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Monday, 2 November 2009 12:45This week's Merton reflection:
Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison.
Thomas Merton. Thoughts in Solitude (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1956): 80-81.
Thought for the Day
There comes a time when it is no longer important to prove one's point, but simply to live, to surrender to God and to love.
Thomas Merton. The Road to Joy, Robert E. Daggy, editor (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989): 96.
A little too appropriate right now. Which means I'm scowling in the direction of the heavens.
Contradictions have always existed in the soul of [individuals]. But it is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a constant and insoluble problem. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them and see them in the light of exterior and objective values which make them trivial by comparison.
Thomas Merton. Thoughts in Solitude (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1956): 80-81.
Thought for the Day
There comes a time when it is no longer important to prove one's point, but simply to live, to surrender to God and to love.
Thomas Merton. The Road to Joy, Robert E. Daggy, editor (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1989): 96.
A little too appropriate right now. Which means I'm scowling in the direction of the heavens.
