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“…if the standards of the world were the real ones. …any fool knows that you don’t need money to get enjoyment out of life.
If what most people take for granted were really true- if all you needed to be happy was to grab everything and see everything and investigate every experience and then talk about it, I should have been a very happy person, a spiritual millionaire, from the cradle even until now.
If happiness were merely a matter of natural gifts, I would never have entered a Trappist monastery when I came to the age of a man.”
From the first chapter of The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton.
I find this a very moving and relevent insight into our world of today. Does ths speak to anyone else?
Pax vobiscum,
If what most people take for granted were really true- if all you needed to be happy was to grab everything and see everything and investigate every experience and then talk about it, I should have been a very happy person, a spiritual millionaire, from the cradle even until now.
If happiness were merely a matter of natural gifts, I would never have entered a Trappist monastery when I came to the age of a man.”
From the first chapter of The Seven Story Mountain by Thomas Merton.
I find this a very moving and relevent insight into our world of today. Does ths speak to anyone else?
Pax vobiscum,