One of my dear Amy friends (and I'm lucky enough to have two of them) sent me the following quote from Thomas Merton:
"Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results, but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself. You gradually struggle less and less for an idea and more and more for a specific people. In the end, it is the reality of personal relationship that saves everything."
Zowie, that scratches an itch!
Process of elimination = I know which Amy:) Such a wisdom in those words. Glad she shared~and that you passed it along.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering if it would evoke an Amy comment. :0
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