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Thomas Merton: Session 1

Turning to the Mystics with James Finley

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The Grace Discontent of the Seeker

"I was intimately accessed by a fullness without which my life will be forever incomplete," he says. "Having tasted it, I'm incomplete without it. But I, by my own finite powers, cannot find my way to abide in it." Merton: No despair of ours can alter the reality of things. We're staying the joy of the cosmic dance, which is always there,. Indeed, we are in the midst of it, and it is in the midstof us for a beats in our very blood whether we want it to or not.

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