I hope that my friend and fellow blogger am will forgive me for a bit of shameless pilfering from her very fine blog, Talking 37th Dream with Rainbow. Just a few days ago she quoted the following from Thomas Merton:
Do not depend on the hope of results. … you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself.
-- Thomas Merton in a letter to Jim Forest dated February 21, 1966, reproduced in The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters by Thomas Merton
Thank you for keeping this going forward and for your appreciation of my blog. The appreciation is mutual, Keara!
This is the fruit of sharing on the internet, as I used that quote from a blogger who used it from another blogger.
Posted by: am | January 18, 2012 at 07:30 PM