Accepting My Place in Creation

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“One lovely dawn after another. Such peace! Meditation with fire-flies, mist in the valley, last quarter of the moon, distant owls—gradual inner awakening and centering in peace and in a harmony of love and gratitude. Yesterday I wrote to the man at McGill University who thought all contemplation was a manifestation of narcissistic regression! That is just what it is not. A complete awakening of identity and rapport! It implies an awareness and acceptance of one’s place in the whole, first the whole of creation, then the whole plan of Redemption—to find oneself in the great mystery of fulfillment which is the Mystery of Christ. Consonantia and not confusio.”

~Thomas Merton (Journals, excerpt from May 23 and 25, 1965, V.250–51)