The first chirps of the waking day birds mark the point vierge of the dawn under a sky as yet without real light, a moment of awe and inexpressible innocence, when the Father in perfect silence opens there eyes. They begin to speak to Him, not with fluent song, but with an awakening question that is there dawn state, their state at the point vierge. Their condition asks if it is time for them to "be". He answers "yes." Then, they one by one wake up, and become birds.
The expression le point vierge ... comes in here. At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belogns entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or our brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us.
The expression le point vierge ... comes in here. At the center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth, a point or spark which belogns entirely to God, which is never at our disposal, from which God disposes of our lives, which is inaccessible to the fantasies of our own mind or our brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us.
Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander
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