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We look for rest and if we find it, it becomes intolerable. Incapable of the divine activity which
alone can satisfy...fallen man flings himself upon exterior
things, not so much for their own sake as for the sake of agitation
which keeps his spirit pleasantly numb...[The distraction] diverts us
aside...from the one thing that can help us begin our ascent to truth...the
sense of our own emptiness.
~Thomas Merton, The Ascent to Truth
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