Quotation of the day

“The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else’s imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!”

— Thomas Merton, The Seven Storey Mountain 362 (50th anniversary ed. 1999). (Yes, I’m still making my way through this book. I read slowly.)