So True , still 8 years later…

Halfway through Bonhoeffer‘s Letters and papers from prison and this little sentence really slapped me in the face.
…It is eerie to read the words of a man whom you know in the end dies and one whom suspects he will die.

This was a fun and exciting ride! I think it shows you that “Hacking” is much more than computers , it‘s exploitation in pure form, it‘s an unbridled thirst for understanding.

You would think this was written today.. I guess some things never change.

Man I am really enjoying this book, it‘s so enthralling.
Better than the new Star Wars sequel trilogy material.
I might just stick to reading Star Wars then watching it lol. About 75% through it.

Meh, At first was Interesting but the second half of the book was boring. Way to bogged down In the metaphors and symbols of Revelation. Which if you like that then you will enjoy the book. I was interested in how the Mass mimics Revelations and that part of the book was interesting.
I feel like he could just of ended it there. Anyway I‘m not a catholic so don‘t take my review as gospel , pun intended.

Thomas Merton strikes right through you, he shatters and breaks apart the self deception of our ego. Time after time during reading this I felt as if my ego had no where to hide and it had to stand trial. But Thomas Merton refused to be the judge and would hold no court.Thomas Merton shows that this experience is not to be judged but observed and understood for what it is.It seems to me that “Thinking” gets in the way of “Living” .

This book ! Thomas Merton is just laying waste to all my preconceived notions. He is laying an axe to the root of a dead tree!

“On the other hand, when you use the expression to "desire God" you implicitly reduce God to the status of an "object" or of a "thing," as if He were "something" that could be grasped and possessed the way we possess riches, or knowledge, or some other created entity. “……”In so doing, we tend inevitably to distort and even to dese crate His holy and infinite truth. “

The chief contradiction of sin…. “we have to do violence to our selves to keep from laboring uselessly for what is bitter and without joy, and we have to compel ourselves to take what is easy and full of happiness as though it were against our interests, because for us the line of least resistance leads in the way of greatest hardship and sometimes for us to do what is, in itself, most easy, can be the hardest thing in the world”

This cuts really deep in the soul. Thomas Merton seems to
know bullshit when he sees it.

“The mind that is the prisoner of conventional ideas, and the will that is the captive of its own desire cannot accept the seeds of an unfamiliar truth and a super natural desire. For how can I receive the seeds of freedom if I am in love with slavery and how can I cherish the desire of God if I am filled with another and an opposite desire? “

“When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless”… .”IN order to become myself I must cease to be what I always thought I wanted to be, and in order to find myself I must go out of myself, and in order to live I have to die.”