Thomas Merton Quotes

When The Light Of God's Truth Begins To Find Its Way Through The Mists Of Illusion And Self-deception With Which We Have Unconsciously Surrounded Ourselves, And When The Image Of God Within Us Begins To Return To Itself, The False Self Which We Inherited From Adam Begins To Experience The Strange Panic That Adam Felt When, After His Sin, He Hid In The Trees Of The Garden Because He Heard The Voice Of The Lord God In The Afternoon.
If We Are To Recover Our Own Identity, And Return To God By The Way Adam Came In His Fall, We Must Learn To Stop Saying: "I Heard You In The Garden, And I Was Afraid, Because I Was Naked. And I Hid." [Genesis 2:10] We Must Cast Away The "aprons Of Leaves" And The "garments Of Skins" Which The Fathers Of The Church Variously Interpret As Passions, And Attachments To Earthly Things, And Fixation In Our Own Rigid Determination To Be Someone Other Than Our True Selves.

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