Monday, July 20, 2009

IN SILENCE

Photo by S. Auberle "Beach Stones"
"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 a man be still
or listen to all things burning?
How can he dare to sit with them
when all their silence is on fire?
~ Thomas Merton
(excerpt from In Silence)

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