“We must expect to be making mistakes all the time. We must be content to fail repeatedly and to begin again to try to deny ourselves for the love of God…
We want to shake off the hateful thing that has humbled us. In our rush to escape the humiliation of our mistakes, we run headfirst into the opposite error, seeking comfort and compensation.
And so we spend our lives running back and forth from one attachment to another.
If that is all our self-denial amounts to,
…our mistakes will never help us.
The thing you do, when you have made a mistake, is not to give up doing what you were doing and start something altogether new, but to start over again with the thing you began badly and try, for the love of God, to do it well."
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thomas merton? are you turning over a new leaf? :)
what of his are you reading?
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