Thomas Merton and the Language of Life

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October 26, 2020 a project of ServiceSpace Be not discouraged, keep on, there are divine things well envelop'd. I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell. - Walt Whitman - Thomas Merton and the Language of Life "By listening closely to nature, we can hear an organized energy of life, full of patterns and meaning, that speaks to us. According to scholar Elizabeth Sewell, we experience our environment as alive and speaking to us in a great variety of linguistic forms, such as an alphabet, grammar, syntax, cipher, book, and secret language. This is probably because language renders us conscious, envelops the world in consciousness, and gives the world life within us. We think with the objects of the world, and we give them a life within us. The language of life asks for our ears and calls for our souls." More in this evocative essay. { read more } Be The Change For more inspiration, check out "The Grammar of Animacy", by Robin Wall Kimmerer. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 111 Trees Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus Why Singing in a Choir Makes You Happier On Being Alone Barbara Kingsolver on Knitting as Creation Story A Tribute to Mary Oliver 12 Truths I Learned from Life and Writing Love in the Time of Coronavirus DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 246,404 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: KindSpring  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  Awakin  //  More