Strength

Mindful of the ethos of today’s world, and chancing upon Thomas Moore’s Introduction to Thomas Merton’s 1965 book, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, these words: “In all his writing Merton was onto this mystery that can be appreciated only through religious vision or through an extraordinarily subtle psychology: genuine strength arises only in a condition of vulnerability. The flagrant display and self-serving use of power are an admission of deep incapacity.”

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