"He who attempts to act and do things for others or for the world without deepening his own self-understanding, freedom and integrity and capacity to love, will not have anything to give others.
He will communicate to them nothing but the contagion of his own obsessions, his aggressiveness, his ego-centeredness, his delusions about the ends and means, his doctrinaire prejudices and ideas.”
- Thomas Merton, Contemplation in a World of Action, p. 164.
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ReplyDelete(I was afraid that Merton quote would be too "negative" for some.)
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Blanket ___________
Enfolded
in the blankets
of silence -
Mystery
dreams its
dream -
Love
is the affair
we have
with every day -
Blessings _____________
Nice, bob. I especially like that last ...
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is the affair
we have
with every day -