"[Merton] ate, worked, walked in the woods and prayed. In the winter he was cold and in the summer he was hot. And that is the true self. It is the self that is nobody, that is ordinary and poor. It is this ordinary self that is extraordinary for it is this ordinary self one with the moment, one with concrete reality of everyday life, that is the self God creates, the poor self made rich in the poverty of the cross."
"Merton's message is that each of us lives in the hermitage of our daily self. Beneath all our achievements, plans, travels, and conquests we have but life."
page 113, Merton's Palace of Nowhere by James Finley
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