There must be...

There must be a time of day when the man who

makes plans forgets his plans,

and acts as if he had no plans at all.

There must be a time of day when the man who has

to speak falls very silent.

And his mind forms no more propositions,

and he asks himself:

Did they have a meaning?

There must be a time

when the man of prayer goes to pray

as if it were the first time in his life

he ever prayed,

when the man of resolutions puts his

resolutions aside

as if they had all been broken,

and he learns a different wisdom:

distinguishing the sun from the moon,

the stars from the darkness,

the sea from the dry land,

and the night sky from the shoulder of a hill.

~Thomas Merton