Zen insight is at once a liberation from the limitations of the individual ego and a discovery of one’s “original nature” and “true face” in “mind” which is no longer restricted to the empirical self but is in all and above all. Zen insight is not our awareness, but Being’s awareness of itself in us.

— from the chapter “Mystics and Zen Masters” in Mystics & Zen Masters by Thomas Merton

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