What is the use of my complaining about not being a contemplative, if I do not
take the opportunities I get for contemplation? I suppose I take them, but in
the wrong way. I spend the time looking for something to read about
contemplation—something to satisfy my raffish spiritual appetite—instead of
shutting up and emptying my mind and leaving the inner door open for the Holy
Spirit to enter from the inside, all the doors being barred and all my blinds
down.
Merton
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