Monday, March 17, 2008

everybody will come to their senses

image by Thomas Merton, “Untitiled”
image size 6”h x 7 ½” w

December 20, 1962. They cannot silence either Chuang Tzu or this Child, in China or anywhere. They will be heard in the middle of the night saying nothing and everybody will come to their senses.

(The Hidden Ground of Love, p. 624)

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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousMarch 18, 2008 at 9:49 PM

    the america blog has an interesting post for this day in merton's life 50 years ago:

    http://www.americamagazine.org/blog/entry.cfm?blog_id=2&id=C2BE79D4-5056-8960-326D919599F302E1

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  2. beth cioffolettiMarch 18, 2008 at 10:12 PM

    thanks for that link, anonymous!

    Hard to believe that 50 years have gone by ... I wonder who our "Merton" is nowadays?

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