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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we cannot cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves?

Thomas Merton
Inspirational, Spiritual, Moon
Thomas Merton (2015). “Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation”, p.35, Sounds True

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Thomas Merton
Inspiring, Life Changing, Moon
Thomas Merton (1970). “The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

Creation was given to people as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into people's souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to people not of themselves but only of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of humans led them further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque.

Thomas Merton
Nature, Rain, Moon

Our thought should not merely be an answer to what someone else has just said. Or what someone else might have said. Our interior world must be more than an echo of the words of someone else. There is no point in being a moon to somebody else's sun, still less is there any justification for our being moons of one another, and hence darkness to one another, not one of us being a true sun.

Thomas Merton
Wisdom, Moon, Echoes

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