"What is important is that life itself should be 'lucid' in me (whoever I am). I am nothing but the lucidity that is 'in me.' To be opaque and dense with opinion, with passion, with need, with hate, with power, is not to be there, to be absent, to non-exist. The labor of convincing myself that this non-existing is a real presence: this is the source of all falsity and suffering . . . To extinguish the feeling of anguish, [I need] . . . straight lucidity."
Thomas Merton, 1966
Photo: Redosier Dogwood leaves glowing in last light, Canyonlands National Park, UT; November 23, 2012
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