"In
solitude, we are at the root, in the ground of life. We live, then, as
a seed planted in the ground. As Christ said, the seed in the ground
must die. To be as a seed in the ground of one's very life is to
dissolve in that ground in order to become fruitful. But this
fruitfulness is beyond any planning and any understanding of man. To be
'fruitful' in this sense, one must forget every idea of fruitfulness or
productivity, and merely BE. One's fruitfulness is an an of faith in
what one cannot possibly imagine for oneself . . ."
Thomas Merton
Photo: Snowbank and alpenglow on Nokhu Crags, Never Summer Range, March 7, 2015
Thomas Merton
Photo: Snowbank and alpenglow on Nokhu Crags, Never Summer Range, March 7, 2015
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