Out Beyond Understanding – Nov. 11, 2022
“If one reaches the point where understanding fails, this is not a tragedy: it is simply a reminder to stop thinking and start looking. Perhaps there is nothing to figure out after all: perhaps we only need to wake up.” -Thomas Merton quoted by James Finley, Merton’s Palace of Nowhere, p. 125
Living in God’s Kingdom – Nov. 10, 2022
“When Merton told me that “one thing for sure about heaven is that there is not going to be much of you there,” he was, I think, referring to the mystery that even now we are in God’s kingdom. And that even now we can begin to realize it if we but die to egocentric […]
The Gift of Being a Person – Nov. 9, 2022
“Both true prayer and love for others are selfless, in that they lead us toward and emerge from a simultaneous death to self and discovery of a new self born of God. Both prayer and service to others reveal to us the tremendous truth that to be a person is to be a gift, and […]
Our Deepest Freedom – Nov. 8, 2022
“Our deepest freedom rests not in our freedom to do what we want to do but rather in our freedom to become who God wills us to be.” -James Finley, Merton’s Palace of Nowhere, p. 73
