There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

"Yesterday, in Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, suddenly I realized that I loved all the people and that none of them were or could be totally alien to me.  As if waking from a dream - a dream of my separateness . . . But it cannot be explained. There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun."

Thomas Merton, 1958

Photo: Redosier Dogwood Leaf with the Needles in the background; Elephant Canyon, Canyonlands National Park, UT; November 24, 2012