The Institute for Contemplative Practice
Weekly Reflection for July 1, 2013

 

 

"However, the truest solitude is not something outside you, not an absence of men of sound around you; it is an abyss opening up in the center of your own soul."

 

Thomas Merton. New Seeds of Contemplation. (New York: New Directions Books 1961) p. 80 

 

Thought for the Day:  And this abyss of interior solitude is a hunger that will never be satisfied with any created thing.

 

New Seeds of Contemplation: 81 

 

Contemplative Pause: Throughout this week, pause, take a breath, and listen with your heart. What rests in the void at the center of your being?     

 

 

 
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