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It may
be that a mind that does not distinguish self from God is pure ...
but
unless it also knows how to distinguish self from God, it is not intelligent
;-)
--
Ben
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
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