Status Updates From Pray to live: Thomas Merton...

"Lord God of the great night: do You see the woods? Do You hear the rumor of their loneliness? Do you behold their secrecy? Do You remember their solitudes? Do You see that my soul is beginning to dissolve like wax within me?"

"if I remember I am nothing, I will know that danger can take nothing from me."
"Are you afraid of danger?"
"I am, because I I forget that I am nothing. If I remembered I have nothing called my own that will not be lost anyway, that only what is not mine but God's will ever live, then I would not fear so many false fears."

"The most unfortunate people in the world are those who know no tribulations. The most unhappy men in the world are those who are able to bribe their way out of suffering and tribulation, and to evade the issue, in pleasures, in wars, in devotion to a cause."

"Today with a myriad of instruments we can explore things we never imagined. But we can no longer see directly what is right in front of us."
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Some REALLY good thoughts on nonviolence in this chapter that came out of Merton during the Civil Rights movement in the 60s. Like, mind-blowingly good.
"If evil is... irreversible... There is only one possibility: cut it out. And then violence is necessary. But when evil is reversible and can be turned into good through forgiveness, then nonviolence becomes possible."

I am such a Henri Nouwen nerd that I'm reading stuff that only has 85 other ratings on Goodreads. Lord love me