"In filling myself, I had emptied myself. In grasping things, I had lost everything. In devouring pleasures and joys, I had found distress and anguish and fear…
Such was the death of the hero, the great man I had wanted to be. And it was my defeat that was to be the occasion of my rescue."
~ Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain
There are two types of people—those who come into a room and say, “Well, here I am!”
And those who come in and say, “Ah, there you are.”
~Frederick L. Collins
