"The way to find the real ‘world’ is not merely
to measure and observe
what is outside us,
but to discover our own inner ground.
For that is
where the world is, first of all: in my deepest self.
This ‘ground,’
this ‘world’ where I am mysteriously present at once to my own self
and
to the freedoms of all other men,
is not a visible objective and
determined structure with fixed laws and demands.
It is a living and
self-creating mystery
of which I am myself a part,
to which I am myself
my own unique door."
~Thomas Merton,
Contemplation in a World of Action
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