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In The New Man, Thomas Merton addresses the challenge of living a Christian life in a world that is as increasingly out of touch with real humanity as it is out of touch with God. Merton argues that it “is a spiritual disaster for a man to rest content with his exterior identity.” Merton shares that as our true identity is defined in Christ we must find and define ourselves in the divine image. ...

Those who are bursting with life are often merely plunging into death with an enormous splash. They do not transcend death, they surrender to it with so much animal vitality that they are able to drag many others with them into the abyss. IN those who are most alive and therefore most themselves, the life of the body is subordinated to a higher life that is within them. It quietly surrenders to the far more abundant vitality of a spirit living on levels that defy measurement and observation. The
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