Thomas Merton: Learning to Listen

​By being attentive, by learning to listen (or recovering the natural 
capacity to listen which cannot be learned any more than breathing), 
we can find ourself engulfed in such happiness that it cannot be 
explained; the happiness of being at one with everything in that 
hidden ground of Love for which there can be no explanations. 


Thomas Merton
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