A Course in Desert Spirituality Quotes

“in The Didache: “There are two ways, one of life and one of death; and great is the difference between the two ways” (opening words). The way of life is simply the way of the Gospel and in summarizing it the author repeats and summarizes the main moral teachings of Jesus, quoted from the Gospel. For instance:”
― Thomas Merton, A Course in Desert Spirituality: Fifteen Sessions with the Famous Trappist Monk

“If for some reason it were necessary for you to drink a pint of water taken out of the Mississippi River and you could choose where it was to be drawn out of the river—would you take a pint from the source of the river in Minnesota or from the estuary at New Orleans? This example is perhaps not perfect. Christian tradition and spirituality certainly do not become polluted with development. That is not the idea at all. Nevertheless, tradition and spirituality are all the more pure and genuine in proportion as they are in contact with the original sources and retain the same content.”
― Thomas Merton, A Course in Desert Spirituality: Fifteen Sessions with the Famous Trappist Monk