Thomas Merton New Seeds of Contemplation New Directions Publishing, 1961
One of the greatest sufferings of a contemplative is to feel the terrible, inescapable coarseness and grossness and inadequacy of the highest human modes of love and intellection when they are seen in the light of God, when they reach out toward God and fail. pg 262
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Rotten Luxury
Thomas Merton New Seeds of Contemplation New Directions Publishing, 1961
"Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost." pg 180
"Despair is the absolute extreme of self-love. It is reached when man deliberately turns his back on all help from anyone else in order to taste the rotten luxury of knowing himself to be lost." pg 180
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