The Seven-Story Mountain

Thomas Merton has this Incredible writing style Like you feel like you're there With him when he's in college This is before he became the famous mystic Trappist author. He says Without some spiritual component In your life When a parent dies you just have to take it like a dumb animal. You don't want to torture a dying person with guilt because they can't die because of you. A huge part Of parenting is learning Not just how to be there for your kids But how to not be there Because that would be a narcissistic Parenting approach. And what I did To the apartments I lived at When I moved away from home That's the phase the humanity isn't right now We're