Passive and Active Contemplation

Thomas Merton, O.C.S.O. was an American Catholic writer and mystic. A Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani, Kentucky, he was a poet, social activist, and student of comparative religion.
James Finley left home at the age of 18 for the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, Kentucky, where Thomas Merton lived as a contemplative. Finley stayed at the monastery for six years, living the traditional Trappist life of prayer, silence, and solitude. Here Finley describes life with Thomas Merton, and how he pointed the way to an enlightened state of awareness open to us all.

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The illustration of the Zen Master rubbing two bricks together to make a mirror; for Christians is a parallel to the encounter of St Augustine asking the little boy why he is trying to fill a hole in the sand with water?

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Beautiful

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Meant "my ego's noise "