' Solitude is Self '...

Follow my ways and I will lead you
To golden-haired suns,

Logos and music, blameless joys,
Innocent of questions
And beyond answers.

For I, Solitude, am thine own Self:

I, Nothingness, am thy All.

I, Silence, am thy Amen.




- Thomas Merton

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"A Thomas Merton Reader"
Image Books, 1974