01 March 2006
Merton on Life and Love
Something I have to remind myself of more often as I am prone to delving into too many books and "hiding" out from everyday life....
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. We do not discover the secret of our lives merely by study and calculation in our own isolated meditations. The meaning of our life is a secret that has to be revealed to us in love, by the one we love. And if this love is unreal, the secret will not be found, the meaning will never reveal itself, the message will never be decoded. At best, we will receive a scrambled and partial message, one that will deceive and confuse us. We will never be fully real until we let ourselves fall in love – either with another human person or with God.“
From Love and Living by Thomas Merton, edited by Naomi Burton Stone and Br. Patrick Hart
(San Diego, New York, London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1985) Page 27.
Jeff 2:44 PM
1 Comments:
We are better people for loving and listening to Merton.
This Ragamuffin page is beautiful, too. More, more!
This Ragamuffin page is beautiful, too. More, more!
