“Thomas Merton warns us that ‘he who attempts to act and do
things for others or for the world without deepening his own
self-understanding, freedom, integrity and capacity to love, will not have
anything to give to others. He will communicate to them nothing but the
contagion of his own obsessions, his aggressiveness, his ego-centered
ambitions, his delusions about ends and means, his doctrinaire prejudices and
ideas.’ And for Merton, the Cistercian monk, deepening one’s own
self-understanding requires a disciplined practice of meditation or
contemplative prayer, made possible only by regular doses of holy quiet.”
Simmons P. "Learning to fall. The blessings of an imperfect
life." Bantam Books, NY, 2000.
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