“…[S/he] who attempts to act
and do things for others or for the world, without deepening his [or her] own
self-understanding, freedom, integrity and capacity to love, will not have
anything to give others. [S/he] will communicate to them nothing, but the
contagion of his [or her] own obsessions, [his/her] aggressiveness, [his/her]
ego-centered ambitions, [his/her] delusions about ends and means, [his/her]
doctrinaire [ways of seeing]
prejudices and ideas…”
- Thomas Merton, Contemplation in
a World of Action (Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 1998), p.160.
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