Get a life.For U.S. CATHOLIC's special vocation issue this month: "A man knows he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live. Thus, if one is called to be a solitary solitary /sol·i·tary/ (sol´i-tar?e) 1. alone; separated from others. 2. living alone or in pairs only. solitary being the only one or ones. , he will stop wondering how he is to live start living peacefully only when he is in solitude. But if one is not called to a solitary life, the more he is alone, the more he will worry about living and forget to live. "When we are not living up to our true vocation, thought deadens our life, or substitutes itself for life, or gives in to life so that our life drowns out our thinking and stifles the voice of conscience conscience, sense of moral awareness or of right and wrong. The concept has been variously explained by moralists and philosophers. In the history of ethics, the conscience has been looked upon as the will of a divine power expressing itself in man's judgments, an . When we find our vocation--thought and life are one." (Thomas Merton Noun 1. Thomas Merton - United States religious and writer (1915-1968) Merton , Thoughts on Solitude, Farrar, Straus & Giroux Farrar, Straus & Giroux Publishing company in New York City noted for its literary excellence. It was founded in 1945 by John Farrar and Roger Straus as Farrar, Straus & Co. ) |
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