WORDLESS-THOUGHTLESS SOLITARY Sunrise/Afternoon February 11, 2017

2/10/2017

NO THOUGHT
OF
ANYONE
ANYTHING
THAT
DISTURBS THE
IN-JOY
OF
SOLITUDE
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5:13 AM-2/4/02
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WORDLESS
THOUGHTLESS
SURRENDER
SUFFICES

BRIGHT FLOWS
THE RIVER
OF
THE FORGIVEN SELF
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7:13 AM-2/5/02
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IN/OF/AS
THE SECRET PLACE MOST HIGH
<
TAO’S TOTAL POSSESSION
<
COSMIC GRACE SOLITUDE
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2:20 AM-2/11/17

As soon as you are really alone you are with God.
Some people live for God,
some live with God,
some live in God.

Those who live for God,
live with other people and live in
the activities of their community.
Their life is what they do.

Those who live with God also live for Him,
but they do not live in what they do for Him,
they live in what they are before Him.
Their life is to reflect Him by their own simplicity
and by the perfection of His being reflected in their poverty.

Those who live in God do not live with other men
or in themselves
still less in what they do....
for He does all things in them.

But when we act according to grace,
our actions are not ours alone,
they belong to God.
If we follow them to their source,
we will become at least potentially capable
of an experience of God.
For His actions in us
reveal His being in us.

God does not tell His purest secrets to one who is prepared to reveal them.
He has secrets which He tells to those
who will communicate some idea of them to others.
But these secrets are the common property of many.
He has other secrets, which cannot be told.
The mere desire to tell them makes us incapable of receiving them.

The greatest of God’s secrets is God Himself.
He waits to communicate Himself to me
in a way that I can never express to others
or even think about coherently to myself.
I must desire it in silence.
It is for this that I must leave all things.
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From
THOUGHTS IN SOLITUDE
Thomas Merton

Colors blind the eye.
Sounds deafen the ear.
Flavors numb the taste.
Thoughts weaken the mind.
Desires wither the heart.

The Master observes the world
but trusts his inner vision.
He allows things to come and go.
His heart is open as the sky.

Tao Te Ching
Stephen Mitchell Translation
Stephen Mitchell's book has EXCELLENT Introduction and Commentaries
http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.html#12
Also See this Translation and Commentary by Bill Martin
:http://us10.campaign-archive1.com/?u=ead6e09ad8c4002b93c920312&id=e37562a04e&e=e7166a2503