The only true joy on earth is to escape from the prison of our own selfhood

By Catholic Digest on October 30, 2017

Monday of the Thirtieth Week in Ordinary Time

The only true joy on earth is to escape from the prison of our own selfhood (I do not say the body, because the body is God’s temple and therefore it is holy) and enter by love into union with the life who dwells and sings within the essence of every creature and in the core of our own souls.

— Thomas Merton

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The only true joy on earth is to escape from the prison of our own selfhood

The only true joy on earth is to escape from the prison of our own selfhood (I do not say the body, because the body is God’s temple and therefore it is holy) and enter by love into union with the life who dwells and sings within the essence of every creature and in the core of our own souls.

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