So I’m reading The Inner Experience by Thomas Merton, and my brain is exploding. It’s the kind of book where I could spend a month digesting a single chapter. I thought I’d share some thought provoking quotations from the first couple of chapters. Feel free to post comments, thoughts, agreements, disagreements, and let’s have a healthy discussion about this stuff. It’s amazing how much we can learn from other ways of thinking.
“…the contemplative and spiritual self, the dormant, mysterious, and hidden self that is always effaced by the activity of our exterior self does not seek fulfillment. It is content to be, and in its being it is fulfilled, because its being is rooted in God.”
“Man is the image of God, and his inner self is a kind of mirror in which God not only sees Himself, but reveals Himself to the ‘mirror’ in which He is reflected.”
“….our being somehow communicates directly with the Being of God, Who is ‘in us.’ If we enter into ourselves, find our true self, and then pass ‘beyond’ the inner ‘I,’ we sail forth into the immense darkness in which we confront the ‘I AM’ of the Almighty.”
“Faith…is like the feet where with the soul journeys to God, and love is the guide that directs it…” (St. John of the Cross)
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