![]() He asked: “How can we attain to the highest degree of contemplative awareness?” John calmly answered: “To do that you have to forget about yourself as a spiritual achiever and about getting to the highest.” When John was finished one of the priests, who was a striver after religious things in a rather strenuous way spoke up. It was very wise, learned and mystical in nature. He gave a talk in the Novitiate Conference room, attended by the Novices and some priests and members of the community. I mean in particular the visit of John Wu to Gethsemani in the early 1960’s. It may be of interest to hear about a head water of the great compilation of writing which is the Merton and Taoism volume. ![]() And then they can say: I jumped across the Mississippi, or the Rhone River. ![]() People love to go to the headwater of a great river, where it emerges as a small stream, and there jump across it. ![]()
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