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The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order.

-Thomas Merton

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The Monk In Hiding Himself From The

Thomas Merton

The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order.

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If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other zen is right in the middle of it wherever i go. so there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though i do not know "what it is." or even if it is an "it." not to be foolish and multiply words, i'll say simply that it seems to me that zen is the very atmosphere of the gospels, and the gospels are bursting with it. it is the proper climate for any monk, no matter what kind of monk he may be. if i could not breathe zen i would probably die of spiritual asphyxiation.

Perhaps ultimately, spiritual simply means experiencing wholeness and interconnectedness directly, a seeing that individuality and the totality are interwoven, that nothing is separate or extraneous. if you see in this way, then everything becomes spiritual in its deepest sense. doing science is spiritual. so is washing the dishes.

There exists in the world today, and has existed for thousands of years, a body of enlightened humans united in what might be termed, an order of the quest. it is composed of those whose intellectual and spiritual perceptions have revealed to them that civilisation has a secret destiny... the outcome of this 'secret destiny' is a world order ruled by a king with supernatural powers[the antichrist]. this king was descended of a divine race; that is, he belonged to the order of the illumined; for those who come to a state of wisdom then belong to a family of heroes-perfected human beings.

God isn't interested in watching you enact some performance of personality in order to comply with some crackpot notion you have about how a spiritual person looks or behaves. we all seem to get this idea that, in order to be sacred, we have to make some massive, dramatic change of character, that we have to renounce our individuality.

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