So, there is this Catholic Trappist monk who was also kind of into Buddhism and interfaith understanding who I really love. His name is Thomas Merton.
Here is a quote from him, in his especially awesome book, "New Seeds of Contemplation":
"A
saint is capable of loving created things and enjoying the use of them
and dealing with them in a perfectly simple, natural manner, making no
formal references to God, drawing no attention to his own piety, and
acting without any artificial rigidity at all. His gentleness and his
sweetness are not pressed through his pores by the crushing restraint of
a spiritual strait-jacket. They come from his direct docility to the
light of truth and to the will of God. Hence a saint is capable of
talking about the world without any explicit reference to God, in such a
way that his statement gives greater glory to God and arouses a greater
love of God than the observations of someone less holy, who has to
strain himself to make an arbitrary connection between creatures and God
through the medium of hackneyed analogies and metaphors that are so
feeble that they make you think something is the matter with religion."
I just love him really a lot. That is all.
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