A Monk's Alphabet by Jeremy Driscoll

Author:Jeremy Driscoll
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shambhala

LUCKY. I lead an unusual life, and I am lucky. I live away from “the action,” and often enough don’t even know what the action is. Yet I hear its voice in the near distance. I know that on this account, in my case, I can be closer to what is real—not because I hear the noise but because I am not doing so much of what so many others do. But the noise reminds me that I am near them. I recognize the density of reality in something like my six weeks in Paris: living in the center of the city with a wise man, inhabiting his ideas, praying with him. Or, in another city, just two hours of talking with Milosz, but all the reading that prepared for it and now follows—this is living as concretely and as fully as I can imagine. Or my friendship with M., where none of what we do is exciting or fun in the way that society conceives of these, and yet he is a real companion in soul and mind. We are constantly interchanging things. And now I am thinking of all this in a quiet house in the country, where with several other friends, we try to be faithful to offering up our simple prayers, to choosing our reading well, and to spending some time together in the evening that will be enriching for each. I cannot ask for much more.

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