Thomas Merton, The Inner Experience
Notes on Contemplation, Edited by William H. Shannon, HarperSanFrancisco a division of HarperCollinsPublishers, © 2003
The first thing that you have to do, before you even start thinking about such a thing as contemplation, is to try to recover your basic natural unity, to reintegrate your compartmentalized being into a coordinated and simple whole and to learn to live as a unified human person. This means that you have to bring back together the fragments of your distracted existence so that when you say "I", there is really someone present to support that pronoun you have uttered. Pg. 3
