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Thursday, December 04, 2008

The Secret Beauty of Their Hearts

Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths of their hearts where neither sin nor desire nor self-knowledge can reach, the core of their reality, the person that each one is in God's eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way all the time, there would be no more war, no more hatred, no more cruelty, no more greed... I suppose the big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other.
[Christian mystic, Thomas Merton]

at 9:35 AM   Category: christianity, general spirituality, quotes

3 comments:

anonymous julie said...

Check out my blog post from this morning. :)

2:09 PM
isaiah said...

God, that is beautiful!

Yes!

Thank you for posting this.

2:10 AM
Jon said...

Wonderful quote. "The big problem would be that we would fall down and worship each other."

C.S. Lewis said something similar once, that at every moment, we're helping each other either to become horrific monsters or gods that we'd be tempted to worship.

9:52 AM

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"The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another." [Thomas Merton]
"The eye with which I see God is the same with which God sees me. My eye and God's eye is one eye, and one sight, and one knowledge, and one love." [Meister Eckhart]
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