Just stumbled across this quote. It beautifully encapsulates something I’ve been searching for the last few years.
The “reality” and “identity” of archaic man was centred in sensuous self-awareness and identification with a close, ever present and keenly sensed world of nature: for us, our “self” tends to be “realised” in a much more shadowy, abstract, mental world…
This “objective” identity seems to have been fully integrated into a cosmic system that was at once perfectly sacred and perfectly worldly. There is no question that the Indian (Re: Palaeolithic hunter gatherers) in the “scared city” felt himself completely at home in his world and perfectly understood his right place in it.
THOMAS MERTON
The “reality” and “identity” of archaic man was centred in sensuous self-awareness and identification with a close, ever present and keenly sensed world of nature: for us, our “self” tends to be “realised” in a much more shadowy, abstract, mental world…
This “objective” identity seems to have been fully integrated into a cosmic system that was at once perfectly sacred and perfectly worldly. There is no question that the Indian (Re: Palaeolithic hunter gatherers) in the “scared city” felt himself completely at home in his world and perfectly understood his right place in it.
THOMAS MERTON
RSS Feed
