It seems to me that the most basic problem is not political, it is apolitical and human. One of the most important things to do is to keep cutting deliberately through political lines and barriers and emphasizing the fact that these are largely fabrications and that there is another dimension, a genuine reality, totally opposed to the fictions of politics, the human dimension which politicians pretend to arrogate entirely to themselves.
— Thomas Merton, Seeds by Thomas Merton, Robert Inchausti, editor