We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who can give himself eternally to the truth in whom he subsists.


A Thomas Merton Reader (ed. Image, 1974)

Thomas Merton Quotes

We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who...

We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who...

We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who...

We have the choice of two identities: the external mask which seems to be real...and the hidden, inner person who seems to us to be nothing, but who...