Contemplation is the perfection of love and of knowledge. Man's life grows and is made perfect by those acts in which his enlightened intelligence takes hold of truth, and by those even more important acts in which his inviolable freedom as it were absorbs and assimilates the truth in love, and makes his own soul true by "doing the truth in charity". Contemplation is the coalescence of life, knowledge, freedom, and love in a supremely simple intuition of all love, freedom, truth and life in their source, which is God.
Thomas Merton, The New Man, p. 9
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