Dale Easley's Favorite Quotations
| Thomas Merton, Monk |
| Hart, Brother Patrick, editor |
| Quote in the Preface: He who attempts to act and do for others or for
the world without deepening his own self-understanding, freedom,
integrity, and capacity to love, will not have anything to give others.
He will communicate to them nothing but the contagion of his own
obsessions, his aggressivity, his egocentered ambitions, his delusions
about ends and means.'' From Contemplation in a World of Action, p.~5.
If a man can't be alone he doesn't know who he is. [quoted on p.~78, The Solitary, by Therese Lentfoehr] |