some deep thoughts to pass on as we think about what we put our identity in....
All forms of taking pride in ourselves have a dangerous potential in the spiritual life. [Thomas Merton] said of himself, ‘If I make anything out of the fact that I am Thomas Merton, I am dead.’ And then he added: ‘And if you make anything out of the fact that you are in charge of the pig barn (a dubious distinction which I had recently received and which I considered to involve some kind of promotion in status) you are dead. The moment you make anything out of anything you are dead.’
All forms of taking pride in ourselves have a dangerous potential in the spiritual life. [Thomas Merton] said of himself, ‘If I make anything out of the fact that I am Thomas Merton, I am dead.’ And then he added: ‘And if you make anything out of the fact that you are in charge of the pig barn (a dubious distinction which I had recently received and which I considered to involve some kind of promotion in status) you are dead. The moment you make anything out of anything you are dead.’
-James Finley Mertons’s Palace of Nowhere
and some not so deep thoughts....
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