{"id":711,"date":"2006-08-26T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-26T21:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2006\/08\/philosophy-thomas-merton-on-the-absolute\/"},"modified":"2006-08-26T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-26T21:28:00","slug":"philosophy-thomas-merton-on-the-absolute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2006\/08\/philosophy-thomas-merton-on-the-absolute.html","title":{"rendered":"Philosophy: Thomas Merton on the Absolute"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"\"<\/a>This is the quote I was trying to track down. I think it is from the Asian Journal, but the page number I copied (p.162) doesn\u2019t match up \u2013 could be a different edition, could be another book\u2026 Let me know if you know where this is from:<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that we suffer (not least I myself) from the disease of absolutes. Every answer has to be the right answer an, not only that, the final one. All problems have to be solved as of now. All uncertainties are intolerable. But what is life but uncertainties and a few plausible possibilities?\u2026. Perhaps our problem here is that we prefer the security that can be gained by screwing everything down tight and keeping it that way, to the risk of letting people really discover themselves.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m reminded a bit of a recent post at WoodMore Village<\/a>, where Nacho asks, \u201cAre Buddhists the only ones seemingly content with radical uncertainty?\u201d<\/p>\n

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This is the quote I was trying to track down. I think it is from the Asian Journal, but the page number I copied (p.162) doesn\u2019t match up \u2013 could be a different edition, could be another book\u2026 Let me know if you know where this is from: \u201cI think that we suffer (not least […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nPhilosophy: Thomas Merton on the Absolute<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This is the quote I was trying to track down. 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