To allow oneself to be carried away
By a multitude of conflicting concerns
To surrender to too many demands
...To commit oneself to too many projects
To want to help everyone with everything
Is to succumb to violence.
Thomas Merton
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Reason is in fact the path to faith and faith takes over when reason can say no more.
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Our vocation is not simply to be but to work together with God in the creation of our own life our own identity our own destiny....To work out our identity in God.
- Thomas Merton