Introducing James Finley
Turning to the Mystics with James Finley
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What Caused You to Pick Up the Pen and Write?
When i was at the monastery studying metaphysics, we had to do these essays on being an nothingness. And so merton's idea of the true self, ultimate identity, which is the very essence of contemplative christianity, really hidden with christ and god forever before the origins of the universe. So how can i, in ego consciousness, be awakened to the deathless me and christ? I just felht i wanted to write, to gather texts for merton.And it sounds like you dabbled or committed to other religious paths as well. Where what happened with me? As when tiknod han came to getsemane, merton saw this
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