I love Christ in you.

In Louisville, at the corner of Fourth and Walnut, in the center of the shopping district, I was suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that
I loved all those people, that they were mine and I theirs,
that we could not be alien to one another even though we were total strangers. It was like waking from a dream of separateness...
It is a glorious destiny to be a member of the human race,
though it is a race dedicated to many absurdities and one which makes many terrible mistakes: yet, with all that,
God Himself gloried in becoming a member of the human race.
A member of the human race!
To think that such a commonplace realization should suddenly seem like news that one holds the winning ticket in a cosmic sweepstake...
I have the immense joy of being man, a member of a race in which God Himself became incarnate.
As if the sorrows and stupidities of the human condition could overwhelm me, now that I realize what we all are.
And if only everybody could realize this!

But it cannot be explained.
There is no way of telling people that they are all walking around shining like the sun.

- Thomas Merton