I will try like them
to be my own silence:
and this is difficult. The whole
world is secretly on fire. The stones
burn, even the stones they burn me.
How can one be still or
listen to all things burning?
How can we dare to sit with them
when all their silence is on fire?
to be my own silence:
and this is difficult. The whole
world is secretly on fire. The stones
burn, even the stones they burn me.
How can one be still or
listen to all things burning?
How can we dare to sit with them
when all their silence is on fire?
- Thomas Merton -
Artist: Maureen L. White, www.urbanpasturesart.com
Love Thomas Merton & this picture!
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