Thomas Merton Quotes

Solitude Means Withdrawal From An Artificial And Fictional Level Of Being Which Men, Divided By Original Sin, Have Fabricated In Order To Keep Peace With Concupiscence And Death. But By That Very Fact The Solitary Finds Himself On The Level Of A More Perfect Spiritual Society - The City Of Those Who Have Become Real Enough To Confess And Glorify God (that Is, Life) In The Teeth Of Death.

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