He who attempts to act and do things for others or for the world
without deepening his own self-understanding,
freedom and integrity and capacity to love,
will not have anything to give others.
He will communicate to them nothing but the contagion
of his own obsessions, his aggressiveness, his ego-centeredness,
his delusions about the ends and means,
his doctrinaire prejudices and ideas.
- Thomas Merton
from Contemplation in a World of Action
art by Art Strayer
art by Art Strayer
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