“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton Wishing all who celebrate a blessed Laetare Sunday!
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Thomas Merton Wishing all who celebrate a blessed Laetare Sunday!
I discovered the most lovely prayer, by the Trappist monk Thomas Merton, that perfectly fits my state of mind (and heart and soul) these days: My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. Nor do I really know myself. And the fact that …
There is in us an instinct for newness, for renewal, for a liberation of creative power. We seek to awaken in ourselves a force which really changes our lives from within. And yet the same instinct tells us that this change is a recovery of that which is deepest, most original, most personal in ourselves. …
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level. –Thomas Merton I’ve begun trauma therapy after living with PTSD for thirty years, and I’m finding it, well, traumatic. Please God, may all of this pain lead me to the peace Merton describes.
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