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Monasticism
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What avails monastic aspirations when, as Mark had said, religious geniuses were born and not made? Could not renouncing the world be a form of self-indulgence? Was not monasticism, in the end, as much an act of cowardice as courage?
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― The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
― The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto
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We [vowed religious; nuns, monks] want to be squares, and we want others to be square, also. That's what religious have been doing. They're part of a square society. And let me be quite clear about the fact that liberalism doesn't get you off this hook, because liberals are part of the square society, too. It's better to be a liberal than a conservative, but they're both equally square.
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― Thomas Merton on Prayer
― Thomas Merton on Prayer