"Please help me. what am I going to do? I can't go on like this. You can see that! Look at the state I am in. what ought I to do? Show me the way." As if I needed more information or some kind of sign!
...suddenly, as soon as I had made that prayer, I became aware of the wood, the trees, the dark hills, the wet night in my imagination, I started to hear the great bell of Gethsemani ringing in the night...
A Merton Reader, ed. by Thomas P. McDonnell, (New York: Image Books, 1989) 128
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