"The dread of being open to the ideas of others generally comes from our hidden insecurity about our own convictions. We fear that we may be ‘converted’ — or perverted — by a pernicious doctrine. On the other hand, if we are mature and objective in our open-mindedness, we might find that viewing things from a basically different perspective — that of our adversary — we discover our own truth in a new light and are able to understand our own ideal more realistically…"
- Thomas Merton