New Seeds of Contemplation 4

Pencil of MonkThe life of contemplation implies two levels of awareness: first, awareness of the question, and second, awareness of the answer. Though are two distinct and enormously different levels, Yet they are, in fact, an awareness of the same thing. The question is, itself, the answer.

—–Thomas Merton

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