We must in all things seek God. But we do not seek Him the way we seek a lost object, a “thing.” He is present to us in our heart, in our personal subjectivity, and to seek Him is to recognize this fact. …We seek God by striving to surrender ourselves to Him whom we do not see.

Thomas Merton. Seasons of Celebration. (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1950):  223, 224.

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