Posts Tagged “Thomas Merton”

Thomas Merton on living with anxiety

By | January 20, 2011

In our age everything has to be a “problem.” Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves. Thomas Merton Thoughts in Solitude (FSG, 1958), 84.

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Hustle, reflection, and prayer

By | July 17, 2009

Clock hands will cold cock you quicker than any man’s fists. I see it happen every day. I know it from personal experience. And I also find myself bumping into the fact in my reading. One piece of good news: I find an answer to the problem there as well. Spanish philosopher José Ortega y [...]

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