Darlene Young’s Reviews > Learning to Love: The Journals of Thomas Merton [Volume Six 1966-1967] > Status Update

"In all these things I see one Central option for me: to let go of all that seems to suggest getting somewhere, being someone, having a name and a voice, following a policy and directing people in my ways. What matters is to love, to be in one place in silence, if necessary in suffering, sickness, tribulation, and not try to be anybody outwardly. Not try to have a public identity."