The deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear brothers, we are already on. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity….What we have to be is what we are.
Thomas Merton, Asian Journal, p 308
emphasis mine
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June 21, 2010 at 2:27 pm
Debbie Feller
I really like that . . .”we are already on.” I, too, often think that I have to be something else, something more. Great Monday Merton post! Thank you!
June 21, 2010 at 3:18 pm
helenl
I like that too, Debbie. “We are already on.”