"To be one with One Whom one cannot see is to be hidden, to be nowhere, to be no one; it is to be unknown as He is unknown, forgotten as He is forgotten, lost as He is lost to the world which nevertheless exists in Him. Yet to live in Him is to live by His power, to reach from end to end of the universe in the might of His wisdom . . . [As a monk], I disappear from the world as an object of interest in order to be everywhere in it by hiddenness and compassion. To exist everywhere I have to be No-one."
Thomas Merton
Photo: The Loch, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; March 21, 2013
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