Re: Thomas Merton: the human dimension

Interesting thought from merton.

On Jan 8, 2011 9:00 AM, "Jim Forest" <jhforest@gmail.com> wrote:
> "The basic problem is not political, it is a-political and human. One of the
> most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through
> political lines and barriers and emphasizing the fact that these are largely
> fabrications and that there is another dimension, a genuine reality, totally
> opposed to the fictions of politics: the human dimension which politics
> pretend to arrogate entirely to themselves. This is the necessary first step
> along the long way toward the perhaps impossible task of purifying,
> humanizing and somehow illuminating politics themselves."
>
> -- Letter from Thomas Merton to Jim Forest, August 27, 1962:
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