The title of the post comes from a quote by Mark van Doren, Merton's English teacher at Columbia. The selected journal entry is from 1957, when Merton's language gives away a youthfulness and joy in the presence of nature.
I saw a huge rainbow on the way home from the university last night. As I drove toward a grey wall of clouds that extended down on to the freeway in front of me, the whole scene was framed with the enormous arc of prismatic color. I may struggle to believe in a God of this universe, but it is hard to maintain my scepticism when confronted with a Beauty that pervades the world with such intensity that it breaks through my own experience of myself, overwhelming me with wonder.
If only the little things caught my eye the same way.
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