Posted by Johnboy on September 27, 19100 at 17:44:53:
In Reply to: Re: Sin, Soul, Self, Catholicism posted by Philip St. Romain on September 27, 19100 at 17:43:56:
In Reply to: Re: Impasse Acknowledged: I'm out of here! posted by Philip St. Romain on September 25, 19100 at 11:08:47:
"What is this (contemplative prayer) in relation to action? Simply this. He (and she) who attempts to act and do things for others or for the world without this deepening of his own self-understanding, freedom, integrity, and capacity to love, will not have anything to give others. He will communicate to them nothing but the contagion of his own obsessions, his agressiveness, his egocentered ambitions, his delusions about ends and means, his doctrinaire prejudices and ideas."
Thomas Merton,"The Climate of Monastic Prayer"
Dear Gang,
I keep this Merton quote, ever in heart and mind, and I ask forgiveness, repeatedly, when, in my life, in my sharing, it plays out like a prophecy, from time to time.
Forgive me for any lack of sensitivity and for transmitting my own contagions.
Let's move on.
Love, fer sure,
jb