[New-Poetry] Thomas Merton

[Anny Ballardini]

            In reading, for instance, we pass from one thought to another,
we follow the development of the author's ideas, and we contribute some
ideas of our own if we read well. This activity is discursive. Reading
becomes contemplative when, instead of reasoning we abandon the sequence of
the author's thoughts in order not only to follow our own thoughts
(meditation), but simply to rise above thought and penetrate into the
mystery of truth which is experienced intuitively as present and actual.

Thomas Merton. *The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation*. William H.
Shannon, editor (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 2003): 59.


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Anny Ballardini
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I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
star!
Friedrich Nietzsche
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