Posted by jonvon on March 20, 2005 at 16:32:29:
In Reply to: every little mirror has a picture of my eyes... posted by giveawayboy on March 20, 2005 at 15:54:04:
JONVON
bill it seems as though you are, as usual, being generously and graciously kind. something about this passage strikes a chord. i'm not sure what chord, g flat minor 5 with an added 13th or something. i don't know what it means. its like a snake wrapped around a tree. i can't see it all, it keeps moving around.
maybe i know now why it was so hard to get into merton. i'm going to go pop some popcorn now. then i can hear the popping on the outside to go with the popping on the inside. i always wanted to get into merton. darn.
BILL
: 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