The things we really need.....

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The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity. We have to be able to relax the psychic and spiritual cramp which knots us in the painful, vulnerable, helpless “I” that is all we know as ourselves.

Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, p.204

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  1. davidwayteFebruary 21, 2010 at 4:41 PM

    Beautifully stated, from an enlightened Catholic point of view (gotta love that guilt!).

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  2. Nancy PApril 2, 2010 at 1:45 AM

    Its not so easy to do what Merton suggests but it seems to be the most worthy project.

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