An Interfaith Dialogue

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Designed for those who believe we have something or more in common worth writing about. There is a thin line between debate and dialogue and here we hold a dialogue. Let us take time a learn, hear and wonder versus creating warring factions of inactivity.

A Hidden Wholeness: Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King, Jr.

“it also includes a profound realization of the unity that binds us all together, the "hidden ground of love." For in awakening to our own true identity, we find not only ourselves, but also the world, our sisters and brothers, and Christ. "It is not a matter of exclusivism and 'purity' but of wholeness, wholeheartedness, unit and... equality which finds the same ground of love in everything." The result then of contemplative silence and solitude should not be narcissistic self-absorption, but profound compassion for everyone and everything, a compassion which expresses itself in empathy and commitment.”