The past, now.
- Thomas Merton
“In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs, that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking [...]
- Belief
The ultimate is not an idea. It cannot be known, in the usual way. It can, sometimes, be felt. There is a physical sensation that corresponds to boundary-less-ness. A kind of glowy, floatiness, a feeling of permeability and connectedness. Presence. It’s not conceptual, and it’s not an understanding that can be attained through any kind [...]
- Secret
The secret is: there is no separation between the ordinary and the profound. And it’s no secret.
- Giving up
Sometimes everything seems so beautiful I don’t know how I, or anyone else, ever fails to be awed be it. There’s something incredibly sad about being incredibly happy. The enormity of love which is so obvious it’s incomprehensible? All there is to do is to give. All there is to do is to give up. [...]
- Merton & Weil
This is strange, but I think there is some sense in which Thomas Merton and Simone Weil are my godparents. There are all the ways in which I identify with their writings. But then there are the funny things. For instance, that they both regularly attended my church for a time. Merton was baptized in [...]
- Church
I was writing this for someone else, but thought some people might be interested… some background on how I became a churchgoer:
About a year ago, I had an experience which is incredibly hard to describe, but I basically came out of it knowing that my entire way of viewing the world, experiencing reality, thinking, interacting, [...]
