' Out of selfhood '...

"A door swings open in the center of our being and we seem to fall through it into immense depths which,

although they are infinite, are all accessible to us; all eternity seems to have become ours in this one placid and breathless contact.

Where already, supernatural instinct teaches us that the function of this abyss of freedom,

which has been open within our midsts,

is to draw us utterly out of our own selfhood and into its own immensity of liberation."



- Thomas Merton