The Swords That Bar Entry To The Garden
- aptitudeforemptine
- Sep 21, 2021
- 1 min read
There is no cogito (I think) and no ergo (therefore) but only SUM, I Am. Not in the sense of futile assertion of our individuality...but in the humble realization of our mysterious being as persons in whom God dwells...with...sweetness and...power.
- Thomas Merton (ed.)
Nothing could be more destructive to one's spiritual life than living a rational life.
And yet that is the widespread state of the church today and virtually everyone in it.
Descartes justified doing so and gave the rationale for rationalism when he declared, I think, therefore I am (Cogito ergo sum). But these are the words of a deeply psychologically troubled and alienated person.
Compelled to seek comfort in justifying their own existence people think. All anti-social psychologies - psychopathy, narcissism, sadism, and Machiavellianism - comfort themselves with these basic words, think, therefore. But doing so only compels the self to moved further away from its true being because it reduces the person to a concept. Rationalism provides no way to experience reality directly and immediately.
Today people arrive at their own front door as if they were standing before an object, a thing. And so God likewise becomes a thing, finite, limited, an entity that we can actually think about.
True spirituality knows nothing of what is mine.
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