Thomas Merton bringing us som Taoist wisdom?

Fun.

Also, thoughtful. There is a lot of wisdom here regardless of what faith tradition you are a part of. My Christian background has a heavy emphasis on rationalism. I remember first learning of eastern religions and Christianity is lifted up as better because it is rooted in history and can thus be proven (or at least, given evidence). This emphasis on empiricism takes something of the mysticism away from the faith. I see echoes of the wisdom and prophetic literature in scripture in this Taoist wisdom. In other words, as a Christian, reading something like this helps me read scripture better. Much of scripture, after all, is more eastern than western and our over-emphasis on history and rationality sometimes makes us miss the spirituality and mysticism.