If I am true to the thought of him I shall find him everywhere in myself

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[If] I am true to the concept that God utters in me, if I am true to the thought of Him I was meant to embody, I shall be full of His actuality and find Him everywhere in myself, and find myself nowhere. I shall be lost in Him: that is, I shall find myself. I shall be ‘saved’.

Thomas Merton. (1961) New Seeds of Contemplation. pg. 39