The Inner Experience: Thomas Merton's Unfinished Masterpiece on Contemplation, Bridging Catholic Monasticism and Eastern Meditation Traditions

by Thomas Merton

In a word, the awakening of the inner self is purely the work of love, and there can be no love where there is not “another” to love. Furthermore, one does not awaken his inmost “I” merely by loving God alone, but by loving other men.