Love's Fiery Depths

The increasing awareness of living from a place within me rather than in the unconscious, reactive emotions and behavior of my ego and personality brought, and ever continues to bring and strengthen, the reality of my essential self – see Bio in “about joanne”.   I again found in Thomas Merton and Paul words that resonated deeply:
 
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 belongs 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 the brutalities of our own will. This little point of nothingness and of absolute poverty is the pure glory of God in us. It is so to speak [God’s] name written in us, as our poverty, as our indigence, as our dependence, as our sonship [and daughtership]. It is like a pure diamond, blazing with the invisible light of heaven. It is in everybody, and if we could see it we would see these billions of points of light coming together in the face and blaze of a sun that would make all the darkness and cruelty of life vanish completely . . .  I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere. 
 
https://cac.org/daily-meditations/a-point-of-nothingness-2016-08-05/ and Thomas Merton, Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander (Image Books: 1968), 158.