Posted by giveawayboy on March 20, 2005 at 15:54:04:
In Reply to: yess precious, little mirror-zez posted by jonvon on March 20, 2005 at 15:37:08:
John, I think I could really relate to what you said above, but I don't know. This isn't scientific accuracy or anything, but I thought I'd share this passage from Merton, if, in any case, you can find any help in it.
"O Lord! How joyful and happy must they be who, when they come to consider their own selves, find in themselves nothing remarkable whatever. Not only do they attract no attention outside themselves, but now they no longer have any desires or selfish interests to attract their own attention. They remark no virtues, they are saddened by no huge sins, they see only their own unremarkable weakness and nothingness, but a nothingness which is filled obscurely, not with themselves but with your love, O God! They are the poor in spirit, who possess within themselves the kingdom of heaven because they are no longer remarkable even to themselves, but in them shines God's light, and they themselves and all who see it glorify you, O God!"
~Thomas Merton