[New-Poetry] Thomas Merton

[Anny Ballardini]

You and Anon rather than contemplative are tout court blank. By the way,
best wishes to Anon.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Halvard Johnson <halvard at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey, color me contemplative!
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> Hal
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> "When you're down to your last two choices, take the third."
>                     --Anon.
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> On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Anny Ballardini <
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>>             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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