Pray for your Own Discovery, Thomas Merton
From "The Seeds of Contemplation"
"There exists some point at which I can meet God in a real and experimental contact with His infinite actuality. This is the “place” of God, His sanctuary—it is the point where my contingent being depends upon His love. Within myself is a metaphorical apex of existence at which I am held into being by my Creator.
God utters me like a word containing a partial thought of Himself.
A word will never be able to comprehend the voice that utters it.
But if I am true to the concept that God utters in me, if I am true to the thought of Him I was meant to embody, I shall be full of His actuality and find Him everywhere in myself, and find myself nowhere. I shall be lost in Him: that is, I shall find myself."
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This passage has always truly inspired me because Thomas Merton has a such a way of putting sacred things into words that crystallizes them in the mind, and yet does not limit them, as they cannot be limited. Additionally, I have always sensed that he reached such a depth to his spirituality that it found itself at a place that was beyond definition. That is something I deeply admire.
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"Within myself is a metaphorical apex of existence at which I am held into being by my Creator." ~Thomas Merton, Seeds of Contemplation ----------- The purpose of this blog is to celebrate our ability as human beings to connect with The Divine, if we so choose, with the greater purpose of bringing us into a more complete connection with ourselves and the world around us.
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