Truth
Emmitsburg, MD
We make ourselves real by telling the truth. Man can hardly forget that he needs to know the truth, for the instinct to know is too strong in us to be destroyed. But he can forget how badly he also needs to tell the truth. We cannot know truth unless we ourselves are conformed to it.
We must be true inside, true to ourselves, before we can know a truth that is outside us. But we make ourselves true inside by manifesting the truth as we see it.
(Thomas Merton, No Man Is An Island, Chapter 10, Sincerity, p. 188)
Dick Henthorn
21 Jun 2017
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