Sunday, August 12, 2012

Merton's Mountains


"Marvelous vision of the hills at 7:45 A.M. The same hills as always, as in the afternoon, but now catching the light in a totally new way, at once very earthly and very ethereal, with delicate cups of shadow and dark ripples and crinkles where I had never seen them, and the whole slightly veiled in mist so that it seemed to be a tropical shore, a newly discovered continent. 

A voice in me seemed to be crying, "Look! Look!" For these are the discoveries, and it is for this that I am high on the mast of my ship (have always been) and I know that we are on the right course, for all around is the sea of paradise. "

— Thomas Merton in Turning Toward the World: The Journals of Thomas Merton edited by Victor A. Kramer; courtesy of the Thomas Merton E-Course from Spirituality and Practice.


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