"We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness."

Thomas Merton

Thanks to Celtic Mist who forwarded this one to me.

"There is no wilderness so terrible, so beautiful, so arid and so fruitful as the wilderness of compassion."

Thomas Merton, The Sign of Jonas, p. 324

June and I enjoyed a live performance of this play this afternoon. This is one of the classics from the play:

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On every coin there are two sides
Distinct and unique
Yet connected and one

So love when found
Maintains the other's uniqueness
Yet is one with the other.

(c) 2008 Ronald Friesen