By Thomas Merton
The second one quantity of Thomas Merton's "gusty, passionate journals" (Thomas Moore) chronicles Merton's developments to priesthood and emergence as a bestselling writer with the shock luck of his autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain. Spanning an eleven-year interval, getting into the Silence displays Merton's fight to stability his vocation to solitude with the budding literary occupation that might quickly validated him as the most very important religious writers of our century.
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By that it seems to me that God has signified a certain path, a certain goal, and I am to keep that in view: that is where obedience must tend according to God’s signified will. That means total renunciation of the business, ambitions, honors, activities of the world—a bare minimum of concern with temporal necessities…However, no matter what a legitimate superior might command me, I have promised to do. So, to a certain extent, that involves the sacrifice even of contemplation. But it seems to me this has a limit, namely sacrifice of contemplation for a time, under certain circumstances, but never the sacrifice of a whole contemplative vocation as such unless God makes it inevitable by sheer force-and even in persecution I will be all the more bound to seek solitude and recollection.
Don’t ask me. Our Lord wants that sacrifice. How do I know? I don’t know. That is what I am told. Do I have to believe them? I do not have to, I suppose. But something tells me there is no other way for me. My conscience is on the side of my Superiors and, anyway, when I have a moment of lucid thought on the subject, experience reminds me that these feelings will go away just as they have gone away before. No doubt they will come back again and go away again many times before I get used to forgetting them.
And outside the saw rang under the grating file. The sounds of prayer and of distant work mingle well. There, on the altar, in the midst of these various discrete sounds of homage, in the midst of the order ruled by love for Him, the Lord of all things said nothing, but filled the room with peace. After dinner the day turned into spring. It was one of those warm winter days which, in Kentucky, suddenly turn into blinding cold. But as long as it was warm, the garden was like Eden and I walked there reading Ruysbroeck.
