--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <vajradh...@...> wrote: > > "The most dangerous man in the world is the contemplative who is > guided by nobody. He trusts his own visions. He obeys the attractions > of an inner voice but will not listen to other men. He identifies the > will of God with his own heart...And if the shear force of his own > self-confidence communicates itself to other people and gives them > the impression that he really is a saint, such a man can wreck a > whole city or a religious order or even a nation. The world is > covered with scars that have been left in it's flesh by visionaries > like these." > > -Thomas Merton
Wow. Makes me think less of Merton. If one does not first use and trust their own rationality -- over the conclusions, or pearly words or rants or others, then that person is like a sheep. The world is not scarred by independent thinkers -- it flourishes and progresses.
