At the very least, I always leave a gallery thinking about the world with fresh eyes.

Tonight I'd love to share that sense with you as I take you on an after dark tour of London's

National Gallery, where you can linger undisturbed by crowds among some of the world's most

exquisite works of art.

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You're in London, Trafalgar Square, to be precise. It's late afternoon and the setting sun burnishes the grand, neoclassical facades of the buildings that line the square's edges.

The flutes of Nelson's column are picked out in its golden light.

The square is busy. It's peak hour and the city is emptying as workers rush for the trains and tubes

that will carry them home to their evening rest. And yet, even amid all the bustle, there's something

serene about the square. The tall column at its centre,

and before bronze lions that sit draped around its base, amid a timeless calm that makes

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