It's not often I would reprint something but this quote from Thomas Merton lit my match on fire.
The "spark" is not so much a stable entity which one finds but an event, an explosion which happens as all opposites clash within oneself. Then it is seen that the ego is not. It vanishes in its non-seeing when the flash of the spark alone is. When all things are reduced to the spark, who sees it? Who knows it?
Thomas Merton. Love and Living. (New York: Harcourt, 1965) 10
Thought for the Day
The "spark" which is my true self is the flash of the Absolute recognizing itself in me.
Thomas Merton. Love and Living. (New York: Harcourt, 1965) 10
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