Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Inward Destitution

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

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