Nothingness

The words of Thomas Merton: “Le point vierge … at the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belongs entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us. It is so to speak His name written in us, as our poverty, as our indigence, as our dependence, as our being children of God.”

Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Image Classic), copyright 1966, The Abbey of Gethsemane