The Basic Irrelevance of Humans | September 6, 2014
Are monastics and hippies and poets
relevant? No, we’re deliberately irrelevant. We live with an ingrained
irrelevance which is proper to every human being. The marginal person
accepts the basic irrelevance of the human condition, an irrelevance
which is manifested above all by the fact of death.
- Thomas Merton, “Clouds and Water”
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