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must “know,” says Eckhart, “that the very best and noblest attainment in this life is to be silent and let God work and speak within.”17
Martin Laird • An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation
The range of our exterior wandering is mirrored by the interior expanse of the soul. “A human being as such is a huge abyss,” he would later muse to his God. “You know the number of hairs on his head, Master, and in you there’s no subtraction from that number; but it’s easier to count his hairs than his moods or the workings of his heart.”
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
John of the Cross came to define deep prayer along similar lines. “Preserve a loving attentiveness to God with no desire to feel or understand any particular thing concerning God.”
Martin Laird • Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation
Thomas Merton's words of hope for young activists
“I am not fully known to myself because part of what I am is the enigmatic traces of others.”
Ken Robinson • Finding Your Element: How to Discover Your Talents and Passions and Transform Your Life
You're walking in the forest. You find a semi-abandoned hut and sit down at the table. After drinking a glass of water and quickly meditating, you open up your notebook. The page is empty.
Thomas Merton, you tell your notebook.
Thomas Merton was a Trappist Monk, it responds - You may have already read his famous book "The Seven Storey Mountain" which
... See moreKeep your eyes clean and your ears quiet and your mind serene. Breathe God’s air. Work, if you can, under His sky.
But if you have to live in a city and work among machines and ride in the subways and eat in a place where the radio makes you deaf with spurious news and where the food destroys your life and the sentiments of those around you poison y