The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds and makes of all political and social life a mass illness. Without this housecleaning we cannot begin to see. Unless we see, we cannot think.
-- Thomas Merton
Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (New York: Image) p 77
This quote really hitting home today. HT to Jim Forest for passing it on to me.
reminds me of a blues lyric i once wrote:
ReplyDeleteyou say you full of garbage
gonna clean out the attic of your mind
you say you full of garbage
gonna clean out the attic of your mind
gonna have a big garage sale
the unsubstantial kind
but you can't throw it out
cuz it was never there
nothing was there before it
it was nothing before you cared
Wow.
ReplyDeleteYou've taken Merton to the next level, Victor.
Thank you.