The Emptying That Fills
In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described how new monks would arrive carrying invisible suitcases — packed with ambitions, identities, and the endless...
This is tradition perspectives on discipleship, drawing on Luke 9:23.
In the monastery at Gethsemani, Thomas Merton once described how new monks would arrive carrying invisible suitcases — packed with ambitions, identities, and the endless narration of the false self. The first discipline of the community was not adding anything. It was subtraction. Silence stripped away the noise. The daily office wore grooves into the soul like water over stone.…
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