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“Our real journey in life is interior: it is a matter of growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of love and grace in our hearts.”
― The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.
― The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.
“We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.”
― The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.
― The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.
“These concerns operate from an assumption that racial tensions come from discussion, rather than the conditions these discussions arise in response to. Instead of telling the truth about the foundations of racial power and how it exists in the present, young minds are taught a comforting narrative of national innocence.”
― The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
― The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
“Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.”
― The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.
― The Words and Wisdom of Thomas Merton.
“Uncovering history can be like walking up to a log in the woods that looks usable on the surface until you kick it over and find the underside rotten. We can trace much of today’s ideological decay to a seemingly benign US history that was in fact used to deny reparative justice and justify the segregation of Black people.”
― The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
― The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth
Bill’s 2025 Year in Books
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