Thomas Merton, The Path to the Palace of Nowhere: There is to me...

Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. was an American Catholic writer and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion.
James Finley left home at the age of 18 for the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, Kentucky, where Thomas Merton lived as a contemplative. Finley stayed at the monastery for six years, living the traditional Trappist life of prayer, silence, and solitude. Here Finley describes life with Thomas Merton, and how he pointed the way to an enlightened state of awareness open to us all.

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So very true for all of us to listen to even if we don’t recognise it.

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In each talk your words bring my inner experience into focus.

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"this is the dilemma, we go about as manifestations of the divine seeking the divine" exiled from our own experience of infinite union with infinite love

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This rings so true

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How did it take me this long to find Thomas Merton?

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So inspirational ❣️🙏