urbanmonklife

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Tuesday, July 31, 2012

"It is natural for one in this case to dread the loss of his faith, indeed of his own integrity and religious identity, and to cling desperately to whatever will seem to preserve the last shreds of belief.  So he struggles sometimes frantically, to recover a sense of comfort and conviction in formulated truths or familiar religious practices..  ..The man of today is more and more vulnerable in this respect.  His efforts to seek peace and light are carried on not in a realm of relative security, in a geography of certitude, but over the face of a thinly veiled abyss of disoriented nothingness, into which he quickly falls when he finds himself without the total support of reassuring and familiar ideas of himself and of his world.  Nevertheless it is precisely this support that we must learn to sacrifice.
     This is the genuine climate of serious meditation, in which, without light and apparently without strength, even seemingly without hope, we commit ourselves to an entire surrender to God."
                         -Thomas Merton (Contemplative Prayer 1969)