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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading
DESCRIPTION:THE INNER SELF \nFrom the writing of Thomas Merton \n◊◊◊ \nThe inner self is not a part of our being\, like a motor in a car. It is our \nentire substantial reality itself\, on its highest and most personal and most \nexistential level. It is like life\, and it is life: it is our spiritual life when it is most \nalive. It is the life by which everything else in us lives and moves.. If it is \nawakened\, it communicates a new life to the intelligence in which it lives\, so that \nit becomes a living awareness of itself: and this awareness is not so much \nsomething that we ourselves have as something that we are… \nThe inner self is as secret as God\, and like Him\, it evades every concept \nthat tries to seize hold of it with full possession. It is a life that cannot be held \nand studied as an object\, because it is not a “thing.” It is not reached and coaxed \nforth from hiding by any process under the sun\, including meditation. All we \ncan do with any spiritual discipline is produce within ourselves something of the \nsilence\, the humility\, the detachment\, the purity of heart\, and the indifference \nwhich are required if the inner self is to make some shy\, unpredictable \nmanifestation of his presence. \nAt the same time\, however\, every deeply spiritual experience\, whether \nreligious or moral\, or even artistic\, tends to have in it something of the presence \nof the interior self. Only from the inner self does any spiritual experience gain \ndepth\, reality\, and a certain in communicability. But the depth of ordinary \nexperience only gives us a derivative sense of the inner self. It reminds us of the \nforgotten levels of interiority in our spiritual nature\, and of our helplessness to \nexplore them. \nFrom THE INNER EXPERIENCE quoted by William Shannon in his book: Thomas Merton’s Dark Path\, Farrar- \nStraus-Giroux N.Y.\, 1987\, pp. 116-117. \n 
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