Emptying ourselves

Daily Reading for September 28 • The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

No one can enter into their deepest centre

and pass through that centre into God,

unless they are able to pass entirely out of themselves

and empty themselves

and give themselves to other people

in the purity of a selfless love.

From Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton (Burns & Oates, 1960).

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,

“who, though he was in the form of God,

did not regard equality with God

as something to be exploited,

but emptied himself,

taking the form of a slave,

being born in human likeness.” (Philippians 2:5-7)

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