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>Weekly Reflection for June 11, 2012
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>And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It
>is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond
>concept. Not that we discover a new unity. We discover an older unity. My dear
>brothers, we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have
>to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.
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>Asian Journal of Thomas Merton, ed. Naomi Burton, Brother Patrick Hart, and
>James Laughlin (New York: New Directions, 1973) 308
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>Thought for the Day: Our real journey in life is interior: it is matter of
>growth, deepening, and of an ever greater surrender to the creative action of
>love and grace in our hearts.
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>Asian Journal of Thomas Merton:296
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>Contemplative Pause: Throughout this week, pause, take a breath, and listen
>with your heart. How are you entering into communion with others?
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>Dialogues with Silence
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>the world and to come closer to his God. The drawings and prayers in this
>volume are the intimate, beautifully rendered record of that pursuit -
>Merton's dialogue with God.
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