"Basic: the struggle for lucidity, out of which compassion can at last arise. Then you are free. That is, you are lost: there is no self to save. You simply love. Free of desire for oneself, desiring only lucidity for oneself and others."
Thomas Merton, 1966
Photo: Sunrise on Rabbitbrush and a butte from my campsite; Canyonlands National Park, UT; November 26, 2012
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