[agi] timely quote

[maitri]

Boy!! How timely was this!!   Since i have been called for displaying my eastern thought, here is a wonderful stanza from the *Catholic* Mystic Thomas Merton that I just received in my email...   The unitive knowledge of God in love is not the knowledge of an object by a subject, but a far different and transcendent kind of knowledge in which the created "self" which we are seems to disappear in God and to know him alone. In passive purification then the self undergoes a kind of emptying and an apparent destruction, until, reduced to emptiness, it no longer knows itself apart from God.                                                                                                        ~Thomas Merton   This really sums up what I've been saying...  for the scientific mind, it may be hard to accept such things as true since they lie beyond the senses and perceptions and certainly beyond even the brightest intellect...  That doesn't mean it is not so....   Kevin