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Gandhi on Non-Violence –Thomas Merton

“Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in the smoke of confabulation. There can be no peace on earth without the kind of inner change that brings man back to his right mind. ”
― Thomas Merton, Gandhi on Non-Violence p. 31
Becoming Bourbon – Image Journal
I’d just had a brush with the opioid epidemic—the Bible belt removed and fastened around the arm to isolate a vein.
Source: Becoming Bourbon – Image Journal
The You of Five years ago–Thomas Merton
The person who sweats under their mask, whose role makes them itch with discomfort, who hates the division in themselves, is already beginning to be free. If the you of five years ago, doesn’t think the you of today is a heretic, there is no spiritual growth.
Thomas Merton
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God is the source of our freedom and not a force to limit our freedom.
I must know Christ… Thomas Merton
“But if my true spiritual identity is found in my identification with Christ, then to know myself fully, I must know Christ…” The New Man
To awaken to one’s own reality–Thomas Merton
“Who can comprehend or explain the mystery of what it means to awaken to one’s own reality as an existential consequence of the fact that we are loved by Reality itself?…” The New Man
The Resurrection of Christ the Lord from the dead–Thomas Merton
The most paradoxical and at the same time the most unique and characteristic claim made by Christianity is that in the Resurrection of Christ the Lord from the dead, man has completely conquered death, and that “in Christ” the dead will rise again to enjoy eternal life, in spiritualized and transfigured bodies and in a totally new creation. This new life in the Kingdom of God is to be not merely a passively received inheritance but in some sense the fruit of our agony and labor, love and prayers in union with the Holy Spirit. Such a fantastic and humanly impossible belief has generally been left in the background by the liberal Christianity of the 19th and early 20th centuries, but anyone who reads the New Testament objectively must admit that this is the Doctrine of the first Christians. Indeed, Christianity without this fabulous eschatological claim is only a moral system without too much spiritual consistency. Unless all Christianity is centered in the victorious, living, and ever present reality of Jesus Christ, the Man-God and conqueror of death, it loses its distinctive character and there is no longer any justification for a Christian missionary apostolate. In point of fact, such an apostolate without the resurrection of the dead, has tended to be purely and simply an apostolate for western cultural and economic “progress,” and not a true preaching of the Gospel.
Merton, Thomas (1999-11-29). The New Man (Kindle Locations 45-54). Macmillan. Kindle Edition.