"Perhaps there is in places a certain value: they make it possible for you to seek and find certain things in your own soul. When you have found them, you begin to know the place has served you: if the place is pleasant and pretty doesn't mean much anymore. It has only one further value: the value of a sacrifice. The only good thing that can be done with the place, the type of life, is to give it up."
Haunted by God: Merton & New York
Haunted by God: Merton & New York
Haunted by God: Merton & New York
"Perhaps there is in places a certain value: they make it possible for you to seek and find certain things in your own soul. When you have found them, you begin to know the place has served you: if the place is pleasant and pretty doesn't mean much anymore. It has only one further value: the value of a sacrifice. The only good thing that can be done with the place, the type of life, is to give it up."